HUNT, Matilda “Tilda” (Parkhurst)

Date of birth:  21 Apr 1819 – Henry County, Kentucky
Date of death: 6 Sep 1890 – Nineveh, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 12, 1890,
Volume XXXI Number 12, page 1 column 6

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For the Democrat.

OBITUARY.

The subject of this sketch, Mrs. Matilda Parkhurst Hunt, was born in Henry County, Ky., April 21st, 1819, and emigrated to Scott county, Ind. Staying there about one year they returned to their old home in Kentucky, remaining there about four years and returning again to this state in 1825.

The family settled on the farm now owned by Thos. W. Woollen, in Nin­eveh township, where they lived about fifteen years, her father at this time purchasing and moving to the farm now owned by Tunstall Hunt, on which she spent the remainder of her life, except the first year of her married life, which was spent in Franklin township. She was married to Tunstall Hunt, August 27th, 1857. By her marriage she be­came foster mother of two small boys, never having any children of her own. Her care and devotion to them was as kind and tender and the interest mani­fested was the same as had they been their own.

She united with the old school Baptists in which fellowship she lived a consistent and honored member. She died September 6, 1890, after a ling­ering illness of several months. The funeral services were conducted by Elder P. K. Parr, after which we laid her body in Greenlawn cemetery to await the resurrection morn, when we hope to meet her together with many dear ones who have gone before.

J. W. H.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 12, 1890
Volume XXXI Number 12, page 4 column 1

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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NINEVEH.

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Mrs. Tun Hunt, died at a ripe old age Friday morning and was buried at Franklin after the services at Bethel church.

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TIMOTHY RIDGE.

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Mrs. Tilda Parkhurst Hunt, died at her home here Saturday Sept. 6th, 1890. Aged 71 years 4 months and 16 days. She was married to Tunstall Hunt in 1857. Deceased was a member of the Old School Baptist church at Bethel. Her funeral was preached there by Rev. P. K. Parr after which the remains were taken to the cemetery at Franklin.

Link to Matilda (Parkhurst) Hunt’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 100, referencing Book H-16, page 5, records that Matilda Hunt, a seventy-one-year-old white female, died 6 Sep 1890 in Nineveh.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry