Carrie
(Johnston) Hunt
(1866-1951)
Carrie (Johnston) Hunt was
born in Brownsville, Licking County, OH on Jan. 16, 1866, the daughter of Seth
R. and Isabel (Minor) Johnston.
On Nov. 21, 1889, Carrie married Charles Wesley Hunt (1855-1928), seen here, a native of New Lexington, Perry County, OH and the son of Hixson and Ann Elisa Hunt. They had 3 children -- Hazel E. Callaway, Johnston H. Hunt and Charles B. Hunt.
The Hunts first lived in Zanesville, Muskingum County, OH, and later moved to Somerset, Perry County. Charles operated a successful business in Somerset for nearly 37 years and, said the Somerset Press, "has always been held in highest esteem by his fellow townsmen."
Carrie
and Charles were very active in the Somerset
Methodist Church, seen here in a rare old postcard photograph, dated
1915. Of his service, the Somerset Press said that Charles:
...gave freely and unselfishly of his time and labor towards the services of the Somerset Methodist church to which he transferred his membership after coming to Somerset. He served for years as a teacher in the Sunday School, as chorister of both Church and Sunday School, treasurer of the Church and on the official board.... [He] loved his home and family, spending all his spare time with its associations, and will always be remembered as a loving husband and father, a priest in his own household.
Sadly,
on March 24, 1928, at the age of 73, Charles died at home. The funeral was
held in the Methodist Church, where he had "served as a devout member for
years." The pastor's funeral sermon was based on the text, "And Enoch
walked with God; and he was not; for God took him."
Carrie also was "one of Somerset's best loved citizens" and lived for half a century in her home on East Main Street. She also was a worker in the Methodist Church and in the Order of the Eastern Star. In her later years, she went to Cincinnati to live with daughter Hazel, but asked to return to Somerset to spend her final years in her home, near her old friends.
When her sister Ada Soliday died in 1944, Carrie hosted a houseful of guests, including daughter Hazel and nephew Fred Soliday.
Carrie passed away on May 26, 1951. She is buried beside her husband in the Somerset Cemetery.
Son Johnston resided on Fulton Street in Toledo, OH. Son Charles lived in Somerset, OH.
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