Brief Life History 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 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1891. 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 in household of John Hunt, "United States Census, 1850"
- George H Hunt, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- George W Hunt, "Tennessee, Confederate Pension Applications, Soldiers and Widows, 1891-1965"
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1835 · The Hermitage is Built
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
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
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
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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