From: Bill Hunt <HUNT@ALPHA.NSULA.EDU>
Reply-To: HUNT@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu
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To: "Hunt Family discussion list" <HUNT@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 15:06:53 -0600 (CST)
Subject: John Austin HUNT (1828-1906)
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I will be grateful for responses about any connection to the following:

John Austin HUNT, born August 28, 1828 in Ireland; at age 16 he immigrated to 
U.S. (December 1844 or January 1845) where he joined older siblings who had 
already immigrated. He sailed around South America to San Francisco to the 
California Gold Rush about 1850.  He met there a Mr. Caudle (Caudell) and 
returned with him to Johnson County, Arkansas, where he settled and married 
Mr. Caudle's daughter Amanda Jane.

Oral history relates the following: that John Austin Hunt had remained behind 
in Ireland to tend his mother and that he came to the U.S. after her death; 
that he joined his siblings in Philidelphia, PA; that his siblings included a 
brother named Jim or James who also went in the Gold Rush; and that after 
separation from his siblings he never had contact with them again.

John Austin HUNT took U.S. citizenship in 1858, served in the Frontier Division 
of the Union Army during the Civil War, removed his entire family to Indian 
Territory (Oklahoma) in 1871, and died there in 1906 shortly before statehood. 
John Austin and Amanda Jane Caudell HUNT had 14 children, 12 of whom attained 
adulthood and had families.

If anyone has a story similar to this, I would really like to hear back.

Thanks, Bill

William A. Hunt 		(318) 352-5417 voice
608 White Oak Lane              (318) 357-5250 fax
Natchitoches, LA 71457          hunt@alpha.nsula.edu

Researching American generations for Hunt, Yearwood, Caudle/Caudell, Cox, Ward, 
	Mahon, Morrow, Shropshire, May, Willis, Cravens, Buchanan, Armstrong, 
	Nunnally, Edmiston, Swain, Rogers, Keyes, Coleman