Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Hunt, R. C. February 5 1850 - living in 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 27, 2004, 8:51 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) R. C. HUNT, a lawyer of Scottsboro, Ala., was born in Franklin county, Tenn., February 5, 1850. He is a son of William H. Hunt, who was born in the same place, in 1812. He was a farmer all his life, and served as a captain in the Florida war. He married Miss Annie Clayton, a native of Jackson county, Ala., and a daughter of R. B. Clayton, originally of North Carolina, who came to Alabama about 1820, and who was the first clerk of the circuit court of Jackson county. He died in Baldwin, Miss., in. 1872, aged eighty-two. To his marriage with Miss Clayton there were born five children, of whom four survive, viz.: Sallie, wife of J. W. Burress, of Baldwin, Miss.; David, who served in the Confederate army, and now lives in Texas; R. C., and George C. R. C. Hunt was educated in the common schools of Franklin county, Tenn., and in 1869 he began the study of law, with Judge Peter Turney, at Winchester. He was admitted to the bar in 1871, and went to Texas, locating in Coffman county, where he practiced three years. He then, in 1875, returned to Alabama, locating at Scottsboro, where he has since resided, and where he has built up a large successful practice. He was married in 1877 to Miss Annie Scruggs, a daughter of Frederick and Margaret (Kimbrough) Scruggs, of east Tennessee, by which marriage he has two children, viz.: Sallie and Luke P. Mr. Hunt is a democrat, and takes considerable interest in politics. He was a delegate to the state conventions of 1890 and 1892, and to the national democratic convention held in St. Louis in 1888. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1139 Published by Brant & Fuller (1893) Madison, WI This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb