Julia Irene Miller Slaughter Hunt
Julia was born in Ousley Station, as it was called then. Now it is known as Ousley , in Lowndes County, Ga. I believe it was Brooks County at that time. She was first married to Jonathan Slaughter and had children with him,Laura Ella, Hardy Benjamin, Julia Irene, William Henry (Bill), James Corbett, and twins, Judie and Trudy who were still born.
Julia Irene Miller was born on January 9, 1866, in Naylor, Georgia. She married Isaac Solomon Hunt on June 2, 1900, in Greenville, Florida. They had five children during their marriage. She died on October 2, 1931, in Brunswick, Georgia, at the age of 65.
Julia married Issac Solomon Hunt in 1893. They had five children in 12 years. In 1900, she was 33 years old and lived in Hamburg, Florida with her husband, Solomon, 3 sons, and 2 daughters.
[1900 United States Federal Census ]
Burial : Palmetto Cemetery, Hunt Plot, Brunswick, Georgia
Family oral history states that Julia and her sister , Ellen, were raised by a family, Henry and Ella Baker, presumably related to their mother. Speculation is that the parent,the Millers, died in the Yellow Fever outbreak of the time. So far, grave sites or knowledge has been found. Their mother was said to be Martha Baker.
Info from Janett Williams, ,daughter of James Corbett Slaughter, as follows: November 28, 1975
"Daddy says that his sister, Laura, told him that after her divorce from her first husband, Wilson, that she and the child, Leila Wilson, lived with a family in Madison Co., Fla. This family told her (Laura)that Julia and Ellen Miller were reared by a family, Henry and Ella Baker. These girls were said to be children of Martha Baker Miller. After Jonathan Slaughter died, June 1899, Madison County, Fla, Julia married Isaac Solomon Hunt, June 2,1900. They moved to Boston, Ga. where Isaac operated a sawmill. They had twins, Bessie and Ethel, Albert, and twins, Mary Martha and Joseph Arthur.
James Corbett Slaughter said that as a boy, he accompanied his parents, mother and stepfather( Isaac Hunt) to the wedding of Rosa Slaughter in Greenville, Fla.
Uncle Moses Slaughter had previously proposed marriage to Julia Slaughter after Jonathan's death. It was the attitude of the family that she should marry him. She related to Isaac later, that Moses came to ask and said he would like to marry her "to help raise these children". She said "I appreciate your concern about the children, but if and when I marry again, it will be to someone I love."
Joseph and Trudie, or some papers say "Judie and Trudie",[ I haven't yet found out] are said to be buried at Concord Church, Madison County, Florida. Joseph Arthur Hunt , twin to Mary Martha Hunt was buried at Barnett's Creek Baptist Cemetery,Ochlocknee Thomas County Georgia .
Bessie and Ethel were born in Boston, Ga, Mr Hunt was working for Fambroupe and Clark Lumber Co. Daddy says Bill Wilson's father, Grady Wilson, told him he was from Boston. and worked with Fambroupe and Clark. He remembers Mr. Hunt. Albert Hunt was born in Pine Park, Ga. where Mr. (Isaac)Hunt was still in the sawmill business. Mr. Aeostine at Pine Park got Mr. Hunt to move there and farm and sawmill (Grady County). Mary and Arthur were born in Pine Park. Arthur died as a baby."
