H

Hoy

Marius Hoy was born in Denmark. He and his wife Susanna bought 40 acres in Rosedale and moved onto the property around 1891. Their son Christian followed his parents to Rosedale, along with his children Robert and Janice. Marius was known as a painter, farmer and inventor. He is credited with the church motto, “Have we not all one Father?” One of his inventions was a self-bailing, unsinkable lifeboat. (source: Rosedale Cem.) GHPHS

Hunt

Miles B. Hunt was born in New York. In 1854, he married Maritta M. Trim in Quincy, Michigan. He served with the Michigan Cavalry during the Civil War and suffered a severe head wound. Returning home, the family made plans to head west. After a short time in Kansas, Miles and his eldest son Forest took the train to California and a steamboat up the coast. They arrived in Tacoma on Christmas Eve, 1876. Miles purchased an 80-acre homestead at the head of Wollochet Bay. Later, when he became postmaster for the area, he named the community “Artondale.” Miles was reunited with Maritta and their other children: Emmet, Lillie, Arthur, Arda and twins Lloyd and Floyd. The trip from the Tacoma railway station to their new home in Artondale took two days. Maritta’s sister, Manda Trim, joined the family. Miles served as Justice of the Peace in the 1890s. He was a co-founder of the Gig Harbor post of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a civil war veteran’s organization. Maritta was active in the Women’s Relief Corps. Their son Forest married Harriet Elizabeth Frost. They lived in Ketchikan, Alaska where they raised five children. (source: Jean Roberton) GHPHS

The second son of Maritta and Miles, Emmett Hunt delivered the mail; rowing to and from Steilacoom, across the Narrows, to assure that Artondale was connected to the rest of the world. Seeing that this service was inadequate, Emmett, with the help of his brothers, built a seamboat, the Baby Mine. The Baby Mine was the first of many vessels the Hunt brothers (Emmett, Arda, Lloyd and Floyd) operated as part of the “Mosquito Fleet,” transporting passengers, produce and freight around the Sound. Emmett’s life was riddled with tragedy. He and his wife Nettie lost two infant children in childbirth. Nettie lost a third, and her own life, in childbirth years later. Only one of their children, Olive, survived to adulthood. Emmett later remarried May Pruett. (source: Jean Roberton) GHPHS