John Riley Hunt was born to Elizabeth (Anthony) and Riley Hunt of Allen Co., Kentucky. He married Rachael Collins, daughter of Martha (Campbell) and George Washington Collins of Virginia and Cass Co., Missouri. Rachel and John married 05 Oct 1856 in Cass County, Missouri, almost a decade before the beginning of the Civil War which affected that area so cruelly.
The young couple pioneered to Kansas Territory while their first child, John Asbury, was an infant. They lived the first winter in an open front shelter called a half-camp, at least 10 miles from their nearest neighbor. Here Rachel conceived their 2nd child, Wesley Thomas. John Riley Hunt was preparing logs for their first permanent home when his ax slipped and cut his leg. He died of lead poisoning from the wound despite all that Rachel knew to do for him. This was before Kansas was a State, before there were county divisions, and long before the town of Olathe originated, but it was in this vicinity that John Riley Hunt died and was buried; the dreams of the young couple forever shattered. His pregnant widow covered his body with logs to keep the animals from devouring it, took their toddler by the hand, and walked to the nearest neigbor for help. She returned to her parents in Cass Co., Missouri for the birth of their second son, Wesley Thomas Hunt, in 1860.
John's young widow married Jonathan Mulkey Slaughter in Cass Co., Missouri. Rachel and her new husband migrated to Neosho Co., Kansas after the Civil War, taking Rachel's two sons by John Hunt with them.
The young couple pioneered to Kansas Territory while their first child, John Asbury, was an infant. They lived the first winter in an open front shelter called a half-camp, at least 10 miles from their nearest neighbor. Here Rachel conceived their 2nd child, Wesley Thomas. John Riley Hunt was preparing logs for their first permanent home when his ax slipped and cut his leg. He died of lead poisoning from the wound despite all that Rachel knew to do for him. This was before Kansas was a State, before there were county divisions, and long before the town of Olathe originated, but it was in this vicinity that John Riley Hunt died and was buried; the dreams of the young couple forever shattered. His pregnant widow covered his body with logs to keep the animals from devouring it, took their toddler by the hand, and walked to the nearest neigbor for help. She returned to her parents in Cass Co., Missouri for the birth of their second son, Wesley Thomas Hunt, in 1860.
John's young widow married Jonathan Mulkey Slaughter in Cass Co., Missouri. Rachel and her new husband migrated to Neosho Co., Kansas after the Civil War, taking Rachel's two sons by John Hunt with them.
John Riley Hunt was born to Elizabeth (Anthony) and Riley Hunt of Allen Co., Kentucky. He married Rachael Collins, daughter of Martha (Campbell) and George Washington Collins of Virginia and Cass Co., Missouri. Rachel and John married 05 Oct 1856 in Cass County, Missouri, almost a decade before the beginning of the Civil War which affected that area so cruelly.
The young couple pioneered to Kansas Territory while their first child, John Asbury, was an infant. They lived the first winter in an open front shelter called a half-camp, at least 10 miles from their nearest neighbor. Here Rachel conceived their 2nd child, Wesley Thomas. John Riley Hunt was preparing logs for their first permanent home when his ax slipped and cut his leg. He died of lead poisoning from the wound despite all that Rachel knew to do for him. This was before Kansas was a State, before there were county divisions, and long before the town of Olathe originated, but it was in this vicinity that John Riley Hunt died and was buried; the dreams of the young couple forever shattered. His pregnant widow covered his body with logs to keep the animals from devouring it, took their toddler by the hand, and walked to the nearest neigbor for help. She returned to her parents in Cass Co., Missouri for the birth of their second son, Wesley Thomas Hunt, in 1860.
John's young widow married Jonathan Mulkey Slaughter in Cass Co., Missouri. Rachel and her new husband migrated to Neosho Co., Kansas after the Civil War, taking Rachel's two sons by John Hunt with them.
The young couple pioneered to Kansas Territory while their first child, John Asbury, was an infant. They lived the first winter in an open front shelter called a half-camp, at least 10 miles from their nearest neighbor. Here Rachel conceived their 2nd child, Wesley Thomas. John Riley Hunt was preparing logs for their first permanent home when his ax slipped and cut his leg. He died of lead poisoning from the wound despite all that Rachel knew to do for him. This was before Kansas was a State, before there were county divisions, and long before the town of Olathe originated, but it was in this vicinity that John Riley Hunt died and was buried; the dreams of the young couple forever shattered. His pregnant widow covered his body with logs to keep the animals from devouring it, took their toddler by the hand, and walked to the nearest neigbor for help. She returned to her parents in Cass Co., Missouri for the birth of their second son, Wesley Thomas Hunt, in 1860.
John's young widow married Jonathan Mulkey Slaughter in Cass Co., Missouri. Rachel and her new husband migrated to Neosho Co., Kansas after the Civil War, taking Rachel's two sons by John Hunt with them.
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