Ira J. Hunt, Civil war veteran, died Friday at the soldiers home in Milford at the age of 88. Enlisting in Company A. 4th Iowa cavalry, on Jan 13, 1864, he was in the battle of Atlanta and in numerous minor engagements, and was with Wilson's raiders and in Sherman's march to the sea. Discharged Aug 8, 1865, he went home to Iowa and in 1867 removed to Nebraska City. He drove a freight wagon between there and Laramie, Wyoming. Later he homesteaded on the site of University Place. He set out most of the cottonwood trees on the M. L. Culver farm, now part of the agricultural college property.
In 1869 Mr. Hunt married Emily George, Judge Lake performing the ceremony under a big tree near Capital Beach. He lived in Lincoln the rest of his life, and despite his advanced age went with a son and put flowers on the grave of his wife on Memorial day. She died twenty-eight years ago. He was a member of the G.A.R. and the Presbyterian church.
Surviving are six sons, John of Billings, Mont., Henry of Kimball, Jasper of Lincoln, Edward of Monte Vista, Colo., Robert of Smithland, Ia., Arthur of Boscobel, Wis.; five daughters, Mrs. Stella Souder of Newman, Calif., Mrs. Jessie Alexander of Nortonville, Kas., Mrs. Ella Plessel of Omaha, Mrs. Charlotte Keidel of Stuart, and Mrs. Tom Lee of Lincoln; a sister, Mrs. Jennie Thatcher of Seattle, twenty-five grandchildren and thirty-five great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at Umbergers, Rev. F. D. Hullhorst and the G.A.R. officiating. Burial in Oak Creek cemetery, at Raymond.
from the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, June 18, 1933
In 1869 Mr. Hunt married Emily George, Judge Lake performing the ceremony under a big tree near Capital Beach. He lived in Lincoln the rest of his life, and despite his advanced age went with a son and put flowers on the grave of his wife on Memorial day. She died twenty-eight years ago. He was a member of the G.A.R. and the Presbyterian church.
Surviving are six sons, John of Billings, Mont., Henry of Kimball, Jasper of Lincoln, Edward of Monte Vista, Colo., Robert of Smithland, Ia., Arthur of Boscobel, Wis.; five daughters, Mrs. Stella Souder of Newman, Calif., Mrs. Jessie Alexander of Nortonville, Kas., Mrs. Ella Plessel of Omaha, Mrs. Charlotte Keidel of Stuart, and Mrs. Tom Lee of Lincoln; a sister, Mrs. Jennie Thatcher of Seattle, twenty-five grandchildren and thirty-five great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at Umbergers, Rev. F. D. Hullhorst and the G.A.R. officiating. Burial in Oak Creek cemetery, at Raymond.
from the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, June 18, 1933
Ira J. Hunt, Civil war veteran, died Friday at the soldiers home in Milford at the age of 88. Enlisting in Company A. 4th Iowa cavalry, on Jan 13, 1864, he was in the battle of Atlanta and in numerous minor engagements, and was with Wilson's raiders and in Sherman's march to the sea. Discharged Aug 8, 1865, he went home to Iowa and in 1867 removed to Nebraska City. He drove a freight wagon between there and Laramie, Wyoming. Later he homesteaded on the site of University Place. He set out most of the cottonwood trees on the M. L. Culver farm, now part of the agricultural college property.
In 1869 Mr. Hunt married Emily George, Judge Lake performing the ceremony under a big tree near Capital Beach. He lived in Lincoln the rest of his life, and despite his advanced age went with a son and put flowers on the grave of his wife on Memorial day. She died twenty-eight years ago. He was a member of the G.A.R. and the Presbyterian church.
Surviving are six sons, John of Billings, Mont., Henry of Kimball, Jasper of Lincoln, Edward of Monte Vista, Colo., Robert of Smithland, Ia., Arthur of Boscobel, Wis.; five daughters, Mrs. Stella Souder of Newman, Calif., Mrs. Jessie Alexander of Nortonville, Kas., Mrs. Ella Plessel of Omaha, Mrs. Charlotte Keidel of Stuart, and Mrs. Tom Lee of Lincoln; a sister, Mrs. Jennie Thatcher of Seattle, twenty-five grandchildren and thirty-five great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at Umbergers, Rev. F. D. Hullhorst and the G.A.R. officiating. Burial in Oak Creek cemetery, at Raymond.
from the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, June 18, 1933
In 1869 Mr. Hunt married Emily George, Judge Lake performing the ceremony under a big tree near Capital Beach. He lived in Lincoln the rest of his life, and despite his advanced age went with a son and put flowers on the grave of his wife on Memorial day. She died twenty-eight years ago. He was a member of the G.A.R. and the Presbyterian church.
Surviving are six sons, John of Billings, Mont., Henry of Kimball, Jasper of Lincoln, Edward of Monte Vista, Colo., Robert of Smithland, Ia., Arthur of Boscobel, Wis.; five daughters, Mrs. Stella Souder of Newman, Calif., Mrs. Jessie Alexander of Nortonville, Kas., Mrs. Ella Plessel of Omaha, Mrs. Charlotte Keidel of Stuart, and Mrs. Tom Lee of Lincoln; a sister, Mrs. Jennie Thatcher of Seattle, twenty-five grandchildren and thirty-five great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at Umbergers, Rev. F. D. Hullhorst and the G.A.R. officiating. Burial in Oak Creek cemetery, at Raymond.
from the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, June 18, 1933
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