Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of WILLIAM R. HUNT. This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 178-179 WILLIAM R. HUNT. The Hunt family are of Irish descent and of the Protestaut faith. George Hunt, grandfather of W. R. Hunt, was born ir Conway, Mass., and died at Ansted, Fayette county, West Virginia, in 1897. His wife, the mother of J. H. Hunt, was Joanna Rice. She died in Massachusetts in 1841. Josiah Henry Hunt, the father of William R., came to Ansted, W. Va., in 1852. In 1857 he came to Greenbrier county and worked for Dr. Martin at Blue Sulphur Springs. In 1859 he married Frances Elizabeth Huffman. She was a daughter of Enos and Virginia George Huffman. Enos Huffman came to Greenbrier county from Madison county, Pennsylvania. Virginia George Huffman was born in Greenbrier county, on the homestead now owned by J. E. and T. T. Leaf, in Grassy Meadows. She was married to Enos Huffman in 1818. Twelve children were born to this union, five girls and seven boys, of whom Frances Huffman was one. Josiah Henry Hunt served through the Civil war as wagon master under General Crook. He then returned to Greenbrier and settled on a farm one and one-half miles from what is now Alderson, and where he lived the remainder of his life. He died at the home of his daughter, Korah E. McClung, of Ronceverte, where he had been taken for medical treatment. His death occurred on April 23, 1909. He was a Missionary Baptist. To J. H. and Frances E. Hunt were born seven children, four boys and three girls, namely: George Enos, born June 5, 1866; Mary Susan, January 8, 1868; Joseph, June 24, 1869; Sally, July 15, 1870; Edna Korah. March 15, 1872; Walter. May 14, 1876. Sallie Hunt married James Hedrick, July 18, 1894; Korab married Dr. Clayton McClung, October 3, 1894; Walter married Edna Caraway, September 18, 1898. William R. Hunt, the subject of this sketch, was born September 25, 1873. He was reared a farmer and owns and operates a valuable one near Crawley, this county. On April 10, 1906, 'Mr. Hunt married Miss Mamie McClung, daughter of Jacob 0. McClung. Five children were born to this union: Marie Catherine, born February 15, 1907; Martha Frances (named after her two grandmothers), born November 19, 1908; William (deceased) ; Henry Hayward and Jacob Harold (twins), born June 23,1911. William R. Hunt is a very popular citizen of Greenbrier county. He was elected deputy sheriff, first under W. A. Boone in 1912, and again, under James Miller, in 1915, carrying his home district by a splendid majority. Notwithstanding the county is Democratic, giving that party a majority of 482 votes in the last election, the Republican candidates for sheriff carried it by a majority of 299 votes.