| Show dixie pioneer called mar 1 mrs elvdia hunt a pioneer of 1817 who died here feb 16 aag alio daughter of georgo W and mary ann sparks gibson she WAS born in south carolia Car olim july 31 when a young girl she joined tho church with her parents and started west with the in 1846 arriving in great salt L ike in jub 1817 fie days after president bangham young and his fai ft company lier father joined the mormon battalion and while being detained at pueblo colo she met and as married to gilbert hunt ho nas aho a member of the mormon battalion but had been detailed to assiat in taking care of some sick alio era in camp for rest and not able to travel but soon followed the first company westward soon after they ero called to join a company under chas C rich and ama lyman to settle san ber hardmo cal returning to salt lake city after several years when on nov 14 1858 mr hunt died leaving mrs hunt with four oung children four months later she gave birth to her fifth child she had lost ano children while living it cottonwood her parents moved to cache alley and she with her family as a pioneer of the north later her father wis called as a pioneer of the dixie country and sirs hunt again joined the family she drove two yoke of oxen from ciche valley to dixie mrs C N stanford her oldest child of 12 years rode a horse and droe the cattle the whole distance here in dixie mrs hunt with lier young family suffered pr and privations at one tune to keep away starvation she hitched up her ox team and took her best cow miles to beaver and traded it for pounds of flour on this trip she was gone two weeks with one little boy having left the other four at home at a time when the indians were hostile he parents died in the south after which she moved to and has lived with her daughter mra sanford for the past 30 vears where she died she leaves two bons and one daughter they are james A and gilbert of hedborn Hei born idaho and mrs 0 N stanford of also 14 grandchildren oo 00 great brand chil dren and two great great grandchild grand chil dren desert news cheerfulness is about the only contagious thing that v e arent do think yes quite much as some men |
