Biographical Sketch of Samuel BUNNEL, Morris Co., New Jersey

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Samuel Bunnel Bio


Samuel Bunnel was born, March 6th, 1821, in Morris county, New Jersey and is a 
son of Samuel, who came to Crawford county in June, 1830, and settled one mile 
north­east of Linesville. In 1842 Samuel left home and went to Buffalo, New 
York, and worked on the canal a short time when all hands struck. In July he 
went to Kinsman, and remaing [sic.] there for about two months, went to Essex 
county, New Jersey, where he worked at shoe­making for eighteen months, and from 
there he went to Luzerne county, Penn­sylvania, and lumbered for a year, and 
then to Plainfield, New Jersey, and ped­dled tobacco for four months. He then 
went to work on a farm and worked four months, and from that he went to work at 
the carpenter trade, which he followed until 1847, when he returned home and 
bought the old homestead where he lived for eleven years. In 1848 he bought 
another adjoining farm and in Novem­ber, 1850, he married Miss Rebecca, daughter 
of Ezra D. Hetfield, of Essex county, New Jersey. In 1854 he sold out and moved 
to Indiana, about five miles north of Leavenworth. After living there for about 
four years he again sold out and moved back to Plainfield, New Jersey, and in 
three years returned again to Linesville, in April, 1862, and bought the old 
Allen farm. In Decem­ber, 1871, he bought the Reed House, at Linesville, and in 
April, 1878, moved in­to it and is now keeping the only Tem­perance House in 
that place. His wife’s family on her father’s side, have five members still 
living, the combined ages of whom is 425 years.

 

Directory of Crawford County, PA, 1879-1880, page 306
 
Submitted by Teri Brown