HUNT Amanda

1832 - 1910  (77 years)

• Name	HUNT Amanda
  Birth	12 Dec 1832	Hardwick, Caledonia, Vermont, United States   [1]
  Gender	Female
  _UID	ACD30D38EB9ED5118A06444553540000F317
  Death	11 Apr 1910	South Boston, Ionia, Michigan, United States   [1, 2]
  	(OBIT: Amanda Hunt was the third child and only daughter of Ormond Hunt and Delia Noyes Hunt and was born in Hardwick, Vermont, Dec. 12, 1832, and died at her South Boston home April 11, 1910. When five years of age she emigrated with her family from Vermont to Kalamazoo, Mich., where her father followed his trade as shoemaker unitl March, 1838, when they moved to South Boston, Ionia Co., and located in the wilderness on the farm now owned by Robert Young. Her father continued farming until failing health compelled his retirement. Amanda was the last survivor of her family. Her elder brother Simeon, died in Grand Rapids in 1889 and her younger brother, Herman, who was a soldier in the Civil War died at Nashville, Tenn., in 1861. [wrong date - Lt. Herman Hunt actually died 16 Dec 1862] Amanda Hunt was one of the pioneer teachers of Saranac and “The Settlement.” as South Boston was then called. Dec. 18, 1853, she became the wife of James Fuller English. Two sons were born to this union, Earl Woodman, who has occupied the homestead since his majority and Burt, who died in early childhood. She is also survived by one grandson, to whom she was devotedly attached, Louis Glenn, only child of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. English who is located at Placer, Oregon, homesteading and practicing law. Through the filial devotion of their son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. English were enabled to spend their declining years at their old home. Eighteen months ago James English preceded his wife to the better land and loving hands bore Mrs. English to her last resting place, arrayed in her wedding dress, embroidered by her own hands, from the home to which she came as a bride, more than fifty-six years ago. Mrs. English was a charter member of South Boston Grange and when health permitted, a regular and interested attendant of its meetings. Amanda Hunt English was a woman of rare executive ability, sterling integrity and unfiring industry. Her hands were never idle, when not ministering to the needs of her own household, she was fashioning garments of charity or tokens of love. Many persons prize highly gifts of her skilled needle work. Mrs. English was an amiable woman of retiring habits and highly esteemed in the community where she had lived so long and worthily. Her relatives, her friends and neighbors will hold her in long and loving remembrance. The funeral at the house Wednesday P.M. was largely attended. Rev. W. Minty, of Lansing officiated, assisted by Rev. R. S. Smith of Grand Rapids, a nephew of the deceased. The floral offerings were numerous and beautiful. Interment at South Boston cemetery.)
  Burial	Aft 11 Apr 1910	Boston Township, Ionia, Michigan, United States   [2]
  	Address: South Boston Cemetery
  		English monument Amanda (Hunt) English
  		Amanda (Hunt) English gravestone
  Person ID	I31410	Noyes Family Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Apr 2011

  
  

  Father	HUNT Ormond,   b. 4 Jan 1794, Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont, United States d. 10 Mar 1861, Lowell, Kent, Michigan, United States (Age 67 years)
  Mother	NOYES Delia,   b. 18 Aug 1800, Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont, United States d. 6 Dec 1871, Lowell, Kent, Michigan, United States (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	3 Oct 1820	Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont, United States   [3]
  Notes	Ormond and Delia Hunt and their three children, aged sixteen, thirteen, and five, left Vermont for Michigan in 1836. There is reason to believe that they lived for a time in Hardwick, Caledonia Co., Vermont before they moved to Michigan. Their little daughter, Mary Elizabeth, died in Tunbridge in March, 1832, and their daughter Amanda was born in Hardwick in December of the same year. So it is reasonable to assume that they moved to Hardwick in the summer of 1832. Delia Noyes Hunt's brother, James King Noyes, lived in Hardwick, and that suggests a reason for their moving. In Hardwick they became friends with the family of Jeremiah Stannard, who lived there. Ormond Hunt and Jeremiah Stannard bought their Michigan land at the same time, before they left Vermont. The Stannards left Hardwick first. The Hunt family went first to Kalamazoo and spent the winter there. No one seems to know what route they took from Vermont to Michigan, but it's safe to say that they came most of the way by covered wagon. They may have used the Erie Canal boats from Albany to Buffalo. They probably replenished their supplies in Detroit, then set out through the terrible Michigan mud of those days for Kalamazoo, via White Pigeon, on the Chicago Road. They very likely stopped overnight in the old Clinton Tavern, which has been moved to Ford's Greenfield Village. In Kalamazoo Ormond Hunt pursued his trade of shoemaker, and his wife helped out by selling some of his excellent homebaked goods in the cobbler-shop. In March, 1838, they made their way to the land which they had purchased before they left Vermont. Their land was in the southern part of Boston Township, Ionia Co., Sect. 32, 160 acres) on a road which runs due west from Portland, one mile south of M-16 and parallel with it. The house is now owned, (in 1936) by Mrs. Robert Young. It is, of course, not the original log house, but was probably built in the forties. The frame is of "barn" construction, and the hand-hewn beams can still be seen in the attic. The Youngs rebuilt it in 1916. When his sons grew up, Ormond Hunt gave them each a portion of land. Simeon lived on his farm for some years, but Herman sold his land and bought a farm near Saranac. In 1857 Ormond moved to the village of Lowell, Kent Co., where he died May 10, 1861. He is buried in the South Boston Cemetery. His widow married 2nd, Silas Mason, of Lowell. He was born in Jan. 1798 and died Aug. 5, 1867. They are both buried in South Boston. Ormond Hunt's name is spelled variously in the records as Ormond, Ormand and Oman. In Deacon Simeon's family Bible it is written Ormand, when his birth was recorded. His marriage record in Montpelier has it Orman. Oman was a common given name and surname also, in Vermont. If he was named for one of his grandfathers, it must have been for his grandfather Burnham. Yet that does not seem likely, because his brother Burnham had the family name. [4]
  Family ID	F12270	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	ENGLISH James Fuller,   b. 23 Jun 1829, Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont, United States d. 13 Oct 1908, Ionia, Michigan, United States (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	18 Dec 1853  [1]
  Family ID	F31643	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S4649] Manuscript-The Hunt Family Papers, page 18 of 54. [S521] Correspondence-Internet-Gar Watson, 10 Mar 2010 8:55 pm. [S4649] Manuscript-The Hunt Family Papers, page 17 of 54. [S4649] Manuscript-The Hunt Family Papers.