John GUNDEN

GUNDEN, SWARTZENDRUBER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/25/2010 at 18:32:33

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Name: John Gunden
Birth: Feb. 1, 1854 in Butler County, Ohio
Death: May 24, 1931 at home in Pigeon - 77 years
Marriage: March 16, 1879 to Mary Swartzendruber in Johnson County, Iowa

Cemetery:

Newspaper: May 29, 1931

Survivors: Total of 14 children - 5 sons and 9 daughters, 2 brothers

Children: 4 sons - Chris (Ind.), Joseph (Ohio), William (Ohio), John (Pigeon); 8 daughters - Emma (Iowa), Katie, Lizzie, Lydia, Agnes, Fannie, Mary, Laura (all Pigeon)

Siblings: 2 brothers - Jacob (Iowa), Joseph (Pigeon)

Comments: He came to Pigeon, Michigan in 1904 and settled on a farm 3 miles south of Pigeon. In 1921 he moved to Pigeon. One son and 1 daughter preceded him in death.

[former resident of Wright County, Iowa -early 1900's]