BUNKER-L Archives

From: Mary-Gene Page <>
Subject: Re: Bunker Notes
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 15:45:44 -0700

wrote:

> Dear Sandy and Marygene,
>
> Below I've copied several pages from my notes about Abraham Hall Bunker and
> his descendents. Much of the material, of course, comes from the Moran
> Bunker Genealogy, but additional information has come from primary and
> first-hand research in Addison County, Vermont, and from Nevada (Vernon Co.),
> Missouri. References and citations available on request.

You have no idea how much this material is valued!

>
>
> The town clerk in Starksboro, VT, was very accomodating when I visited there:
> she let me leaf through hundred-year-old town documents (where I found Ira
> Bunker's marriage record to Mandana Ravlin) and showed me old land records
> and cemetery maps (where I found gravesite of Cordelia [not Fidelia--see 1850
> Vermont census!] Sweet Bunker's parents and gravesite of George and Nancy
> Bunker's young daughter, Jenny).
>

I don't know where the original published information came from, so I don't
know what was the source of the name Fidelia.

>
> Narrative concerning the time frame of Bunkers' movement to Missouri from
> Vermont came from Herb Bunker, Jr., whose father worked many years in Bunker
> genealogy and provided much information to Carlton Moran.

I do so wish we had Moran's sources. (Is Herb Bunker still living?)
The 1931 BFA publication was for the Charlestown, Nantucket and various
other branches; sources ARE included in that.
The 1942 Moran publication "Ancestry and Descendants of Benjamin 3
Bunker" does include a Geographical Index and the Main Census references from 1790
to 1880. That volume does not include Abram Bunker or his family.
The 1961 Moran does include Abram but only a Geographical Index. The 1982
Moran includes only Revisor's Notes. After that, the Dover Branch was published
only in 3-ring binder form.

>
>
> One misconception I wish to note is that only Mandana Ravlin Bunker (Ira's
> first wife) and his infant son died after 1870; his daughter Eva survived.
> Ira Bunker and his wife Lizzie appear to have followed daughter Eva Bunker
> and her husband (MacAlexander?) to the Pacific Northwest just after 1900
> census. Brother George and Wm. Oliver stayed behind in Nevada, MO.

Thank you for that - I did not have that information.

>
>
> I've heard about Ira's inventions -- wish I could figure out how to find any
> record of his work at the U.S. Patent Office. Any suggestions?
>

Did you see the name of Ira's book mentioned in Sandy's message?

>
> I realize there's more here than perhaps you are interested in; but it's a
> start.

My personal feeling is that we cannot have 'TOO MUCH' information. If it's
something we can't immediately use or put in the database, we still want to have
it for the files - and maybe some day it will be helpful to someone.

> (I sent a great deal of information on "my" Bunker line to the BFA
> several years ago, but don't know what happened to it).

I'm afraid *I* am what happened to it. The thing that got this whole line of
correspondence going was that - coincidentally - when Sandy Harrison was asking
via email about Ira Sweet's first wife, I was beginning the data entry of the
material you had sent us in 1994. (!) So I made the connection and began the
discussion.

>
>
>

> Let's keep in touch!

Absolutely!

>

This thread:

• Re: Bunker Notes by Mary-Gene Page <>