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Helen Hunt: Rennie Hunt
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In 1852 Helen met and married Lt. Edward Hunt of the Coast Survey Department. The son born in 1853 lived only 11 months. Another son, Warren ("Rennie"), was born in 1855. In 1863 her husband, by this time a major in the Navy Department, died while testing a submarine device he had developed. Yet another blow fell: Rennie died in 1865.
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In 1852, Helen Fiske married United States Army Captain Edward Bissell Hunt, who died in a military accident in 1863. Her son Murray Hunt died in 1854 of a brain disease; her other son, Rennie Hunt, died of diphtheria in 1865. She began writing after these deaths.
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A new life awaited 43-year-old Helen Hunt when she stepped off the train in Colorado Springs in 1873. The life she had left behind in Massachusetts had been filled with sadness. Her infant son died, followed by the death of her husband, and then the loss of her beloved nine-year-old son Rennie from diphtheria.
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