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Hunt, Temperance
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| LAST: Hunt
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FIRST: Temperance
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MID:
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| GENDER: F
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MAIDEN NAME: Estep
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TITLE: Mrs.
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| BORN: 10 Jan 1805
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DIED: 26 Oct 1850
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| BIRTH PLACE: North Carolina
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
1850 OR CENSUS - Temperance Hunt, age 46, b. North Carolina, is enumerated with John S. Hunt, age 47, occupation farmer, b. Ohio, along with Mary, age 25, b. Indiana, Geo. W., age 20, b. Indiana, John A., age 14, b. Indiana, Harrison, age 12, b. Indiana, Thomas Hunt, age 9, b. Indiana, and James, age 6, b. Indiana. Also enumerated with the family is George Riches, age 25, occupation carpenter, b. England.
BIOGRAPHICAL:
John Shotwell, eldest son of Jonathan Hunt and wife, Mary Shotwell, was born in Wayne county, Indiana, April 11, 1803, and married Temperance Estep (or Esteb), may 8, 1823. She was born in Indiana, near Liberty, Jan 10, 1804, and died in Oregon, October 29, 1850. She was a daughter of Abraham and Hannah Humphreys Estep of Wayne Co., Indiana.
Abraham and Hannah Estep are buried in the little Elkhorn cemetery of Elkhorn Creek, near Liberty, Indiana, not far from Richmond, Indiana." Steeves, pg 94
BIOGRAPHICAL:
"Temperance Estep Hunt, wife of John Shotwell Hunt, the subject of this sketch, was a woman of deep piety and blessed with a strong personality that stamped itself upon the lives and the memory of her children. It was said of her, at the time of her death, that her passing was unusually victorious - a fitting end for the beautiful life she had led. It was said that her face fairly shone with the hope of immortality". Steeves, pg 94
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OBITUARY:
At Salem, Marion County, on the 29th of October, 1850, in the 46th year of her age, Temperance Hunt, wife of John S. Hunt. She died in the triumphs of the faith of the Gospel, greatly lamented by a kind and loving husband and a large family of children and a circle of acquaintances. She was a member of the Baptist Church, having professed faith in Christ for about 17 years, during which time she seemed to be ripening for Heaven. To use her own language – “she lay at the feet of Jesus as a sinner saved by grace, waiting for the summons to call her home.” She died of dropsy – Communicated.
Oregon Spectator 14 Nov 1850 3:2.
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INSCRIPTION:
Temperance
Wife of
J. S. Hunt
Died
Oct. 26, 1850
Aged 45 Y's
9 M's 16 D's
A sinner saved by grace
Mother we miss thee
“T.H. 1805-1850” imbedded in the curbing surrounding the Hunt Lot.
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SOURCES:
Hellie, Mader & Rickey
Saucy
1850 OR TERRITORY CENSUS (Marion Co., FA #256)
Oregon Spectator 14 Nov 1850 3:2
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