Old Highway 96 & Carl Rd. Leipers Fork, TN Circa 1875. 2-story brick Italianate home In 1875, Col. John Henry Hunter (1828-1906) and Martha M. Bennett Hunter (1838-1923) built their home off Old Highway 96 - near what became the Leipers Fork area. Hunter married Martha 1859 and later served in the Civil War. Henry was a prominent farmer and held extensive land holdings in what became the Leiper’s Fork area. Hunter's parents were henry and Jane Wyatt B. Hutner. His sister was