Hello This came to me because of my search on Houston County, Ga ===================================================================== > Source: ALDATA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Al-Baldwin Co. Bios (Hunt) > > > > Baldwin County AlArchives Biographies.....Henry J. Hunt November 27 1827 - ? > ************************************************ > Copyright. All rights reserved. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm > ************************************************ > > File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: > Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 11, 2004, 9:05 pm > > Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) > HENRY J. HUNT, planter and lumberman, of Tensaw, Baldwin county, Ala., was > born in Georgia, November 27, 1827, and came to Alabama with his parents, who, > in 1836, settled in Russell county, where the son grew to manhood. From Russell > county the family moved to Chambers county, and thence to Randolph county, Ga., > where Henry J. was married to Miss Mary A. Morris, daughter of James Morris, a > planter. Mrs. Hunt was a native of Randolph county, was married in her sixteenth > year, and became the mother of three children, viz.: Jane D., William H. and > Mary A., all now deceased. Mrs. Hunt died in 1856, an earnest member of the > Primitive Baptist church, and in 1857, Mr. Hunt married Miss Emma Ramie, > daughter of Capt. Bryant Ramie, a planter of Stewart county, Ga., where the lady > was born in 1841. To this union have been born eight children, as follows: Jane, > wife of L. F. Warren, and mother of five children; Joe, who is with his parents; > Lula A., married to Daniel O'Rourke, a business man, of Wallace, Ala.; Gussie, > Emma, Fannie, Claude and May. Mr. Hunt reached Alabama with his family December > J. 24, 1861, and for some years his attention was occupied with the affairs of > war. He enlisted in the Alabama cavalry service under the command of Capt. > English, and was chiefly employed in home guard duty until the close of > hostilities. In 1865, he bought a tract of land containing 160 acres, put up a > saw-mill, and began his career as a millman; in 1875, he bought the well > improved Silver's place, and has been constantly employed at lumbering and > farming to the present date. The parents of Henry J. Hunt were Daniel and Jane > (Goldsmith) Hunt, who were the father and mother of ten children, Henry J. being > the fifth in order of birth. Daniel Hunt was born in Butts county, Ga., in 1800, > was a farmer, and was married in his native county. On coming to Alabama, he was > elected sheriff of Russell county, later was elected tax collector and assessor > and then appointed deputy sheriff. He passed the latter his part of life in the > state of his nativity and died in 1866. His wife was born in Houston county, > Ga., was married at the age of sixteen, and became the mother of ten children, > of whom eight reached maturity and five are still living. Mrs. Jane Hunt passed > away in 1863, an exemplary member of the Missionary Baptist church. Of her ten > children, three sons came to Alabama with Henry J., all of whom are now > deceased, the last of the three dying in 1892. Henry J. Hunt still owns his > original tract of 160 acres, to which he has added 3,000 more, mostly fine > bottom land. He has a tasteful residence site near the Tensaw post-office, with > fruits of all kinds in abundance, and is surrounded with everything tending to > make life enjoy-able. He is a member of Tensaw lodge, No. 221, I. O. O. F., and, > with his family, of the Missionary Baptist church, and is an honest and useful > citizen. > > > > Additional Comments: > from "Memorial Record of Alabama" > > > This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ > > File size: 3.5 Kb > >