The Hunt Family

The family settled in Pine in 1881 with a family of two children. Nine more were born here. The original home was located between MARKER #1 and MARKER #2, but burned early in the 1900s.

Marker #1
Isaac, fourth child of the Hunts, was born 4-18-1885. He built the first part of this house for his bride, Florence, in 1912. Rough-sawn lumber was available and a big improvement over logs. Rooms were added for the four children born before Florence's death. Isaac later married her widowed sister, Ina. All three are buried in Pine. It is now home to one of their daughters.

The family settled in Pine in 1881 with a family of two children. Nine more were born here. The original home was located between MARKER #1 and MARKER #2, but burned early in the 1900s.

The Hunt Monument is between Markers #1 and #2.

Marker #2
John, the third son of the Hunts, was born on Christmas Day, 1882. He was always a cattleman. In 1905 he married Annie Belle Lazear and they moved into a one-room log cabin built by his uncle, George Hunt. Even as the cabin grew to make room for their seven children, the young Hunts treked every summer to Hardscrabble Mesa to work on their homestead. This white house, their life-long home, now belongs to their daughter, Mary. Two surviving sons live on either side.
Note: Indoor plumbing came to Pine in the mid-1920s. Electric power, as we know it, became a fact after World War II.