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From: "Gil Bunker" <>
Subject: Re: Found Irwin Bunker and Family
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 00 01:38:54 PDT


Hello cousins,
This family is D-760 Irving Gennings 8 Bunker m Mary Ella Arnold (1982 BunGen p.276)
gil


> >Hi Everyone,
> >
> >Reviewed the <History of Ford County, Illinois> by Ford County [IL]
> >Historical Society, 1985, and found the following that may be of some
> >interest to our cousins ...
> >
> >Pages: 170-171 [Amos Stukely Arnold's Family]
> >Amos Stukely and Lora Ann (Johnson) Arnold had seven children: Harriet,
> >Johnson, Elma, Mary, Seba, Silas, and Seward. Mary [4th child] married
> >Irwin BUNKER; Alice, Lulu, and Jim were her only children that lived to
> >maturity. None lived in Ford County, Illinois.
> >
> >Excerpts for Amos Stukely Arnold Biography ...
> >Amos left his wife and three oldest children at home in Morrisonville,
> >New York [near Plattsburg, NY] in 1866. The next year he bought 160
> >acres of land in Section 9 Lyman township [Ford County, IL] for $12 per
> >acre. the following year [1868], his wife and three children arrived.
> >All of Amos and Lora Ann's children walked the two and a quarter miles
> >to Smith Grade School north of Roberts "for their good health". <grin>
> >
> >The biography includes more on Mary's other siblings ... However,
> >nothing more on Irwin or Mary's children.
> >
> >Passed for Genealogical Research purposes by Harold "Roy" Wilkinson
> >
> >HTH
> >Harold
>
> This message sent by member Harold Wilkinson.

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