Arad Hunt Esq. (1790 - 1833)

Born 22 Sep 1790 in Vernon, Windham, Republic of Vermont

Ancestors

Died 3 Aug 1833 at age 42 in Vernon, Windham, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Died at age 43

buried in North Vernon Cemetery at North Vernon, Windham County, Vermont, USA

Obituary

Died at Vernon, Vt., Aug. 30, Arad Hunt, Esq., aged forty-three. Although our deceased friend was born to those flattering expectations upon which are usually

Died at Vernon, Vt., Aug 30, Arad Hunt Esq., aged forty three. Although our deceased friend was born to those flattering expectations upon which are usually founded sanguine hopes of happiness, it was not his fortune to realize to any enviable extent, this grand object of human desire and pursuit. While in the first bloom of manhood, he was assailed by a disease which neither admitted of cure, nor scarcely the hope of mitigation. During the last eight or nine years of his life, he was confined almost exclusively to his bed ; suffering, from alternate distress and lassitude, the slow exhaustion of an originally vigorous constitution. That he always suffered with exemplary fortitude, or that in him patience had its perfect work, even the tenderness of friendship will not affirm. It should be remembered, however, that his were trials of no ordinary kind, either in respect to their severity or duration ; and that there is scarcely a more difficult attainment in life, or a spectacle more worthy of admiration, than that of a mind naturally ardent, and eminently fitted for the active pursuits of life, which cannot only contemplate, with unbroken equanimity. the wrecks of its dearest and fairest hopes, but also endure, with unruffled serenity and cheerfulness, the daily and nightly anguish of a protracted and hopeless malady. He possessed intellectual powers, which, if developed under happy auspices, would probably have led to distinction in any congenial walks of life. A love of books solaced the more tranquil hours of his confinement. His reading was various ; and, in some departments of knowledge, his information was uncommonly extensive and accurate. Although some of the leading circumstances of his early life were not altogether propitious to a well-balanced character, he possessed many moral endowments, a high sense of honor, a scrupulous love of truth and justice ; and free candor and stability were among the primary elements, and indeed formed the basis, of his character. With a hand munificent, and a heart susceptible of the warmest friendship, he held every past kindness and service in grateful remembrance In the education welfare of his family his abundant means liberally and judiciously dispensed. On whole the composition of his moral character more remarkable for strength than symmetry the movement of his mind for rapidity and energy than gentleness and equability. Life had long been a burthen to him ; and he the prospect of futurity, if not with cheerfulness, yet without dismay.

Sources

• "Genealogy of the name and family of Hunt, etc" authorized by W.L.G. Hunt, compiled by T.B. Wyman, jr., printed by John Wilson and Son, Boston, 1863 pages 181 - 183 & 190 [1]
• Hunt Family Papers, 1758-1908 MSA 682-686, MSB 91, MS Size B. The Hunt Family papers contain the papers of U.S. Congressman Jonathan Hunt (1787-1832) of Brattleboro, Vermont, his widow, Jane Marie Leavitt Hunt (1801-1877), and some of their children, especially the European diaries of their daughter Jane Hunt (1822-1907). The collection spans the period 1758 to 1908 and is housed in four archival flip to boxes, one flat, clamshell box, and one oversize folder. It consumes three feet of shelf space. The collection was purchased by the Vermont Historical Society from Michael Paxton, a great-great-great grandson of Jonathan Hunt, in May 2013.[2]
• "‘Hunt’ing down history: his series chronicles the generations of Vernon’s Hunt family, all related to Jonathan Hunt of “Governor Hunt Road” fame. Parts 1 - 18" By Barbara Emery Moseley, published on 3 Sept 2015 - 5 March 2017. [3] [4]
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 October 2020), memorial page for Arad Hunt (1790–30 Aug 1833), Find a Grave Memorial no. 12625363, citing North Vernon Cemetery, North Vernon, Windham County, Vermont, USA ; Maintained by Cynthia Kaley (contributor 46629108) .[5] image of tombstone [6]