Loretta Hunt

Brief Life History of Loretta

When Loretta Hunt was born on 22 November 1854, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, her father, Marshall Hunt, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Ann Runyan, was 20. She married Jesse Hunter Walker on 8 January 1873, in Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Shiprock, San Juan, New Mexico, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 4 Fruitland, San Juan, New Mexico, United States in 1940. She died on 22 August 1947, in Kirtland, San Juan, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Kirtland Cemetery, Kirtland, San Juan, New Mexico, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jesse Hunter Walker
1841–1883
Loretta Hunt
1854–1947
Marriage: 8 January 1873
William Jesse Walker
1873–1955
Elzie Walker
1875–1948
John Levi Walker
1876–1946
Ella May Walker
1879–1961
Sarah Luella Walker
1880–1960
Franklin Walker
1882–1933

Sources (28)

  • Loretta Walker, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Loretta H Walker, "BillionGraves Index"
  • Loretta Hunt Walker, "Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900"

World Events (8)

1856

Historical Boundaries: 1856: Cache, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Cache, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1879

Historical Boundaries: 1879: Apache, Arizona Territory, United States 1912: Apache, Arizona, 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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