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Email Dated 8/19/2001   

           HUNSUCKER  HUNTSUCKER

               Second Degree Twig

Nearest Ancestor: Margaret Inez HUNTSUCKER(her spelling on her marriage
certificate; not the given spelling by her mother) Young(1846-1895),
second great grandmother on the Allen side, Wife of John Albert
YOUNG(1830-1889)/ unknown father & Sarah A. HUNSUCKER(1823-1914)/William
Hunsucker II (1800-after 1860 census) & Celia ? (?-?)/William
Hunsucker(1775-after 1860 census) & Livicy BREWER (1772-?)/John
Hunsucker(1740-after 1795 and before 1800) & Susannah ?(?-?).
Within my family pedigree, this paticular family twig has no reunions,
no dues paying organizations, no newsletter, no historical markers or
gravesites,  and no documented ancestors who would entitle their
descendants membership in societies dedicated to commemorating wars for
independence or national unity. What it does have is Adrian Hopkins and
her mother, Patsy Hunsucker, who have established a website devoted to
Hunsucker genealogy. It is truly state-of-the-art encompassing members
in various states and the evolution of the family within their various
milieus. As the name itself evokes amusement and confusion, the website
has attracted to its bosom several other family divisions with
variations on the spelling, but all likely springing from similar old
world roots, e.g., HUNSAKER, HUNZINGER, HUNZIKER, HUNZICKER, etc.. Some
of this confusion arose over time because people spelled words as they
heard them and not necessarily with attention to accuracy; some because
swiss long ago were accustomed to giving a surname to someone
representing the place of birth rather than one's paternity; and some
because there is no agreement on which spelling is correct. Within my
family pedigree, there are two major areas of interest. The first deals
with the paternity of Margaret Inez Huntsucker Young. The second deals
with the identity of the parents of John Hunsucker, for without that
information, establishment of a precise geographical link to the old
world is impossible.

New World Settlement: John Hunsucker(1740- after 1795 and before 1800)
and wife Susannah arrived in the part of Cumberland Conty that became
Moore County in the 1760's and received a grant of 200 acres on Reedy
Creek South of Deep River on 16 December, 1769. By the census of 1790,
he has three sons under the age of 16 and two daughters and is living in
the Fayette District of Moore County, North Carolina. They seem to have
settled in the northwestern region of Moore, probably between Bear and
Cabin creeks. The Honsakers(original spelling) had settled first in
Pennsylvania in the area of Philadelphia but removed very early along
with the Ritters, Volcanons, Shamburgers, Cagles, etc. to North
Carolina.

According to the book, the "Stutts Families" by K.S. Melvin, William
Hunsucker(1775-after 1860 census), John's son and Livicy's husband, were
living on land on Buffalo Creek in the gold mining region of Moore
County. At the Court of April 1844, we find that he is permitted to
retail spirituous liquors by the "small measure  at the Gold mine called
Ninnava. Order renewal in April 1848."