Gussie Melissa (Pierce) Hunt (1907 - 1998)

Born 17 Apr 1907 in Atkinson, Wayne Co.,Ga

Ancestors

Wife of Albert Solomon Hunt — married 15 Jun 1927 in Brunswick, Ga

Descendants

Died 28 Jan 1998 at age 90 in Savannah, Ga

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Biography

Gussie Melissa Pierce

Gussie Melissa Pierce was born on April 17, 1907. Atkinson, Georgia, on the family farm. She learned to drive by driving the tractor and the old field hand helped her learn to drive her daddy's truck when he was away from the farm. Her daddy, Samuel Pierce, didn't hold with women driving or cutting their hair or going to college. She said she had to work in the syrup boiling shed and her long hair would get so sticky from the sugar, that one night, instead of tying it up in a net, (she was afraid not to wash it because she was afraid bugs would get in her hair at night. Grandma didn't like any kinds of bugs!) ,she got her mama's scissors and cut it off up to her shoulders. The next morning when her daddy saw her hair, she said he had 3 kinds of fit.! She said that was the start of her leaving the nest. She later got a job in Brunswick at the Oglethorpe Hotel. It was a big fancy place. She worked in the dining room. That's where she met Albert, he was working on a dredge. She married Albert Solomon Hunt on June 7, 1927, in Brunswick, Georgia., at the home of her sister, Mrs. James Corbett Slaughter. Gussie was 20 years old. They had one child ,Charles Winston Hunt, Sr. Later, they moved to Port Wentworth, Ga where Albert worked for the Atlantic Creosoting Plant. She died on January 28, 1998, in Savannah, Georgia, at the age of 90. She was a wonderful cook and everyone raved over her fried chicken and shrimp salad!

Savannah, Ga Hillcrest Abbey West, Garden City, Ga

Gussie Melissa Pierce Hunt BIRTH 17 Apr 1907 Atkinson, Brantley County, Georgia, USA formerly Wayne Co.

DEATH 28 Jan 1998 (aged 90) Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA BURIAL Hillcrest Abbey West Cemetery

Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA MEMORIAL ID 88954697 ·

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Mrs. Gussie P. Hunt, 90, died Jan. 28 at Savannah Specialty Care Center.

She was a native of Atkinson and a longtime resident of Port Wentworth. She was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church of Port Wentworth. She also was a member of the Garden City Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star since 1929.

SURVIVORS: a son and daughter-in-law, C.W. and Gwendolyn Hunt of Port Wentworth; two brothers, Ike Pierce of Spring Hill, Fla., and Rayford L. Pierce of Hortense; three grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, a great-great-grandchild and several nieces and nephews.

FUNERAL: 2 p.m. today at Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors, Massey Chapel, Garden City, burial in Hillcrest Abbey West. Savannah News, January 29, 1998

Charles Hunt, her son, wrote," The year 1924, my mother Gussie Pierce, went to work at the Oglethorpe Hotel, in Brunswick, Ga. as a waitress in the dining room, under the leadership of a Mr. Dials. Later, she became a cashier. In 1925, she became Head Cashier for the hotel. she had a head for figures. Her cousin, Mary Richardson and an old girlfriend of my dad's, Gertrude Hickman worked together. This is where my mom and dad met for the first time. Later, they were married and honeymooned there.. I was born in 1930, mom still worked for the hotel. When Gwen and I got married in Rincon, Georgia, in 1949, we spent our honeymoon there also.

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• Fact: Burial Hillcrest Abbey Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham, Georgia

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 14 August 2017, 21:33), entry for Gussie PIERCE(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LTL2-BR3); contributed by various users.

• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/68345335/person/40182786319/facts

*Georgia, U.S., Death Index, 1919-1998

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88954697/gussie-melissa-hunt

• U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007

• http://lillinda51.blogspot.com/2014/05/gussie-melissa-pierce-hunt.html

1910, 1920, 1930, 1940 1950,Census

Residence 1930 • Brunswick, Glynn, Georgia, USA Residence 1 Apr 1940 • Chatham, Georgia, USA