----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia Lafayette" <PLafayette@webtv.net> To: "lcady8" <lcady8@comcast.net> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 11:23 PM Subject: Henry Jackson Hunt > Detroit Gazette [excerpts from obit] > Tuesday, September 19,1826. > > Colonel Henry Jackson Hunt died Friday last in his 38th year. He was a > respected merchant here in Detroit, mayor of this city, an officer in > the Revolution, and Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of C.S. Infantry. When > he had barely attained his majority, the death of his father, Colonel > Thomas Hunt, left Henry Jackson Hunt with the duty of providing for the > Hunt family which included ten children. Masonic rites. >