Brief Life History of John Alexander
When John Alexander Hunt was born on 16 May 1830, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Daniel Durham Hunt, was 30 and his mother, Nancy Davis, was 30. He married Elizabeth Tilt on 22 September 1859, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Rich, Utah, United States in 1870 and Fish Haven, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States in 1900. He died on 23 January 1913, in St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Saint Charles Cemetery, St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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- John A Hunt, "United States Census, 1870"
- John A. Hunt, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- John Alexander Hunt, "Find A Grave Index"
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1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah HUNT, John Alexander, Bishop of St. Charles, Bear Lake county, Idaho, was born May 16, 1830, in Gibson county, Tenn., the son of Daniel D. Hunt and Nancy Davis. …
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