IDFirstMiddleLastDOBDODCOD
110JemimaA. ButterfieldHunt10/16/18231/5/1868Heart Disease

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N/AFALSEN/AAdams Street

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N/AR5 G8 south face
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Abner Hunt Jr. (husband, 8 Deb 1819-26 Feb 1901) Sarah J. Hunt Hulet (step-daughter, b. c1843 or 1844 to Abner and Sarah J. Green Hunt, Abner's first wife, who died 2 July 1842) Hellen C. Hunt Reed (daughter, 18 Sep 1845-31 Dec 1867) James Hunt (son, b. c1846) Mary A. Hunt (daughter, 19 Jan 1847-13 Jan 1873) Caroline C. Hunt Hulet (daughter, 2 Oct 1848-8 Oct 1868) Orin G. Hunt (son, 1852-22 Feb 1904) Abner Hunt, Sr (father in law, b. c1792) Betsey Hunt (mother in law, b. c1794) William Hunt (brother in law) Russell Hunt (brother in law) Calvin Hunt (brother in law, b. c1834) Norman Hunt (brother in law)

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Jemima A. Butterfield was born in 1823 in Maine. She married Abner Hunt, Jr., on 17 Mar 1844 (Abner Hunt obituary; Labaj has 13 Mar 1844, in Bedford OH, but I could not confirm it). Her husband's father, Abner Hunt Sr., had emigrated to Northfield Twp, OH, from MA, was enumerated in the 1820 census, and was still living there in 1860 and 1870, although in 1870 he was living with his son Calvin's family. Jemima was enumerated in Northfield Twp with her family in 1850. Abner Hunt, a farmer born in VA, was 30, with $750 in real estate. Jemima was 25, born in Maine. Sarah J. was 7, Hellen C. was 4, Mary A. was 3, and Caroline was 2. All children born in OH; Sarah and Hellen were attending school. Her family was enumerated again in Northfield in 1860; she was listed as head of household, perhaps accidentally; her husband Abner Hunt Jr. was listed as a member of a neighbor's household, his brother? Marshall Hunt. Most likely this was the result of the recorder entering the household number in the wrong space. Abner Hunt Jr was 40 yrs old, a farmer with $7,000 real estate and $1500 personal property, born in OH. Jemima was 36, born in ME. Children were Sarah J (18), Helen (15, born in MI), James (14), Mary (13), Caroline (11), and Orrin (8). All children except Helen were born in OH; all were attending school. Her husband Abner was active in real estate purchases and sales; there are 26 deeds in his name on the Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office web site that may shed light on the economic history of this family; these have not yet been researched. Her daughter Hellen married L. G. Reed and died in childbirth at age 22. Her daughter Carrie married the youngest son of Fletcher and Fanny Hulet, Marshall E. Hulet, after he returned from serving in the Civil War, but she died within the year of typhoid fever, at age 20. Another daughter, Mary, also died early, at age 26. Jemima lived to bury only one of her daughters, because she died of heart disease in January 1868. Berea's records of burials for 1868 say "Dec. 30 (1867) Genia Hunt -- heart disease"; this is odd, because the date of death on her tombstone is Jan. 5, 1868. Her daughter Hellen did die on Dec. 31, 1867, so perhaps the recorded confused the two events. Her death was not reported in the local newspaper. Her tombstone was transcribed in 1904: "Jemima A., wife of Abner Hunt, Jr., d. Jan. 5, 1868, ae 44 yrs, 2 mo., 20 da." A 1934 transcription misidentified the plot as belonging to the Hulets, and said "Jemima A., wife of Abner Hunt, Jr., died Jan 5, 1868, age 41 yrs, 2 m, 20 days". Her inscription was located in 2007 on her family monument, legible but worn. The stone is a marble pedestal with urn, covered with dirt and some moss. Jemima's family was enumerated after her death in Berea; father Abner gave his age as 49, occupation as farmer, worth in real estate as $30,000 and personal property $500, born in OH. His second wife, Philena, was 34, keeping house, with real estate worth $350, born in NY. Mary, daughter of his first wife, was 24, born in OH. They had one domestic, Minna or Minerva Holmes, possibly related to their neighbor, Henry Holmes. Abner Hunt, Jr., died 26 Feb 1901. His obituary was printed in the Berea Advertiser, 1 March 1901: “Abner Hunt. DEATH OF A PROMINENT CITIZEN. Mr. Abner Hunt, one of Berea's most prominent citizens, died Feb 26, 1901, aged 81 years. The funeral was held at the late home of the deceased on Thursday, concluded by the Rev. A. M. Mathson assisted by Rev. Dr. Kimble and Rev. Dr. Hoyt. The Goette quartet sang three selections. In Memoriam. Abner Hunt was born in Northfield, Summit County, on Dec. 8, 1819. Here his childhood, youth and manhood passed until 1865 when he came to Berea which has since been his home. He was married three times. His first wife was Mrs. Sarah J. Green, whom he married May 6, 1840. She was the mother of one child, now Mrs. Sarah Hulet of McDermott, Scioto County, O. Shortly after the child’s birth the mother died July 2 1842. On March 17, 1844, he married Mrs. Jemima Butterfield, who was the mother of four children, three of whom have died, Orin Hunt of Northfield, O., being the only survivor. His second wife died Jan. 15, 1867, and on Dec 27, 1868 he married Mrs. Philena Holmes, who after thirty-two years of married life still survives. Four of his brothers still live, Wm. Hunt of Marble, Ind., Russel and Calvin Hunt of Northfield, and Norman Hunt of Everet, Summit County, O. He was converted in his young manhood and has always been identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the large part of his life, he has served the Church in an official capacity, filling at different periods the place of Sunday School Superintendent, trustee and steward with great fidelity and great acceptance to the church. For a number of years he was also a trustee of Baldwin University. He was a man of great industry and found real pleasure in hard work and one of his greatest trials in his last years was his increasing inability to labor. He was upright in his character and of unquestioned integrity in all his varied and numerous business transactions. He has had his full share of trouble but met it with brave fortitude and patience. He was kind in disposition and exceedingly considerate of the rights and feelings of others and his domestic relations were marked by great and unwearied affection. He was undemonstrative in his religious life, and while always ready to take part in all the social services of the church, sought to make his life bear constant testimony to his faith. Besides his brothers, daughters, son and wife, he leaves four grand children, and one great-grand-child, and a wide circle of friends in the church, and in the village, and the vicinity of Berea, and at his old home in Northfield, to mourn his loss. He fell asleep on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1901 at 5:30 am, being 81 years, 2 months and 18 days.”

sources
1820 US Federal Census, Abner Hunt [Sr] household, Series: M33 Roll: 95 Page: 61 1850 US Federal Census, Abner Hunt household, Series: M432 Roll: 732 Page: 336 1860 US Federal Census, Jemima Hunt household, Series: M653 Roll: 1039 Page: 119; Abner Hunt [Sr] household, Series: M653 Roll: 1039 Page: 121 1870 US Federal Census, Calvin Hunt household, Series: M593 Roll: 1270 Page: 317; Abner Hunt [Jr] household, Series: M593 Roll: 1193 Page: 432 Abner Hunt deeds, Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office online. Abner Hunt obituary, The Berea Advertiser, 1 Mar 1901. E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904, Berea Historical Society "List of Burials and Names 1856-1871," City of Berea Records "Number of burial lots and price," Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934 Jemima Hunt tombstone photograph, Jeremy Feador, 2006