Daniel Durham Hunt

Brief Life History of Daniel Durham

When Daniel Durham Hunt was born on 1 February 1800, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States, his father, Abel C Hunt, was 35 and his mother, Duanna Joanna Baird, was 29. He married Nancy Davis on 17 February 1826, in Smith, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Randolph, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 7 October 1866, in St. Charles, Oneida, Idaho, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Saint Charles Cemetery, St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Daniel Durham Hunt
1800–1866
Nancy Davis
1800–1846
Marriage: 17 February 1826
Susan Jane Hunt
1828–1908
John Alexander Hunt
1830–1913
James Wiseman Hunt
1832–1855
Levi Bunyan Hunt
1835–1890
Benoni Smith Hunt
1837–1918
Daniel Whitmore Hunt
1840–1919
Nancy Johanna Penelope Hunt
1842–1909

Sources (70)

  • Daniel Hunt, "United States Census, 1830"
  • Daniel Hunt, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Daniel D Hunt, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

1803

Historical Boundaries 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1812: Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Missouri, United States

1818

Illinois is the 21st state.

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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Daniel Durham Hunt's own account of his early history

HISTORY OF D. D. HUNT "I was born Feb. 1st 1800 in the state of North Carolina, Roan Co. My father's name was Abel and my mother's name was Joanna Hunt. According to the acct. of my friends & relat …

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