Person:Absalom Hunt (3)

  From "The History of Methodism in Kentucky" by The Rev. A. H. Redford, D.D., Vol. II, Nashville, TN, 1869, pages 346 to 352:
  Absalom Hunt was born in Virginia, December 4, 1773, and emigrated when a youth to East Tennessee.  From thence he came to Kentucky, and married in 1793. We have no information as to the date of his conversion, but at the time of his marriage he was a member of the Church and a professor of religion.
  He settled in Fleming County, where he was licensed to preach, but subsequently he removed to Bath County, where he labored a few years very usefully as a local preacher. It was not until he had passed the meridan of life that he became an itinerant.  At the Conference of 1815, he was admitted on trial.
  His first appointment was to the Madison Circuit.  In 1816, he was placed in charge of the Lexington Circuit, where he remained two years.  Mr. Hunt continued to travel as a preacher, filling the Minkstone, Limestone, Mount Sterling, and Fleming Circuits, until 1823, when he was placed on the superannuated roll.  At the ensuring Conference, with his health somewhat improved, he was appointed to the Liberty Circuit, and the following three years as a supernumerary to Paris, Lexington, and Minkstone.
  Unable longer to perform ministerial labor, except occasionally in the neighborhood in which he resided, in 1828 he returned to the superannuated list on which he remained until the 21st of February, 1841, when he closed his earthly pilgrimage.

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  Absalom Hunt was born 4 Dec 1773 in the Shenandoah Valley close to Romney and Winchester,Frederick Co., VA. His marriage to Miss Hester Foster in 1793 is recorded in Bourbon Co., KY., Vol. 22, P. 57. "Register of Kentucky Historical Society".His will is recorded in Book D, p.168, Bath Co., Ky. For Hester's will see Will Book E, p. 451; Settlement Book 22, p. 163. Absalom Hunt was a Methodist minister as were his brothers Lewis and Reuben, Lewis was a circuit rider in Ohio, Absalom rode the circuit in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Finley's "History of Methodism in Kentucky" gives a sketch of his life, also the different charges he had during the time of his ministry. He was a Presiding Elder and presided at the Lexington Conferences of 1817 and 1818; at Kingston, Ky 1819; at Mt. Sterling in 1821; at Fleming, Ky in 1823; at Liberty, Ky. 1824 at Paris, Ky. in 1826. In 1826 he was sent back to Hinkstone. Absalom Hunt owned a Plantation. He often went to Cincinnati on buying trips. He and his brothers were tall, strong, had blond hair and were of fair complexion. SOURCE:May Cooper Burnham, Tulsa, OK. 1960. In his will he left his estate to his widow and one Dollar to each of his surviving children. It is believed he died from the complications of a stroke.