My second great grandfather, James Hunter, was in construction. He fathered ten children with his wife Mary Freeland.
Because of his construction business, he was very involved in building his home on Perrysville Avenue in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, where the Hunter family moved by 1890-1891 (based on city directories).
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| Undated photo |
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| Fall 1905 |
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| Fall 1905 |
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| Fall 1905 |
The 1900 U.S. Census shows that it was a full house:
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| 1900 U.S. census, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Allegheny Ward 10, ED 82, p. 15A, dwelling 270, family 306, record for James Hunter. |
James Hunter, Head, age 55
Mary S. F. Hunter, Wife, age 50
James F. Hunter, Son, age 24
Samuel K. Hunter, Son, age 21
John R. Hunter, Son, age 18
Chester A. Hunter, Son, age 16
Helen R. Hunter, Daughter, age 13
Mary Lois Hunter, Daughter, age 11
Curtis C. Hunter, Son, age 8
The household included three servants: Mary Coyne, age 21, Katie Malley, age 20, and John Jones, age 17. Mary and Katie were born in Ireland and John Jones was born in Virginia.
Sadly, Mary died in March 1902, at age 52. Her husband, James died about seven months later at age 58. I believe that his second son (and my great-grandfather) Percy Hunter, became guardian for his underage siblings and moved back into the family home with his growing family.
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I have very little information about the house but I do have many photographs taken from the outside (including of my third great-grandmother, Nancy (Rainey) Freeland). It appears that in 1902 and 1903, based on city directories, there were additional family members living at the house: Nancy Freeland and two of her unmarried children. (Nancy outlived her daughter, Mary; she died in December 1903.)
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In 1910, the family was still in the house on Perrysville Avenue. (Click on the image to zoom in.)
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| 1910 U.S. census, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Pittsburgh Ward 26, ED 637, p. 7A, dwelling 117, family 124, record for Percy E. Hunter. |
Percy E. Hunter, Head, age 36
Marguerite Hunter, Wife, age 33
Marion L. Hunter, Daughter, age 10
Caroline L. Hunter, Daughter, age 9
Mary L. Hunter, Daughter, age 6
Margaret L. Hunter, Daughter, age 4
Helen L. Hunter, Daughter, age 3 (my grandmother)
Harry M. L. Hunter, Brother, age 38
James F. Hunter, Brother, age 34
John R. Hunter, Brother, age 28
Chester A. Hunter, Brother, age 20
Mary Lois Hunter, Sister, age 21
Curtis C. Hunter, Brother, age 18
The household included three servants, different than those who worked for the family ten years before:
Francis Southinned[?], age 16, Marie Liehler[?], age 17, and Calvin Wheeler, age 26.
Within a couple of years after this census enumeration, the house on Perrysville Avenue was sold and the siblings moved on (though most stayed in the Pittsburgh area). The house is no longer standing.
I descend from James Hunter and Mary Freeland as follows.
This week's theme is Full House.
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