Brief Life History of Joseph Cecil
When Joseph Cecil Hunt was born on 24 April 1855, in Buffalo District, Brooke, West Virginia, United States, his father, George Coffinberry Hunt, was 41 and his mother, Emily Penix, was 33. He married Laura Belle Hazlett on 30 October 1882, in May Township, Christian, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Locust Township, Christian, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Ward, North Dakota, United States in 1915. He died on 9 January 1934, in Minot, Ward, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Minot, Ward, North Dakota, United States.
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- Joseph Hunt in household of Coffinburg Hunt, "United States Census, 1860"
- Joseph Hunt, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Joseph Hunt, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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World Events (8)
1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
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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