Linn County KS Archives Obituaries.....Hunt, John June 11, 1886
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LaCygne Weekly Journal, Sat. 19 Jun 1886,Local Matters pg 3, col 4-Located in Library District #2-Linn CO,Kansas. 
"John Hunt, an old and respected citizen of Lincoln Twp, died of paralysis 
Friday night of last week at his home east of LaCygne.  He was born on his 
father's farm near Elizabethtown, Hamilton CO, Ohio, Jan. 17, 1816, and removed 
soon after to Lawrenceburg, Indiana. where he remained until his removal to 
Linn Co, Kansas. Jan 1874.  He married, Dec. 8, 1840, Zebuline, a granddaughter 
of Gen. Harrison and also of Gen. T.M. Pike, USA, who made the first authentic 
exploration of the country now called Kansas, and who fell at the storming of 
Little York, Canada, in the last war with Great Britain; by whom he had one son 
and two daughters.
His second wife was Miss Montague, of Boone, Kentucky, to whom he was married 
September 2, 1849, by whom he had three sons, now residents of Linn Co.  He was 
stricken with paralysis, May 4, 1854, from which he suffered until his death, 
June 11, at 10pm .  He was buried at East Mount Zion Cemetery, Sunday, June 
13.  The funeral will be preached at East Mt. Zion church, on the second Sunday 
of July, by the Baptist minister, to which denomination Mr. Hunt's second wife 
was a member. Mr. Hunt's own religious belief was that of Christian 
Universalist. He was of that class of men whose worthy deeds and kindly manner 
draw friends about the, and who die regretted."

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