Amos Hunt

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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Family Time Line

Amos Hunt
1819–1904
Nancy Garrett Welborn
1823–1896
Marriage: 20 December 1840
Mary Jane Hunt
1842–1842
James Wilson Hunt
1843–1885
Jonathan Wilson Hunt
1845–1922
Alfred Hunt
1847–1852
Emeline Hunt
1849–1929
Jefferson Hunt
1852–1928
Amos Pratt Hunt
1855–1907
Malinda Hunt
1857–1934
Nancy Jane Hunt
1859–1944
Sarah Francis Hunt
1862–1884
John Dudley Hunt
1865–1865
Angeline Hunt
1869–1947

Sources (46)

  • 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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World Events (8)

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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Overland Trail Excerpt, Benjamin Gardner Company. 1852

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