Gordon was the son of Abraham Hunsaker and Abraham's second (plural) wife, Harriet Vernitia Beckstead.

He married Ann Peterson January 1, 1890 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona.

Gordon and Ann had seven children together:

Gordon Walter Hunsaker, Jr. (1891 - 1902)
Joseph Leroy Hunsaker (1892 - 1893)
Myrtle Harriet Hunsaker (1894 - 1978)
Charles Ivan Hunsaker (1899 - 1985)
Violet Ann Hunsaker (1902 - 1990)
Melissa Caroline Hunsaker (1907 - 1982)
Martha Ellen Hunsaker (1913 - 2006 )

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From the book "Abraham Hunsaker and His Family". This entry was written by Gordon's daughter, Violet Hunsaker Tenney.

"Gordon Walter Hunsaker, the tenth child of Harriet Beckstead and Abraham Hunsaker, was born on 27 March 1866 at Brigham City, Utah. When he was a small boy the family moved to Honeyville where he lived until he was 18 years old. He went to Arizona with his brothers Alexander and Hyrum in 1884. He married Ann Peterson, originally of Peterson, Utah in Mesa, Arizona on 1 January 1890.

"Gordon left Mesa and moved to the desert and in 1909 took up a claim. His wife's brothers, Charles and Ted Peterson, and also her sister and husband, James Schadney, also took up claims. They lived there for five years. While there the children had to walk five miles to a school for several years. In 1912 the town of Chandler, Arizona was started, a large number of people came in and took up homesteads.

"Some of the settlers, who had more money, cleared and plowed their land and got it ready for cultivation. Later the Eastern Canal was established and the area became good farmland. Gordon never had enough money to develop his land, and in about 1917 he sold his homestead and moved to a ranch farther out in the desert. This place, which had only afour-room adobe house on it, was called the Apple-B Ranch, and rattlesnakes were thick there. The grass was good though and provided good feed for cattle.

"After a while the family moved into the town of Chandler, where Gordon and his brother-in-law started a secondhand store which they operated for two years. After this he cleared some more land and returned to farming.

"Gordon died on 21 September 1921 at Phoenix, Arizona."

Written by
VIOLET ANN TENNEY
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Gordon died of blood poisoning, which developed from a finger cut.