On November 15, 1913, Rev. Benjamin Lafayette Hunter departed this life for his eternal home. Brother Hunter was living at the time of his death near Valley View, Cooke County, Texas. He leaves, surviving him, three sons, towit: Robert, William and Benjamin, and one daughter, Miss Irma. Brother Hunter was born March 25, 1845, in middle Tennessee. His father was John A. Hunter, and his mother was Miss Comina Knicer. He came to Texas when about nine years of age. He lived to be sixty-nine years old. He joined Whiterock Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church in 1878. He was ordained in 1882. During all his ministerial life he was daily the same sweet spirited gentleman, manifesting a quiet trust which comes alone from an abiding faith in God. He was a true man; true to all the obligations of life; true to himself and when all of Valley View congregation went into the Northern Presbyterian church he came and joined the Cumberland congregation at Gainesville. He would not let his life speak a falsehood by joining them and thereby saying he believed their doctrines when he did not. He was a wise counselor and Denton Presbytery will miss him greatly. His life was hid with Christ in God and he trusted not his own judgment, but was spirit led. He retired seemingly well on the night of the 14th and when his children went to wake him for breakfast they found him as if in sweet sleep, but dead. The death angel had kissed his soul away apparently without a pain or struggle. He is gone, but what an army the result of his life work is following on. "If every one for whom he did some loving kindness was to bring a blossom for his grave he would sleep beneath a wilderness of flowers."
                                                 R. W. Bell.
   Gainesville, Texas.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, January 2, 1914, page 15]