The Hunt Family

This is the final resting place of Nannie Francis Hunt and her father Frank M Hunt. Frank’s gravestone was wooden and was lost until recently. Glass negatives from the area were recently discovered and one photo showed Frank’s grave. A marker was replaced in 2023 next to his daughter's.

The 1880 Census listed Frank’s occupation as saloon keeper. Frank was 42 and his wife, Johanna Lychow, was 24 and hailed from Denmark. Frank was born in 1837 in Bedford County, Virginia and named Francis Meriwether Hunt. Frank and Johanna were married on October 3, 1878 in Owyhee County. The following year the couple was blessed with a daughter, Nannie Francis. Sadly their little girl died just five days after her first birthday of congestion of the lungs on October 25, 1880. The funeral was held at the home of her parents. The newspaper said “It is with feelings of sorrow we chronicle the sad event. Nannie was an only child and was the pride and pet of her parents. She had been ill for a number of days.” 

The couple had a son, Herman Victor, on March 29, 1885 in Huston Idaho. Herman lived to be 80 years old and is buried in Portland, Oregon. Two other children were born to the couple. 

Frank died ten years after Herman’s birth on April 17, 1895 at age 56. He had been a resident of Silver City for 25 years. His obituary said he was once a miner of considerable means but lost on South Mountain and other properties. He was also a Justice of the Peace here. He died at Adams Store where he had been working. He had gone to the water closet where he remained so long that someone went to look for him and found him dead. He left a widow and three young children to mourn him.

He is buried next to Nannie in the cemetery and now has a gravestone to mark his final resting place.