Private Arthur Van Wye Hunter

Profile
Parents: Frank and Ida Walker Hunter
Birth: November 25, 1891, near Columbus, Indiana
Occupation: Farmer
Entered service: September 5, 1917, Columbus, Indiana
Sent to: Camp Taylor, Kentucky
Assigned to: 42nd Co., 11th Training Battalion, 159th Depot Brigade
Transferred to: Camp Sherman, Ohio
Embarked overseas: Sept 3, 1918
Assigned to: Co H 325th Infantry
Death: pneumonia May 12, 1919, on board ship Antonio Lopez while returning to US
Burial: Harmony Cemetery, Bartholomew County, Indiana

The Republic
Columbus, Indiana
Saturday, September 21, 1918
Page 6

Frank Hunter, who lives on rural route No. 10, has received word that his son, Arthur Hunter, who is in the military service, has arrived safely overseas. Mr. Hunter has another son, Clarence, who is in the military service and who has been in France for some time.

The Republic
Columbus, Indiana
Wednesday, May 21, 1919
Page 8

HUNTER FUNERAL

The funeral of Arthur B. Hunter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hunter five miles southeast of this city, will be held from the Section church at 2:340 p.m. Friday, the Rev. Eugene Martin officiating, and burial will be in the adjoining cemetery.

The body of the soldier is at Camp Zachary Taylor and it is expected to arrive in this city at 8:50 tomorrow morning, although definite information is lacking. It will be taken to the Hunter residence where it will remain until the funeral.

Hunter died of pneumonia enroute home from service in Europe. He has a brother, still in the army, stationed near Bordeaux, France.

The Republic
Columbus, Indiana
Thursday, May 22, 1919
Page 1

SOLDIER SEEKS HIS FRIEND AND FINDS HIM DEAD

Arthur Hunter Nursed Charles Muir Like a Mother, Writes the Latter.

INFLUENZA CAUSED DEATH OF LATE ARTHUR HUNTER

William Muir Receives Letter From His Son, Charles S. Muir, Who But Recently Landed From Over Seas Service.

William Muir, of rural route 10, received a letter this morning from his son; Charles S. Muir, who is at Camp Upton, New York, in which he gives further and pathetic particulars of the sad death of Arthur Hunter, son of Frank Hunter, who died at sea, while returning from military service in France.

The two young men were staunch friends, boon companions, in fact, after they entered the service and "just like brothers" as both expressed their friendship and companionship. They were sent into the service together in this city and remained close together until their return to the States. In the early part of their enlistment the two friends were in the 84th division of infantry, but later were transferred to the 82nd division, young Hunter in Company H, and young Muir, in Company D. The latter came over on a transport ahead of the one on which the former sailed but Mr. Muir writes that when the transport on which Mr. Hunter sailed had arrived and the soldiers were sent to Camp Upton Mr. Muir thought it strange that his friend did not look him up and decided to go to Company H and visit him. On arriving at Company H, he writes, he was dumbfounded and heart broken when told his friend had died on the way over. He was told that Mr. Hunter suffered a severe attack of sea sickness, but was cheerful and jolly withall until influenzea developed from the malady and caused his death, when the transport was but two days out at sea.

In writing of his departed friend Mr. Muir says in part: "I had the flu last October in France and Hunter waited on me like a mother. I was sick five weeks and was given up to die, but I came through al right, yet when a fellow's time comes he must go, so Hunter has answered the call we all must answer, so all I can do is to hope we will meet again where there will be no wars and no heavy packs to make old men of us and to take the pleasure out of life."

The Republic
Columbus, Indiana
Saturday, May 24, 1919
Page 8

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hunter are in receipt of a telegram from their son, Clarence Hunter, stating that he arrived in Camp Merritt, N.J., from service overseas this morning. He has been in Europe with the signal corps for fifteen months and has seen much active fighting. Clarence Hunter is a brother to Arthur Hunter who died while enroute to this country from overseas service.

The Republic
Columbus, Indiana
Monday, May 26, 1919
Page 7

CARD OF THANKS.

WE WISH TO THANK THE MANY friends who were so kind to us during the burial of oyur beloved son and brother, Arthur V. Hunter. Especially do we thank the singers, those who lent cars. Hathaway & Co., and Rev Martin for those kind words.
Frank Hunter and family. Mfr. and Mrs. Wm. Jordan and family.