The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Marion Township, page 686
Ithamar Hunt, a son of Asher and Jane (Hunt) Hunt, was born in Marion Township, Hendricks Co., Ind., March 17, 1820. He was reared on the home farm, remaining with his parents till about twenty-five yeas of age. He was married in 1846 to Frances Jane, a native of Kentucky, daughter of John Bush, an early settler of this township. They have nine children--Eri, residing in the Territory of New Mexico; Mrs. Elizabeth Martin; Henry, on part of the home farm; John, in Brown County, Ind.; Mrs. Angeline Higgins; Perry, in this township; Rosa, at home; Clara, wife of Emory King, of Grant County, Ind.; and Elmer, at home. Mrs. Hunt died July 13, 1874, aged forty-eight years. Mr. Hunt's home farm includes his father's homestead, and contains 396 acres, all on section 2. He also owns a farm of 160 acres on section 14, forty acres on section 12, and forty acres in another part of the county. Politically, Mr. Hunt is a Republican. His father, Asher Hunt, was born and reared in North Carolina, and in 1788 he married Jane Hunt, a distant relative. He settled in Sullivan County, Ind., in 1818, where his wife died in 1828. He married again in that county, his second wife being Abigail Foster, and to this union was born one child--Mrs. Martha Jane Ranford, who died in Illinois. After a residence of eighteen years in Sullivan County, Mr. Hunt came to this county in 1836. He settled on section 2, this township, where he bought eighty acres of land, of which a few acres had been cleared and a cabin and a log stable built. Mrs. Abigail Hunt died in this township in 1846, and Mr. Hunt was again married to Mrs. Nancy (Brown) Wilson, widow of Thomas Wilson. She died about ten years after her marriage. Mr. Hunt had eight children by his first marriage, of whom only three survive--Mrs. Rhoda Johnson, of Sullivan County; Ithamar, our subject, and Mrs. Melinda Stevenson. Mr. Hunt commenced life with little capital, but at one time owned 160 acres, which he acquired by his own industry and economy. He died on the homestead in this county in 1872. He was reared a Quaker. In politics he was a Republican.