When Polly E. Shumway was born on 18 April 1808, in Chatham, Ghent, Columbia, New York, United States, her father, Isaac W Shumway, was 21 and her mother, Mary Evans, was 20. She married David M. Hunt on 1 September 1825. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 9 November 1868, in Chatham, Ghent, Columbia, New York, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Chatham, Ghent, Columbia, New York, United States.