Thank you for this video. I visited Jefferson Barracks for the first time in early 2024. My fifth great-grandfather, Col. Thomas Hunt, is one of those buried in the OTS. A hero of the American Revolution, he commanded at Bellefontaine, where he died in 1808. Though originally interred at Bellefontaine, he, along with many others, were moved to Jefferson Barracks in 1904 due to deteriorating conditions at Bellefontaine's site. Hunt’s wife Eunice is buried with him. She died six months after he did. In about 1818, their daughter, Abigail Hunt Snelling (yes, that Snelling, after whom Ft. Snelling was named), came to Missouri to visit her parents’ graves. While at Bellefontaine, her 15-month old son, Thomas Hunt Snelling, died and was buried near his grandfather. When the graves were removed to Jefferson Barracks, his grandson lost his name as well as his gender and is identified as a granddaughter (with no name) on Hunt’s headstone. Now that I have verified the historical details, I’ll be contacting the administration to have this error rectified. By the way, “Infant” Pike (Zeb Pike’s child) is almost surely a girl. When Pike headed west on his expedition, he left his wife and young daughter with Col. and Mrs. Hunt. The daughter died during Pike’s absence. The details of this (as well as the information about the Hunt grandson) form part of a research article published by the Minnesota State Historical Society in 1994 and is corroborated by other sources. Major Russell Bissell, who is buried next to Col Hunt, is another Revolutionary War officer and one of his male relations married the sister of Hunt’s granddaughter Eunice Wellington Hunt (Tripler); Eunice is my third great-grandmother and was married herself to Gen. Charles Stuart Tripler, the chief medical office of the Army of the Potomac during the tenure of Gen. McClellan.
Thank you so much for watching, and providing very interesting additional information. There is so much history waiting to be recorded everyday at this cemetery
I have numerous relatives buried there.
Thank you for this video. I visited Jefferson Barracks for the first time in early 2024. My fifth great-grandfather, Col. Thomas Hunt, is one of those buried in the OTS. A hero of the American Revolution, he commanded at Bellefontaine, where he died in 1808. Though originally interred at Bellefontaine, he, along with many others, were moved to Jefferson Barracks in 1904 due to deteriorating conditions at Bellefontaine's site.
Hunt’s wife Eunice is buried with him. She died six months after he did. In about 1818, their daughter, Abigail Hunt Snelling (yes, that Snelling, after whom Ft. Snelling was named), came to Missouri to visit her parents’ graves. While at Bellefontaine, her 15-month old son, Thomas Hunt Snelling, died and was buried near his grandfather. When the graves were removed to Jefferson Barracks, his grandson lost his name as well as his gender and is identified as a granddaughter (with no name) on Hunt’s headstone. Now that I have verified the historical details, I’ll be contacting the administration to have this error rectified.
By the way, “Infant” Pike (Zeb Pike’s child) is almost surely a girl. When Pike headed west on his expedition, he left his wife and young daughter with Col. and Mrs. Hunt. The daughter died during Pike’s absence. The details of this (as well as the information about the Hunt grandson) form part of a research article published by the Minnesota State Historical Society in 1994 and is corroborated by other sources.
Major Russell Bissell, who is buried next to Col Hunt, is another Revolutionary War officer and one of his male relations married the sister of Hunt’s granddaughter Eunice Wellington Hunt (Tripler); Eunice is my third great-grandmother and was married herself to Gen. Charles Stuart Tripler, the chief medical office of the Army of the Potomac during the tenure of Gen. McClellan.
Thank you so much for watching, and providing very interesting additional information. There is so much history waiting to be recorded everyday at this cemetery
@@HistoricallyMarked No kidding! Thanks for your work to keep this all alive.
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