When Benoni Smith Hunt was born on 25 March 1837, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, his father, Daniel Durham Hunt, was 37 and his mother, Nancy Davis, was 37. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 8 December 1918, in St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Saint Charles Cemetery, St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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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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