Norman Township

Norman Township

HENDERSON BUNCH, farmer, P. O. Morris. The subject of this sketch is a native of Tennessee, born July 27, 1825. He is the second of a family of four children of David and Nancy Bunch. David Bunch was a native of Tennessee, and his mother, Nancj" (Hart) Bunch, was a native of Virginia. When subject was quite young his parents removed to Kentuck}-, where they lived but few j ears, and came to Illinois, and settled in what is now Grundy County-, Norman Township, about 1834. Subject remembers vividly- the Indians that were camped within one mile of his father's house for two years, 500 in number. They often traUicked with them, exchanging pork for honey, etc. David Bunch located on Section 27, of Norman Township, where he lived until his death, which occurred June 29, 1873, in his seventj"-eighth 3'ear. His mother died in August, 1875, in her sixty-eighth year. The first school attended by H. Bunch was conducted in a log house, built where Jonas Newport settled, built bj- an Englishman named Ford; the first house erected in Vienna Township. The school was composed of the children of David Bunch and Jonah Newport. Subject remembers when there was but one house where Ottawa now stands. Mr. Bunch was married, March 30, 1850, to Miss Mary A. Doty, daughter of John and Sarah (Williams) Dot}-, who were among the pioneers of Grund}' County. John Doty died February 19, 1872, in his seventy-ninth year, and her mother October 24, 1874, in her sevent3--second j'ear. They have a family of seven children living, havii^ buried two. Martha J. Bunch, born June 10, 1852, married to Lemuel Quincy January 12, 1869; Cornelia M. Bunch, born October 25, 1854, married to Reuben Hollenbeck March 6, 1872;

William H. Bunch, born December 1, 1856, married to Miss Ellen Boyette, October 18, 1878; Esther A. Bunch, born December 27, 1858, married to David Humphre}', July 7, 1882; Perry E. Bunch, born February 28, 18C0, died M.arch 17, 1863; Ida I. Bunch, M.ay 9, 1863, died March 4, l>i64; Frances L. Bunch, born April 24, 1865; Marinda I. Bunch, born June 21, 1808; Sherman W., born October 24, 1870- PERRY GOSS, farmer, P. 0. Morris. The subject of these lines, P. Goss, is a native of Portage County, Ohio, born August 7, 1823, son of Beder and Phj^delia (Cross) Goss. Subject's father was boru in Connecticut Februarv 28, 1796, and moved to Ohio in 1804; died in Ohio May 3, 1879; his mother, a native of Vermont, was born September 30, 1800; she is still living in Wisconsin. Subject came to Indiana from Ohio in 1847; was married, in Montgomery County, Ind., March 7, 1850, to Miss Mary Frances Spillman, daughter of William and Dorcas J. Spillman, Kontuckj-. She was boru in Kentucky April 18, 1827; her parents died in Crawford ville, Ind., father March 20, 1876, mother March 8, 1879. Mr. Goss and family came to Grundy County September, 1854, and settled in Norman Township. Their familj- consists of nine children, seven sons and two daughters. Their names are Albert B. Goss, born in Indiana April 12, 1851, married to Ellen A. Kimball August 10, 1882; William E. Goss, born in Indiana .January 10, 1854; Charles B. Goss, born in Grundy Count}-, October 14, 1856; Mary Frances Goss, born January 22, 1858; George P. Goss, born July 31, 1860; John F. Goss, born April 9, 1863; Edwin Lincoln, born Ma}- 7, 1865; Eva Jane Goss, December 14, 1866; Julius Goss, born December 19, 1870. Mr. Goss now owns a farm of 21 3 acres, 200 of improved farm land in Section 27, of Norman Townsliip, value $60 per acre; valuable improvements eight and a half miles southwest from Morris. Mr. and Mrs. Goss are members of the M. E. Church (Zion), of Norman Township. Mrs. Goss' father, William Spillman, was born in Kentucky December 15, 1803; mother, Dorcas (Garrison) Spillman was born in Kentucky September 22, 1802.

JUSTUS HOLLENBECK, farmer, P. 0 Seneca. The subject of these lines, Justus Hollenbeck, is a native of Greene County, N. Y , born January G, 1821; was raised and educated in his native county. When at the age of twenty-two. he went to East Troy, Wis., having married, August 31, 1843, to Miss Rebecca Bennet, daughter of William and Hannah Bennet. She was born in Schoharie County, N. Y., August 25, 1816. Soon after marrying the}' went to Wisconsin, where thev lived nine years, and came to Illinois in 1852, settling in Grundy County, Vienna Township; now lives in Section 33 of Norman Township, where he owns a farm of 160 acres, all in Section 33, valued at $40 per acre; his residence is nine miles southwest from Morris, and five miles southeastfrom Seneca; Hog Run divides his farm from nortli to south. They have a famil}- of seven children - Emma E. Hollenbeck was born in East Troy, Wis., March 25, 1844; was married to Alphonso Diebold, of Seneca; Louisa Hollenbeck was born November 9, 1845; was married to John Barker, of Seneca; George Hollenbeck was born February 28, 1847, and died December 13, 1865; Isabelle Hollenbeck was born February 17, 1849, and died by drowning in a well April 22, 1855; Julius F., and Julia A. Hollenbeck, born June 11, 1852; Julia A. is married to Spencer Cox, of Seneca; Julius F. is married to Frances Kelsoe; Adeline Hollenbeck was born September 5, 1855; was married to John Nott, of East Troy, Wis. Our subject is a son of John and Elizabeth Hollenbeck, of Greene County, N. Y.; his mother, Elizabeth (Bennett) Hollenbeck, died at their home in Wisconsin March 7, 1852, in her fifty-third year ; his father is still living in Wisconsin, in his eighty-eighth year. Mrs. Hollenbeck's parents died in Greene County, N. Y.

Q. H. HULL, farmer, P. 0. Wauponsee. The subject of this sketch is a native of Rensselaer County, York State, born February 25, 1827; he is the third of a family of five, Samuel and Hannah (Green) Hull. The father was a native of New York, born April 29, 1795, and died at his home in Rensselaer County, N. Y., September 12, 1882. His mother, Hannah Green, was born in New York February 28, 1803, and died in New York March, 1874. Subject was married in New York August 17, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth A. Shaw, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Shaw, of New York. She was born in Rensselaer County October 24, 1831. They came to Illinois in March, 1854, and settled in Grund}' County, 1856, where they now live; he owns a farm of 400 acres of improved tarm land, 240 acres in Section 35, of Norman Township, eighty acres in Section 33, of Norman Township, and eighty acres in Section 12 of Vienna Township; splendid residence and improvements on Section 35, nine miles southwest from Morris; value of farm land $50 per acre; engaged in mixed husbandry and stock-raising. They have a family of three - Doer C. Hull, born in York State December 9, 1851, married to Miss Lizzie D. Wilson, December 24, 1873 ; Earl J. Hull, born in Illinois July 26, 1856, married to Miss Ettie Brown January 25, 1882; Cora E. Hull, born May 11, 1867. Mrs. Hull's parents, Samuel Shaw and Elizabeth Wilkej-, were married February 9, 1808; she is the youngest of a family of six children. Her father was born March 25, 1780, and died January 7, 1864; her mother, Elizabeth Wilkey, was born December 16, 1787; and died September 14, 1845.

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WILLIAM JOflNSON, farmer, P. 0. Morris. The subject of this slfetch is a native of Knox County, Ky., born April 1, 1827. Subject is the third of a family of seven children of John and Charlotte Johnson; parents were both natives of Ashe County, N. C. When subject was but two years old, his parents removed to Indiana, where they lived one and a half years, coming to Illinois in 1831, and settled in Iroquois County. Here subject was raised until nineteen years old, when he, with his mother, came to Grundy Count}- in 1845, his fiither having died in Iroquois County April 7, 1842. He has lived in Grund}- County ever since; first settled in Hog Run, near the settlement of David Bunch. Subject now lives in Norman Township, where he now owns a farm of 160 acres of land, eighty acres in Section 13 of Norman, and eighty acres in Section 18, of Waupousee Township; residence four and a half miles southwest from Jlorris. Subject was married in Gruud}^ County December 14, 1850, to Miss Harriet Dean, daughter of John and Maria Dean; she is a native of England, born September 20, 1833. They have a family of five children, all born in Grundy- County - John W. Johnson, born August 9, 1852, marrie<l to Miss Lydia B. Dix, of Nettle Creek Township; Maria Johnson, born October 10, 1854, married to Malbone W. Bennett; Scott Johnson, born June 4, 1857, married to Miss Emma Helman; Elrac Johnson, born April 20, 1861; Willie Johnson, born November 17, 1867; politics. Republican, and one of the organizers of Republicanism in Wauponsee Township. His mother, Charlotte (Hart) Johnson removed to Minnesota in 1854 with two sons and two daughters, where she died September 8, 1878. Mrs. Johnson's parents were formerly of England, and residents of Grundy County for over twentj- years, and now living in Macon County, Mo.

of Worcester Count}-, Mass., born March 5. 1817; son of William and Lydia (Lincoln) Pierce; raised and educated in Franklin County, Mass., tovvn of Wendell. Here his parents died; his father in the fall of 1827; his mother was cousin to Gov. Lincoln, of Massachusetts. She died in Wendell in 1873, in her eighty-ninth year. In early life subject le'arned the trade of tanner and currier, which trade he followed in his native State for twentj'-three j-ears; was burned out in 1850, and moved to Illinois in 1855 (January), and settled in Norman Township of Grundy Count}', having married in Massachusetts, November 24, 1841, to Miss Clarinda Browning, of Massachusetts, born in Worcester County (Rutland), May, 1817; died in Massachusetts November, 1847. By this union he has two children - Edwin L. Pierce, born in Massachusetts November 19, 1842, living in Missouri; Clarinda G. Pierce, born in Massachusetts October 4, 1844, married to Thomas Drackley, of La Salle County. Subject was married to his present wife May 20, 1848, to Miss Charlotte Clapp, daughter of Oliver and Adelia Clapp, born in Massachusetts, March 4, 1830. They have a family of six children as the result of second marriage- Mary E. Pierce, born May 4, 1849, married to Fred M. Green March 17, 1872, now a resident of Green County, Kan.; Hetta Ella, born June 22, 1850, died June 27, 1865; George A.Pierce, born May 10, 1852, married to Mary B. Slosson January 1, 1880; Walter M. Pierce, born May 30, 1861, educated at Morris and Ann Arbor, and teaching in Kansas; Charles M. Pierce, born October 11, 1866; Minnie B., bora October 3, 1868. Subject owns a farm of 160 acres in Section 27 of Norman Township; resides eight miles southwest from Morris; engaged in mixed husbandry. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.