R. E. Bunt, died 1887

BUNT

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Date: 8/1/2006 at 07:01:48

At the residence of his son, S. D. Bunt, in Denmark township, Sept. 11, 1887, R. E. Bunt, aged-----years. [74 and nearly 8 months] Mr. Bunt was a native of central New York, removing to Allamakee county in this state early in the fifties--thence to Winneshiek county; finally taking up his residence in this county in 1868, just after the Indian outbreak, purchasing the farm now occupied by Mayor Barnhart. A pioneer at a time when the term implied more than it possibly can at present, he for many years was in the active work of helping subdue the wilderness; opening the farm on section four in Center township at a time when people were a trifle skeptical as to the possibility of living on the prairie so far from timber. Finally when increasing years and loss of health compelled him to cease from the more active pursuits, he was ever hopeful of this portion of the State, and always was personally interested in all that pertained to its material interests. He was possessed of sturdy opinions and strong convictions which he was frank to express and no man ever be in doubt as to his position. A good citizen--an honest man whose word was as good as his bond, he will be missed by many friends outside his family circle, and by none more than the writer who since boyhood for more than thirty years has been acquainted with him.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: The Northern Vindicator, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, September 16, 1887.