Jacob Hunt Annals of Newberry, by John A. Chapman, page 604-5 My oId friend Jacob Hunt was a native, I think, of North Carolina; came to Newberry in his youth; married a daughter of Walter Herbert, one of the Quakers of Bush River. Mr. Hunt was a hatter by trade. Some hats of his make were worn by myseJf when I was a boy. He lived for many year at Newberry, or rather near Newberry, at the place now owned by J. A. Crotwell. He was a good neighbor, citizen and a true friend. One of his son, I. F., became Colonel of a South Carolina Volunteer Regiment during the war of Seces­ sion - now at Greenville, S. C. One, W. H., familiarly known as Herbert, lives at Newberry. A grandson, Walter H., is a successful lawyer in practice at Newberry. One other son, J. H., a successful business man, now in New York City, attained the rank of Major during the war and did faithful service to the Confederacy. Another grandson, I. Hamilton, is now in bnsiness in Atlanta, Georgia.