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Friday, November 20, 2015


Isaac Solomon Hunt
My Great- Grandfather

Isaac was born November 10, 1872 in Nashville, Nash County, North Carolina.
He was born to J.T. Hunt and  Dorothy Unknown
J.T. may stand for John Thomas but we don't know for sure, Dorothy may have been called "Dottie".
Isaac married Julia Irene Miller(nee) Slaughter ,June 2, 1900 in Greenville, Madison Co., Fla by Reverand Fountain  Cone. They had five children together. He died on July 11, 1930, in Brunswick, Glynn Co.,Georgia, at the age of 57.
He is buried in Palmetto Cemetery in the Hunt plot.
 Julia  was the widow of Jonathan Benjamin Slaughter.  She had 7 children with Mr. Slaughter.
1900 Census:
Isaac Solomon Hunt lived in Hamburg, Florida, in 1900.
Age: 27;  Married;  Head of House: Head        
Children with Julia:
Bessie Hunt,b. March 22, 1901, Boston, Ga
Ethel Hunt  (twins),b. March 22, 1901, Boston, Ga
Albert Solomon Hunt,b. Aug 27, 1902, Pine Park, Grady Co.,Ga
Joseph Arthur Hunt, b. March 7, 1904, Pine Park, Ga, died young, buried in Ochlocknee, Ga  Mary Martha Hunt (twins),b.March 7, 1904,Pine Park, Grady Co.,Ga
(2 sets of twins and my grandfather, Albert, in between.)
Occupations:
Carpenter, lumberman, lumber yard supervisor, sawyer.
Worked on construction of the Cloister, Sea Island, Ga
Member of Woodman of the World fraternity and a Mason
In 1902, he worked for the Fambroupe and Clark Lumber Co.
1904, he lived in Pine Park, Ga and worked for he Aeostine Lumber Co.
Living in Sanford , Fla, he worked as a carpenter. It was while living here, he raised a collard plant so tall, it was featured in a Ripley's Believe It Or Not cartoon.
After this, he moved to Brunswick, where he worked as a carpenter and built houses and worked at the Cloister.
At the age of 57, Isaac suffered a heart attack while shaving, before he went to his doctor's appointment. He fell and hit his head on the gas heater, inadvertently turning on the gas. He died of asphyxiation.
The Hunt's were sawmill people, working with wood. They say he could walk thru a section of forest and tell you how many board feet you could get out of it.
He lived at 309 Wolf Street, Brunswick, Ga at the time of his death.
Notes from Albert Hunt's memories:
Dad was a sawyer and a cooper and run a farm. He told me about making barrels. About 1901, he moved to Boston, Ga to run a sawmill. In 1902, he was living in Pine Park, Grady County, Ga running another saw mill and farming. 1904 he moved to Sanford Fla and in 1924, he moved to Brunswick.
If he was anything like my granddaddy, He was a mild mannered , even tempered man, who minded his own business and wasn't given to drink.
He had 4 brothers:
Samuel T. Hunt
Luther Hunt
Thomas Hunt
Joseph Eugene Hunt
Newspaper clipping of his death:



He met and married Julia and took her children to raise. I never knew any of them to be jealous or mean to each other.
Julia's children with her first husband:
Laura Ella Slaughter
Hardy Benjamin Slaughter
Julia Irene Slaughter
William Henry "Bill"
James Corbett Slaughter
Joseph Slaughter
Trudie Slaughter These last two were twins.May have been Judy and Trudie. They died in infancy.

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