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Note: From: kniel56541@aol.com
Subject; Earl/Harris Family
Date: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:48:36 PM
Martha M. Crews was born June, 1820, and married Joseph Penn Hunt. The name Penn appears often in the Hunt family. The most reliable information on its origin here is: John Hunt came to Granville from Virginia. His son, John Hunt, married Francis Penn, a sister of the signer of the immortal Declaration of Independence. A son of John and Frances Penn Hunt married Sarah Longmire. Joseph Penn Hunt was one of their sons. David, a brother of John Penn Hunt, had two daughters, Martha who married Little Jimmie Crews, and Charity, who married Reavis and lived near Henderson.
The children of Joseph Penn Hunt and Martha Crews Hunt were:
1. Sally, wife of James B. Crews, who had several children: Cora Ellis; Mrs. W. N. Hicks; E. F. Crews; Fred.
2. James, who died in the Confederate Army.
3. Susan, wife of John H. Breedlove. Their children: Laurie G. who married Rebecca Rice. They have two children: Mildred and Evelyn;
Joseph Penn Breedlove married first Bessie Bassett, and second, Lucile Aiken, and had two children: Joseph and Caroline He has long been librarian of Duke University;
Ethel Breedlove, unmarried.
4. Celestia Hunt married I. H. Breedlove. Their children: Oscar who married Sadie Harris;
Calvin Breedlove, who married Lena Patterson. Their children: Joseph; Roy; Neely; Clarence Breedlove married Maggie Rice. Their children: Margaret; Frances; Thomas; Linwood; Bailey.
Eula Breedlove married Robert Hart. He died. Their children: Frank;Robert; Alley; Cooper; Mabel; Selma; James.
Ada Breedlove, unmarried.
May Breedlove married Samuel Holman.
Alene Breedlove married Carl Hester. Their children: Josephine; CarlT.; Marion; Dorothy Hester.
5. John L. Hunt. He was a merchant at Kittrell. He married Cora Raney. Three children were born to them: John Leigh; Cora; Rosa Beverly Hunt. Cora Raney Hunt died and John L. Hunt married her sister, Rosa Raney. John L. Hunt soon died.
6. Ira T. Hunt was a partner of John L. Hunt and married his widow, Rosa Raney Hunt. They had one child, Thomas.
7. Ella Hunt married Dr. Fuller of Person County. Their children: Elbert Earl; Cora Lee; Carrie; Willie and W. Fuller.
8. David N. Hunt married his first cousin, Adelaide Hester. They live in Oxford, North Carolina. He is a great lover of the services of the sanctuary! He was a R. F. D. carrier on route five from Oxford forabout 25 years. Their children: Joseph Penn; William Gibbs; Raymond;Otis Kilgo; Earl F.; Lula Hunt. Joseph P. Hunt's principal business was farming, but he was an expert carpenter and assisted in building the State Capital at Raleigh. He and his wife lived to be old, dying in 1880 and 1881.
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