From: robert v. woods <echw@worldaccessnet.com> To: All Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 12:14 AM Subject: Hunt family > James McCord Hunt has no connection to the other Hunts in Muhlenberg > Co.,KY. > They all go back to Ralph Hunt on Long Island. James McC Hunt would > be a very > distant cousin to them. (if any-sbh) > My maternal grandmother was Sarah Elizabeth Hunt Noblitt(1848-1926) > was the youngest daughter of James and Hannah Minton Hunt. There is a > clue with Hannah Minton that I did not pick up for years. Hannah > Minton goes back to > Union Co.,SC and the Bush River MM of the Quakers. Also at that > meeting was > the Ralph Hunt Sr. family. Ralph Hunt b. in NJ about 1730 was married > to Rachel Campbell in about 1762 in NJ. By 1765 they are in York > Co.,PA. Then in 1772 they went south to Union Co.,SC. It seems that > Ralph joines the Quakers in > SC according to the work of W.W.Hinshaw. The birthdates of all of > the children are given in volume dealing with North Carolina. > There are six sons, Samuel,John, Ralph Jr. Isaiah,Edward & Abraham. > The daughters are; Mary,Rachel,Christiana & Joanna. It seems that one > of the leaders of the Quaker Meetings from up north went down to those > meetings in S.C. and told them of the terrible holocast that was going > to happen in the south because of > slavery. You know that the Quakers would buy slaves and give them > their freedom. This did not set to well with the establishment there. > So between 1800 and 1810 the Quakers of the Bush River MM moved from > SC. In the Hunt family, > Rachel died in 1790, Ralph Hunt Sr. married again in 1793 to a Mary > Cook. > Ralph Sr. died in 1800,you will read that he died in 1803, but I have > the adminstration papers for his estate. After Ralph died they > children made plans to move from SC. The first to move were Ralph > Jr., Isaiah and Christiana moved to > Ohio Co.,KY in about 1802. In 1807 Christana married Thomas Penny and > moved > to Darke Co.,OH. In the winter of 1805, Samuel,John, Edward & > Abraham(not sure of the other daughters,although they were married by > then), moved to the Miami > Monthly Meeting in Warren Co.,OH. Samuel had married Martha Townsend > in > SC, John had also married but the spouse is not recorded. Abraham had > married > Sarah Chamness there also. We are still working on Edward. > Back in Ohio Co.Kentucky, Ralph and Isaiah were there when part of > Ohio Co.,became Daviess Co,KY in 1815. About this time Joseph Minton > who they had known in SC arrived in Daviess Co. too. We know that the > Hunts and Mintons knew each other as in the Will of Thomas > Minton,father of Joseph, written in > 1786. This will was witnessed by none other than our Ralph Hunt Sr. > So it is no > surprise that Hannah Minton and Ralph Sr would marry in 1829. > In 1822 Ralph Jr. sold his farm in Daviess Co.,KY and moved across the > river > to Spencer Co.,Indiana. He lived in Grass Twp of Spencer Co. Here we > find > James with his father at an voting in 1830 in Spencer Co. Ralph Jr. > was married to > Ann ? first, later to Sarah Kelly and Anna Chord. He died in about > 1839. More work needs to be done with those Probate Records in Spencer > Co. James Mc > had siblings; Samuel b. abt 1805, Christiana,(maybe did not marry, as > she purchased land according to BLM records of Spencer Co.) Ralph III, > Isaiah b. > 1807,died 1874 Warrick Co.IN. > When James Mc went to Muhlenberg County he was not alone as several of > his > cousin, daughters of Isaiah had married and moved to Muhlenberg Co. > And we know that he left Kentucky for Fannin County, Texas. > After they left Texas and went to Cedar County, Missouri here Sarah > Elizabeth > Hunt married Jacob McClellan Noblitt. They then returned to Montague > Co. in the latter 1870's. Jacob Noblitt died in the summer of 1880 > from a rupture appendix. > A bit later, Sarah married William Henry Sprague. Wm Sprague had > indebtness when he married Sarah. Sarah ask her two oldest sons, James > R. and Commodore Noblitt to work and pay off the indebtness of their > step-father. They did this & in 1889 left Texas going to eastern > Oklahoma. There they worked making railroad ties for the new Iron > Mountain railroad(later Missouri Pacific RR). Here both of the > brothers met their brides to be; James R.m. Sarah Jane Clark in Apr > 1890. > They remained in eastern Oklahoma & are buried at Miller's Cem.,near > Tahlequah, > Cherokee Co.,OK. As are most of their children and grandchildren and > other members of the family. Commodore and Claudia Belle > Noblitt,sister of Sarah, > were married later in 1890. They migrated to western Colorado, then in > the early > 1940's they moved to Portland,Ore. They are buried in one of the > Pioneer cemeteries in Portland. I live just across the river from > Portland. They had a large family many of whom still live in Colorado. > Here in the northwest they have a few grandchildren. > So this is where our part of the extended Hunt family are now living. > I might add that just today I was over in Portland at the Genealogical > Forum with my daughter looking at some of the other Quaker > genealogical material by Willard Heiss of > Indiana. I have located Abraham Hunt and wife in Randolph > Co.,Indiana. The birthdates that Heiss give in his work is the same > birthdate given in the work of > Hinshaw from SC. So this is indeed our Abraham Hunt. In the Indiana > Quaker > records it seems that Abraham had a rough time being a Quaker. He > would be disowned for some cause and recant and would be readmitted. > And it happened over and over. Being a Quaker was not easy. The > brothers, Ralph Jr. and Isaiah > did not bring the Quaker faith with them to Kentucky. > The brother of James Mc, Isaiah married Elizabeth Wright in Spencer > Co.IN > He then moved to Skelton Twp of adjacent Warrick County,Indiana. Here > some > of his children married into this Skelton family. This Skelton family > is my fathers > family. His ancestors were from Gibson and Warrick Co.,IN. The Skelton > Twp was named for one of my ancestors, Judge Zachariah Skelton. So it > seems that > we somehow are all interrelated. > There are other members of the Hunt family working on the Edward Hunt > family, another working on the brother of James Mc, Isaiah > Hunt(1807-1874). > So tell us who are your ancestors in this Hunt family. > Yours, > Rob Woods > Ridgefield,WA > echw@worldaccessnet.com > > > >