About the Hunt-Martin Cemetery...I put the Hunt name first because the land where the cemetery lies was on land that Jesse Hunt purchased when he came to Buffalo Ridge. After Samuel M. Hunt died the Hunt family sold a lot of the land and the house. The John Calhoun A. Martin family was the purchaser who was also living nearby in the Peter Barry house. Henry A. & Matilda Brown Martin bought the Barry house between 1840-1850 and raised their large family there. The Martins and the Hunts intermarried. Jesse Hunt house, most likely a log cabin was up the lane at the west side of Buffalo Ridge on a road that is today called the Burl Chase Rd. Today 2006 we have the fossil museum now on the Barry, Hunt and Martin land. Wonder what would have happened if our folks had known there were dinosaurs under their land?

Robert Ellis and Mary Emmaline Martin Hunt are buried in the Hunt-Martin Cemetery back of the Samuel Hunt house and farm. I recently discovered Samuel M. Hunt's grave and his sister Amanda Hunt but I have not found Elizabeth Ellis Hunt grave. Since she died many years later, 1897, maybe she is buried somewhere else?

John Calhoun {Alexander} and Sarah Jane Bacon Martin are buried in the Hunt-Martin Cemetery. The Martins are on the west side of the cemetery and the Hunts are on the east side of the cemetery

Martin family in early 1900 standing in front of the Samuel M. Hunt house

Samuel M. Hunt house built in the mid 1800's; after Samuel died, HENRY A. MARTIN bought the house from the Samuel M. Hunt heirs. WILL MARTIN was the third owner (son of John Calhoun Martin and brother to John W. Martin) followed by CHARLIE MADEN, ARTHUR MADEN and the present owner, Pearl Kincheloe Fulkerson, widow of JOHN MILTON FULKERSON

Anna Douglass Hunt, 2nd wife of Robert Ellis Hunt is buried at Highland Church of Christ Cemetery in Knob Creek with her sister, Mary E Douglass. My sister remembers Anna and her sister Mary Ellen living at the home place after Robert died and the two women were typical of their day, smoking corn cob pipes. The women could not see or hear very well and people came there and took away many valuable antiques. If anyone out there remembers hearing about the Douglass sisters I would love to hear from you. Their father, John W. Douglass, was a miller who had died before 1870. Their mother was Mary Hall Douglass

Can anyone out there identify this house that sets back off the road and the curve east of Shadden's store? It is in the same location that my sister, Jacqueline Walker remembers going with our mother in the 1930's to take Grandmother Mary A. Hunt Walker to visit Anna Douglass Hunt her stepmother. Mary E Douglass a maiden sister was living with Anna. My sister thinks there was a log cabin there? Send me mail if you know anything about the old log house of Robert Ellis Hunt. Anna and Mary were very old in the 1930's and people would come there and steal the family heirlooms

Anna and Mary E are buried at the Highland Church of Christ Cemetery which is nearby. Anyone out there have a picture of Anna and Mary E Douglass?

Washington County Justice of Peace Docket book

"A handwritten promissory note from R.E. HUNT dated August 4, 1886 was found in the UP Docketbook on page 95. The paper has tears in the creased part of the note where it has been folded. The note has text that reads: $10.00-August 4, 1880-One day after date I promise to pay William Mitchell ten dollars for value received."-(signed )R.E. HUNT There follows a handwritten warrant in the case of William Mitchell v. R.E. HUNT issued October12, 1886. W.P. Jobe, Justice of the Peace signed the summons, for R. E. HUNT. The material is also on page 95. The description of the document follows: "Paper appears to have been torn out of some sort of ledger book. Both sides are written on - Side One: State of Tennessee, Washington County Tb any legal officer for said county-Greetings-Summon R.E. HUNT to appear before me or some other Justice of the Peace for said county to answer the complaint of William Mitchell in a plea of debt due by -date not given. Issued at office this 12th of October 1886. Signed W.P. Jobe, J.P. Side two: Warrant on William Mitchell v. R.E. HUNT issued October 12, 1886-(signed) /J.P. Jobe, J.P.-Executed the within by summoning R. E. HUNT to appear before R.M.K. DEAKINS, Esq.., for trial on the 23rd day of October 1886- )signed) / John T. Lane, Constable."

1870 Washington Co., TN census Buffalo Ridge 12th District

nearby were lots of blacks with the surname of Spurgeon, Hale and Ellis

Today this quilt design may be seen on the Hunt Family Farm ; did Elizabeth Ellis Hunt and Cindy Hunt Hale work on this quilt?

1880 Census Washington Co., TN

1870 Washington Co., TN census Buffalo Ridge

next door was Ruth Fulkerson, 71

Mary Hardin McCown was correct when she told me, Janelle Morrow Walker Warden, that Charles and Elizabeth Hunt Cox had two daughters, Ada and (Charmaine?) The 1870 census list Mary L age 3, born about 1866/1867. I later found where Charles and Elizabeth had four daughters; Mary L. (I can not find her after the 1880 census); second daughter, Lula B. marred Conrad Bashor, and had two daughters and moved out west; third daughter Phoebe Ann Elizabeth married J. F. Hodge ; two sons (Charles & ...) born about 1892 and 1894 and the boys went west with father and Lula & Conrad ; later Charles was in Michigan working in the mfg business of Francis LaPointe). Did Phoebe die after the second child? the boys are living with grandparents in 1900. Ada married Francis "Frank" LaPointe. I would say Phoebe Ann Elizabeth may have been named for her two grandmothers, Phoebe Bacon Cox and Elizabeth Ellis Hunt. One of the girls may have been known by the name "Charmaine" as mentioned by Mary Hardin McCown

Marriage License for Phoebe and John Hodge reads: "Jonesboro, Tenn April 30, 1891 ...This day issued to J. F. Hodge to marry Phebe Cox ...C.W. Hodge Dep. Clerk,,,,,Washington County, State of Tennessee....I solemnized the rite of matrimony between the within named parties on the 30th day of April 1891....Rev. R. B. Hodge"

Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Johnson City, Tennessee is Charles and Elizabeth Hunt Cox along with Jesse J. Hunt and a granddaughter, Ada Frances, born to Ada and Francis LaPointe

Charles and Elizabeth Hunt Cox and Jesse J. Hunt were buried side by side with a bush planted between them. In 2005, I, Janelle Walker Warden found the bush to be gone. I did fine the grave for baby LaPointe nearby

1880 Census Washington Co., TN

1880 Census Cumberland, Portland, Maine

Jesse J. and Joanna Foster were married September 02, 1891. They may have married in Portland, Maine. Foster Genealogy Book reads: (JJ is a merchant , s. p. Res., Jonesborough, TN

J.J. and Joanna Foster lived at 105 East Unaka St. She was a music teacher, teaching in the home. A very strict, teacher carrying a pencil in her hand with which she would crack your fingers if you hit a wrong note. She gave recitals in the old Carnegie Hotel in Johnson City. Mary Hardin McCown was one of her music students. I was told this by Mary Hardin McCown when I visited her at Appalachian Christian Center. Mary's family lived near the Hunts on East Unaka St., Johnson City, TN. Mary was also given a piece of Joanna Foster Hunt's jewelry

J. J. Hunt, one of the prominent young merchants of Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tenn., was born seven miles northwest from Jonesboro, December 17, 1853, and is the son of Samuel M. and Elizabeth (Ellis) Hunt. The father was born on Buffalo Ridge, about a mile from the place where his son was born, in 1812, and was the son of Jesse Hunt, who was a native of Virginia, and immigrated to Tennessee, and settled in Washington County, where he and wife lived an extremely long and useful life, one reaching the ninety-fifth, and the other the ninety-sixth birthday. Samuel, the father was a farmer by vocation, and a man of some prominence in his county, and served as justice of the peace the greater portion of his life. He was a member of the Christian Baptist Church, and died March 14, 1868. The mother was born on Boone's Creek, seven miles northeast from Jonesboro, in 1817, and is the daughter of William and Netitia Ellis. {I, Janelle Walker Warden have yet to find William and Netitia Ellis and I think whoever put the info' into Goodspeed did not get the names right. From my research, Elizabeth was the granddaughter of William Ellis and the daughter of Jacob M. Ellis, Esq.} she is a religious and pious lady, a member of the Christian Baptist Church, and now makes her home with a daughter, Mrs. William C. Hale, in Washington County. Our subject was reared on the farm of his parents, and was educated at Boone's Creek Seminary, in sight of the spot where Daniel Boone killed the "bar," and the tree upon which he recorded that fact still stands in sight of the school building After leaving school he entered the merchandising establishment of James H. Dosser & Co., of Jonesboro, as clerk, where he remained for five years, and then on May 5, 1880, he established his present hardware business. He has one of the most complete stocks of hardware, and one of the best arranged store-rooms to be found outside of the large cities, and is meeting with deserved success. On May 5, 1886, he also engaged in the drug business in Jonesboro, and is now carrying it on in connection with his hardware store, though in separate buildings, he has a large line of drugs and fancy goods, carrying upward of $18,000 of stock, and does an annual business of $35,000. He is a public-spirited and progressive young citizen, full of enterprise and spirit, and has always taken an interest in and encouraged all worthy public enterprises, and is also an advocate of public schools and churches, and is a member of the Methodist Church. He has been very successful through life, and now at the age of thirty-two years is at the head of two prosperous mercantile establishments, and is regarded as one of the substantial citizens of Jonesboro, and stands high in the esteem of the public

Goodspeed Biographies

Jesse J. Hunt has been hard to locate anything about until my recent searches. Aunts and Uncles did not seem to know anything about our great grandfather, Robert Ellis Hunt's brother. I always said after his father died, {mid 1870's} Jesse took a trip abroad to Europe and while there he met Joanna Foster from Maine who was studying music in Europe but after finding a passport for Jesse dated 1890 I think he met Joanna then while she was traveling with her parents and younger sister because Jesse and Joanna were married September 1891 and then moved to Tennessee where he had his merchant business. Jesse J was working and living in the home of James Dosser who had a business in Jonesborough. So did Jesse J meet Joanna before 1890 like I originally thought or did he meet her for the first time in 1890? They lived at 105 East Unaka St. in 1900. At some time in the 1890s Joanna was a music teacher, teaching in the home. A very strict, teacher carrying a pencil in her hand with which she would crack your fingers if you hit a wrong note. She gave recitals in the old Carnegie Hotel in Johnson City. Mary Hardin McCown was one of her music students

In the Jonesborough County Clerk's office I, Janelle, found the will of Joanna Hunt. J.J. did not leave a will. Joanna's will was made July 3, 1903. J.J. was a "pay patient" with a private nurse in the East Tennessee Asylum Lyon's View, Knoxville, Tennessee. She was of sound mind but husband was seriously ill. There was a life insurance premium on J.J. All monuments and burial expenses to be approved by her mother, Mrs. Mary W. Foster of Portland, Maine. All her books to become property Mrs. W.S. Jones, sister of Bowery Beach, Maine. All of my jewelry to Mrs. Charles B. Dickey, sister of Portland, Maine. Proceeds of life insurance policies disposed of as such; Five hundred dollars to Dr. J.R. Brown, physician at East Tennessee Asylum; five hundred dollars to Mrs. E.T. Hart, trust fund founding of a section in the public library to be named the JJ Hunt section. Two thousand dollar trust fund for Miss Ada Cox, daughter of husband's sister Elizabeth Cox. Remainder of proceeds be paid Mrs. Charles Cox and husband, executor. Balance of my estate, mother to pay Dr. Samuel Miller of Knoxville one hundred fifty dollars for kindness shown. To pay the Presbyterian Church North at Jonesborough, five hundred dollars known as the JJ Hunt fund. Dr. W.J. Miller, husband's gold watch and mahogany bedroom suite in recognition of kindness

Charles and Elizabeth Hunt Cox: "I think that the Cox's store was the one on Elm Street just north of the alley between Unaka and Holston. It closed in the 1950's and the building was torn down when 1-81 was built. We bought bread and milk, etc there. I remember shopping there with coupons during WW II" (from J. Peoples)

Letitia Hunt Cox and Infant sons William and Jessee Cox are buried in the Hunt-Martin Cemetery, Buffalo Ridge, Gray. I am uncertain about George the husband of Letitia Hunt? Did George marry Alice Archer? George Cox is buried in the Sulphur Springs Cemetery with his 2nd wife Alice Archer and daughter, Mary. Alice Archer, born 1853 is a sister to Oscar Henry Archer who married Nora E. Hunt, the daughter of Robert E. Hunt. They were all neighbors on what is now Shadden's Rd

If anyone has information on any of the above names, I would be tickled pink to hear from you
Send me mail jmwwardn!