Marion County IL Archives Biographies.....Bundy, Frederick 1802 - 1849
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Author: Brinkerhoff

Frederick Bundy, living in a different period from ours, had no chance to go 
to school.  His education had to be self-obtained. He did not fail to sieze 
the opportunities which came his way, and so became a remarkably well informed 
man. At the time the family came to Illinois the journey was made int he old 
time cumberous team wagons.  The John Wilson family arrived by means of the 
same mode of travel.
     Centralia Township at the time Frederick settled there in 1826, was as 
yet in its original wild state. As may be supposed, wild game and beasts of 
prey of many varieties abounded there, particularly wolves, to which he lay 
awake listening on many a night inside the rough log-cabin which he had built 
with his own hands. In time he cleared the land and erected for himself a 
suitable hime, and otherwise much improved the property which embraced four 
hundred acres. For years, he carried an active farming business and raised 
considerable amount of stock. Frederick Bundy was politically a staunch 
Democrat, and in those days he had to go over to Salem at election times to 
record his vote. In religious life he was a member of the Christian Church. 
His wife died in February, 1848, and the demise of the inseparable companion 
of life's journey as a great loss.  He died in the fall of 1849, having 
however, married secondly Elizabeth Walker, and leaving a son by that 
marriage. He had eight children by his first wife, the eldest William Kell; 
Alexander, who married Margaret Breeze, and afterwards another member of that 
family, who is a farmer in Washington County; Nancy Jane, deceased, first 
married John Harper, and afterwards Reuben Aldersonl; Dorcas married Sidney 
Harmon both of whom are both dead; Jeanette who never married, also died; John 
joined the One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment, Company H; at the outbreak of 
the Civil War and died while in the service of his country; Robert was also in 
the Civil War, enlisting in the Jefferson County, Illinois, and died of small 
pox during his term of service; Sallie another daughter, married Thomas J. 
Hollowell and lives in Washingon with her husband.COPIED FROM BRINKERHOFF'S 
HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY, ILLINOIS - 1909 - PAGES 256 AND 257.

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