Notes:
Data source is the Cowley County, Kansas, Heritage Book submitted by Hazel Mumaw Pratt
Jo Ann is descended from the Hunt and Mumaw families who both came to Kansas and both homesteaded about five miles north of Arkansas City in 1870. The Hunts were originauy from England and settled in North Carolina. Bartlett Y. Hunt and his wife Anna M. Blair came to Kansas in a covered wagon. One of their sons, Robert P. Hunt born Feb. 2, 1860 and died Mar. 26, 1937 and his wife Ella Rae King, born Aug. 10, 1864 and died Nov. 30, 1917, also lived on the original farm. AlI of the above are buried in Tannehill Cemetery. One of their sons, Walter Arthur Hunt born Sept. 24, 1905, farmed the original farm where his son Dan now lives.
Daniel Mumaw and his wife Anna Ruth came to Kansas from Penn. in 1868. In 1870 they took up 160 acre claim in Beaver Township. One of their sons was Jesse Mumaw, born Feb. 11, 1869 and died Oct. 26, 1931 and his wife was Addie Compton, born Dec. 9, 1869 in Edinberg, Indiana and died Dec. 18, 1963.
One of their daughters was Anna Vera Mumaw, born Feb. 28, 1903 in Denver, CO and died Dec. 9, 1973. She married Walter A. Hunt Nov. 11, 1927. The above deceased are buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery. The family attended Hackney Evangelical United Brethren Church. Walter and Anna were parents of three children: Jo Ann, Donald Walter, and Robert Gene (Bob).
Bill is descended from William Willard and Julia Wyckoff Sheldon who came to Kansas from Illinois and settled near Cedarvale. June 4, 1928 one of their sons, Clarence Hobart, born Oct. 18, 1906 in Cedarvale married Avis Irene Drury, born May 11, 1906 in Cedarvale and died May 14, 1979. Irene's parents were Frank Earl and Avis Anna Chapman Drury. To this marriage were born four children: Patricia Laverne Lawson Tyler, William Willard (Bill), Juanita Louise March, and Thomas Dewey.
Submitted by Jo Ann Hunt Sheldon
Scanned out of the Cowley County Heritage book, Page 288.