Brief Life History of Levi Bunyan
When Levi Bunyan Hunt was born on 22 April 1835, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Daniel Durham Hunt, was 35 and his mother, Nancy Davis, was 35. He had at least 1 son with Martha. He lived in Marion, Crittenden, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 2 Marion, Crittenden, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 14 May 1890, in St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Saint Charles Cemetery, St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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- Levi B Hunt, "United States Census, 1860"
- Levi Bunyan Hunt, "Find A Grave Index"
- Levi B Hunt, "United States, Kentucky, Agricultural Schedules, 1850-1880"
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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.
1839 · Nauvoo is Settled
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
1850 · Tornado Finishes off the Temple
On May 27, 1850, a tornado came through Nauvoo and took the remaining outer walls of the temple. It was the most frightful thing the city had witnessed. Not just a tornado but also lightening, thunder, wind, hail and rain assailed the spot. Over time what was not destroyed by the storm crumbled until only a small amount was left.
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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