Brief Life History of Jefferson
When Jefferson Hunt was born on 20 January 1803, in Bracken, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Hunt, was 45 and his mother, Martha Ann Jenkins, was 42. He married Celia Mounts on 1 December 1823, in Macoupin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1860 and Cache, Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 11 May 1879, in Oxford, Oneida, Idaho, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Red Rock, Oneida, Idaho, United States.
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- Jefferson Hunt, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Captain Charles Jefferson Hunt - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Charles Jefferson Hunt
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
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1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
1814
Historical Boundaries: 1814: Edwards, Illinois Territory, United States 1818: Edwards, Illinois, United States
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.
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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