Levi Hunt, Jane Gadd, Emanuel Hunt, and Phoebe Louisa Fellows

I got an e-mail the other day from a descendant of my 4th great grandfather, Levi Hunt, and his second wife, Phoebe Louisa Fellows. I was looking at the information I have about this family, and I found it very interesting. I typed it up to share with the relative that e-mailed me, so I thought I'd share it here too.

William Hunt and Mary Ann Holmes lived in England and had 11 children. Their 9th son was Emanuel Hunt, and their 10th son was Levi Hunt. William and Mary Ann and several of their children (including Emanuel and Levi) were baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints in England, and then came to the United States. Phoebe Louisa Fellows was born in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. After moving to Utah, Emanuel Hunt married Phoebe Louisa Fellows in March 1857. A year later, Emanuel’s younger brother, Levi Hunt, married Jane Gadd in June 1858. Jane was also a convert to the church who came from England. Levi Hunt and Jane Gadd had three sons: Joseph William, Levi Alderman, and Samuel Sylvester Hunt. And Emanuel and Phoebe had a daughter, Sally Maria Hunt (Talbot). Then Emanuel Hunt died in March 1863. Just 3 months later, in June 1863, Jane Gadd Hunt died (I am assuming that she possibly died of complications from childbirth, since she had her youngest son only 7 days before her death). So Phoebe Louisa Fellows Hunt was left a widow with a 5-year-old daughter, and she was pregnant at the time. Levi Hunt was left a widower with three boys, ages 3 years, 1 year, and 7 days old. Levi and Phoebe were married on 1 April 1863 in Nephi, Utah. 2 months after they were married, Levi’s youngest son, Samuel Sylvester Hunt, died when he was only 3 months and 4 days old. Then 3 months after the baby’s death, (after being married for 5 months), Phoebe had her second daughter from her first marriage to Emanuel, Phebe Ann Hunt (Hadden). Between 1864 and 1882 Levi and Phoebe had 8 more children: Samuel Isaac Hunt, Eliza Jane Hunt (Olds), Mary Ellen Hunt (Sheppard), Sara Susanna Hunt (Chidester), Amelia Emaline Hunt (Fredrieson) (Grundy), Alice Melinda Hunt (Nay), Rosetta Hunt (Talbot) (Harmon), and Wilford Hunt. Levi and Phoebe raised 13 children together (including baby Samuel who died). Levi and Phoebe both continued to live in Utah until their deaths in 1921 (Levi) and 1928 (Phoebe).

Levi Alderman Hunt and Lucinda Elvira Paramore Hunt Family

Last night I got an e-mail from another descendant of my 3rd great grandparents, Levi Alderman Hunt and Lucinda Elvira Hyatt (Paramore) (Hunt). I started to gather together the few copies of Hunt family photos that I have to share with him, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to share them here too.

Levi Alderman Hunt and Lucinda Elvira Hyatt Paramore Hunt Family:
Ethel Lorean Hunt (Tanner), Edith Hunt (Moore), Levi Ray Hunt, Jessie Mardelain Hunt (Mulliner), Ruby Hunt (Nielsen), Leonard Hunt, Estella Paramore Hunt (Thompson), Amy Alberta Hunt (Hooker), Lucinda Elvira Hyatt (Paramore) (Hunt), Leland Hunt, and Levi Alderman Hunt.

***For an updated brief history about the Hyatt / Paramore / Hunt families, go here: http://stephsgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/04/hyatt-paramore-hunt-families.html

Edith Hunt, daughter of Levi and Lucinda Hunt. Edith married John Augusta Moore Jr. Edith and John are my 2nd great grandparents.

Ruby Hunt (left), daughter of Levi and Lucinda Hunt – a high school graduation portrait.

Simeon Fuller Howd, Lucinda Elvira Hyatt’s maternal grandfather.

And Simeon Fuller Howd Jr., Lucinda’s uncle (the brother of Lucinda’s mother, Martha Jane Turner Howd).

Phoebe Louisa Fellows (Hunt) (Hunt)
Levi Alderman Hunt’s parents were Levi Hunt and Jane Gadd. Levi and Jane had three sons when Jane died in 1863, when her son, Levi Alderman Hunt, would have been about two years old. Levi Hunt married Phoebe Louisa Fellows in 1863, and Levi and Phoebe raised Levi’s three sons, Phoebe’s two daughters from her previous marriage, and they also had eight more children together.

Mary Ellen Hunt (Sheppard), daughter of Levi Hunt and Phoebe Louisa Fellows (so Mary Ellen would have been Levi Alderman Hunt’s half sister).

Sisters, Sarah Susanna Hunt, Rosetta Hunt (Talbot) (Harmon), and Alice Melinda Hunt (Nay) – also daughters of Levi Hunt and Phoebe Louisa Fellows and half sisters of Levi Alderman Hunt. Consequently, Sarah Hunt married Alfred Gideon Chidester, the son of Joshua Parker Chidester and Juliett Burgess. Alfred Gideon Chidester’s eldest brother was John William Chidester, my second great grandfather on my father’s paternal side of the family.

Alfred Gideon Chidester and Sarah Susanna Hunt Family:
Maria Chidester (Hill), LaPreal Chidester (Wayman), Susanna Chidester (Engle) (Barry), Leora Holt [daughter of Sarah May], Sarah May Chidester (Holt) (Heath) (Young), Alta Chidester (Atwood), Levi Parker Chidester, Sarah Susanna Hunt (Chidester), Alfred Gideon Chidester, Loran E. Chidester, and Lovira Chidester (Lewis).