Jason E Hunt / Eliza J Nichols Essex, VT

Jason E Hunt was the son of Rosetta Lois Griffin and Eleazer Hunt. While his parents spent the majority of their life in and around Essex VT all of the census records list New York as the place of Jason’s birth. Hopkinton, St Lawrence County, NY is listed in a number of the birth and marriage records of his children as the site of their father’s birth. Hopkinton is about 100 miles west of Essex in upstate New York. The marriage record between their daughter, Nellie Hunt, and George Lawrence is particularly detailed in providing family demographics. The 1900 census records that Jason was born in May 1841. There are family histories that offer a day of May 12, 1841. ---------- There is an entry in the Essex records for the marriage of Jason, Jason E Hunt of Essex… a farmer by occupation and of the age of 24 years, and Eliza J. Nichols of Essex ……of the age of 19 years. The date is April 28, 1866. ---------- Eliza Jane Nichols was born in Essex October 14, 1846. She was the daughter of Charles Nichols and Abigail Warner. ---------- Jason and Eliza had four children together. The record of their birth is registered in the Essex town records. Each child is identified as the child of Jason E. and Eliza J. Hunt. The records provide us with Eliza’s maiden name, Nichols. They provide us with a place of birth for Jason, Hopkinton, and Eliza, Essex. ---------- April 26, 1867, Elmer Hunt ----------- January 14, 1869, Alice Gertrude Hunt ---------- April 16, 1871, Willie Edson Hunt ---------- May 1, 1878, Nellie May Hunt ---------- We find the whole family recorded in the 1900 census taken in Essex. ---------- The whole family is found in the transcription from the Village Cemetery now located in Essex Junction, VT. The nature of the record is based around where the people are buried within the cemetery. It appears that the whole Hunt family is buried in a family burial plot much in the same manner as the Griffins in the Essex Common Burial Ground. ---------- The entry lists; ---------- Jason E. Hunt, 1841-1927 --------- Eliza J. Nichols, 1843-1925 (May 28 1925)---------- Elmer J. Hunt, 1867-1901 ---------- Alice E. Hunt, 1869-1952 ---------- William E. Hunt 1873-1950 ---------- Nellie M. Hunt, 1878-1964 ---------- Children of J. E. & E. J. Hunt ---------- As with many such transcriptions it contains a number of small errors. ---------- The death record for Nellie J. Hunt is found in the Essex records. Her date of birth is given as October 14, 1846 and date of death as May 28, 1925. ---------- The death record for Elmer J Hunt, dated September 1, 1901, is also found in the Essex records. It notes that he died of Typhoid. Elmer married Nellie Latimore of Chazy, NY. They had three children; Rudolph Nelson, Helen Barbara and Sherman Spears who went by Sherman Elmer. ---------- Willie Edson referred to himself as William E. for the remainder of his life. He married Carrie / Caroline Hanley. William lived in Essex VT, DeLand, Florida, Hartford CT. In 1940 he is living in Cheshire, NH. The 1940 census is the last record we can find that references William. The names of William and Caroline are also found on a plaque associated with her parents in the Saint Thomas Cemetery in Underhill, VT. That plaque includes the dates 1871-1950. ---------- Nellie May Hunt married Clarence Martin in Essex June 27, 1900. In the 1910 census they are living in Oakland, Kennebec, Maine. Records indicate that they divorced in 1915. In 1925 she married George Burt Lawrence in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence, NY. Ogdensburg is a short distance from Hopkinton her father’s birthplace. She was living in Ogdensburg in the 1940 census. Nellie married John Sias Barr in Burlington VT on August 9, 1947. The last record of her is the 1954 city directory for Burlington. ------------------------------------------- Jason Hunt / Rosetta Griffin / Samuel Griffin / Samuel Griffin / Samuel Griffin of Killingworth