A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--pages 1031-1032
Ithamer Hunt, one of the pioneers of Hendricks County, and a native of Indiana, comes from an old American family of English descent, his grandfathers, both named Hunt, having been distantly related. Eleazer Hunt was a farmer of North Carolina, was grandfather of our subject, and the father of nine children, viz.: Ithamer, Zetrick, Asher, Sole, Stephen, Zimri, Hiram, Jonah and Beulah. Mr. Hunt was a life-long resident of Guilford County, N.C., where he died at age eighty years of age. He was a Quaker, and a man in comfortable circumstances, owning a good farm. Asher Hunt, father of our subject born in Guilford County, N.C., was reared a Friend, and married Jane Hunt, daughter of Abner and Mary (Starley) Hunt, a very distant relative, and to Mr. and Mrs. Asher Hunt were born eight children, five of whom were born in Guilford County, N.C. Mr. Hunt and his family, on coming to Indiana, entered land in Sullivan County and made a farm of about 200 acres, and lived there about sixteen years, when he came to Hendricks County and settled on the farm now occupied by our subject. He bought 160 acres, much of which was in the woods, about twenty acres only being partly cleared, and here he spent the remainder of his days, dying in his eighty-fourth year. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were members of the Friends' Church, and he was an honorable, industrious pioneer citizen, respected by all who knew him. The children by his first wife were Abiline, Eri, Ira, Rhoda, Anna, Ithamar, Mahala and Melinda. By the second wife—Abigail Foster, whom he married in Sullivan County, Ind., and where his first wife died—he was the father of one child, Martha J.
Ithamer Hunt, our subject, was born March 17, 1822, in Sullivan County, Ind., and was reared among the pioneers. He was about fourteen years old when they came to Hendricks County, Ind., and married, at the age of twenty-five years, Frances J. Bush, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Norton) Bush. Mr. Bush was from Kentucky, was one of the pioneers of Hendricks County, Ind., and a substantial farmer. He reared three children, Lucinda, Pleasant and Francis J., and died at fifty-three years of age, an honorable and upright citizen. After marriage Mr. Hunt remained on, and after a time bought, the home farm in Marion Township, to which, by thrift, hard work and economy, he has added until he has owned 800 acres, giving his children all but 216 acres, which he retains for a home. To Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were born nine children: Eri, Elizabeth, Henry, John, Angelina, Perry, Rosa, Clara, Elmer and Thomas, born in Hendricks County. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Hunt has always prospered, by dint of persevering energy and good management, and has accumulated a handsome property.