Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Woodford Co. ABNER CANFIELD HUNTER was born May 4, 1826, and is the youngest son of William Stewart and Catherine M. (Canfield) Hunter, natives of Virginia and New Jersey. His father came to Woodford County, Ky., about 1800. Abner C. Hunter was born in Woodford County, and was reared on the farm. He was educated at the Kentucky Military Institute, Frankfort, but in 1846 went in Tom Marshall's company to the Mexican war. He went to California in 1850, and was county clerk in Sacramento for some time. He was married in April 1857, to Edith Sander, a native of Natchez, Miss., and a daughter of Louis Sander, secretary of State under Gov. Breathitt, and a native of Franklin County, Ky. Of the children born to this marriage nine are living: Margaret, Catherine, Louis, Jennie H., Abner C., Lloyd T., Swift D., William S. and Hugh. Abner C. Hunter was a Mason, and died in July, 1883. Mrs. Edith Hunter resides in Dufont, and is the owner of 287 acres of choice farming land. Hunter Canfield Sander = Sacramento-CA VA NJ MS http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/woodford/hunter.ac.txt