6. John F.² Hunt (David¹) (#99) was born in Preble County, Ohio, United States July 3, 1832.⁽⁵⁰⁸⁾ John died April 15, 1907 at 74 years of age.

He married Albina Hollingsworth in Vermillion County, Indiana, United States, BEF 1861. (Albina Hollingsworth is #102.) Albina was born in Vermillion County, Indiana, United States 1839. Albina died 1902 at 63 years of age. "My Grandfather (JOHN F. HUNT) came from Eaton, Preble County, Ohio. I remember my Grandfather saying his family hailed from New Jersey and called himself a Jersey Irishman." "There are two Granddaughters and a Grandson of ELIZABETH and WILLIAM CAMPBELL now living in Bowling Green, that I know quite well. They know where the graves of DAVID and MARY HUNT are located. I can remember my Grandfather made a trip down there from Dana, and had stones erected on their graves. He drove down in a horse and buggy. The cemetery is a small obsolete one in a corner of a field near Bowling Green." "JOHN F. HUNT came to Vermillion County to work on a canal being built along the Wabash and as I remember the story, he liked the country so well he talked the rest of his family into coming. By the time they came the canal work was farther along and they settled in Owen County near Bowling Green." <10> The Wabash and Erie Canal was started in 1837 in Owen County. Work stopped in 1939 and started again in 1945. The Canal was completed in 1849. <1> "I believe that WILLIAM CAMPBELL married two sisters of my Father (NATHAN DIXON HUNT)." <10> <1> Source: Research of ROOSEVE FERN HUNT <10> Source: Letter of ECLA HUNT to <1> dated February 07, 1945

John F. Hunt and Albina Hollingsworth had the following children:

+ 13 i. Ed³ Hunt was born 1861.

14 ii. Charles Hunt (#167) was born 1865. Charles died 1938 at 73 years of age. He married Lula Johnson. (Lula Johnson is #185.)

15 iii. Ecla Hunt (#168) was born 1869. Ecla died 1884 at 15 years of age.

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