No. 194 Feb. 2021

Using Prison Records to Learn About Your Ancestors

This is a delicate subject, but bear with me. In 1956, a brace with a wooden piece to keep the tongue from 15-year-old female, honor roll student, never convicted flapping. As late as 1972, in New Jersey, the court of a crime, always told her mother where she was and found that only a woman could be a common scold. who she was with, was arrested and taken to the local juvenile jail where she was locked behind bars. The In 1880, a woman who did not properly report the death next day as she was being taken home, she asked the of her still born child was convicted and punished with juvenile officer why this had happened and was told she nine months on the chain gang and working as a servant should mind her mother better. Totally puzzled by that for several months to pay off her fine. she finally figured out that her mother had decided this was the proper punishment when she threatened to tell Children had no rights to an attorney. They were not her father what her mother was doing to her sister. That even allowed to talk to their parents or any other adult girl was me. I have never committed a crime other than that might help them. In re Gault 387 U.S. 1 (1967), the driving too fast and never been convicted for that. Our US Supreme Court ruled juveniles have a right to an criminal justice system has been appalling over the years attorney in court proceedings, but only when there is an and there is a good chance that one of your ancestors actual court proceeding. may have experienced a situation similar to mine. They can be held for months in the county jails Under Common Law, children age 14 and over were without any access to an attorney or anyone else liable to be convicted for serious crimes. They could while awaiting a hearing on any alleged crime they receive the death penalty if they were over the age of 10. may have committed. They have no constitutional Only later was there an understanding that children rights; they do not have a right to make a phone call. under the age of 7 should not be held liable for serious crimes. Prison records can show us the name of the prisoner, the age, the place they were convicted, sometimes the names In one case a ten-year-old boy was arrested, convicted of their parents, whether they were immigrants, the and sentenced to death for killing another little boy. The occupation of the prisoner and sometimes that of the ONLY evidence against him was that he hid himself parents as well, the physical description of the prisoner when the people were looking for the missing child. and sometimes the diseases they had and the programs and work they did in prison. They are a treasure trove of In 1819, in Illinois, if kids did not obey their parents, information and can be found at the state prisons and the they were sent to jail until “they humble themselves to state archives. Court records may be kept at the the said parents or masters’ satisfaction.” It was not individual court, the state archives, the state universities until 1932 that juvenile courts came into existence. Prior and maybe historical societies. Federal prisoners’ to that, children were tried in regular criminal courts. records may be found at the particular federal prison (i.e. Obviously in my case, parents could still send their kids Leavenworth) and the US Archives. to jail for no reason at all in 1956. Local newspapers may also have articles about arrests, Women were treated nearly as bad. They were confined trials and convictions. Check local newspaper archives, in the same prisons as the men until the mid -1800s. In the state historical society, and online sources. A free many states, prisons and federal prisons for females online source for newspaper articles is located at: were not in existence until 1927. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

A woman and only a woman could be convicted for We don’t have much use for kids in this country. being a common scold. The punishment was a head 2421 Bette - 5 Oct 2020 BUNKER FAMILY ASSOCIATION President’s Dialogue

PRESIDENT - gil Bunker ZOOM… ZOOM… ZOOM… Sorry, this is not a circa 9 Sommerset Road, Turnersville NJ 08012-2122 [email protected] – 856.589.6140 2015 Mazda commercial; it is your alert for the first ever Bunker Family Association ZOOM meeting to be held VICE-PRESIDENT / HISTORIAN - Bette Bunker Richards on June 19, 2021. LiANN PENNINGTON, our BFA 4570 N. Camino de Oeste, Tucson AZ 85745-9735 Scholarship Chair, volunteered to set up the digital [email protected] conference. Look for details in the May Bunker Banner.

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SCHOLARSHIP CHAIR - LiAnn Pennington I invite you to send your stories, articles, newsprint, 2632 52nd Avenue, Greeley CO 80634-4005 birthdays, marriages, obits, etc. Add your name to a By- [email protected] line; don’t let Bette do all the work. This is your GRAVEYARD CHAIR - Steve Bunker standard, keep it flying. 229 Portland Road, Gray ME 04039-9505 chinaseatrading.com Special gratitude is extended to (C-33-I) RODGER D. BUNKER, Mesa, AZ (formerly of Slayton, MN) for the DUES: Bunker Family Association article about his Grandmother Mattie’s early life as a 690 E. 2780 N., Provo UT 84604-4045 letter-carrier for the Post Office (see Charlestown Branch, p.2424). Mattie should certainly be labeled a PayPal NOTICE frontier woman, strong, fearless and courageous above If paying dues or other items via PayPal, please select the all. It is a delightful story! option ”Send money to friends and family” instead of “goods and services,” to avoid a service fee deduction from the payment. After making that selection, the next screen will ask My gratefulness is extended to Life Member E. MARIE you to enter amount with the option to “write a note.” That is BUNKER (RN 512768) Redondo Beach, CA for the where you enter a reason for the expense. Send payments to memoranda of missing mariners (see Babble p. 2424) Bunker Family Association at [email protected] and a cache of genealogical data, for the BFA database. – a receipt will be sent to your account. Congratulations to KRISTOPHER BUNKER, the new STATEMENT Managing Editor for the January 2021 Premier Edition The Bunker Banner is published quarterly, August, November, of RV Magazine, Lincolnshire, IL. Who is this puzzling February and May, by the Bunker Family Association periodical person? Bette thinks he is possibly U-25-II (FOUNDED in 1913), as a non-profit organization. grandson of LYMAN "Jiggs" BUNKER, Fernandina, Circulation is to 200+/- Bunker families worldwide. Annual dues that include the Bunker Banner are PDF e-file $20.00 FL bunch; in the database as born ca1975. Thanks to the (worldwide) – Paper copies: USA $25.00 – Canada $30.00 – perceptive eye of my son, JOHN Wm. BUNKER, West Europe $35.00 USD. Deptford, NJ, for detecting this descendant.

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The Bunker Family Association is recognized as a tax- For the Bunker Family Association, I pray this year will exempt organization; contributions qualify as charitable be an improvement over 2020. Wear your mask, and donations under Section 501(c) (3) of the IRS code. have a healthy and successful New Year. Join the largest Bunker association in the world! gil Bunker Website: www.BunkerFamilyAssn.org 2422 Devonshire Bunkers – 2000 Bunker Babble -Bette Bunker Richards “Chicago obstetrician and gynecologist (N-206) Descendents of James (D-1) on a USB flash-drive. ALICE8 BUNKER STOCKHAM (1833-1912), the Approximately 1,333 pages in length, it updates fifth woman to become a licensed doctor in the U.S., the 1982 Bunker Genealogy – parts of the sent in an elaborate recipe for Coraline Cake, which 1965 Bunker Genealogy and more. called for the cake to be split and infused with It includes descendants of: strawberry or raspberry juice, then filled with boiled • James (D-1) Bunker of Dover, New Hampshire custard to make a sort of ‘French pie.’ Dr. Stockham was • Benjamin Bunker & Betsey Daniels, New London, NH anti-alcohol and anti-corset but - extraordinarily for her • Thomas Bunker & Alice Pertie, Rattery, Devon, UK time - pro-masturbation. She publicly endorsed it as • William Bunker & Ann Forrester, New Castle, DE healthy for both men and women. Her unorthodox stand Plus: positioned her as the antithesis to Sylvester Graham, • Devonshire Parish Records the Presbyterian reformer who believed rich food • Military service info for Bunkers from all branches inflamed sexual appetite, and who invented the Graham • Nearly 100 pictures • Maps • Indexes cracker (made with unrefined flour) to help Americans tame their sexual desires. By the Rev. Graham's standards, the Coraline Cake was positively orgiastic.” Bedfordshire Bunkers – 2008 Bette – 23 Aug 2020 (see A Woman Publisher, May -Bette Bunker Richards 2021) * “Salem Poor began life as a Massachusetts Descendants of slave and ended it as Roger Bunker, Tingrith, Bedfordshire, England an American hero. available on a USB flash-drive, including: Born into bondage in • George (C-1) Bunker of Charlestown, the late 1740s, he • George (N-1) Bunker of Nantucket purchased his own and the following connected by DNA tests: freedom two decades • Joseph Bunker (b ca.1797 St. Albans, UK) and Mary later for £27, the • Samuel B. Bunker (1849-1890) and Almira Goodwin equivalent of nearly • Thomas Bunker and Clarissa Chamberlin six thousand dollars Plus: today. Soon after, • Parish records (except Devon) that are copied to date Poor joined the fight • Military service info for Bunkers from all branches for independence. • Ships named Bunker Hill (with histories & photos) Enlisting multiple • Numerous images and photographs times, he is believed to have fought in the One book $25.00; both books on one USB $35.00; battles of Saratoga mail to: Lowell K. Bunker, 690 E. 2780 N., Salem Poor, Alchetron.com and Monmouth. He’s Provo UT 84058-7444 most famous, however, for his heroism at the Battle of • Indicate which flash-drive you want • Bunker Hill—where his contributions so impressed Free Bunker Family History w/USB purchase fellow soldiers that after the war ended, fourteen of them (International book postage is extra) formally recognized his excellent battle skills with a petition to the General Court of Massachusetts. In it, Bunker Family Association Library they called him out as a brave and gallant Soldier,’ Bunker Family History –Henry L. Bunker, III; 1984; 147p; saying he behaved like an experienced officer.’ Poor is +8p index; paperback; $15.00 each; two for $25.00. credited in that battle with killing British Lieutenant Colonel James Abercrombie, along with several other Bunker Genealogy 1931 –Charles C.W.O. Bunker; with enemy soldiers.” Bette – 23 Aug 2020 * “An old trusted Charlestown, Nantucket, Delaware, Maryland branches; school friend, Wesley Streete was jailed for life after hardback; bibliography; index; 797pp; $58.85 $49.00. being convicted for the murder of a 20-year old barmaid Only two of these remain. KEELEY BUNKER in Tamworth, Staffordshire on

Bunker Genealogy 1942 –Edward C. Moran; Dover branch September 19, last year, not long after the victim had James (D-1) to the 11th generation; Maine census records; texted her friend Monique Riggon to say: 'Wes will walk hardback; index; geographical index; 232pp; $24.00 me home, it'll be fine'.” Daily Mail (UK) – Bette - 7 Aug SOLD OUT 2020 * What is another word for thesaurus? * In the All books w/free USA p/h. – International postage, extra February 2002 Bunker Banner p.1279, I commented Send check to BFA President about a July 1951 BUNKER winner in Charles Town, 2423 West Virginia; a town located about seven miles east of Harper’s Ferry. I am delighted to recount three more BUNKER successes in May, June and August of 2013. Charlestown Branch Mind you, I’m speaking horse sense here, literally. Both MATTIE KATHERINE BUSSWITZ BUNKER Bunkers were race-horses that ran seven furlongs nearly 62 years apart. * Off to a fast start, was Englishman (RN “Mattie or Kate as she liked to be called was born 28 3101) JOHN FREDERICK NOEL BUNKER, born on August 1881 in a sod house alongside a creek just Christmas Day, 1932, Ilford (East London). John was a outside of Dovray, located in Murray County in south- jockey who enjoyed a few superbly successful years, west Minnesota. especially 1952 when he was victorious in 25 of 99 “Kate was born into the Busswitz family and had starts. He relinquished his jockey license in 1958 and many brothers and sisters. Kate grew up on the farm began a career of “flying groom” traveling with where she and her siblings helped the parents with the racehorses across the globe. Sadly, he died July 3, 1968 daily chores, the planting of crops and the harvesting of in a plane crash at Heathrow Airport with two fellow the crops. Kate and her sisters learned to cook at an early grooms and eight horses. Of unknown descent, Bette – age in a different era. Aug 2020 * Not to forget NELSON BUNKER HUNT, “When Kate was in her early 20’s she became a mail the billionaire who owned 1,000 racehorses and lost his carrier for the US Postal Service. She carried the mail fortune when the silver market crashed. His parents were from town to town with a team of horses pulling a LYDA10 BUNKER (N-336-III; 1965 BunGen p.119) buckboard wagon. who married Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, the oil tycoon. “Her route would start out in Westbrook, MN at Nelson controlled a staggering family fortune whose 5:30am. She would follow a route that was not much value was not publicly reported.” Obit: New York Times more than a trail of wagon ruts in the dirt. - 21 Oct 2014. Bunker Hunt owned at least one horse “The route went through several small villages such named Bunker Hill, surely there were others as he had as Dovray which at that time was not located where it is so-o-o many. * A horse is a horse, of course, of course, today. The trail also went though the village of Kelly, and no one can talk to a horse of course… Mr. Ed, the MN that today no longer exists, not even a foundation CBS TV show ran in the 1960’s, of course. * In my can be found. At each stop she would drop off the pursuit of all things Bunker and Bunker Hill, I am incoming and pick up the outgoing mail. often blindsided in my chase. E. MARIE BUNKER “Her final destination was Tracy, MN a large railroad (spouse has Beds DNA) sent me a reminder of others center about 30 miles west north west of Westbrook. lost aboard US Navy ships during WW II. The carrier This 30 mile trip had Kate pulling into Tracy around USS Franklin lost 724 personnel five weeks before the 6:30 in the evening. She unharnessed the horses and feed attack on the USS Bunker Hill in June, 1945 - she lost them. Then she would get her evening meal and head to 386 of her crew. Loses aboard the Battleships USS where she would spend her night after the long day. Her Arizona (1,177) and USS Oklahoma (415), at Pearl lodging was above the telephone call center that Harbor, embody two more of the major devastations. employed eight switchboard operators. Ten United States Navy ships suffered losses of 300 or “After a night’s sleep she would pick up the mail for more casualties, another 55 vessels suffered battles in delivery on her return trip. All this for about $500 a year. which 100 or more were lost. Those Killed in Action “A personal memory of Kate is when target shooting during WW II on U. S. Naval ships and boats of the she came to watch. I asked if she had ever shot a gun. Silent Service, amount to a staggering 337,000+ that "Yes, many times." I placed a nickel in a tree and handed included Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guard. I’ll her the pistol. At 67 years of age she shot the nickel out be “sightless” no more. * CAROLINE BUNKER of the tree, first try.” ROSDAHL D-678-I, Plymouth, MN authored a book of -Rodger D. Bunker, C-33-I true stories and revelations about the real life world of Mesa, AZ nursing from a healthcare pioneer. The Naked City is MATTIE K. BUSSWITZ; born 28 Aug 1881; died 29 Dec available on amazon.com. * LOUIS C. BUNKER, 1971 Cottonwood Co., MN; married 24 Jun 1908 at Slayton, Minnesota to: Monroe, WI (his daughter, Chloe was the 2020 10 Annabelle Moore Scholarship recipient) welcomed C-25 WILBUR EVEARD (1965 BunGen p.21) Annabelle to Bunker Acres. “The calf was adopted with ______many, many medical conditions. Thanks to the UW Large Animal Vet Clinic, Annabelle will live out her life Babble with us. She will be in good company with our Hereford …they are moving to the Centennial State, shortly. calf Ruby, and her turkey, goat, and dog cousins.” Bless Our Graveyard Chair hopes they will return to New Your Heart, Louie. * STEPHENS D. BUNKER, Grey England in a few years. Congratulations Pop-Pop. * ME welcomed a new grandson, KAI SEONG in Who is New on your family tree, Bunky? *gB* February. Born to KATE & IAN BUNKER… 2424 Dover Branch Nantucket Branch SAWYER & WOODARD PURSE SNATCHER ASSAILS WOMAN REAL ESTATE – LOANS – INSURANCE Tears Medicine Case from Hand of Osage, Iowa JAN 7 1895 Dr. Bunker and Makes His Escape Mr. David W. Bunker Distances Pursuer Before Her Screams Bring Aid Sanbornton N.H. CLEVELAND, OH - Dr. Media Bunker, The Plaza, Dear Cousin. was made the victim of a purse snatcher last evening in I had almost forgotten I front of the Northampton apartments, 3120 Prospect-av had such a cousin until the other day I came S. E., as she was returning to her home after calling upon a patient. Dr. Bunker thought at first she was being across in the house of a neighbor Gen’l. A.K. teased by her son, Lloyd Bunker, but when she realized Eaton of this place a “History of Sutton” – her mistake pursued the man some distance, screaming opening the book at random the first name meanwhile at the top of her voice. The man escaped. my eye rested on was Valentine Bunker you The thief gained possession of her medicine case, can imagine I was interested at once. In which contained two books of great value to Dr. Bunker, that book I learned your address though it two surgical sets, papers valuable to various fraternal may not be correct now, but thought I would orders, of which Dr. Bunker is the examining physician, and $6 in money. risk it and try and hear from you. Since Dr. Bunker was walking east on Prospect-av about 8 reading that “History” I have been living in o’clock when the attack occurred. She noticed that a man the past and enjoyed it too. I hunted up an had followed her for half a block, but paid no attention old Journal and found an old pencil sketch of to him, even when he approached from the rear. She felt Kearsarge made from Grandfathers fence – I him grasp her bag, which she was carrying loosely in her remember an excursion made with your hand. He jerked suddenly and the bag left her hand. father spearing suckers on Pleasant Pond “I thought it was my son,” said Dr. Bunker, “and and of our stealing softly into the house in believed he was trying to play a joke on me. As he grabbed the bag I turned and saw that it was not. By that the wee small hours and into the pantry and time the man had broken into a run for a sidewalk feasting on doughnuts and maple syrup that leading away from Prospect-av and fronting on the was crusted over with a coating like thin ice. Northampton apartments. Haven’t tasted anything quite so good since “He was very big and I tried to catch him. If I had – Then I remember hunting for garnets in caught him I’d have thrashed him,” she said later. the ledges with you. I used to be quite a Dr. Bunker sped after the purse snatcher, following crank for hunting specimens and have a him to an entrance walk of The Northampton, which is daughter now who makes a hobby of geology on the east side of the building and about 200 feet long. There he darted into a passage leading to the Earl and has a room full of specimens – I have 4 apartment, which fronts on Carnegie-av S. E., and children all girls – Now if this reaches you I disappeared in the darkness. By this time Dr. Bunker’s should be glad to hear from you and will screams had brought several men, who searched far and afflict another letter on you. wide for the purse snatcher, but got no results. Yours truly, Sergeant Van Orman of the fourth precinct was called Otis P. Woodard to the scene, but so much time had elapsed that the man had plenty of time to get away from the vicinity. Historian NOTE: DAVID WARREN8 (U-121; RN Dr. Bunker is exceedingly eager to get back her 20297) a son of Valentine Estabrooks7 Bunker (U-108). books and papers, which would be of no value to the David “spent years of genealogical research thief. Two books contain memoranda gathered during endeavoring to connect this branch to one of the main her years of medical practice. The medicines in the case branches of the family; and much of the data on this line had all been prepared for cases which the doctor has at is due to his efforts” (1965 BunGen p.167). present and their loss will prove highly inconvenient. DNA revealed the line descends from James Bunker One of the surgical sets taken was used by her son while (D-1) of Durham, NH. in the U. S. Army medical corps. The other was hers. I do not know the relationship between David and The police expect that the thief will throw away the Otis P. Woodard, but it is probably through females not case and that the finder will soon return the property. in our records. Bette – 23 Nov 2020 Plain Dealer – 30 Oct 1910 2425 Bette – 5 Aug 2020 DOCTOR’S CASE RETURNED Bunker Politicians – The Good Thief Returns Papers to Physician He Robbed. Dr. Media Bunker, The Plaza, yesterday morning and the Good Grief received her surgeon’s case, which was stolen from her Bunker, Ann E. — of Auburn, NY; Democrat; by a purse snatcher Saturday evening. Everything in it Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York 1988; Female; still living as of 1988. was intact, with the exception of $4. The case was found 10 by a neighbor, lying on the ground back of a fence near PROBABLY D-1047B-III ANN ELIZABETH ; b 13 May 1938 Gabriels NY (RN 9471; 1982 BunGen p.336). the Northampton, 3126 Prospect-av. 6 “I’m sure the thief must have some good in him, for I Bunker, Benjamin Barron D-243 - U.S. Attorney know that it was he who returned the bag,” said Dr. General for Nevada Territory 1861; Civil War veteran; d Bunker. “In it were papers valuable only to myself and 2 Feb 1906 Candia NH; Oldest member of NH Bar. two surgical sets which he couldn’t possibly have found President Lincoln appointed him Attorney General of the of use. I believe that when the man read in the paper that territory of Nevada, which he held for many years. the property in the case belonged to a doctor he felt Boston Sunday Globe – 10 Jul 1904 (RN 5184; 1982 BunGen p.135) obligated to return it. I’m grateful to him and I am rather rd glad he got the money, if he needed it.” Bunker, Benjamin - Democrat; ME Delegate, 3 Plain Dealer – 1 Dec 1910 District, to Democratic National Convention 1884; N-374 ALAMEDA LORETTA ANDREWS BUNKER, burial unknown... 8 RN 19058 (1856-1925) 1965 BunGen p.127 - Bette – 10 Aug Bunker, Berkeley Lloyd - D-716 - aka Berkeley L. Bunker - of Las Vegas, NV. Born 12 Aug 1906 St. Dr. ROBERT J. BUNKER Thomas, NV; died 21 Jan 1999 Las Vegas NV, age 92- yrs, 162 days; bur Eden Vale Memorial Park, Las Vegas EXTERNAL RESEARCHER NV; Democrat; Member of NV State House of Robert Bunker is director of research and analysis, C/O Representatives 1936-40; U.S. Senator from NV 1940- Futures, LLC, and is presently an adjunct research 42; (defeated, 1942, 1946); U.S. Representative from professor at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the NV at-large 1945-47; Delegate to Democratic National U.S. Army War College (USAWC). He is also an Convention from NV (1982 BunGen p.266). instructor with Safe Communities Institute, University of Bunker, Charles - of Massachusetts; U.S. Consul in Southern California. Past associations include Futurist in Lahaina 1850-1853; bur unknown. Residence, Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit at SOURCE: www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/ the Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy in 2006/fall/pratt.html (see Unconnected Cousins p.2428). Quantico, VA, and Distinguished Visiting Professor and Bad boy, bad boy, whatcha gonna do when the come for you? Minerva Chair at SSI, USAWC. Dr. Bunker has Bunker, Charles Albert7 - D-225-I; aka Charles A. delivered numerous presentations—including U.S. Bunker - of Peacham, VT; A.B., M.A. Degrees congressional testimony—and has hundreds of Dartmouth College; born 21 Jul 1840 Barnstead, NH; publications including dozens of books, booklets, died 26 Jul 1932 Peacham VT, age 92; Republican; reports, papers, articles, response guidance, and research School teacher; Superintendent of Schools; Member: VT notes. Radical Islamist-focused publications and State Senate from Caledonia County 1886-1888; activities include co-editorship of a recent five-volume Congregationalist (1982 BunGen p.129). Small Wars Journal anthology series on this topical area Bunker, Clyde - American candidate for U.S. as well as earlier works ranging from the weaponization th Representative from WI, 8 District 1972; living in 1972. of unmanned aerial systems, use of teleoperated sniper PROBABLE Verbunker descent (no BFA RN issued). rifles and machine guns, and suicide bombers (including Bunker, David7; N-198; RN18012 – of Washington internal body cavity), along with related efforts Co., Iowa; Delegate to Iowa State Constitutional extending back to pre-September 11, 2001, research on Convention, 14th District 1857; born 23 Oct 1810 al-Qaeda doctrine, later published for U.S. law Guilford Co., NC; died 26 Jun 1886; bur Richmond enforcement counterterrorism purposes, as well as pre- Cemetery, Richmond, Iowa. (1965 BunGen p.88-89) and post-September 11, 2001, Los Angeles Terrorism Bunker, David Thayer7; D-411; RN 7557; aka David Early Warning Group (LA TEW) activities. Dr. Bunker T. Bunker - of Auburndale, Newton, MA; born 12 Dec holds university degrees in political science, 1836 Charleston, ME. Served in the Union Army during government, social science, anthropology-geography, the Civil War, Maj., 3rd MA Vol. Cav.; U.S. Consul in behavioral science, and history, and has undertaken Demerara 1887-1888; died of Yellow Fever, in office 7 extensive specialized counterterrorism and Feb 1888 Demerara, British Guiana (now Georgetown) counternarcotics training. He can be reached at age 51- yrs, 57 days, bur Guyana; cenotaph at Lakeside [email protected]. 12 Cemetery, Braintree, MA (1982 BunGen p.188). ROBERT J. , the son of BFA Chairman of the Board, 2426 N-402-I Joseph L. Bunker (1914-1998) Bunker, Edward C.7; N-136-II; RN 17544; born 9 Oct 3rd District, 1916; b 24 Apr 1866 Trenton ME; d 16 Aug 1830 NYC; died 24 Nov 1867 Piedmont VA; bur 1918 Bangor ME, bur Ledgelawn, Bar Harbor ME; Grad Maplewood Cemetery, Kingwood WV; Attorney in 1892 Boston Univ. Law School; Elected Hancock Co. Morgantown PA; resided Monongalia Co., WV; Attorney ME 1896; Democratic Candidate for State Republican; Member of WV State Senate, 3rd District Auditor 1914; Elected Secretary of State by ME State 1863-1864; Presidential Elector for West Virginia 1864; Legislature 1915; Democratic Candidate for CW Veteran (1965 BunGen p.71). Representative to Congress 1916; Appointed member *Bunker, Elizabeth Hillary11 RN 14892 aka Lisa; ME Public Utilities Comm. 1917 (1982 BunGen p.197). granddaughter of Jack Bunker D-784-I; Lisa born 10 *Bunker, John Mathieson7 D-426; c1931 Clark County Apr 1962; Democrat; NH House of Representatives, Commissioner, Las Vegas, NV (Obit: May 2021). District 18 (BunBan p.2331). Congratulations to Lisa Bunker, Luther Grow7; D-433; RN 5838; born 19 Mar who was re-elected for a second term, in 2020. 1868 Trenton ME; died 26 Nov 1942 Waterville, ME; Bunker, Ellsworth10 - N-440; RN19424; aka The bur unknown; Republican; Physician; Mayor of Refrigerator & The Sly Fox - of New York; Waterville ME 1907-1908; Member of ME Republican Dummerston, VT; born 11 May 1894 Yonkers, NY; State Committee 1922-1928; Member: Freemasons, Odd Director and officer, National Sugar Refining Company; Fellows, Elks, Knights of Pythias, Woodman, & Director, American-Hawaiian Steamship Company; U.S. Kiwanis (1982 BunGen p. 197). Ambassador to Argentina 1951-52; Italy 1952-53; India Bunker, Lydia J. - of Oakland, CA; Democrat; 1956-61; Nepal 1956-59, 1966-67, 1973-78; Vietnam Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention 1967-73. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, from California 1924; Female; burial unknown (BFA ID American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Recipient of not issued). two Presidential Medals of Freedom in 1963 and 1967; *Bunker, Mark12 N-448-II, born 23 May 1956 Oshkosh Died 27 Sep 1984 Brattleboro Memorial Hosp. WI; Independent Party; City Councilman for Clearwater Brattleboro, VT (age 90-yrs, 139 days), bur Dummerston FL, 2nd District. Grandson of N-440 Raymond Harmon10 VT (1965 BunGen p.141). and Anna Protheroe; son of Charles Thomas11 and *Bunker, Enos Augustus7– D-262; RN 5261; born 31 Dorothy Jane Dodge (1965 BunGen p.143). Aug 1819 Barnstead NH; died 10 Sep 1871 Mantorville Bunker, Nathaniel Mead8 - N-250; RN 18362; born 31 MN; CW Veteran; 1856-18__ Town clerk, Treasurer, Aug 1817 Milan NY; died 25 Mar 1889 Troy Center, Mayor of Mantorville (BunBan p.2337 & 2349). WI; bur unknown; Republican; Member of Wisconsin Bunker, Evelyn, of Franklin, ME; Democrat; Member State Assembly from Walworth County 1875 (1965 of ME Democratic State Committee 1945; Female; BunGen p.101). Presumed deceased; burial unknown (married unknown Bunker, Norene - of Fargo, N.D. Republican. Alternate Bunker; BFA ID not issued). delegate to Republican National Convention from ND Bunker, Frederick E.7; N-105-III; RN 17312; New 1972; Female; Still living as of 1972 (BFA ID not York; U.S. Consul in Constantinople 1832-1835; born 2 issued). Sep 1800; died 2 Mar 1875, bur Greenwood Cemetery, Bunker, Robert Emmett - U-1206 (1848-1931) aka Brooklyn NY (1965 BunGen p.63). Robert E. Bunker, of Muskegon, MI.; Ann Arbor, MI. Bunker, Gary Park11; C-38; RN 380 - of Aiken, SC; Born in Grass Lake, MI on 25 Mar 1848; died 13 Jan born 4 Nov 1967; Republican; Delegate to Republican 1931, age 82-yrs, 294 days; bur Woodland Cemetery National Convention from SC 2004; still living as of Jackson MI; Democrat; Lawyer; Law professor; 2004 (his politics added to BFA database, Nov 2020). Candidate for Justice of MT State Supreme Court 1919; NOTE: Gary Bunker served on the Aiken County Candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan 1924; Council for two terms from 2005 to 2012; he was active Member: Freemasons, Knights Templar, American Bar in the Aiken County Republican Party. Bette Association. Bunker, George P. RN 512339 – Democrat; Delegate to *Bunker, Walter L. D-1090; ME (see Obit page 2436) Democratic National Convention from IL 1888; bur Bunker, William B. - of Oakland, CA; Democrat; unknown; born 1 Jul 1850; died 10 Dec 1920 Hammond Delegate to Democratic National Convention from CA, Lake IN; son of George S. born MA, and Delia born NY. 1916, 1924, 1928 (alternate). Burial unknown. Bunker, James A. - of Rollinsford, NH; Member of NH PROBABLE, BUT NO PROOF: U-651-II WILLIAM State Senate 22nd District 1901-02; burial unknown. BENTON8 BUNKER (1863-1932) RN 21112 (1965 PROBABLE: D-834; RN 7443 JAMES ALANSON9; BunGen p.205) born 25 Mar 1853 Somersworth NH; died 6 Mar 1911 Bunker, William M. - of Columbia Co., N.Y; Member North Hampton NH (1982 BunGen p.292). of NY State Assembly from Columbia County 1845; Bunker, John Edward7 - D-432; RN 5837 of ME; burial unknown. Democrat; Candidate for U.S. Representative from ME, Moran, Edward Carleton, Jr. aka Edward C. Moran, 2427 Jr. & Carl Moran - of Rockland, Knox (cont. next page) Co., ME. Born 29 Dec 1894 Rockland, ME; Democrat, increased from upwards of 6,000 dollars to the enormous Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Insurance sum of more than 20,000 dollars a quarter, in clothing, business; Delegate to Democratic National Convention provisions and medicine for destitute seamen. His last from ME 1924, 1936; Candidate for Governor of ME quarter's account, rendered to this office, amounts to 1928, 1930; U.S. Representative from ME 2nd District 20,566 dollars, for the maintenance, as he stated, of 186 1933-1937; Member, U.S. Maritime Commission 1937- seamen, part of whom were maintained for the portion of 1940. Maine State Dir U.S. Office of Price the quarter only. . . . [T]he Consul in Honolulu charges Administration 1942; U.S. Asst. Secretary of Labor 11,913.91 dollars for maintaining 191 seamen for that 1945; Congregationalist; Member: Grange & VFW; died same quarter." 12 Jul 1967 Rockland, ME; age 72-yrs, 195 days; buried “Pleasonton found it particularly odd that Bunker Achorn Cemetery, Rockland, ME. charged every American a daily fee for medical care, SOURCE: politicalgraveyard.com – Bette – 1 Nov 2020 even though many under his charge were healthy. D-365-I; RN 6657 SUSAN ELIZA8 BUNKER “Pleasonton recommended that Luther Severance, the (1873-1955) married 25 Apr 1892 Thomaston ME to U.S. commissioner to the Hawaiian Kingdom, travel to EDWARD CARLTON MORAN (Sr.) aka Carl Lahaina to investigate prices and conditions. Bunker Moran; 2 issue; ECM, Jr and Phyllis. somehow learned of the investigation and left the Ed. NOTE: Original compilers of Bunker genealogy kingdom in early 1853, before the arrival of federal are credited to Charles Waite Orville Bunker (C-27), investigators. Paul Delmont Bunker (D-774) and Page Scribner “Bunker's scheme was perhaps especially noticeable Bunker (U-133, Devon DNA). Carl Moran (Sr) joined at the time because he had been compared to the the team in 1929; as the other three passed away, Carl Honolulu-based consul, Elisha Allen, who was probably became the depository of the Bunker compilation. among the most qualified consuls to have served the CWO’s anthology was first “published” in 1931 on a American government in Hawaii.” typewriter - an original with five onion-skin copies (two SOURCE - EXCERPT: Prologue Magazine Fall 2006, re-prints remain in stock; see page 2423). Vol. 38, No. 3 – by Peter von Buol Edward C. Moran, Jr (1894-1967) is remembered Charles Bunker - of Massachusetts; U.S. Consul in as the compiler of the 1942, 1961 and 1965 Bunker Lahaina (HI) 1850-53; birth/death/burial unknown. Genealogy, published by BFA. We are indeed grateful See Political Graveyard p.2425. Do you know Charles? for his magnanimity (1982 BunGen p.173). *The five names preceded with asterisk were added Marla Bunker, Vice President to the list in Nov/Dec 2020. Are there others? Of Nursing / Operations Bette located the Political Graveyard site too late for Marla Bunker has been employed at WMH (War publication in the November Bunker Banner, when we Memorial Hospital) for 35 years as a Certified Nurse were all watching the Electoral College tally. It would Aide, Emergency Department RN, Patient Care have been more appropriate in that edition. gB Coordinator, Vice President Clinical Services, and was

most recently named Vice President of Nursing and Unconnected Cousin Operations. “Charles Bunker Marla has pursued her Corruption within the U.S. Consular Service education with equal commitment. She has an Associate Degree in “The vast sums of money involved in the seamen's Nursing (ADN) from Lake fund eventually proved to be too tempting. Some consuls Superior State College, a Bachelor and their employees were suspected of embezzlement Degree in Nursing (BSN) from and fraud, and in a few cases, suspicion led to federal Lake Superior State University, a investigations for graft and corruption. Masters Degree in Healthcare “After Charles Bunker of Massachusetts arrived as Business from Florida Institute U.S. consul to Lahaina (on the island of Maui) in 1850 Technology, and a Project Management Certification (which had recently been elevated to a consulate from an from Boston University. agent), costs at the consulate skyrocketed. By 1852, She was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, officials at the Treasury Department had become Michigan and graduated from Sault High School. Marla suspicious. The costs to care for seamen at Lahaina were and her husband Bryant Kelley Bunker have three grown nearly double per person than those in Honolulu, children. according to Treasury Department auditor S. Pleasonton War Memorial Hospital, Sault Ste. Marie MI 49783 in a March 24, 1852, letter to the State Department. Bette – 8 Nov 2020 “Bunker's predecessor's expenses, stated Pleasonton, D-1319-I BRYANT KELLY11 (1982 BunGen p.362). fell "far short of those of Mr. Bunker, which have 2428 Transcribed and published in The Bunker Family (i.e. BFA Historian Reports 1931 Genealogy), p.10, by C. W. O. Bunker; the Bunker Banner, May 1974, p.4; the Bunker Family History by Will of Roger Bunker, 1515 Henry L. Bunker, 1984, p.48; all books published by the Tingrith, Bedfordshire, England Bunker Family Association. Numeral conversions In the name of god so be ytt the XVth day of the monyth made December 2020, by Bette Bunker Richards. of December in the yere of our lord god MIIIII XVth I Roger Bunker of Tyngryffe in the Countie of bed with As indicated above, Roger’s Will, plus his son William’s hoole minde & good remembrance make my testamentt Will, his grandson Oliver and Oliver’s wife, Johane’s in this man a wuse Furst I bequeth my sowle to all Wills were also published in the Bunker Family History, myghty god my make and my saveour and to our blessyd on pages 48-52. Lady the Vrgeb hys mody & to all the copany in hevyn my body to be buryed in the Church yarde of Sayntt The 1586 Will of Thomas Bunker who married Agnes Nicholas the Byshopp in Tungryffe a fore said. Also I Coleman in 1546 at Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire, biquethe for my Mortuary that att night requirithe Itm. I was also printed. Their will was witnessed by Edward biquethe to the Cathedrall Church of lincoln ijs (2 Buncker who married Joane in 1586. Edward and shillings) Itm I biquethe to the hye Awl in the Church Joane’s Wills are included in Henry’s book. of Tyngryffe a fore seid for Tethys & oblacions nligently wt holedn or forgotten in distichargyng my sowle iiijs (4 Roger Buncker, Buckinghamshire left a Will dated in shillings) Itm to the sepulcur lyght in the same church a li 1609 - John, Thomas and William, Northhamptonshire ("pound" crossed out – Bette) of waxe. Itm ("I biquethe" are found on successive pages. Information about the crossed out - Bette) to the lyght be fore the Rode in the Bunker Family History book is located on page 2423. same Churche a Pownde of waxe. Itm I biquethe to Wyllyam my son a quarter of White a quarter of Rye & Using DNA to Determine Your Ethnicity iiij (1/4th) quarter of barly A matres A pare of Schets A I have some problems with these tests because they bolster A covlett. Itm I biquethe to the same Wyllyam just give you percentages of places from which your my son after the deseace of Agnes my wife my best ancestors may have been. They do not match you with matres my best covlett ij (2) payer of Schets vj (5) pieces anyone else and they cannot be used to keep a record of of pewter my gretaste pott my gretast pan wt all the hole your own particular gene results. Let’s look at what they Cart & Cart gere plowe and plowe gere Itm I biquethe actually do tell us about our ancestors. to the same Willam my son after my decease ij (2) You would think that you inherit 50% of your genes bullocks if ij (2) yeare wenyng Itm I giff and bequethe to from each of your parents. I always thought that was the fore seid Willyam my son my howse that I bowght of true, but with the advent of these kinds of tests, we have Robt hawkyns Sett in Tyngryffe with all his prtence learned that you can inherit genes from your parents in Itm I will that Agnes my wiff shall have the Tennementt all kinds of combinations like 30% from one and 20% that I nowe dwell yn And a notter Tenemett that John from another, etc. There are lots of genes floating Selby Dwellithe yn durying his lyeffe So that she kepe around in there and many, many possible combinations. hir selfe soyll and mary nott And if so hapen that the Now think about that as we go farther back in time. Six seid Agnes my Wiff mary agayne then I will that generations back you might inherit only 1.5% or even Wyllyam my son shall have the howse that she dwellyth less from that particular ancestor. And your sister and yn during hir lyffe kepyng itt with sufficientt repacion brother will inherit different genes from your parents as and to make no waste a pon the grownde durynge the well as all preceding generations as well. You might seid time. Itm I will that yff itt soo hapen that the seid show that you have ancestors from Finland while none Wyllyam my son doo decesse with owte eny Eyers of his of your siblings do. body lawfully begotten then I will that all the fore lands We had ancestors that traveled around like the and tenemets shelbe disposed att disposcion of the seid Vikings and other groups. They mixed with the Agnes my wiff and att the disposicion of the executors residents and now you may find you have Viking of Wyllyam my Son. The Residew of all my goods ancestry from a German ancestor. Hmmmmm! execptt be fore exeptt I gyffe & biquethe to Agnes my It is difficult to distinguish the difference in people wyff that she shall dispose them for the healthe of my from Scandinavian countries and British. It is also sowle and all Christs sowls as she thynkithe best Also I difficult to sort out the Irish from the British, the French ordeyn and make Agnes my wiffe & Willyam my Son from the German and the Italian from Middle Eastern myne executors that this my last will may be fulfilled & European countries. When you have just a small amount done. Thes beyng wittenes Sr Ric padfield Willyam of one region in your results it just may be what they call day John Bolyng Willyam Kyrke wt others. statistical noise and really not be there at all. 2429 It is relatively easy to distinguish European, African, Asian, Ashkenazi Jews and Native Americans. How- recognize the names of the months and sometimes the ever, few Native Americans have been tested so there days as well. 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If it is typewritten, it is a transcript. your female relatives on your mother’s side of the The printing press was invented a long time before family. Taking an autosomal or family finder test will that, but the first letters were difficult to read. It was in give you matches for both sides of your family if your the 1400s that printed material first became available in relatives have tested with the same company. However, Europe and it was written in Gothic letters. This is not you may not be able to compare the results with the easy for us to read today either. However, I have learned results obtained from different companies. that if you work at it and don’t give up, usually within a Bette – 5 Oct 2020 few pages you can readily read it no matter what it is. I (often) use Reading Early American Handwriting by Kip Searching Non-English Records Sperry, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 101 N. Calvert St. Baltimore, MD 21202, to figure out early English Most of us have ancestors who lived in non-English handwritten records. This has handwriting samples from speaking countries. Many older church records are the 1600s that would look the same in England as in written in Latin. What do you do when you need to America. It was first published in 1998, has been research and read records in a language you do not reprinted numerous times and is readily available. know? There is a lot of help out there. Bette – 5 Oct 2020 The first thing you should do is learn the common words used in vital records, such as born, died, buried, married, child, son, daughter, wife, husband, widow, etc. Finding Church Records Most surnames are the same or very similar in all the for Baptists, Methodists & Lutherans records, but some given names can be very different. The Baptists arrived in America in the 1630s. They are The one I come across most often is William which in most prevalent among the English, Scots-Irish, African Latin is Gulielmus or Guglielmus, in French is Americans and Scandinavians. They are also dominant Guillaume and in Italian is Guglielmo. German is easier in the South, Rhode Island and the Mid-Atlantic states. as William is Wilhelm in German. By knowing these They usually do not have baptismal records near birth words, you can skim through records looking for a dates as they believe in baptizing when a person is old familiar name and then look for any other familiar enough to speak for themselves making them usually in words. If all you recognize is a name, you can always their teens or as adults. Some babies are dedicated. copy the entry and go to www.translate.google.com. There was a little newspaper article about me being Paste your words in there and ask for a translation into dedicated as a baby so I imagine it was in a Baptist English. Sometimes it can be a little weird, but most of Church. The churches have records of business the time it will come out pretty close. meetings, treasurer records, a photo directory, Where you go to get a list of common genealogical anniversary books, newsletter, state convention records words in another language. Try www.familysearch.org. and missionary records and the usual baptism, marriage Click on Search, then research WIKI and type in the and death records. They may also have cemetery search box the language you are looking for like this: records, Sunday School records and more. Try finding German genealogy word list. The Family Search wiki them at the church if you know where your ancestors has several different languages. You need to also 2430 attended; the historical society or state archives. Methodists came to America in 1784. They were together; make overviews and all kinds of good stuff. affiliated with Anglican, United Brethren, German Good sites are www.publications.newberry.org/ahcbp Reformed Church and the Methodist Episcopal church. for an Atlas of Historical Boundaries. Digital Sanborn Since 1968, they have become the United Methodist Maps, ProQuest www.proquest.libguides.com/dsm/about Church but there are still many listed with the old is a paid site but many local libraries and historical names. They had infant baptisms, older baptisms and societies have these Sanborn maps. They have confirmations. incredible detail. www.familysearch.org/mapp, Lutherans came to America in 1637. They are www.familysearch.org/research/places and common among Germans, Scandinavians and Dutch. www.familysearch.org/wiki are good places to go. They are excellent record keepers with infant baptism, www.loc.gov/maps has thousands of US maps in the confirmation, membership and migration records, Library of Congress plus 32,000 Sanborn fire insurance cemetery and Holy Communion records. maps. www.oldmapsonline.org is like an index that www.ancestry.com, www.familysearch.org and sends you to individual sites where the maps is located. www.archives.com have numerous records. These are Once you have found the places your family lived the most digitalized or all the churches. you can look in all the counties as the population There is a great You Tube video at expanded. Remember when looking for maps on the https://www.youtube..com/watch?v=DKOJlvFPpvO computer, unless you have a very fast computer they called Library of Congress US Church records with load really slow because of the detailed graphics, but Sunny Jane Morton. Sunny Jane Morton has also they are so worth it. written a book about this subject. If your family did not own land, you might not find Many church records are not digitalized but you can them in many of the usual records either but try The sometimes write a letter to the church secretary asking Poorhouse Story at http://www.poorhousestory.com for for information. Offer to pay any fee or make a donation ideas of the records available. This site is an old inactive for their services. Remember that this is not their first site but Google it to use the “way-back” machine. Look priority so it may take awhile to get the information. I for state poor aid records even though the family may once wrote a church asking if they had a baptism record have been rich at one time. There were depressions in for ancestor, sent a check as a donation with the letter, the 1800s as well as the famous one in 1930. This asked if there was a fee to apply that and let me know includes records from almshouses, poor houses, what it was, sent a stamped self-addressed envelope and infirmaries, county farms, county home, county overseer got back pages of records concerning my family. of the poor and the county commission. Don’t forget that your family may have been Quakers Look in state laws under relief of poor and see who at one time. Check www.swarthmore.edu/friends- was in charge. Google poor or paupers for the state you historical-library/quaker-meeting-records. While are interested in. Many poorhouses registered deaths Ancestry and Family Search have many Quaker records, long before the states did. There are also church for I do not think they have them all yet. My Bunker family communicants, members and officers, court records, went from Quakers to Anglican to United Brethren insolvent debtor’s records, poor school children records. during the 1800s. Many times in pioneer communities Look at www.seniorliving.org for mothers, widows, people just went to whatever church was near, even if old age pensions. Try the tax records. Although your they were not previously affiliated. ancestor may not have owned property, he may have Bette – 15 Oct 2020 been taxed for personal property such as a horse or cow. He may have been sued for debt. Check for a plaintiff’s Breaking Down Brick Walls index; look for an “ad sectam” index for the debtor. Look at criminal records. People were convicted of There are numerous websites for looking up our such interesting crimes like playing cards on Sunday, ancestors with the two most popular probably trespass, serving beer without a license or drinking on www.familysearch.org (free) and www.ancestry.com Sunday, failure to attend Sunday meeting. One of my (paid). What happens when you get stuck and can’t find mother’s ancestors was fined for being drunk on a horse any more on those sites and others? coming back from the races - the first drunk driving Look at historical maps. Perhaps the reason you are conviction in the United States. I also found the maiden not finding anything is because you are looking in the name of one of my ancestors in the footnote of a book on wrong place. Maybe you thought your family was living the history of Philadelphia. in Bucks Co. Pennsylvania but if you look at the Try the Library of Congress www.loc.gov for historical maps you will see the county lines have manuscripts, business records, doctor’s ledgers, diaries, changed frequently as the population grew and the town journals, letters, store ledgers, day books, and fraternal you are looking for may have been at one time in an society records. Try State Archives for the same things; adjacent county. There are great sites with maps and check historical societies and many veterans’ societies. you can look at them for different times, put them 2431 Do not forget Granges and FFA as many rural people II. We have lots of records regarding them. belonged to them and their records may be available. Many states formed armies to fight the local Indians. Try state, local and the university libraries too. During the 1800s, be sure to look for records regarding Bette – 15 Oct 2020 these wars. Did you know that Abraham Lincoln fought in the Black Hawk War? Look for the Indian wars that Our Military Ancestors may have occurred in the states where our pioneer Most of us have ancestors who have served in the Bunkers settled. Also, there were bonus lands given to military. An abundance of records about them can be soldiers after the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. found at https://www.archives.gov. However, there was The states of Ohio and Illinois as well as others had a fire at the national records center in 1973, which numerous settlers who received their land that way. So, burned most of the Army records from 1912 to 1959. look at land grants for those as well. This would include the records from WW I and WW II. Bette – 22 Oct 2020 Some of the records survived and there is an ongoing NOTE: Military ancestor may be listed in the BFA mil db. project to restore all that it is possible to restore. The Navy and Marine records at this time were not affected. Family Ancestors If you cannot find your ancestor’s record there, where While we know where early Bunkers originated, do you go? For WW I, try www.theworldwar.org. It has many of us are still searching for their wives beginning. a lot or records and can send you on to some other sites If you are trying to find where you ancestors lived before as well. You can also try www.hathitrust.org, they came to America, start with family letters and https://books.google.com and https://archive.org. At documents, photographs, obituaries, family Bibles and these sites you can find service records, hospital records, talk to your relatives. Did grandma ever say where her pension records, troop records and much more. Also, try grandparents lived? If your grandparents are still alive, your state archives and state university library. Their talk to them, ask if they know where their families lived. collections are sometimes absolutely amazing. The Look at census records. Many give the birthplaces of YMCA paid a big role in WW I; their records can be the person enumerated and their parents. Look for found www.lib.unm.edu/ymca. church records. Many marriage records give the After WW II, service men and women were urged to birthplace of the participants. Look for death records register their discharge papers at the county offices which also sometimes give the names and birthplaces of where they lived. These records may not be online and the deceased parents. Also, look at the name of the the county clerks have much to do, but you may still be informant and where they lived. That might give you able to find them at the county level. The state archives some clues too. Look for obituaries. Try collected many of the WW II discharge papers and they newspapers.com and genealogybank.com for newspaper may be online. If your ancestor was in the Army Air articles and obituaries. Look at passenger lists, including Force try http://airforcehistoryindex.org. If you know New York and New Orleans. If you know the country, the unit they served in you may be able to find all kinds look at passenger lists and emigration lists from the ports of reports such as mission documents, special orders, of that country. Check for passport applications, award documents and aircraft accident reports from unit naturalization records, probate records, military pensions histories. POWS may be found at www.merkki.com and WWI Enemy Alien Registrations. In WWI all non- which has Stalag Luft 1 records but also links to other naturalized citizens had to register with the U.S. Stalags. POWS of the Japanese can be found at Marshall in their counties of residence. http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html. Look at published family histories and surname You can find state and local Adjutant General files in newsletters related to the surname you are researching. the state archives. There you may find records of those Our Bunker Family database does not have much who served in the War of 1812, Civil War and the many information about the females but occasionally can help Indian wars. Records for National Guard soldiers prior you out. Contact me at [email protected]. to WW I and WW II have been digitized on Check out the Periodical Source Index www.familysearch.org. Look also for records from www.findmypast.com/persi for a guide to genealogical Soldier’s Homes, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), publications. Always look at county and town histories military bonus claims, courts martial, hospital muster where your ancestors may have been early settlers. rolls, provost marshal, and home guard records. Don’t forget to read the footnotes. Sometimes states may have very specialized records. When you find a location look at Gazetteers, I live in Arizona and the USS Arizona was destroyed Wikipedia place name indexes and atlases. in the WW II attack on Pearl Harbor. The Arizona state And always start with www.familysearch.org. It is archives have very detailed records regarding the ship, the best free site you can find for an enormous amount those that perished (1,177) and those that survived (335). of information. Bette – 23 Nov 2020 Arizona is the home of the Navajo Code Talkers of WW 2432 Bean Soup Military Bunkers When I was a little girl, my mother owned a beauty shop in Minneapolis, MN. During WW II there was no New to mil db one available to babysit little kids, so when we were out Donald H. Bunker US Army, Korea (1929-2020) of of school, mom took us with her to the shop. Food was Henderson, NV. Honorable Discharge; Member VFW rationed but beans and ham hocks were available. Mom and American Legion. RN 515420 - Descendant of had a little hot plate at the shop and every day she made Thomas Bunker and Clarissa Chamberlain who we are bean soup, which was shared by we kids and all the unable to connect to Devon or Beds Bunkers. Bette workers. There was a Jewish Kosher delicatessen next Lowell Kent Bunker Lt. Col. D-740; RN 7013; US door and how I loved all that good food. I think I have Army; US Army Reserve; Served 1980-2014 (29-yrs, 2- never met anyone else who ate bean soup with ham mos, 29-days); Vietnam era to Global War on Terror. hocks and matzo balls. (Current Treasurer of Bunker Family Association) When I grew up, I got mom’s recipe and made my bean soup just like she did. My husband, Archie, loved THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD bean soup so we ate it a lot. One day my mother was visiting and she made the soup. Archie said it was the The muffled drums sad roll has beat best he had ever eaten. I told him I used the same recipe, The soldiers’ last tattoo but he said mom’s was better. He came real close to No more on Life’s parade shall meet sleeping on the couch for the next week. That brave and fallen few. We went to South Dakota to visit Archie’s relatives On Fame’s eternal camping ground and he could hardly wait to get the good bean soup his Their silent tents are spread, aunts always made for him as a child. Everywhere we went the families fed us steak. They were celebrating And Glory guards, with solemn round, our visit and feeding us well, but all Archie wanted was The bivouac of the dead. bean soup. Finally, he begged Aunt Maggie to please, -Theodore O’Hara c.1865 please just make him a pot of beans. She did. Ahhhhh, Pub: Bunker Family History p.92 he was home at last. One day our friend, Ernie stopped just as we sat down to eat bean soup for lunch. Now we always put hot Conjoined Twin Eng Bunker sauce in our soup and so did Ernie. He started putting Drafted During Civil War the sauce in his bowl and we warned him it was pretty In 1865, conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker had hot. He assured us that he had the same sauce at his retired from the sideshow life and were running a house and ate it all the time. He kept putting that hot plantation in North Carolina when Eng was suddenly sauce in his bowl while Archie and I just looked at each drafted to serve as a soldier in the Civil War. other wondering if we would need a fire extinguisher to The Thailand natives were living in Traphill, North put out the fire. Then he started eating. He took a bite Carolina as naturalized citizens when the Union army and blinked and added some more soup to the bowl. raided the area and drafted some of the locals to join Another bite and more soup in the bowl. Every bite he their army, despite the fact that some of them, including added a bit more soup and his face started getting red the Bunker brothers, were Confederate supporters. from the neck up. Redder and redder got his face and The raid was a part of Union General George sweat started beading on his forehead. Archie and I Stoneman’s long cavalry raid throughout North were practically choking trying to keep from howling Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia that lasted from March with laughter. Finally, after eating what amounted to till May of 1865. about four bowls of soup, Ernie finished and asked what The Union troops had been ordered to “dismantle the the heck we put in the hot sauce. It seems that the sauce country” but not to engage in battles, with the hopes that had three different heat levels – mild, medium and hot – it would shorten a long war and finally bring it to an end. and Ernie’s family was most likely eating the mild Many historians consider the raid, which coincided variety while ours was HOT! with Sherman’s famous March to the Sea, as one of the I got hungry for bean soup and bought a ham with the longest cavalry raids in history. During Stoneman’s long bone in so I could make some. Then I learned that my campaign, his troops destroyed railways, burned bridges present roommate has never eaten bean soup. WHAT?? and factories, captured Confederate prisons and How could it be that someone in their 80s had never plundered many towns along the way, including Mount eaten bean soup? Impossible, but sadly for her, true. Airy, North Carolina, which neighbored Traphill. That is when I realized how much bean soup has played According to an article on Smithsonian.com, after a role in my life. Want to know what made my mom’s Gen. Stoneman raided the town, he put the names of all bean soup so good? She put carrots in it. Bette–6Dec‘20 2433 local men over 18 years of age into a lottery wheel and selected names at random. Eng’s name was drawn, Chang wasn’t. Since the conjoined twins could In Memory Of not be separated by surgery because their livers were BARBARA CHERI BUNKER fused, there wasn’t much the general could do. 1957 - 2020 According to the book Stoneman’s Raid, 1865, he CHERI BUNKER LEAVES OROVILLE A BETTER PLACE, FRIENDS SAY ordered his troops to leave the men alone and forbade OROVILLE - The last post on her Facebook page was a meme them from plundering the twin’s farm: of the cartoon Tasmanian Devil character that read: “One day Notable as the home of the famous Siamese twins Eng I will start behaving myself … Maybe tomorrow.” and Chang Bunker, Mount Airy added another important That was on July 18. On July 21, former Oroville city chapter to its history on April 2. Federal cavalrymen councilor Barbara Cheri Bunker, “Cheri” to those that knew began arriving after dark and continued to come all her, passed away in her home from “natural causes,” night long. They rode into town along Main Street and according to her lifelong friend Liz Reynolds. soon found, to their chagrin, that cautious residents had “Cheri was always telling a joke or laughing about something. She loved malapropisms and puns. She was quite hidden their horses and their valuables…A few troopers funny,” said Reynolds. “I knew she wasn’t well but didn’t amused themselves by raiding the post office and know she was so bad that she was going to pass away. It was reading the ‘liberated’ letters. Others paid a call on the pretty devastating. I’d just spoken to her.” Siamese Twins…In an attempt to shield the twins, Born in Oakland on April 5, 1957, Bunker, an only child, Stoneman ordered his men to leave the Bunker’s moved with her parents, Frank and Valli Bunker, to the property alone. At least one trooper disobeyed by Oroville area in 1966. The family first lived in Palermo before grabbing a Bunker daughter while the twins and their moving to Feather Falls. She attended Feather Falls School children sat on a porch. The young lady slapped her where her mother “did secretarial work and was also a captor, and the trooper sheepishly released her while his teachers’ aide,” said Reynolds, whose own mother served as comrades laughed at him. school principal. A 1975 Las Plumas High School graduate Bunker was Neither brother ended up fighting in the war although active in the French and art clubs as well as student both of their eldest sons, Christopher Wren Bunker and government. Following high school Bunker attended Butte Stephen Bunker, joined and fought for the Confederacy. College (and) received her degree in Administration of Justice. Both Christopher and Stephen survived the war but Following college Bunker returned to the Bay Area where Christopher was captured and spent nearly a year as a she worked as a dispatcher for the California Highway Patrol, prisoner of war at Camp Chase in Ohio in August, 1864. until her retirement in the early 2000s. Although the twins didn’t fight in the war, it still had Bunker was an endowed member of The Church of Jesus an effect on them when it caused financial difficulties for Christ of Latter-day Saints. Chang and Eng and forced them to return to show Living back in what she considered her “home town,” business in order to support their families. The brothers Bunker became active in numerous civic organizations. She was a member of the Lioness Club, the Native Sons & toured Europe after the Civil War ended and met with Daughters of the Golden West and the Exchange Club. She various doctors in the hopes that they could be separated. was also active in several granges including the Butte County All of the doctors advised against the surgery. While still Pomona Grange, Mt. Springs Grange in Feather Falls and the on tour in Europe, Chang suffered a stroke and was Thermalito Grange. She served terms as president in all three. partially paralyzed. “When she was 18 she was a grange master, the youngest A series of factors caused the twin’s fortune to slowly master ever at the time. She was also an executive council dwindle away throughout the war. One was the weak member for the California State Grange,” said Reynolds. economy caused by the ongoing war, which greatly An active member in the Exchange Club of Oroville Bunker reduced the twin’s income from their farming business. organized the club’s annual Search for Talent program for Another factor was the Emancipation Proclamation of local youth. “She was one of the kindest, biggest hearted people I’ve 1863, which freed all of the Bunker’s 33 slaves. Yet ever met,” said Matthew Murphy, fellow club member. another factor was the Union raid on Wilkes County in “Whenever we were out if she saw someone in military 1865 that destroyed part of their homes. In addition, the uniform she always paid for their meal.” twins also lost money on loans they had made when the In the year prior to her passing Bunker was a regular Confederate currency collapsed. volunteer with Haven Of Hope On Wheels, a mobile shower EXTRACT: How the Civil War Broke Chang and Eng Bunker and laundry service for the homeless. -Rebecca Beatrice Brooks - 25 Jun 2012 & 28 Jul 2018 “We miss her and our clients already miss her too,” said The twins returned home where Chang died less than Kevin Thompson, co-founder. a decade later from a bronchial infection and Eng Bunker volunteered with the mobile unit every Tuesday followed him a few hours later. and Friday assisting Keesha Hills, senior administrator, with SOURCE: http://civilwarsaga.com/conjoined-twin-eng- the intact process and administration paperwork. bunker-drafted-during-the-civil-war/ “If there was only one word I could choose to describe -Rebecca Beatrice Brooks - 27 Mar 2012 & 28 Jul 2018 Cheri it would be compassionate. She was compassionate all 2434 the way around. She had no judgment. She’d say ‘anyone could be on the street.’ She was also witty and while I really She and Eugene sponsored several children in Central miss her I know she’d say ‘don’t cry over me. You have work America and Africa through Unbound. to do so keep going,” said Hills. Dolores was very active in community affairs. She Haven of Hope on Wheels driver, Earl Lewis said Bunker volunteered for many years with FISH (Friends in Service earned herself the nickname “Sergeant” because she was “the Helping) as both a driver and a telephoner. She was a troop type of person to use her authority, in a very friendly way, if leader for the Girl Scouts. She sang in church choirs you were doing something you shouldn’t be. She loved us all throughout her life, and had a beautiful soprano voice. She and believed in what we are doing.” also played the piano and was well known for her memorized While Reynolds has many memories of Bunker what she renditions of the Black Hawk Waltz and Beautiful Ohio. remembers the most was that her friend “had a great work After many years as a wife, mother, and homemaker, ethic and was always a very kind and helpful person. Dolores began attending St. Norbert College and graduated “She didn’t get to finish all the things she wanted to do but magna cum laude in 1980 with a B.A. in English. She joined obviously the Lord thought she did. She always wanted to all six of her children as proud graduates of St. Norbert leave the world, especially our town, a better place. I believe College. She went on to gain accreditation to teach Latin and she did that,” said Reynolds. taught Latin at West De Pere High School for eight years. Enterprise-Record – 29 Aug 2020 She is preceded in death by her parents, Carl and Loretta -Kyra Gottesman | Correspondent Jensen, brother Carl Jensen, and grandson Matthew Bunker, as Can you help the BFA identify Cheri’s ancestry? well as in-laws Dewey and Ellie Bunker, Raymond Slupe, Jerry Brunetti, Cecelia Jensen, and Anthony Vogel. She is CARL MELVIN BUNKER survived by her loving husband, Eugene Bunker, sisters 1936 - 2020 Dorothy Slupe and Carollou Brunetti, brother Tom Jensen, Carl went peacefully with the lord on October 18, 2020. He sisters-in-law Joyce Vogel and Margaret (Peg) Bunker, and is survived by wife Retha Bunker along with two brothers children David (Alice) Bunker, Tom (Sally) Bunker, Sue (Delbert [D-1301] and Tucker [D-130_]), eight children, nine O'Keefe, Greg (LaVon) Bunker, Joe (Carolyn) Bunker, and grandchildren and seven great grandchildren, family and Jane (Joseph Sullivan) Bunker, grandchildren Erin, Jennifer, friends. He was born 26 Aug 1936 on Mackinac Island, MI. Tim, Mike, Kara, Amanda, Angela, Heather, Zachary, Tyler, Graveside Ceremony at Greenwood Cemetery (held) 14 Callie, Catherine, and great-grandchildren Chelsea, Sydney, Nov 2020. Robert Bryant Funeral Home officiating. Brendan, Garrett, Madeleine, Jasper, Silas, Amelia, Emmeline, Orlando Sentinel - 7 to 13 Nov 2020. Henry, Margaret, Skyler, Acelynn and Tillie, as well as many D-1305 CARL MELVIN10 (1982 BunGen p.361) died from nieces and nephews. the pandemic. He was the son of Milton Issac "Tip" Bunker Please go to Cotter Funeral Home, De Pere, for more (1908-1984) and Angeline LaJoice (1912-2000). information. Due to COVID-19 safety protocols, private services and burial were held for family only. A celebration of DOLORES MARIE BUNKER her life will occur later in 2021. Family is grateful to the staff 1925 - 2020 of St. Vincent Hospital and Unity Hospice for their loving care De PERE - Dolores Marie Bunker passed away peacefully in Dolores's last week of life. In lieu of flowers, family will be on October 15, 2020. She was born in Denver, CO, on grateful for donations to the Green Bay Botanical Garden. September 18, 1925, to Carl and Loretta Jensen. She RN 515392 DOLORES MARIE JENSEN married EUGENE graduated from North Denver High School in 1943. She met GLENN BUNKER RN 515380, probable Verbocoeur decent. her future husband, Eugene Bunker, at a USO dance at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Denver. They were married on GENE R. BUNKER June 28, 1947 at St. Dominic's Church in Denver. 1949 - 2020 Dolores and Eugene were blessed with six children. After Gene R. Bunker, 70, a longtime area resident, passed away short periods in Denver, Milwaukee, Neenah, and Kansas on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, at the White River Junction VA City, they settled in De Pere in 1963 where Eugene was a Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. librarian at St. Norbert College. Family lore includes a story of His parents, Clifford A. and Agnes M. (Luksevish) Bunker, how they were able to obtain their cherished Green Bay welcome their son into the world on Nov. 29, 1949, in Keene. Packer season tickets that year, possibly as the direct result of Gene grew up in Gilsuum. an "assist" from Coach Vince Lombardi. Dolores was very Gene enlisted in the Marine Corps, serving from 1968 until proud to be a Packer shareholder. 1973 during the Vietnam War. Dolores was a devout Catholic, and her faith informed He was a resident of Stoddard for many years, later moving every aspect of her life. She belonged to Our Lady of Fatima to Edgewater, FL, where he resided for 11 years before Rosary Making Club and made "hundreds if not thousands" of returning home to be closer to his family prior to his death. rosaries that were sent to people around the world. Dolores Gene was a skilled welder, working for the former liked to tell the family story of how her maternal grandmother Kingsbury Corp. in Keene and East Coast Steel in Greenfield. was converted to Catholicism by Father Joseph Machebeuf, He loved tinkering with things and doing woodworking who was sent to Colorado by Bishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy from projects in his workshop. He also loved to hunt and fish, and New Mexico. These were the priests written about by Willa enjoyed cooking. Gene was a member of the Nat’l Rifle Assn. Cather in her celebrated novel, Death Comes for the Gene is survived by his wife of 11 years, Dawn M. (Perra) Archbishop. In De Pere Dolores was an active member of St. Bunker, of Walpole; his son, Cory Bunker, and his fiancé, Francis Xavier Parish, where she served as a lector and was a Amanda Herne, of Stoddard; a daughter, Charlene Bunker, of longtime member of the Altar Rosary Society. 2345 Georgia; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; a brother, Danny Bunker, and his wife, Sue, of Surry; two Later in life, Walter left the lobster industry and entered the sisters: Aggie Simoneau and her husband, Al, of Francestown; real estate field. With their children now grown, he and his and Cathy Lackey of Gilsum; and several nieces, nephews and wife moved to Ellsworth. He worked as an associate broker extended family members. He was predeceased by four and while sales were not really his passion, he did enjoy the brothers: Clifford “Sonny” Bunker, Frank “Chipper” Bunker, many families he met and helped to settle in Ellsworth. Terry Bunker and Dustin Bunker. Walter began a long career of public service in the 1960s A celebration of his life and burial with military honors in when elected to the State House of Representatives, where he the Centennial Cemetery, Gilsum, will be held at a date and served six terms. While in the Legislature, he served on the time to be announced. Marine Resources Committee and was House Chair for two The family is grateful for the wonderful care provided to terms. After his tenure in the legislature, he was elected to the Gene by the doctors and nurses in the ICU at the VA Medical Hancock County Commission where he served for five terms, Center. Donations in Gene’s memory may be made to the several of those years as chair. White River Junction VA Medical Center ICU Dept., 215 Walter served on the Board of Trustees at Maine Coast North Main St., White River Junction VT 05009. Memorial Hospital for 18 years and was an honorary member The Foley Funeral Home of Keene is assisted the family of the Board of Trustees. He was a member and past Chair of with the arrangements. To offer online condolences or share Eastern Maine Development Corporation. After his retirement special memories, please visit www.foleyfuneralhome.com. from the County Commission, Walter continued to work for D-1062N GENE RAYMOND10 (1982 BunGen p.342). the county as the Supervisor of the Unorganized Territories. He retired at the age of 84. THOMAS HARRY BUNKER Following the loss of his wife in 2013, Walter moved to the 1928 - 2020 Leonard Lake Senior Apartments. It was there he made many Thomas H. Bunker, known as Tommy by family; and Tom new friends and enjoyed daily chats with his neighbors. by friends; passed away in Durant, Oklahoma on Sunday, Pup, as his grandchildren affectionately called him, loved November 29, 2020 at Kings Daughters and Sons Nursing his family. He was the happiest when everyone gathered at his Home. Tom was born December 6, 1928 in Moffat, Colorado house for family birthday parties or other celebrations. He was to Harry and Ruth Jackson Bunker, who preceded him in an amateur magician and performed magic tricks for his death. He was also preceded in death by his wife Jeannie grandchildren and anyone else who was willing to be amazed. Sommerfeld Hanssen, and a step daughter Kathy Nelson. He delighted in having his camp at Abrams Pond as a He is survived by daughters: Rosanne Raichl, Chandler gathering place for his family in the summer. AZ, Mary Kirkland, Clarkdale, AZ, and Karen Phillips, While he loved a good party, he also loved solitude and Pueblo, CO. Step daughters: Francine (Mark) Agin, thinking. He could often be found reading his Bunker Broomfield, CO; Denita Tutwiler, Tampa, FL; Chris (Stan) genealogy books, mulling over early US History, or Swan, Durant, OK; and Jackie Hanssen, Penrose, CO; and one processing memories from WWII. Walter was an avid sister, Lois Vanderpool, Pueblo; many grandchildren and great vegetable gardener and generously shared his produce with grandchildren, one niece, a nephew and many cousins. family and neighbors. His sense of humor was his trademark. Tom was an Air Force Korean Veteran. Even in the darkest of circumstances, he could find a way to He attended school in Moffat, Co then Western State weave in some levity. College in Gunnison, Co. He then became a Hay Contractor, His surviving family members include his daughters, Pam also working for Public Service of Colorado, and the Colorado LaHaye of Morrill and Kim Bunker-Hodgkins and her and Wyoming Railroad before retiring in Durant. husband, Mike, of Trenton; grandchildren Matthew LaHaye Brown’s Funeral Home handled the cremation. Tom will and his wife Jennifer of Southwest Harbor, Kathryn Deetjen be laid to rest in the family plot at the Rio Alto Cemetery in and her husband, Bobby of Morrill, and Molly Hodgkins and the San Luis Valley in Colorado later next summer. her partner, Ismael Thadal of China; great-grandchildren D-1043 THOMAS HARRY9 (RN 8409; 1982 BunGen p.335) Carmen LaHaye, Noah Deetjen, Hannah Deetjen, and Winston Lois Bunker Vanderpool – 4 Dec 2020 LaHaye. He is also survived by one sister, Dorothy Dubowick of Scarborough, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law, Joan, and WALTER LEWIS BUNKER Jerry West of Virginia, sister-in-law, Jane Willey of Georgia, 1927-2020 and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. ELLSWORTH - Walter L. Bunker, 93, beloved father and Walter was preceded in death by his wife, Karen; three grandfather, passed away peacefully on October 23, 2020, siblings, Paul Bunker, Irene Pilch, and Mary Millett; his son- with his daughters by his side. in-law Richard LaHaye, Jr.; and one grandchild, Sophie Walter was born in South Gouldsboro on March 20, 1927, Hodgkins. the son of Fritz and Thelma Potter Bunker. He graduated from Due to the pandemic, there will be no service at this time. Winter Harbor High School. At the age of 17, he enlisted in The family is planning a service in the Spring at Bunker the US Navy and proudly served in the Pacific Theater during Memorial Cemetery in South Gouldsboro. World War II. The family would like to thank the ICU Nurses at Northern Walter was a lobster fisherman and later owned his own Light Maine Coast Hospital for their compassionate and lobster pound and dealership. He married Karen Willey in responsive care. 1952 and they raised their daughters in West Gouldsboro. D-1090 WALTER LEWIS10 (RN 8843; 1982 BunGen p.348) Folks in the area would remember him as someone who was always willing to help someone in need - to lend a hand, a vehicle, or some financial assistance. 2436