James C. Hunt<\/b>\u00a0was born at Clarksville,\u00a0Montgomery Co.<\/b>, Tenn., July 28, 1839. His parents were\u00a0Solomon<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Ann R. (Hillyard) Hunt<\/b>. The father was a native of North Carolina, and came to Tennessee about 1835. He was a prominent farmer and died in 1841. The mother was a native of Virginia. At the age of eighteen our subject was engaged as clerk at Williamsville for\u00a0W. D. Balthrop<\/b>, merchant, and remained with him two years, when he was married, November 17, 1859, to\u00a0Serenia P. Slaydon<\/b>. This union has resulted in nine children:\u00a0William T.<\/b>, born July 23, 1860;\u00a0Theodosia<\/b>, born in 1862;\u00a0Robert B.<\/b>, born in 1864, and died in his childhood;\u00a0Solomon E.<\/b>, born February 5, 1867;\u00a0Albert P.<\/b>, born August 20, 1869;\u00a0John Franklin<\/b>, born in 1871;\u00a0James Morris<\/b>, born in 1873;\u00a0Noel Clarence<\/b>, born in 1875, and\u00a0Hartwell Slaydon<\/b>, born in 1877. Our subject entered the Confederate Army, under\u00a0Gen. Forrest<\/b>, in 1861, in Company C, Tenth Tennessee Cavalry, and served throughout the war without receiving a single wound. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Yellow Creek Lodge, No. 319, and is a Democrat. He is a man of much influence in his community, and has accumulated a nice sum of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
James C. Hunt\u00a0was born at Clarksville,\u00a0Montgomery Co., Tenn., July 28, 1839. His parents were\u00a0Solomon\u00a0and\u00a0Ann R. (Hillyard) Hunt. The father was a native of North Carolina, and came to Tennessee about 1835. He was a prominent farmer and died in 1841. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[72,71,70,73],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodspeedbiography","tag-balthrop","tag-hillyard","tag-hunt","tag-slaydon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/dickson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/dickson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/dickson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/dickson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/dickson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/dickson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/dickson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/dickson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/dickson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/dickson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}