He came to Texas with it in October, 1835; fought with it at Bexar, and continued with it until the end.
Charles DeMorse, who came to Texas with the "Morehouse Battalion," and, in later life knew him well, described Hunter as
"A plain, unpretentious man, of small size, a fair specimen of the veterans of Texas, of clear intellect, positive views and outspoken."
He was senator from the Goliad district in the Congress of Texas, 1841-42. He died in November, 1886, and was buried in Austin with military honors.
His escape from the massacre was among the most marvelous of them all. Shot, bayonetted, and clubbed with a gun butt, he nevertheless survived, and managed, on the day after the massacre, to make his way to a Mexican ranch on Manahuilla creek, where a woman of the family cared for him until he was able to make his way to the home of Margaret Wright, above Victoria, who nursed him until his health was fully restored. [See John S. Ford's Memoirs; Linn's Reminiscences; Lamar Papers, No. 1650.]
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Stephen D. Hurst came to Texas armed with a letter of introduction from Robert Westcott, directed to James F. Perry, which read:
"The bearer, Stephen Decatur Hurst, Esqr., attorney-at-law of this city, is my nephew. ... He has been
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