Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Gunn, Levi 1833 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

LEVI GUNN

LEVI GUNN was born on July 2, 1833, in Franklin County, Massachusetts, and at
the age of 18 months his parents moved, to Brattleboro, Vermont. When he was
nine years old they took him with them to Davenport, Iowa, and, finally, at a
later period, to Putnam County, Illinois. His education was obtained in the
public schools of the districts where his parents lived and he became a farmer
under the tutelage of his father. He married at the age of twenty-three and
lived happily for seven years, when his companion died. It was then that he
faced the greatest hardships of his life but this was righted by a second
marriage and his coming to Barton County Kansas, in 1874, and the purchase of
240 acres from the Santa Fe railway company. Later he purchased eighty acres
adjoining and at this time his farm covers one-half section. In the spring of
1877 Mr. Gunn removed his family to this county and began improving by building
the best house, barn and other necessary buildings in his neighborhood, and by
planting and cultivating many trees about the premises. A fire destroyed his
house on August 2, 1911, and he has just replaced this building with a story and
one-half cottage with five large, airy rooms. There is a good barn, granary and
other outbuildings, and located as it is in a nice grove of cedar, pine and
locust trees is very inviting.

   Levi Gunn first married Miss Sarah K. Wierman of Putnam County, Illinois, on
November 13, 1856, and she died in April, 1883. His second wife was Miss Sarah
C. Lewis of Marshall County, Illinois, in November, 1865, who died in December,
1899. They were survived by the husband and the following children: Wm. W. Gunn
of Jewell County, Kansas; Charles Lund Gunn, Francis Levi Gunn and Lewis J. Gunn
of Great Bend; Howard A. Gunn of Pratt, Kansas; Mrs. Lucy Harrison of Great
Bend, and Fred A. Gunn, who resides en the farm with his father and manages the
place.


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Biographical History Of Barton County


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