Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Hunt, George W. 1813 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  GEORGE W. HUNT was born in Franklin County, Tenn., October 20, 1813, and is a
son of David and Elizabeth (Larken) Hunt, natives of Virginia. He was reared on
a farm, and received a common-school education. At the age of twenty years he
began clerking in a store at Salem, Tenn., and from there, three years later, he
moved to Jackson County, Ala., where he was similarly employed. He was
twenty-six years of age when he came to Huntsville. Here he was for a while
receiver and manager of stage lines, and also ran a hotel for a short time. He
returned to Tennessee, and was there engaged in mercantile and milling business
until 1861. In that year he located at Winchester, and in 1882 returned to
Huntsville, where he has since resided, retired from all business.

  Mr. Hunt was married in 1844, to Miss Priscilla J. Powell, at Winchester,
Tenn., and has reared four children: Benjamin P., David (deceased), George R.
and Addie B. The last named is the wife of Samuel L. Nelson, of Baldwyn, Miss.
The mother of these children died July 24, 1873, and in November, 1882, Mr. Hunt
married Mrs. McCalley, a daughter of Joel Rice, Esq.

  David Hunt, George W. Hunt's father, when a lad, accompanied his parents to
South Carolina, and from thence to Rogersville, Tenn., in the early-part of the
present century. In 1806, he located in Franklin County, Tenn., where he lived
until the time of his death, which  occurred in 1839. He was a soldier in the
war of 1812, and held the rank of major. He was a quiet, unostentatious,
Christian gentleman. He reared a family of ten children.  His father, John Hunt,
was a Virginian by birth, and was a Revolutionary soldier. It was for him the
town of Huntsville was named. About seventy-five yards south of the Huntsville
Springs he erected the first building at this place, a small log-cabin.


Additional Comments:
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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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