This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hunt, Northrip, Jaggars, Smith Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/2612 Message Board Post: Eugene Wiseman Hunt was born in Barren County, Kentucky, October 12, 1873, and died in the Wesley Hospital at Oklahoma City July 20, 1931, at 7:00 o'clock A.M., being 57 years 9 months and 8 days old. On May 8, 1901, he was married to Ethel Northrip and to this union was born eleven children. The scond child, Burton, died in infancy. Bro. Hunt leaves to mourn his going, his wife, five sons, Judson, Paul, Wesley, James and Letcher, also five daughters, Theta, Lorie, Vera, Letha and Lera. He is also survived and mourned by three brothers and two sisters, Mrs. Daisy Hunt of Elk City and Mr. and Mrs. T.S. Hunt of Oklahoma City who were present at the funeral. The others, J.B. Hunt of Liberty, Mo., Mrs. W.F. Jaggars of Murfeesboro, Tenn., L.B. Hunt and Mrs. C.B. Smith of Macon, Ga, were unable to attend the funeral. Bro. Hunt was converted at an early age, joined the Baptist church and was licensed to preach in Kentucky. After coming to Oklahoma he was ordined in the Anioch Church over 23 years ago and his service for the Master in Mills Baptist Association is recorded in "The Lamb's Book of Life" and he has answered God's call "Well done, Thou good and faithful servant. Come up higher and be with They Lord forever more." The funeral servic e of E. W. Hunt at Red Star Tuesday afternoon was opened with the congregation singing "In the Sweet By and By". It was the wish of Bro. Hunt that there be congregational singing and the songs were sung by the congregation. Rev. J.F. Curtis, pastor of the Baptist church at Hammon, read a Scripture lesson from the 8th chapter of Psalm, Heb. 9:27, 28 and John 14: 1-2. Burial Red Star cemetery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.