Charles HUFF
Birth:
1767
Botetourt, Virginia
Death:
4 Sep 1820
Wilkes, Georgia
Burial:
6 Sep 1820
Clark Creek, Walker, Georgia
Marriage:
1787
Botetourt, Virginia
Father:
Mother:
Sources:
Ancestral File - v4.19
Notes:
Index Card to Logan Temple Records No. 13463, Book W-2, Page 447.
Elizabeth Susanna GUNN
Birth:
Abt 1767
of Roanoke, Walton, Georgia
Father:
Mother:
Notes:
Sister of Dr. John C. Gunn of New York, author of a famous medical book of that time.
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
22 Jun 1788
Roanoke, Roanoke, Virginia
Death:
15 Oct 1855
Anderson, Shasta, California
Notes:
Proxy baptism also done 6 Oct 1967. From Biography of Thaddeus Wilton Huff by daughter Malta Lorene Huff Smith: Moved at young age with family to Walker Co., Georgia, (Early Records of Walker County, Georgia, Vol. 1 and 2.) Moved to Hancock County, Georgia, where he is listed as a taxpayer in the year 1812. Married there. Moved to Chambers County, Alabama, then to Pontotoc, Mississippi. Here they met Elder Thomas, a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who converted them to that faith. They were baptized in 1850 in Pontotoc. Soon thereafter they made plans to emigrate to Utah. They were traveling north on the Mississippi River on the steamboat Saluda which had been chartered to take a company of Saints up river to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Near Lexington (Ky?) a boiler explosion caused the boat to sink on April 9, 1852. Among lives lost were John Tillery Mitchell, husband of Rebecca Huff and Alivia Huff Felts and husband Asa Felts and one of their sons. The family lost nearly everything, but a small chest containing some family heirlooms. Thaddeus Huff was responsible for saving the lives of several family members. They refused an offer of Dr. John C. Gunn to finance their return and aid them financially if they would give up their "foolish idea" of going to Utah, but they refused. In 1853 they started for Utah with the Moses Dailey Company. Thomas drove one of the Church teams. They settled in Bountiful, Utah, where they remained until 1855, when they moved on to California to pioneer the wilderness near Anderson, Shasta County. Thomas died there in 1855. Arrived in Utah in 1852.
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Charles Huff - Elizabeth Susanna Gunn
Charles Huff
was born at Botetourt, Virginia 1767.
His parents were Thomas Huff and Elizabeth Isham.
He married Elizabeth Susanna Gunn 1787 at Botetourt, Virginia . Elizabeth Susanna Gunn was born at of Roanoke, Walton, Georgia Abt 1767 daughter of Daniel Franklin Gunn and Susan Street .
They were the parents of 1
child:
Thomas Huff
born 22 Jun 1788.
Charles Huff died 4 Sep 1820 at Wilkes, Georgia .