A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--pages 1094-1095
William Hunt, of Clay Township, Hendricks County, Ind., is the son of Albert and Lucinda (Haworth) Hunt and was born in Hendricks County, July 31, 1845. He became a farmer and enlisted at Danville, July 4, 1863. in Company B, One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment, Indiana Infantry, to serve six months. He served eight months and was honorably discharged at Indianapolis, Ind., February 24, 1864. He was a strong, healthy young man when he entered the army, and when he came out he was almost a wreck and has never seen a well day since. After he returned to Hendricks County, he married Sarah Benbow, September 27, 1867, a daughter of Elam and Amy (Harvey) Benbow. To Mr. and Mrs. Hunt has been born one child, Ettie J. Mr. Hunt, after marriage, settled on fifty-three acres of land near his present farm, and in 1877 moved to his present place, now consisting of 110 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are members of the Friends' Church. He is a Republican, and a member of the G.A.R., at Amo, Reuben Masten post. Albert Hunt, the father of our subject, was the son of Asael Hunt, of Guilford County, N.C., one of the original pioneers of Hendricks County, who settled on a section of land which he entered, and on a part of which, our subject now lives. Asael Hunt's wife was Rachael Johnson, and they were parents of eight children: Elizabeth, Margaret, Bert, Lethe, Cynthia, Lydia, Albert and Caleb. Asael Hunt was a Friend and reached the great age of eighty years. He cleared up a large farm and was a prosperous agriculturist. Albert Hunt was married twice: first to Lucinda Haworth, and they were the parents of five children: Ira, a soldier in the Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry, Company I, killed at the battle of Gettysburg; Rachael, William, David and Beula. Albert Hunt was also a Friend and prosperous farmer, and very successful. He died at thirty-eight years of age, a well-known and honorable citizen. His second wife was Annie Hadley. They had one child, Joshua, a graduate of Earlham College.