Gilbert Hunt was born 11 April 1825 in Albion, Edwards County, Illinois to Jefferson Hunt (1803-1879) and Celia Mounts (1805-1897) and died 14 November 1858 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah of unspecified causes.
Biography
Mormon Battalion Veteran
Participant in the march of The Mormon Battalion. This unit of the US Army served in the Mexican-American War and was the only religiously based infantry unit ever created by Presidential order. It consisted of nearly 500 men recruited exclusively from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the Mormons). They undertook the longest infantry march in U.S. military history (as of 1847) and in the process marked out and creating the first continuous wagon road to California which linked the future states of New Mexico, Arizona, and California to the United States. Most members served an initial 12 month term (Jul 1846- Jul 1847) with some members re-enlisting for an additional 12 months afterwards.
Corp. Gilbert HUNT was A member of the Sick Detachment of the Mormon Battalion. HUNT married at Fort Pueblo, Colorado abt Mar 1847 to Lydia A. GIBSON, the daughter of George Washington GIBSON. Lydia married Mr. HUNT at Fort Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado in 1847 she was there with her parents and the Mississippi Saint her was there with the Mormon Battalion.
GILBERT HUNT, Corporal. On detached service 17th of September, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel A.J. SMITH. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847. (This muster-out remark, and all to the same purport, are marked on the official roll with an asterisk; the footnote reads as follows: "It is not conclusively shown where this detachment was mustered out. Evidence on file indicated that it was stationed at or near Great Salt Lake at time of M.O., but travel pay has been allowed in each case from Los Angeles, so the detachment was evidently considered as having been M.O. at that place the same as the balance of the Company.'
While being detained at Pueblo, Colo, she (Lydia GIBSON a teenage daughter of Mississippi Saint George Washington GIBSON) met and married to Gilbert Hunt who was also a member of the Mormon Battalion, but had been detailed to assist in taking care of some sick, who were in camp for rest, and not able to travel, but soon followed the first company westward. Soon after they were called to join a company under Chas C. Rich and Amasa Lyman to settle San Bernardino, Cal., returning to Salt Lake City after several years, when on Nov. 14, 1858, Mr. Hunt died, leaving Mrs. Hung with four young children. Four months later she gave birth to her fifth child. She had lost two children while living at Cottonwood.
Children
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Sarah Hunt (1846-) | |||
Mary Eleanor Hunt (1847-1848) | |||
Mary Jane Hunt (1849-1926) | |||
George Jefferson Hunt (1850-1883) | |||
Lydia Hunt (1852-1853) | |||
James Alvin Hunt (1854-1915) | |||
Gilbert Hunt (1857-1945) | |||
William Franklin Hunt (1857-1881) | |||
Frank Hunt (1859-) |
Siblings
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Thomas Jefferson Hunt (1844-1923) | |||
Sophronia Elizabeth Hunt (1848-1942) | |||
Julia Ellen Hunt (1852-1932) | |||
Olive Isabelle Hunt (1854-1942) | |||
James Franklin Hunt (1858-1917) | |||
Liberty Independence Hunt (1860-1935) | |||
Peter Hunt (1862-1905) | |||
Matilda Hunt (1864-1864) | |||
Janette Hunt (1865-1865) | |||
Jane Hunt (1865-1958) |
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