Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Samuel HUNT ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, February 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Mr. Samuel Hunt is quite low and grave fears are entertained that he will not continue long. He is quite aged and there appears to be a general breaking down of his system. He spent a poor day Sunday but revived again Monday and appeared better. January 14, 1890, p. 1, col. 3, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin Charley Hunt was telegraphed to at Omaha by his mother, and arrived Wednesday night. He found his father unable to talk, but recognized Charley with a great deal of satisfaction. January 28, 1890, p. 1, col. 3, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin Another Pioneer Gone Died at his late residence on South Second Street, Sunday, January 26, 1890, Samuel Hunt aged 74 years on the 14th of January inst. Mr. Hunt was a native of Windham, Maine, and going to Portland when quite young he engaged in the merchantile business with a cousin. He was elected to the Main legislature in 1852 and was a member of that body at the passage of the first Maine liquor law. He was always an uncompromising friend of temperance and could engage in no party or measure where intemperance was sanctioned by vote of implication; hence he was an ardent prohibitionist. In 1854, Mr. Hunt closed up business in Portland, came west and settled in the town of Rutland, Dane county, where he lived until coming to Evansville in 1869. He bought a tract of land in the southern portion of the village, built a fine residence, with comfortable surroundings, and engaged in the nursery business, a profession adapted to his choice and suited to his fine aesthetic taste of horticulture. Mr. Hunt was a worthy member of the Congregational church, and his seat was never found empty when health permitted him to occupy it. It had been noticed for some time that his steps grew more feeble, and the palor upon his ever smiling face showed that age with its attending infirmaties was making sad inroads upon his life. He was confined to his house but a few weeks, but his last days although pressed with great physical suffering, his mind was clear and serene, ever waiting and watching for that peaceful repose he had so earnestly hoped for during his life. He leaves a wife, a son who is cashier of the bank of Commerce of Hemingford, Neb., and a daughter who is a teacher in a Milwaukee public school--all were present at his death. He was buried from his late residence, at 2 o'clock Tuesday, his late pastor, Rev. Van Swearinger, officiating. January 28, 1890, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin