Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Funk, Joseph S.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bedminster Township


JOSEPH S. FUNK farmer, P.O. Ridge, is a grandson of Abraham 
Funk, who came from Germany and settled in Springfield 
township.  He was a teamster in the revolutionary war, after 
which he came back to this township.  His son Joseph was the 
father of the subject of this sketch.  He was born in 
Springfield in 1800 and died there in 1882.  He was a miller 
by trade, and later bought a farm in the township where he 
lived for over forty years before his death.  For his time 
he was a well educated man, of sterling honesty, 
straightforward in deed and word, saying always just what he 
thought right.  His wife was Sarah Seifert, born in 
Springfield township in 1811, who now lives with her son, 
Joseph S.  Their children were David, who was in the union 
army and died in Louisiana; Susanna, Jonas, and William, 
also deceased; John, living near Easton, Pa.; Hester, wife 
of Peter Hartman, in Rockhill; Tillman, in Springfield; 
Effie, wife of John Koch, in same township; Sarah, wife of 
Samuel Algert, of Easton; and Joseph S., who is the oldest 
of the survivors, and was born April 11, 1833.  A year after 
his marriage he rented a farm in Springfield, where he 
stayed for three years; then he was a year in Durham; after 
which he lived on the home farm for twenty-two years, and in 
1885 bought his present home in this township.  November 23, 
1857, he was married to Anna S., daughter of Isaac Fretz, of 
Tinicum.  She was born January 29, 1837.  Their children 
are:  Adaline F., wife of Gideon S. Rosenberger, of this 
township; and Elmer Ellsworth, born August 15, 1864, who has 
already taught school six terms - three in Springfield and 
three in this township, and is a promising young man.  He is 
married to Philena, daughter of James Zigafuss, of 
Nockamixon township, and by whom he has two children.  Mr. 
Funk is an honest man and a good citizen.  He is a member of 
the Trinity Lutheran church in Springfield, and his wife is 
a member of the Second Deep Run Mennonite church.