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Elias Bunger

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Elias Bunger

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
13 Dec 1885 (aged 76)
Enterprise, Preble County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Lewisburg, Preble County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 1, Lot 70
Memorial ID
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h/o Nancy (Utz) Bunger (m. January 07, 1830, Euphemia, Preble County, Ohio)

f/o Mary Ellen (Bunger) Huffman, Elizabeth Eve (Bunger) Hubler, Julia Ann Bunger) Conk, William Lewis Bunger, Susan Eady (Bunger) Hecker, Simeon John Bunger, Samuel Isaac Bunger, Nancy Jane (Bunger) Swartzel, Andrew Elias Bunger, Henry Abraham Bunger, & Francis Barnett Bunger

ELIAS BUNGER was born in Greenbriar county, Virginia, in the year 1809, and came to Preble county with his father in 1817. In 1840 he married Nancy Utz, who was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1812. Eleven children have been born to them. Mr. Bunger has been an elder in the Lutheran church for several years. His sons Samuel, William and Andrew were in the war of the Rebellion. At the time he commenced life for himself he had only fifty cents, which was all that remained after paying the marriage fee; but by dint of hard labor and economy he accumulated a farm of two hundred acres.

(Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881)
h/o Nancy (Utz) Bunger (m. January 07, 1830, Euphemia, Preble County, Ohio)

f/o Mary Ellen (Bunger) Huffman, Elizabeth Eve (Bunger) Hubler, Julia Ann Bunger) Conk, William Lewis Bunger, Susan Eady (Bunger) Hecker, Simeon John Bunger, Samuel Isaac Bunger, Nancy Jane (Bunger) Swartzel, Andrew Elias Bunger, Henry Abraham Bunger, & Francis Barnett Bunger

ELIAS BUNGER was born in Greenbriar county, Virginia, in the year 1809, and came to Preble county with his father in 1817. In 1840 he married Nancy Utz, who was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1812. Eleven children have been born to them. Mr. Bunger has been an elder in the Lutheran church for several years. His sons Samuel, William and Andrew were in the war of the Rebellion. At the time he commenced life for himself he had only fifty cents, which was all that remained after paying the marriage fee; but by dint of hard labor and economy he accumulated a farm of two hundred acres.

(Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881)


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