THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, October 27, 1927

Auldridge Hunter, 66 years old, and one of the pioneer citizens of Flagler County passed away at his home in Espanola late Tuesday night and was buried in Espanola Cemetery Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock. Mr. Hunter had been ill for several years and suffered a stroke of paralysis five months ago and had been failing rapidly, it was said that high blood pressure brought on the paralysis causing death.

Mr. Hunter was one of Flagler County's pioneer citizens, having lived in this section all of his life with the exception of a few years.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruth Hunter, two sons, Eugene and Elzie, both of whom reside near Espanola and four daughters, Mrs. Harry F. Conley, of St. Augustine; Mrs. W. E. Kudrna of this place; Mrs. George F. Lloyd of Jacksonville and Mrs. Kenneth Biddle of Bunnell.

The Flagler Tribune
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, November 3, 1927

In Memoriam

Auldridge Hunter was born and grew to manhood fifteen miles from the homestead on which he died. He was Florida born and only once, while a young man, was out of the state of Florida, feeling always that the state of Florida held opportunities sufficient for him. While a young man he met and won the heart and hand of Ruth Raulerson, who he shortly married. The partnership then formed was a companionship of genuine devotion and mutual happiness. For forty odd years the home they established became a temple of domestic joy. Its doors swung open to all comers and its spirit of hospitality became a magnet of all neighbors and mends. Out of their devotion to each other emanated a service marked by its sacrifice and love to the day when the union was severed by death. His life was one of toil and constant labor. He looked to the labor of his hands and the resourcefulness of the soil for his compensation. In this he was backed up and aided by a domestic happiness as his inspiring genius.

In middle life Mr. Hunter became a member of the Missionary Baptist church to which he was faithful to the day of his departure. In this relationship, as in others, he was modest and unassuming but always ready to carry his part of the obligation. His life was such that one could speak of him as a good man who bore his profession in his daily acts, No higher tribute can be offered to one's community than that one has lived such that his neighbors and friends can say that he was a good man. A good man in God's noblest creation.

To Mr. and Mrs. Hunter were born six children: Mrs. Harry Conley of St Augustine; Mrs. William Kudrna of Bunnell; E A Hunter of Bunnell; Mrs. George Lloyd of Jacksonville; Mrs. Augie Biddle of Bunnell, and Eugene Hunter of Bunnell. These with the grandchildren and large number of sympathetic mends and neighbors joined Mrs. Hunter in a final memorial service at the old homestead the afternoon of October 25, led by Rev C. C. Long, pastor of the Bunnell Baptist church. The body was laid in its last resting-place in the Espanola Cemetery under the moss-covered oaks among the departed friends and relatives of other days.