George W. Hunt

1834–30 April 1863 (Age 29)
Wilson, Tennessee, United States

The Life of George W.

When George W. Hunt was born in 1834, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Carroll Hunt, was 38 and his mother, Jane Moore, was 37. He married Mary P Bradshaw on 12 October 1855, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 30 April 1863, in Sand Mountain, Jackson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 29.

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George W. Hunt
1834–1863
Mary P Bradshaw
1836–1913
Marriage: 12 October 1855
Margaret Hunt
1857–1923
James H Hunt
1859–1939

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
12 October 1855
Wilson, Tennessee, United States
children

(2)

    Margaret Hunt

    Female1857–1923Female

    James H Hunt

    Male1859–1939Male

Parents and Siblings

siblings

(11)

+6 More Children

World Events (7)

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

Age 1

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1836 · Remember the Alamo

Age 2

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846

Age 12

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

1 English: occupational name for a hunter, Old English hunta (a primary derivative of huntian ‘to hunt’). 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 .2 Irish: in some cases (in Ulster) of English origin, but more commonly used as a quasi-translation of various Irish surnames such as Ó Fiaich ( see Fee ).3 Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Hundt .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Sources (3)

  • George W Hunt in household of John Hunt, "United States Census, 1850"
  • George Hunt in entry for James H. Hunt, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
  • George W. Hunt in entry for Maggie H. Groves, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1955"

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