When Mary Ann Hunt was born in 1857, in Johnson, Arkansas, United States, her father, Pvt. John Austin Hunt, was 29 and her mother, Amanda Jane Caudell, was 17. She married William John Patterson in 1872, in Sebastian, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Horsehead Township, Johnson, Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Hartford, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States in 1880. She died on 10 June 1891, in Roby, Fisher, Texas, United States, at the age of 34.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English (southwestern): occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English hunte ‘hunter, huntsman’ (Old English hunta). The term was used not only of the hunting on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, which in the Middle Ages was a pursuit restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also to much humbler forms of pursuit such as bird catching and poaching for food. The word seems also to have been used as an Old English personal name and to have survived into the Middle Ages as an occasional personal name. Compare Huntington and Huntley .
Irish: adopted for various Irish surnames containing or thought to contain the Gaelic element fiadhach ‘hunt’; for example Ó Fiaich (see Fee ) and Ó Fiachna (see Fenton ).
Possibly an Americanized form of German Hundt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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