Son of William Hunter and Sarah Ann Davis

Married Mary Ann Whitesides, 5 Nov 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois

Married Martha Ann Hyde, 30 Mar 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Edward Hunter, son of William Hunter and Sarah Davis, was born March 29, 1821 at Newton Square, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in June, 1840 by Elder L. D. Barnes, four months before his uncle, Edward Hunter. He married Mary Ann Whitesides in the Nauvoo Temple in November of 1843.

The call came from the federal government for a battalion of infantry to serve in the war with Mexico, and at the call of President Brigham Young, they responded to a man. Among the first to come forward and volunteer was Edward Hunter, leaving his wife and young daughter, Sarah Ann, without home or income. He was mustered in at Council Bluffs, Iowa July 16, 1846, a member of Company "B."

After his discharge from duties, he made his way to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving October 16, 1847, and there found his wife and child whom he had left the year before at Council Bluffs. They had crossed the plains in the second company of pioneers in the care of the family of Bishop Hunter, an uncle of Edward Hunter.

Edward Hunter was the only member of his father's family to join the Latter-day Saint Church. Edward received an inheritance from one of his sisters and decided to settle in Grantsville, Utah having heard glowing accounts of the advantages of stock raising in that vicinity He built the first brick home in Grantsville. He served as mayor of Grantsville and also Bishop of the Grantsville Ward.

Bishop Edward Hunter died April 11, 1892 and is buried in the Grantsville cemetery. His wife, Mary Ann, died November 20, 1914.

Mormon Battalion, Company B