East Tennessee is part of Appalachia. At the end of the French and Indian War, colonists began drifting into the area. In 1769, they first settled along the Watauga River. During the Revolution, the Overmountain Men defeated British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The State of Franklin was formed in the 1780s, but never admitted to the Union.
Samuel H. Hunt was born about 1773.
He married Sarah (Sary) Crouch on December 26, 1797 in Washington County, Tennessee.
Their children included:
Mary Hunt Miller (1798, married Peter Miller),
Nancy Hunt (1800, married Michael Clem),
Thomas W. Hunt (1803),
Joseph Hunt (1806, married Mary (Polly) McAfee),
William Hunt (1810),
Samuel M. Hunt (1811),
Margaret Hunt (1813, married George Vincent),
John Bell Hunt (1815, married Rachel Vincent),
Franklin Hunt (1818, married Evalina Vincent),
James Sevier Hunt (1820), and
Sarah Jane Hunt Smith
(1822, married King Henry Smith).
Samuel bought land in Washington County in 1809.
Samuel served in the War of 1812.
Samuel died on July 21, 1852 in Washington County, Tennessee. Sarah died on August 29, 1852 in Washington County, Tennessee. They are buried together in the Hunt family cemetery about one mile south of Johnson City.
Johnson City, Tennessee is in Washington, Carter and Sullivan Counties. It was known as Brush Creek for the Creek than runs through it.
