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William Hunt 1842 - 
Harrison-Montgomery County KyArchives Biography

Author: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.by William Henry Perrin

WILLIAM HUNT, farmer, P. O. Smitsonville, is a son of H. D. and Charlotte Hunt, 
both natives of Kentucky, and traces the genealogy of his family back to one of 
the first settlers of Kentucky; his grandfather, Mr. Robertson Hunt, came to 
Kentucky with Daniel Boone, where he remained a resident until his death, which occurred at the extreme old age of one hundred and four years.  William was born in Montgomery County, Ky., in 1842, and at the age of six years, his parents removed to Harrison County, Ky., where he received his education. In 1859, the family removed to Texas, settling in Harrison County of that State; there William engaged in work at the trade of carpenter and at carrying the United States mail from Marshall Tex., to Keatchie, La. Within one year after the arrival of the family in Texas, his father and mother died, leaving three children younger than himself to his care.  In 1860, he returned to Harrison County and settled on the farm he now owns. In 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and at the close of the war,on his way home, he walked from Abingdon, Va., to Mt. Sterling, a distance of two hundred miles, in five days.  Upon his return he at once engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he has since followed, in connection with which he runs, during the winter season, a saw mill, owned by him, and built in 1810, by one _______ Miller.  Here, by his own energy and industry, he has built for himself a comfortable and pleasant home, his house being at the time of its erection, the finest between Augusta, Bracken County, Ky., and Cynthiana.  In 1870, Mr. Hunt was married to Miss Lizzie Botts; they are the parents of six children: Hattie, Annie, Amanda, Sidney, Nettie and Mamie. In religious faith he is a Baptist, he and family being members of the Beaver Church; he is also a Democrat, as was also his father, and although a young man, he has already a good business, and a worthy name and reputation in the community where he resides.


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