Brief Life History of Marshall
When Marshall Hunt was born on 12 April 1829, in Albion, Edwards, Illinois, United States, his father, Jefferson Hunt, was 26 and his mother, Celia Mounts, was 23. He married Sarah Ann Runyan on 15 March 1851, in Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 25 January 1915, in Taylor, Navajo, Arizona, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Taylor, Navajo, Arizona, United States.
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- Marshal Hunt, "United States Census, 1850"
- US military pension file
- Marshal Hunt, "Arizona, Deaths, 1870-1951"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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.
1857
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Cache, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Cache, 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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