Isaac Solomon Hunt

My Great- Grandfather

Isaac was born November 10, 1872 in Nashville, Nash County, North Carolina.
He was born to J.T. Hunt and  Dorothy Unknown
J.T. may stand for John Thomas but we don't know for sure, Dorothy may have been called "Dottie".
Isaac married Julia Irene Miller(nee) Slaughter ,June 2, 1900 in Greenville, Madison Co., Fla by Reverand Fountain  Cone. They had five children together. He died on July 11, 1930, in Brunswick, Glynn Co.,Georgia, at the age of 57.
He is buried in Palmetto Cemetery in the Hunt plot.
 Julia  was the widow of Jonathan Benjamin Slaughter.  She had 7 children with Mr. Slaughter.
1900 Census:

	Isaac Solomon Hunt lived in Hamburg, Florida, in 1900. Age: 27;  Married;  Head of House: Head

Children with Julia:

Bessie Hunt,b. March 22, 1901, Boston, Ga
Ethel Hunt  (twins),b. March 22, 1901, Boston, Ga
Albert Solomon Hunt,b. Aug 27, 1902, Pine Park, Grady Co.,Ga
Joseph Arthur Hunt, b. March 7, 1904, Pine Park, Ga, died young, buried in Ochlocknee, Ga  Mary Martha Hunt (twins),b.March 7, 1904,Pine Park, Grady Co.,Ga
(2 sets of twins and my grandfather, Albert, in between.)
Occupations:
Carpenter, lumberman, lumber yard supervisor, sawyer.
Worked on construction of the Cloister, Sea Island, Ga
Member of Woodman of the World fraternity and a Mason
In 1902, he worked for the Fambroupe and Clark Lumber Co.
1904, he lived in Pine Park, Ga and worked for he Aeostine Lumber Co.
Living in Sanford , Fla, he worked as a carpenter. It was while living here, he raised a collard plant so tall, it was featured in a Ripley's Believe It Or Not cartoon.
After this, he moved to Brunswick, where he worked as a carpenter and built houses and worked at the Cloister.
At the age of 57, Isaac suffered a heart attack while shaving, before he went to his doctor's appointment. He fell and hit his head on the gas heater, inadvertently turning on the gas. He died of asphyxiation.
The Hunt's were sawmill people, working with wood. They say he could walk thru a section of forest and tell you how many board feet you could get out of it.
He lived at 309 Wolf Street, Brunswick, Ga at the time of his death.
Notes from Albert Hunt's memories:
Dad was a sawyer and a cooper and run a farm. He told me about making barrels. About 1901, he moved to Boston, Ga to run a sawmill. In 1902, he was living in Pine Park, Grady County, Ga running another saw mill and farming. 1904 he moved to Sanford Fla and in 1924, he moved to Brunswick.
If he was anything like my granddaddy, He was a mild mannered , even tempered man, who minded his own business and wasn't given to drink.
He had 4 brothers:
Samuel T. Hunt
Luther Hunt
Thomas Hunt
Joseph Eugene Hunt
Newspaper clipping of his death:

He met and married Julia and took her children to raise. I never knew any of them to be jealous or mean to each other.
Julia's children with her first husband:
Laura Ella Slaughter
Hardy Benjamin Slaughter
Julia Irene Slaughter
William Henry "Bill"
James Corbett Slaughter
Joseph Slaughter
Trudie Slaughter These last two were twins.May have been Judy and Trudie. They died in infancy.

Julia Irene Miller Slaughter Hunt

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."