Brief Life History of Henry Clay
When Henry Clay Hunt was born on 29 July 1844, in Hamblen Township, Brown, Indiana, United States, his father, John Wesley Hunt, was 48 and his mother, Jala Grant, was 32. He married Rutha Jane Tull on 22 March 1874, in Nashville, Washington Township, Brown, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Brown, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Council Grove Twp, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States for about 30 years. He died on 11 September 1936, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Bethany, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.
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Sources (14)
- Henry E Hunt in household of Joly Hunt, "United States Census, 1860"
- Henry C Hunt, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Henry Clay Hunt, "BillionGraves Index"
Spouse and Children
1844–1936 Male
1855–1947 Female
Children (11)
1875–1956 Female
1877–1964 Male
1879–1941 Male
1882–1971 Male
1868–1974 Female
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Parents and Siblings
1795–1858 Male
1812–1884 Female
Siblings (13)
1831–1879 Female
1832–1914 Female
1834–1929 Male
1836–1925 Male
1838–1922 Female
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World Events (8)
1846
Age 2
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Age 7
1868 · Impeach the President!
Age 24
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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