Brief Life History of Amos
When Amos Hunt was born on 28 February 1819, in Greenville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Hunt Jr, was 33 and his mother, Jane Coats, was 29. He married Nancy Garrett Welborn on 20 December 1840, in Greenville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Hebron, Washington, Utah, United States in 1870 and Election Precinct 4 Bicknell, Wayne, Utah, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 6 September 1904, in Teasdale, Wayne, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Teasdale Cemetery, Teasdale, Wayne, Utah, United States.
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- Amos Hunt in household of John A Peterson, "United States Census, 1900"
- Amos Hunt, "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979" Marriage Dec 1840
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1830 · Louisville and Portland Canal Opens
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
1845
Historical Boundaries 1845: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States
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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