Brief Life History of Alfred
When Alfred Hunt was born on 21 March 1847, in Penrod, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, his father, Amos Hunt, was 28 and his mother, Nancy Garrett Welborn, was 23. He lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. He died on 11 July 1852, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 5, and was buried in Nebraska, United States.
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- Alfred Hunt in household of Amos Hunt, "United States Census, 1850"
- Alfred Hunt, "Find A Grave Index"
- Alfred Hunt, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868 Source of Trail Excerpt: Layne, Jonathan Ellis, Autobiography, 1897, 10-18. In the summer of 1851, nearly all of our people in Pottawattomie County pr …
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