The Hunt Family Cemetery is seen from below on Oak Run Road. This photograph was taken by Jeremy Tuggle on September 15, 2018.
Located in Millville is another pioneer cemetery which is not well-known to the general public. This is the historic Hunt Family Cemetery, a private cemetery, which was created by Shasta County pioneer, Daniel Granvil Hunt. Hunt was a well-respected local farmer and rancher of the area who established this cemetery on September 1, 1855, for the burial of his mother Isabella (Wright) Hunt (1807-1855), a native of Kentucky according to the 1850 U.S. Census. The families of Daniel Granvil Hunt and Joseph Ray Hunt lie at rest in this cemetery located off of Oak Run Road, in Millville, in the Millville Cemetery District.
Limited access is available to the property. In 1995, descendants of the pioneer Hunt family, and the Millville Historical Society, erected a monument marking this historic cemetery, which is cared for by the Millville Masonic Cemetery, of Millville. According to the cemetery records at the Shasta Historical Society and the records on Find a Grave.com there are approximately 28 interments here.
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Above: Daniel G. Hunt (1830-1921) was a son of Nathan Hunt and Isabella (Wright) Hunt, who was raised and well-educated in the local schools of Missouri. Daniel arrived at Hangtown, California (now Placerville), in 1850, at the age of nineteen years old, and he eventually settled in northern California making Millville, in Shasta County, his home working as a farmer and rancher. He married Sarah Martha Heryford, and they had eleven children. Daniel is also buried in this historic cemetery with his wife, his headstone states: "D.G. Hunt - a native of Huntsville, Missouri." Daniel died at the ripe age of ninety-one years old. (From the collection of Jeremy Tuggle; see resources below.)
Above: the monument marking the historic site of the Hunt Family Cemetery. An error occurs on the marker stating September 1, 1885, is when the cemetery was created, but Isabella (Wright) Hunt died on September 1, 1855. This photograph was taken by Jeremy Tuggle, on September 15, 2018.
Resources:
1850 U.S. Census
Isabella Wright Hunt (1807-1855) - Find a Grave Memorial
1860 U.S. Census
Old Resident of County, D.G. Hunt, Dies - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, June 25, 1921 *(Disclaimer: His Find A Grave Memorial states he died in 1927, see link below.)
Death Summons Shasta Pioneer - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Sacramento, June 27, 1921 *(Disclaimer: His Find A Grave Memorial states he died in 1927, see link below.)
Daniel Granvil Hunt (1830-1927) - Find a Grave Memorial
Shasta Historical Society Pioneer Plaque Biography: Daniel Granvil Hunt.
Shasta Historical Society Cemetery Records, available in the archives of Shasta Historical Society.
Shasta Historical Society
History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley, California. An Historical Story of the State's Marvelous Growth from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. by Prof. J.M. Guinn, A.M. - The Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, ©1902/1906 Pages 1-1,712. (From the collection of Jeremy Tuggle.)
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