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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Sarah Hunt: Birth: 3 MAR 1794 in ,Bourbon, KY.

  2. Lewis Hunt: Birth: 21 NOV 1796 in ,,KY.

  3. Wilson Hunt: Birth: 16 JUL 1800 in ,Fleming, KY. Death: 1861 in ,Bath, KY

  4. Hezekiah Harrison Herriman Hunt: Birth: 14 FEB 1804 in Louisville, Jefferson, KY. Death: 25 OCT 1857 in Goshen, Mercer, MO

  5. Lydia Hunt: Birth: 9 JAN 1808 in ,,KY. Death: in ,Morgan, KY

  6. Seth Foster Hunt: Birth: 27 MAR 1810 in ,,KY. Death: 1854

  7. Purity Hunt: Birth: 1812 in ,,KY.

  8. Jaily Grant Hunt: Birth: 5 MAY 1812 in ,Bath, KY. Death: 8 OCT 1884 in ,Bartholomew, IN

  9. Absalom Jr Hunt: Birth: 1814 in ,,KY. Death: 7 MAY 1898 in ,,KY

  10. Julia Hunt: Birth: ABT. 1814 in ,,KY.

  11. Parker Hunt: Birth: ABT. 1817 in ,,KY.

  12. Hester Ann Hunt: Birth: 1819 in ,,KY.


Notes
a. Note:   !Absalom Hunt was born 4 Dec 1773 in the Shenandoah Valley close to
 Romney and Winchester,Frederick Co., VA. His marriage to Miss Hester
 Foster in 1793 is recorded in Bourbon Co., KY., Vol. 22, P. 57. "Register of
 Kentucky Historical Society".His will is recorded in Book D, p.168, Bath
 Co., Ky. For Hester's will see Will Book E, p. 451; Settlement Book 22, p.
 163. Absalom Hunt was a Methodist minister as were his brothers Lewis
 and Reuben, Lewis was a circuit rider in Ohio, Absalom rode the circuit
 in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Finley's "History of Methodism in
 Kentucky" gives a shetch of his life, also the different charges he had
 during the time of his ministry.He was a Presiding Elder and presided at
 the Lexington Conferences of 1817 and 1818; at Kingston, Ky 1819; at Mt.
 Sterling in 1821; at Fleming, Ky in 1823; at Liberty, Ky. 1824 at Paris,
 Ky. in 1826. In 1826 he was sent back to Hinkstone. Absalom Hunt owned
 a Plantation. He often went to Cincinnati on buying trips. He and his
 brothers were tall, strong, had blond hair and were of fair complexion.
 SOURCE:May Cooper Burnham, Tulsa, OK. 1960. In his will he left his
 estate to his widow and one Dollar to each of his surviving children.It is
 believed he died from the complications of a stroke.


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