Biography of WILLIAM BUNCH, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	Rev. WILLIAM BUNCH, a pioneer planter living [in] Boone
Township, was born in Dickson County, Tenn., on November 14, 1817,
and is one of the honored and esteemed citizens. His father,
Tarleton Bunch, was a native of Virginia, born in 1783, and he
was married in South Carolina to Miss Mary Beaver, a native of
South Carolina also born in 1783. Six children were the fruits of
this union, one besides our subject now living: Mary, who was born
in Perry County, Tenn., April 23, 1820, and who is the wife of
James Simons. The father was a farmer by occupation and also
carried on the blacksmith's trade. He died in Tennessee on August
26, 1852. He was a member of the Baptist Church for forty years,
as was also the mother whose death occurred on September 10, of the
same year. William Bunch was principally reared on a farm, and in
1843 he began learning the tanner's trade, which he continued to
follow until 1857. He was married in Decatur County, Tenn., in 1838,
to Miss Jane Mays, a native of Tennessee, and the daughter of
Abraham and Rebecca (Rhodes) Mays. Of the ten children born to
that union seven are now living: Susan, Nancy J., Mary E., Julian,
Martha I., William H. and David H. Those deceased were Louvicy J.,
Tennessee and George A. The mother of these children died November 7,
1862, she was a member of the Baptist Church. On April 30, 1865,
Mr. Bunch was married in Hopkins County, Tex., to Miss Mary E. Eledge,
a native of Cannon County, Tenn., born in 1838, and the result of this
union was five children: Isaac S.J., Catherine P., Lucy A.,
Joseph E.J. and Eliza (deceased). Mr. Bunch has been a Baptist
minister since December 19, 1859. He is a member of the Masonic
order, Sugar Creek Lodge No. 205, and is a liberal and willing
contributor to all movements of importance. He is the owner of 320
acres of good land, with 183 acres under cultivation. He emigrated
from Tennessee to Arkansas in 1857, settled in this county, and
here he has resided ever since, respected and esteemed by all. He
is now a member of the National Farmers' Alliance at Glendale, Boone
Township, Logan County, and, although over seventy-three years of
age, is enjoying comparatively good health.