Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Hunt was born on 18 October 1821, in Ohio, United States, her father, Stephanus Hunt, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth Coffin, was 31. She married Levi Mercer Bonham on 3 January 1841, in Jasper Township, Wayne, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Crooked Creek Township, Jasper, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Henderson, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 15 November 1894, in Villisca, Montgomery, Iowa, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Villisca Cemetery, Villisca, Montgomery, Iowa, United States.
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- Mary Bonhaus in household of Levi Bonhaus, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary Hunt, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Mary Hunt Bonham, "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1833
Historical Boundaries: 1833: Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1834: Michigan Territory, United States 1834: Des Moines, Michigan Territory, United States 1836: Des Moines, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1836: Wisconsin Territory, United States 1838: Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Iowa, United States 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States 1851: Montgomery, Iowa, United States
1841
Historical Boundaries: 1841: Henderson, Illinois, United States
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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