For those of you who are following this story, here is Steve Stalcup's reply,
which I think sums up the issue of two different Hunter families in Greene
Co. at the time of the Highland Mill explosion.
I kind of wonder about the Frank & William Hunter who set up a Mill in 1874
at Marcos, close to Stafford Twp. My Hunter line resided since before 1835 in
Stafford also, and it could be that Frank & William were related.
Dave Chandler- Famsource(a)aol.com
From Steve;
"These Mills were owned by different sets of Hunters. According to the 1884
Goodspeed History (p.296) the Grist Mill near Marco in Stafford Twp. in SW
part of Greene County was built in 1874 by the English brothers, Frank &
William Hunter.
Our Highland Twp. Hunters ran the Shingle Mill in that township. There was
an article on the disaster that Mildred Uland included in her book, "Gone,
But Not Forgotten". Goodspeed History has a similar narrative on pp. 303.
Curious coincidence that two sets of unrelated Hunters were Mill operators at
the opposite ends of Greene County in the 1870s".
Steve