Zenas FUNK, son of Hugh and E. K. (CORNELL) FUNK, was born in Plain Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, in the year 1842. His grandfather, Jacob FUNK, was a native of Virginia, and an early settler of Wayne County, moving here in 1813, and locating in Clinton Township. He was married three times, and had a family of twenty children. His first wife was a sister of Mrs. John B. BROWN, and to them were born fourteen children, four of whom died in childhood. Three daughters died after reaching womanhood, and one, Tabitha, is the wife of ex-Sheriff J. J. WINBIGLER, of Ashland County, Ohio. Three sons, Hugh, America and Silas, who were residents of Wayne County, are deceased, and three, Stephen, John and Jacob, are living in Fulton County, Ohio. One son, Bruce, and five daughters, Charlotte, Ann, Rilla, Mary, and one deceased, were born to his last marriage. Of these children, America was married three times, first to Mary Ann COWAN, then to Fanny KAUFFMAN, and last to Hannah BAUMGARDNER; Silas was twice married, his first wife being Elizabeth WELLS, and his second Matilda SHAFER; Stephen married Hannah JEWELL; John, Anjanette LOTERDALE; Jacob, Rachel WELLS; Bruce, Hester SHREVE; Charlotte is the wife of Mr. ROSS; Ann is the wife of Franklin WINBIGLER; Rilla married A. A. CARR, and Mary married George SINKERSON.

Hugh Funk was born in Virginia in 1802, and came to Wayne County with his parents, where, in 1827, he married E. K., daughter of Isaac CORNELL, who came from Pennsylvania to Wayne County in 1813. They first settled in Clinton Township, and in 1834 moved to Plain Township, where Mr. FUNK died in 1879, and Mrs. FUNK still lives, aged eighty years. They had a family of seven children: Corpus C., in Ashland County, Ohio, married to Mary J. FOLTZ; Isaac, who was a member of Company D, 120th Ohio Infantry, and died while in the army; Mason, who died aged fourteen years; Lois, wife of A. G. BEALL, of Mount Ayr, Iowa; Eunice, deceased wife of Louis BAIRD, of Porter County, Ind.; Laban, married to Eliza BEAR, and is a farmer of Porter County, Ind., and Zenas, whose name heads this sketch.

Zenas FUNK was married, in 1868, to E. C., daughter of William R. TYLER, and they have had five children - Bert A., W. Deloss, Lois B., Isaac (deceased) and Zenas Paul. After his marriage Mr. FUNK located on the farm he still owns, where he has been a successful farmer and stock-raiser. During the War of the Rebellion he was a member of Company C, 16th Ohio Infantry, and was wounded at Vicksburg, from the effects of which he has never fully recovered. He is identified with the Republican party, and has served his township in various official positions. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church.

SOURCE:
Commemorative Bigoraphical Record of Wayne County, Ohio Pp. 397-98. J. H. BEERS & Co. Chicago. 1889.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, July of 2009