When Joseph Smith Huntsman was born on 29 December 1838, in Caldwell, Missouri, United States, his father, James William Huntsman, was 32 and his mother, Hannah Ralston Davis, was 22. He married Solinda Eastman Parker on 12 July 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Tooele, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 19 June 1921, in Gunlock, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Gunlock, Washington, Utah, United States.
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English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): occupational name either for a hunter or a servant of a hunter, from a compound of Middle English hunte ‘the act of hunting’ (or Old English hunta ‘huntsman’) + man. In some cases the name may also arise from a late, unrecorded Old English personal name Huntmann, a compound of hunta + -mann.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Joseph Smith Huntsman was the first son of James William Huntsman. He was born 29 December 1838 with three older sisters, Eliza Ann, Sarah Jane, and Mary and 7 younger siblings, Maria, Hyrum Ralston, …
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