Thomas Jefferson Hunt (1856 - 1885)

Born 6 Apr 1856 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, Ca

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Died Jul 1885 at age 29 in Harshaw, Santa Cruz, Arizona, USA

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SKETCH OF THOMAS JEFFERSON HUNT

Thomas Jefferson Hunt was born in San Bernardino, California. 6 April 1856. His early years were spent in Huntsville; he was a motherless lad at the age of nine. He grew up following the cattle and horses and sheep on his father's ranches in Cache Valley, Idaho. He married at the age of eighteen. He lived in Blackfoot, Idaho, and Payson, Utah. In 1885 at the age of thirty-one years, he, with his wife and two young children went into Arizona to seek a fortune in the gold mines. Leaving his family in Showlow, Ariz., he went to Tucson, Ariz., to find his fortune; but, instead, met his death. His wife, weeks later, received word that he and four other men had been attacked by Indians. Thomas and one of the four men were killed. They were buried somewhere in the mines in unknown marked graves, near Tucson, Arizona. by: Pauline Udall Smith.

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• Death April of 1885 and it was a mile west of Harshaw on the San Rafael Ranch. Harshaw is actually near Patagonia, not Tucson, being well over 60 miles away from it. He was killed five days after the band led by Geronimo and Naiche left with 39 members after promising General Crook the day before (March 27) that they would return to the reservation. So death would have been April 1 or 2.

Lynn Bailey's history book of the Dragoon Mountains.

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Pioneer Database 1847–1868

Son of Jefferson Hunt and Matilda Jane Nease.

He was born at San Bernardino, California but traveled to Utah with his parents and siblings in 1858.

In the 1860 census they were in Ogden (the census index spells his surname Hurrst.

He died at Tucson, Pima County, Arizona.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80736323
• https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/13517163969249317016/thomas-jefferson-hunt
• WikiTree profile Hunt-1405 created through the import of heinakuu2011-6.ged on Jul 5, 2011 by Johanna Amnelin. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Johanna and others.