Transcript:History of Grundy County, Illinois/Bunch, Henderson

History of Grundy County
O.L. Baskin & Co. Publishers
1882 Chicago
Henderson Bunch, page 136

Henderson Bunch, farmer, P.O. Morris. The subject of this sketch is a native of Tennessee, born July 27, 1825. He is the second of a family of our four children of David and Nancy Bunch. David Bunch was a native of Tennessee, and his mother, Nancy (Hart) Bunch, was a native of Virginia. When subject was quite young his parents removed to Kentucky, where they lived but a few years, and came to Illinois, and settled in what is now Grundy County, Norman Township, about 1834. Subject remembers vividly the Indians which were camped within one mile of his father's house for two years, 500 in number. They often trafficked with them, exchanging pork for honey, ect. David Bunch located on section 27, of Norman Township, where he lived until his death, which occurred June 29, 1873, in his seventy-eighth year. His mother died in August, 1875, in her sixty-eighth year. The first school attended by H. Bunch was conducted in a log house, built where Jonas Newport settled, built by an Englishman named Ford; the first house erected in Vienna Township. The school was composed of the children of David Bunch and Jonah Newport. Subject remembers when there was but one house where Ottawa now stands. Mr Bunch was married, March 30, 1850, to Miss Mary A. Doty, daughter of John and Sarah (Williams) Doty, who were among the pioneers of Grundy County. John Doty died February 19, 1872, in his seventy-ninth year, and her mother October 24, 1874, in her seventy-second year. They have a family of seven children, having buried two. Martha J. Bunch, born June 10, 1852, married to Lemuel Quincy January 12, 1869; Cornelia M. Bunch, born October 25, 1854, married to Reuben Hollenbeck March 6, 1872; William H. Bunch, born December 1, 1856, married to Miss Ellen Boyette, October 18, 1878; Esther A. Bunch, born December 27, 1858, married to David Humphrey, July 7, 1882; Perry E. Bunch, born February 28, 1860, died March 17, 1863; Ida I. Bunch, May 9, 1863, died March 4, 1864; Frances L. Bunch, born April 24, 1865; Marinda I. Bunch, born June 21, 1868; Sherman W., born October 24, 1870.