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From: William Hunt <>
Subject: Re: [OKLEFLORE] Balentine and Glenn
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:02:37 -0600
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Subject: Re: [OKLEFLORE] Balentine and Glenn

Reply to Becky,

> It is those Glenns and Balentines which are my close relatives. Mac
> Balentine was my grandmother's brother. She married a Glenn. I'm not
> sure who the musician is that you are talking about, .
>
In my occasional short visits to Wister/Mt. View it seems that I met a man
from Heavener who played piano. It may be that his name was Vaughn and the
preacher was Glenn. I remember meeting Mac Balentine on at least one
occasion.

> There was a Mr. Hunt who helped start the church.

That is my grandfather: John Hunt. He and his wife, grandma Amanda Jane
Caudell Hunt, joined with two preacher families to found that church, but
her name got left off the corner stone. Grandma Hunt is the sister of
George W. Caudell from whom all the Wister Caudell's descended. My elder
sister, Devota Baker of Poteau, still attends the church. Our father was
John A. Hunt, was sheriff of LeFlore County in 1921-22 (during which time
Poteau had its smallpox epidemic). Mac Balentine said that my father once
taught at the Glendale school (now only stone rubble), but I have been
unable to verify that.
>
> I also knew a Hunt family in Wister in the 50's and 60's,

There were two Hunt families in Wister: my uncle Bill (W. F. Hunt) had a
store there from about 1910 until after 1950; my uncle Oscar Hunt moved
there in the early 1940s and lived there until he died in 1968.

> but I only knew the name of a boy who would have been born about 1948

That would be Buck Hunt, II, (born 1949) son of Buck Hunt, Sr., and grandson
of Uncle Oscar. He lived with his grandparents when growing up in Wister.

My relatives in the Monroe Cemetery include Aunt Lockey J. Hunt Bayless and
her husband George T. Bayless, as well as Coyle C. Gober who was married to
my youngest aunt, Della Hunt Gober. Between 1890 and 1912, George T.
Bayless had stores in Monroe, Howe, and Wister (there is a Bayless Street in
Wister.)

My relatives in the Mt. View Cemetery include Aunt Sarah Hunt Fortner, who
died in 1889 and in buried in an unmarked grave, as well as Ardena Hunt
Holliman, who died in 1951.

Bill Hunt
Natchitoches, Louisiana
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