I have not been able to do anything with this. Help would be appreciated to <bhgothie@mindspring.com>. Some familiar sounding names but nothing seems to tie in.-Sandy in Lubbock ---------- > From: bhgothie@mindspring.com > To: SBH3@prodigy.net > Subject: Re: > Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 7:57 PM > > Dear Sandy, > I wish I could be more help here. Let me give you what I know for locations. > Temperance M. ______ married a G.G. Hunt first, probably in MS because the > John J. Hunt who was my ggrandfather listed MS as his place of birth. James > Jefferson was his older brother and I'm guessing that he was born in MS as > well. John Wesley is the son of James Jefferson Hunt. Now once GG Hunt was > dead Temperance M. Hunt remarried to William J. Gentry. I know they lived in > a place called Hemp Hill in Rapides Parish, LA very close to the Vernon > Parish line in 1890 when a blood feud began between one of the Gentry > girll's in laws( a Stewart) and a Johnson family whose son was killed in a > chiavari shootout. The family hightailed from the Alexandria area of LA and > eventually ended up in TX, Angelina County. John J. uncle of John Wesley > moved to Vernon Parish LA and then to TX; he died in Huntsville TX and is > buried in Whitehouse Cemetery in Lufkin, Angelina County. James Jefferson > Hunt, father of John Wesley Hunt was killed in the blood feud in LA and > never made it to TX. He is buried in LA somewhere, possibly Colfax, where > the Stewart is buried. > > My father Roy Eugene Hunt knew many relatives of the Hunt ilk lived in > Angelina near Lufkin ,but his mom stayed away from them like they were > poison and kept her husband away as well. My dad and his folks Florence > Rachel Gates Hunt and James Arthur Hunt, son of John J. Hunt lived in > Terrell, Waco, White City and finally Hubbard. I believe. All these folk > were poor as dirt, mainly illiterate ( James Arthur Hunt never finished 3rd > grade).My information comes from a descendant of Elizabeth L. Gentry > Stewart, known to my dad as Betty Hunt Stewart, but of course she was really > a Gentry.Her name is Nancy L. Kuehl and lives near Dallas. Her son's e-mail > is kkuehl@worldnet.att.net.She told me all the Hunt and Gentrys were buried > in Lufkin.I'm looking for the kids of the one Hunt that was shot, hoping to > find a way back to the G.G. Hunt of Mississippi. > > It's a tangled web we unweave on this branch of the Hunt tree. > Is this any more help? Time line: May 1890 shootout in LA; 1900 John J. Hunt > in Rapides Parish, 1910 the folks are in TX. Barbara in Baltimore > -----Original Message----- > From: SANFORD B HUNT <SBH3@prodigy.net> > To: bhgothie@mindspring.com <bhgothie@mindspring.com> > Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 11:51 PM > > > >Barb- > >I have several matching names but I am limited in my search by lack > >of geography. > >Sandy hunt in Lubbock Texas