I am just starting to HUNT for Moore, Herring, Wilson and Stice family and other kin in YELL CO AR who would be relatives of my Father Alfred Dewey Hunt known by A.D. or "Arkie". My Dad's Father Thomas Jefferson Hunt and Grandfather James David Hunt died within 18 months of each other before my Dad was 3 &1/2 years old. His Mother later remarried to James William Moore and Dad had three 1/2 brothers & one 1/2 sister. My Grandmother Dine Moore lived until about 1957.

I am looking for information on my husband's family of Thomas Beasley Hamlett who married Arizona Stewart in West Tennessee, Henderson County near Jackson in 1877. I believe Arizona had 8 brothers and sister in her family from near Cedar Grove Tennessee. Thomas and Arizona moved to Van Buren County AR in 1880 and later to Ink, Polk County Arkansas where they had a 160 acre farm. Thomas may have had 3 brothers and the family may have had Hamlett Merchantile Store near Jackson TN in 1876. George Talmadge Hamlett stayed in the Jackson area most of his life.

I have more information on my Mothers family of Baker and Brunson who were from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and on down to Kansas and Oklahoma. My Grandfather Walter Blaine Brunson was an wooden oil rig builder near Tulsa, OK, Tulsa County in the 1908 time period and about 1931 he was Chief of Police at Perry, OK , Noble County. My Grandmother, Dorothy Susannah Baker Brunson was born in Ohio, married in Indiana, had her first child in Illinois, and by the time the second daughter was born, she and her family had moved to Tulsa, OK. Grandma's family in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana were named Baker and Eddgington.

• Liddie & David J. Brunson family about 1900. (104 KB)
  This picture was taken after David J. Brunson died some where in Ohio. D.J. Brunson's wife Liddie is middle bottom row, she died in 1935 and is buried in Perry, OK, Noble CO. Youngest child to your left is Fred, Ethel to your right. Dora (Dorie) back row l to r, Mae center and Walter Blaine Brunson. Mae Brunson married Joe Wilson and Ethel married Will Fifer living in Tulsa OK about 1910 then Mr. Stacey.
• T.J. & J.D. Hunt grave Moss Creek YEll CO AR (505 KB)
  A.D. Hunt standing by a grave marker for his Father Thomas Jefferson Hunt which is also his Grandfather James David Hunt marker on opposite side. The photo was taken about 1976 when my Dad took my daugher and I to see his "old home places" in Yell CO AK in the country surrounding Danville,AR. This is 2 photos together. On left Dad is standing by marker regular size and on right the other side of the marker taken closer.
• Thomas Beasley Hamlett & Arizona Stewart Mena, AR (504 KB)
  Thomas Beasley Hamlett married Arizona Stewart in Henderson County, TN at or near Jackson in 1877 and to this union were born 4 boys and 4 girls. In a note written by Arizona she states they came to the state of Arkansas in 1880, joined the Methodist Church in Van Burian County. They later moved to a 160 acre farm near Ink or Mena, Polk County AR where this photo was taken about 1910. Arizona was born March 23, 1861 in West Tennessee, Henderson County probably near Cedar Grove, Tn where her father is said to have owned a large farm.
• MOSS CREEK SCHOOL Danville, AR Yell CO 1910 (414 KB)
  My Dad Alfred Dewey Hunt was born in the Moss Creek Community in 1903. He is supposed to be the 6th person from the left in the second row in this picture of Moss CREEK School students about 1910.
• GLENNPOOL, Tulsa, CO OK about 1908 3 Brunson men (88 KB)
  Walter Blaine, Dora and Fred BRUNSON brothers are shown in this photo of a crew who built WOODEN OIL Derricks in the TULSA, OK area as early as 1908. My grandfather W.B. Brunson came to this area in Nov. 1908 ( I have a post card addressed to him on that date) at Glennpool which was a booming oil discovery in 1905.
• Walter Blaine Brunson Sunday School Class photo. (125 KB)
  On the back of this photo is written "Dad's Sunday School Class", Dad was Walter Blaine Brunson who is marked with an X on the front row. I do not know where it was taken, but he lived in Ohio and at Bryant and Berne in Jay CO IN before marrying and moving to Illinois and Oklahoma about 1908.
• Liddie J. Brunson's grave at Perry, OK,Noble CO. (90 KB)
  Liddie J. Brunson was the wife of D.J. Brunson which is written on her grave marker. D.J. was David Brunson who died somewhere in Ohio some time before 1907. Liddie was the Mother of Walter Blaine, Fred, Dora Brunson and Mae Brunson (Mrs. Joe Wilson).
• Walter Blaine, Mae and Fred Brunson (88 KB)
  Walter Blaine Brunson with his sister Mae and younger brother Fred Brunson. They had a brother named Dora and a sister who died at age 18 in 1901 named Leota Ray. There father died some where in Ohio and Mother Liddie died in 1935 in Perry,OK Noble CO.
• Mae Brunson & husband Joe Wilson at Berne IN . (92 KB)
  Mae Brunson and husband Joe Wilson. Written on the back of this photo it says Aunt Mae & Uncle Joe Wilson at the Pump Station at Berne Indiana in Jay County. Mae was the daughter of Liddie & David Brunson from Ohio and Indiana.
• Harley & Julie Brunson lived in California. (75 KB)
  This photo was in my Grandmother and Grandfather Brunson's photos. On the back it says they lived in California the last we heard. I do not have any information as to "where" in CA nor what line of work Harley may have done. I think Harley must have been a cousin of Walter Blaine Brunson my Grandfather.

• Alfred Dewey Hunt, T.J. & J.D. Hunt -YELL CO AR
• A.D., T.J. & J.D. HUNT from Moss Creek Community YELL CO AR
• Dine Wilson Hunt marries James William Moores YELL CO AR
• Family of Isabelle Herring wife of J. D. Hunt Yell CO AR
• Police Chief W.B. Brunson at Perry, OK, Noble CO 1931

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