Joseph H. Hunt, born December 27, 1870, is the eighth child of Amanda Jane Caudell and John Austin Hunt.
The 1870 census, taken prior to Joseph's birth, shows John Austin and Amanda Jane Caudell Hunt and six children, five daughters and one son, living in Horsehead Township, Johnson County. Another son had died as an infant.
A later affidavit states that this Hunt family moved from Johnson County to southwestern Sebastian County, Arkansas, in January of 1871. If that is correct, then Joseph would have been born in Johnson County, Arkansas, and would have been only one month old when the family moved to Sebastian County from Johnson County.
The 1880 census has yielded no information about this Hunt family. However, it is known from subsequent affidavits that family members operated farms and businesses in both Indian Territory and Arkansas, that they participated in activities of the West Harmony community, and that they used the U.S. postal services of Hartford, Arkansas.
All that is presently known about the life of Joseph H. Hunt are his birth and death dates, the mention of his name on his father's military pension form, and the place of his burial.
Joseph Hunt apparently lived all of his short life in Sugar Loaf Valley. He probably worked on the family farm, tended livestock, and rode horseback to attend school and church in the West Harmony community, as his older brother John had done.
Joseph died October 21, 1887, two months before his 17th birthday. He is interred at the West Harmony Cemetery in Sebastian County, Arkansas, near the Oklahoma border.
Joseph Hunt's grave site in West Harmony Cemetery is near that of James H. Patterson and Mariah Patterson, parents of William J. Patterson and John S. Patterson who were husbands of Joseph's older sisters: Mary Ann Hunt Patterson and Catherine Hunt Patterson.