Name: nadinehunt26 -- Hunt/Sweeney/Wiechmann/Long Family Tree

Updated: 06-18-2020 16:06:95. Owner: Nadine Hunt


Individual Page


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Catherine Harriett Hunt: Birth: 9 JUL 1861. Death: 13 DEC 1923 in Oakland (California?)

  2. Louisa Ellen Hunt: Birth: 4 FEB 1863 in Peoria, IL. Death: BEF. 1870

  3. John E. Hunt: Birth: 5 AUG 1865 in Peoria, IL. Death: 7 FEB 1945 in Bloomington, McLean Co, IL

  4. George A. Hunt: Birth: 5 AUG 1865 in Peoria, Peoria Co, IL. Death: 14 SEP 1932 in Bloomington, McLean Co, IL

  5. Mary Hunt: Birth: AUG 1869. Death: BEF. 1880


Sources
1. Source:   1860 Federal Census of Peoria, IL
2. Title:   1870 U.S. Census, Mortality Schedule, Bloomington, McLean County, IL.
3. Title:   Church Records, St. Mary's Cathedral, Peoria, IL.

Notes
a. Note:   A researcher at Peoria searched the old Peoria directories. She found no "A Hunt" in the 1856 directory, but did find an "A. Hunt" boarding at the n.w. corner of Fourth & Franklin in the "1859 Beatty's City directory firstr Annual Issue." She also found an "A. Hunt" in the Chicago Cook County census of 1850.
 In 1860 Abraham (age 28) is found residing at the boarding house of Alpheus & Lucy Richardson in the 2nd ward of the city of Peoria, Illinois. His birthplace is listed as Vermont. Another resident of the boarding house John Todd (age 25, a laborer) also lists his place of birth as Vermont, leading one to wonder of the two of them came to Peoria together from Vermont.
 After Abraham's marriage to Catherine Donnally in August 1860, they seemed to move around frequently. In the 1861 Peoria directory he is located at "6 South - Hale"; in 1863 at 232 Perry; in 1865 "Merriman ws 2 s Johnson." In the early years of their marriage they attended St. Mary's Church, Jefferson at Eaton. The state census of 1865 indicated only four members of the family, indicating the twins have not yet been born. Their residence in 1865 is in a different area of the city according to the directory, closer to St. Patrick's Church on High Street between Cedar and Linden. An educated guess is that they were attending church there in 1865 since we can find no baptismal certificates for the twins George and John who were born in that year.
 In the 1870 census, tracking Abraham is difficult because of errors in the census. Abraham is listed in that census as "keeping house" and his wife Catherine is not listed at all. This first led us to believe that Abraham was now a widower. However, we soon found that Catherine -- not Abraham -- was listed in Bloomington City directories after 1870 and that she remarried in 1871. This led us to check the mortality schedule for 1870 where we found Catherine's name listed -- and then scratched out and replaced with Abraham's. The census taker had mixed things up when he was writing them down: he wrote Abraham where Catherine should have been (among the living!) and Catherine where Abraham should have been (among the dead!) and then had to correct himself. The cause of death was Dropsy Chest.
 Abraham's name is sometimes spelled Abram or Ebram.

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