A continuation of the children of Valentine and Elizabeth Bunger (as the name has evolved today), follows:
Henry Bunger was confirmed at the German Lutheran Church in the Robinson River Valley (RRV) along with his sister Catherine. Though their ages were not given, Henry was probably born ca. 1772/3 and Catherine ca. 1774/5. Henry Bunger married in Madison Co., Dec 18, 1798, Barbara Garriott with the consent of her father, Thomas Garriott. Henry and Barbara moved to Meade Co., KY, where four children, William, Samuel, Elizabeth, and Mary, are known.
Catherine Bunger, confirmed in 1794 with her brother Henry, was probably born about 1774/5. She married Samuel Mossbarger on Oct 16, 1806, in Greenbrier Co., VA (now WV ). Their children included Elizabeth, Jacob, Simeon, Anthony, Eli, and Mary.
It is of interest that Catherine married a Mossbarger and her niece Mary, daughter of Henry, married a Mossbarger. Catherine’s marriage was in Madison Co., VA, The marriage of Mary was in Kentucky. This would suggest that the Bunger and Mossbarger families had a longer term association, perhaps from Madison Co., or even before.
These notes on the Bunger family have two sources. B. C. Holtzclaw left a three-page typescript on the Bunger family. Ina Ritchie Sipes wrote the book “ Bunger, Ancestors and Descendants and Allied Families ”. This book has 295 pages. I wrote an article for Beyond Germanna using these two sources, plus the Records of the German Lutheran Church.
Mrs. Sipes’ book is illustrated with her own drawings, a few photographs, reproductions of original documents, and some poetry. Her story is typical of most of us. She knew her grandparents and from there the search of their parents began. She was able to take the family back to the RRV at the time of the Revolution.
B. C. Holtzclaw left several short typescripts. An officer of the Germanna Foundation gave me permission to make copies and publish the material. The originals were returned to the Foundation and I used the typescripts in connection with other sources of information to publish material in
Beyond Germanna
. Very often I found the Holtzclaw documents were incomplete and needed work, which was not surprising since the work was done by Holtzclaw late in his life. Some of the typescripts were very short, such as the three pages on the Bunger family.
(5 Sep 06)
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