Reverend Taylor's Notes: Hancock County, TN, Misc. Records:
Benjamin (Ben) Bunch b.ca 1760-70, Several families named Bunch lived in Hawkins County (Hancock was cut from Hawkins) but we don't know for sure if they were related closesly or not. Likely they were, to cause Ben to move there from NC and marry a small woman named Mary Dotson, b. ca 1768-70. She lived to be 110 dying seemingly of old age, after Ben died, she lived with her daughter Polly (Bunch) Pridemore, back of Boyd's Gap on Newman's Ridge, toward Kyle's Ford. They moved to Tennessee when Frankie was a young woman. Aunt Cynthia Collins (grandmother of Grace, Lillian, etc.) remembers making shirts for grandfather Ben and taking food to grandmother Mary after his death. Old Rev. Greenbrier Wallen preached grandmothers Mary's funeral 1869-70, sitting down to preach, from the text: "But Mary hath chosen the better part, which shall not be taken away from her". Luke 10:22. These people were pure white blood, it seems, and the older members of the Bunch families were fair skinned, until they mixed with the part Indian population of the Mountains of TN.
Children of Ben and Mary:
1. Lambert b. 1780-1790 ? stayed in NC.
2. William or Bill b. 1783-1793, stayed in NC.
3. John b. 1785-95, stayed in NC.
4. George b. 1787-9?, stayed in NC.
5. CELIA b. 1795-1815 m. Henry Fletcher of Fox Branch.
6. Hannah b. 1795-1815 m. Jesse Goodman and lived in Blackwater.
7. Rachel b. 1795-1815 m. Bill Goodman, brother to Jesse (Hannah's man) lived on Newman's Ridge.
8. Polly b. 1795-1820 (called Aunt Polly Pridemore) m. Washington "Wash" Pridemore. Lived on Newman's Ridge, big family. (My g-g-g-grandparents).
9. Frankie Bunch b. 1795-1820 m. Symen or Simeon Collins.
10. Sallie b. ? m. Jesse Bunch and moved to Indiana.
HENRY FLETCHER: b. ca 1800 m. to CELIA (BUNCH) #5 above-children of Henry and Celia:
1. Dan b. ca 1830-40
2. John Jesse b. ca 1830-40 married in Kentucky.
3. Ben b. 1840-45 d. about 1924 married his first cousin, Harriet Pridemore (who was born 9/27/1859) married in Feb. 1877 or 1878. Had nine children. Ben Fletcher- when he was about 80 years old was raided by sheriff Fote Johnson and old Wallace Mullins as he was calling his hogs to slop. The younger men present ran, but poor old Ben couldn't escape but was taden with his still and worm. He plead for the still not to be taken or destroyed, for it was his fathers old still and he didn't want it taken. He was taken to Sneedville to his trial, and old man, around 1924. Remember these people seemed to think perfectly proper to make moonshine. We must not judge them by our more recent standards of morals.
Benjamin (Ben) Bunch b.ca 1760-70, Several families named Bunch lived in Hawkins County (Hancock was cut from Hawkins) but we don't know for sure if they were related closesly or not. Likely they were, to cause Ben to move there from NC and marry a small woman named Mary Dotson, b. ca 1768-70. She lived to be 110 dying seemingly of old age, after Ben died, she lived with her daughter Polly (Bunch) Pridemore, back of Boyd's Gap on Newman's Ridge, toward Kyle's Ford. They moved to Tennessee when Frankie was a young woman. Aunt Cynthia Collins (grandmother of Grace, Lillian, etc.) remembers making shirts for grandfather Ben and taking food to grandmother Mary after his death. Old Rev. Greenbrier Wallen preached grandmothers Mary's funeral 1869-70, sitting down to preach, from the text: "But Mary hath chosen the better part, which shall not be taken away from her". Luke 10:22. These people were pure white blood, it seems, and the older members of the Bunch families were fair skinned, until they mixed with the part Indian population of the Mountains of TN.
Children of Ben and Mary:
1. Lambert b. 1780-1790 ? stayed in NC.
2. William or Bill b. 1783-1793, stayed in NC.
3. John b. 1785-95, stayed in NC.
4. George b. 1787-9?, stayed in NC.
5. CELIA b. 1795-1815 m. Henry Fletcher of Fox Branch.
6. Hannah b. 1795-1815 m. Jesse Goodman and lived in Blackwater.
7. Rachel b. 1795-1815 m. Bill Goodman, brother to Jesse (Hannah's man) lived on Newman's Ridge.
8. Polly b. 1795-1820 (called Aunt Polly Pridemore) m. Washington "Wash" Pridemore. Lived on Newman's Ridge, big family. (My g-g-g-grandparents).
9. Frankie Bunch b. 1795-1820 m. Symen or Simeon Collins.
10. Sallie b. ? m. Jesse Bunch and moved to Indiana.
HENRY FLETCHER: b. ca 1800 m. to CELIA (BUNCH) #5 above-children of Henry and Celia:
1. Dan b. ca 1830-40
2. John Jesse b. ca 1830-40 married in Kentucky.
3. Ben b. 1840-45 d. about 1924 married his first cousin, Harriet Pridemore (who was born 9/27/1859) married in Feb. 1877 or 1878. Had nine children. Ben Fletcher- when he was about 80 years old was raided by sheriff Fote Johnson and old Wallace Mullins as he was calling his hogs to slop. The younger men present ran, but poor old Ben couldn't escape but was taden with his still and worm. He plead for the still not to be taken or destroyed, for it was his fathers old still and he didn't want it taken. He was taken to Sneedville to his trial, and old man, around 1924. Remember these people seemed to think perfectly proper to make moonshine. We must not judge them by our more recent standards of morals.
NOTE: W.A. Plecker, acting as Virginia’s first
Registrar of Vital Statistics, was determined to "mark" all Melungeons as
not-white. Here is a Tennessee librarian’s response of one of many letters that
he wrote to neighboring states seeking information on Melungeon origins; the
date shows that even during World War II, Plecker did not ease up in his
efforts. An excellent discussion of Plecker’s dubious "legacy" can be found in
Pocahontas’
People by Helen Roundtree.
August 12, 1942
Mr. W. A. Plecker
State Registrar
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Richmond, Virginia
My dear Sir:
The Secretary of State has sent your letter to my desk for reply. You have asked us a hard question. The origin of the Melungeons has been a disputed question in Tennessee ever since we can remember. Hancock County was established by an Act of the General Assembly passed January 7th, 1844 and was formed from parts of Claiborne and Hawkins counties.
Newman’s Ridge, which runs through Hancock county north of Sneedville, is parallel with Clinch River and just south of Powell Mountain. The only map on which we find it located is edited by H. C. Amick and S. J. Folmsbee of the University of Tennessee in 1941 published by Denoyer-Geppert Co., 5235 Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, listed as [TN 7S]* TENNESSEE. On this map is shown Newman’s Ridge as I have sketched it on this little scrap of paper, inclosed. But we do not have the early surveys showing which county it was originally in. It appears that it may have been in Claiborne according to the Morris Gazetteer of Tennessee 1834 which includes this statement: "Newman’s Ridge, one of the spurs of Cumberland Mountain, in East Tennessee, lying in the north east angle of Claiborne County, west of Clinch River, and east of Powell’s Mountain. It took its name from a Mr. Newman who discovered it in 1761."
Early historians of East Tennessee who lived in that section and knew the older members of this race refer to Newman’s Ridge as "quite a high mountain, extending through the entire length of Hancock County, and into Claiborne County on the west. It is between Powell Mountain on the north and Clinch River on the south." Capt. L. M. Jarvis, an old citizen of Sneedville wrote in his 82nd year: "I have lived here at the base of Newman’s Ridge, Blackwater, being on the opposite side, for the last 71 years and well know the history of these people on Newman’s Ridge and Blackwater enquired about as Melungeons. These people were friendly to the Cherokees who came west with the white imigration from New River and Cumberland, Virginia, about the year 1790...The name Melungeon was given them on account of their color. I have seen the oldest and first settlers of this tribe who first occupied Newman’s Ridge and Blackwater and I have owned much of the lands on which they settled.. They obtained their land grants from North Carolina. I personally knew Vardy Collins, Solomon D. Collins, Shepard Gibson, Paul Bunch and Benjamin Bunch and many of the Goodmans, Moores, Williams and Sullivans, all of the very first settlers and noted men of these friendly Indians. They took their names from white people of that name with whom they came here. They were reliable, truthful and faithful to anything they promised. In the Civil War most of the Melungeons went into the Union army and made good soldiers. Their Indian blood has about run out. They are growing white... They have been misrepresented by many writers. In former writings I have given their stations and stops on their way as they emigrated to this country with white people, one of which places was at the mouth of Stony Creek on Clinch river in Scott County, Virginia, where they built a fort and called it Ft. Blackamore after Col. Blackamore who was with them... When Daniel Boone was here hunting 1763-1767, these Melungeons were not here."
The late Judge Lewis Shepherd, prominent jurist of Chattanooga, went further in his statements in his "Personal Memoirs", and contended that this mysterious racial group descended from the Phoenicians of Ancient Carthage. This was his judgment after investigations he made in trying a case featuring the complaint that they were of mixed negro blood, which attempt failed, and which brought out the facts that many of their ancestors had settled early in South Carolina when they migrated from Portugal to America about the time of the Revolutionary war, and later moved into Tennessee. At the time of this trial covered by Judge Shepherd "charges that Negro blood contaminated the Melungeons and barred their intermarriage with Caucasians created much indignation among families of Phoenician descent in this section." But I imagine if the United States Census listed them as mulattoes their listing will remain. But it is a terrible claim to place on people if they do not have negro blood. I often have wondered just how deeply the census takers went into an intelligent study of it at that early period.
I have gone into some detail in this reply to explain the mooted question and why it is not possible for me to give you a definite answer. I hope this may assist you to some extent.
Sincerely,
Mrs. John Trotwood Moore
State Librarian and Archivist
1830 Hawkins County, Tennessee census information on BUNCH:
Benjamin Bunch
Jesse Bunch (stepson of Rachel, son-in-law of Benjamin))
Lambert Bunch (Son of Benjamin, brother to Sallie)
Rachel Bunch (widow of Joseph Bunch, sister to Benjamin and Paul Bunch)
Paul Bunch (brother to Rachel and Benjamin Bunch)
Green Bunch
Christopher Bunch
1840 Hawkins County, Tennessee census information on BUNCH:
John A. Bunch
Benjamin Bunch
Lively Bunch (daughter of Rachel)
Rachel Bunch (widow of Joseph Bunch)
Samuel Bunch (stepson of Rachel)
1830 Greene County, Indiana census information on Free Colored Persons:
723 182 Julius Bunch - 1 male 0-10 years old - 1 male 55-100 years old (Julius Bunch)
724 182 Samuel Nolen - 4 males 0-10 years old - 9 males 10-24 years old - 9 males 24-36 years old - 1 male 36-55 years old - 1 female 24-36 years old
725 182 John Mitchell - 1 male 0-10 years old - 1 male 10-24 years old - 1 male 55-100 years old - 4 females 10-24 years old - 1 female 55-100 years old
726 182 York Jones - 1 male 0-10 years old - 1 male 55-100 years old (York Jones) - 2 females 10-24 years old
727 182 Israel Bunch - 1 male 10-24 years old (Israel Bunch) - 1 female 0-10 years old - 1 female 10-24 years old
728 182 Clayborn Bunch - 2 males 2-10 years old - 4 males 10-24 years old - 1 male 55-100 years old (Clayborn Bunch) - 1 female 10-24 years old - 1 female 24-36 years old - 1 female 55-100 years old
729 182 Shadrach Moore - 2 males 0-10 years old - 1 male 10-24 years old - 1 male 36-55 years old (Shadrack Moore) - 2 females 0-10 years old - 1 female 36-55 years old (Priscilla Bunch Moore - Shadrack Moore & Priscilla Bunch were married in Cumberland County, Kentucky July 18, 1816. Priscilla's family had moved to Cumberland County, Kentucky several years prior to 1815. 1815 was probably when Shadrack Moore's
family moved there. Priscilla is probably the daughter of Israel or Julius Bunch and a grandaughter of Micajah Bunch)
730 182 James Bunch - 1 male 24-36 years old (James Bunch)
1830 Hawkins County, Tennessee census information for Bunch:
(all listed as white)
page 76
Benjamin Bunch
1 male 60-70 (Benjamin Bunch born 1770 in North Carolina, brother to Rachel Bunch & Paul Bunch)
1 female 10-15
2 females 15-20
1 female 50-60 (Mary Bunch, born about 1774 in Pittsylvania, Virginia, died in 1881 about 110 yrs. old)
(Paul Bunch & Mary "Polly" Dotson married 1789 in North Carolina)
Jesse Bunch
1 male under 5 (Jesse Bunch Jr.)
1 male 10-15 ( Joseph Bunch ? born May 21, 1812, died May 11, 1859, buried Bald Hill Cemetery, Greene County, Indiana)
1 male 30-40 (Jesse Bunch)
1 female under 5 (Eleanor "Ellen" Bunch)
2 female 5-10 (Sheba Bunch & Cynthia Bunch)
1 female 20-30 (Sarah "Sally" Bunch daughter of Benjamin Bunch)
Lambert Bunch
2 males under 5
1 male 5-10
1 male 30-40 (Lambert Bunch born 1790, son of Benjamin & Mary "Polly" Dotson, brother of Sarah "Sally" Bunch)
1 female under 5
1 female 5-10
1 female 10-15
1 female 30-40
page 77
Rachel Bunch
1 male 5-10
1 male 10-15
1 female 20-30
1 female 50-60 (Rachel Bunch, sister to Benjamin Bunch & Paul Bunch)
Paul Bunch
1 male under 5
3 males 10-15
1 male 20-30 (Micajah Bunch)
1 male 40-50 (Paul Bunch, brother to Benjamin Bunch & Rachel Bunch)
4 females under 5
2 females 5-10
1 female 10-15
1 female 40-50 (Nancy Bunch)
Green Bunch
2 males under 5
1 male 20-30
1 male 80-90
1 female 20-30
Christopher Bunch
Military Land Grants in Greene County, Indiana for soldiers of War of 1812:
Name: Bunch, Jesse
Regiment: 7th. Regiment Virginia Militia
Granted to: Jesse Bunch
1840 Greene County, Indiana census information for Jesse Bunch:
(Listed as Free Colored People)
2 males under 10 (Benjamin Bunch & Evan Bunch born 1832, buried Bald Hill Cemetery, Greene County, Indiana)
2 males 10 to under 24 (Jesse Bunch Jr. & ?)
0 males 24 to uunder 36
1 males 36 to under 55 (Jesse Bunch)
0 males 55 to under 100
0 males 100 and above
1 females under 10 (Celia Bunch)
3 females 10 to under 24 (Sheba Bunch, Cynthia Bunch & Eleanor Bunch)
0 females 24 to under 36
1 females 36 to under 55 (Sarah Bunch)
0 females 55 to under 100
0 females 100 and above
1850 Greene County, Indiana census information for Jesse Bunch:
(no race given)
name: Jesse Bunch
event:
Census
event date: 1850
event place: Richland, Greene, Indiana, United States
gender: Male
age: 70
birthplace: North Carolina
estimated birth year: 1780
dwelling house number: 596
family number: 596
line number: 27
nara publication number: M432
nara roll number: 148
film number: 442926
digital folder number: 004191994
image number: 00090
Household - Gender - Age - Birthplace
Jesse Bunch - M - 70 - North Carolina
Sarah Bunch - F - 50 - North Carolina
Evan Bunch - M - 1 - Tennessee
Benjamin Bunch - M - 13 - Tennessee
Celia Bunch - F - 11 - Tennessee
Sheba Edwards - F - 25 Tennessee
Franklin Cox - M - 23 - Virginia
Elleanor Cox - F - 23 - Virginia
1850 - Jesse Bunch born 1780 received a land grant, bill of 1850, for land in Greene County, Indiana in 1851, after he was discharged in
Norfolk, Virginia.
Mr. W. A. Plecker
State Registrar
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Richmond, Virginia
My dear Sir:
The Secretary of State has sent your letter to my desk for reply. You have asked us a hard question. The origin of the Melungeons has been a disputed question in Tennessee ever since we can remember. Hancock County was established by an Act of the General Assembly passed January 7th, 1844 and was formed from parts of Claiborne and Hawkins counties.
Newman’s Ridge, which runs through Hancock county north of Sneedville, is parallel with Clinch River and just south of Powell Mountain. The only map on which we find it located is edited by H. C. Amick and S. J. Folmsbee of the University of Tennessee in 1941 published by Denoyer-Geppert Co., 5235 Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, listed as [TN 7S]* TENNESSEE. On this map is shown Newman’s Ridge as I have sketched it on this little scrap of paper, inclosed. But we do not have the early surveys showing which county it was originally in. It appears that it may have been in Claiborne according to the Morris Gazetteer of Tennessee 1834 which includes this statement: "Newman’s Ridge, one of the spurs of Cumberland Mountain, in East Tennessee, lying in the north east angle of Claiborne County, west of Clinch River, and east of Powell’s Mountain. It took its name from a Mr. Newman who discovered it in 1761."
Early historians of East Tennessee who lived in that section and knew the older members of this race refer to Newman’s Ridge as "quite a high mountain, extending through the entire length of Hancock County, and into Claiborne County on the west. It is between Powell Mountain on the north and Clinch River on the south." Capt. L. M. Jarvis, an old citizen of Sneedville wrote in his 82nd year: "I have lived here at the base of Newman’s Ridge, Blackwater, being on the opposite side, for the last 71 years and well know the history of these people on Newman’s Ridge and Blackwater enquired about as Melungeons. These people were friendly to the Cherokees who came west with the white imigration from New River and Cumberland, Virginia, about the year 1790...The name Melungeon was given them on account of their color. I have seen the oldest and first settlers of this tribe who first occupied Newman’s Ridge and Blackwater and I have owned much of the lands on which they settled.. They obtained their land grants from North Carolina. I personally knew Vardy Collins, Solomon D. Collins, Shepard Gibson, Paul Bunch and Benjamin Bunch and many of the Goodmans, Moores, Williams and Sullivans, all of the very first settlers and noted men of these friendly Indians. They took their names from white people of that name with whom they came here. They were reliable, truthful and faithful to anything they promised. In the Civil War most of the Melungeons went into the Union army and made good soldiers. Their Indian blood has about run out. They are growing white... They have been misrepresented by many writers. In former writings I have given their stations and stops on their way as they emigrated to this country with white people, one of which places was at the mouth of Stony Creek on Clinch river in Scott County, Virginia, where they built a fort and called it Ft. Blackamore after Col. Blackamore who was with them... When Daniel Boone was here hunting 1763-1767, these Melungeons were not here."
The late Judge Lewis Shepherd, prominent jurist of Chattanooga, went further in his statements in his "Personal Memoirs", and contended that this mysterious racial group descended from the Phoenicians of Ancient Carthage. This was his judgment after investigations he made in trying a case featuring the complaint that they were of mixed negro blood, which attempt failed, and which brought out the facts that many of their ancestors had settled early in South Carolina when they migrated from Portugal to America about the time of the Revolutionary war, and later moved into Tennessee. At the time of this trial covered by Judge Shepherd "charges that Negro blood contaminated the Melungeons and barred their intermarriage with Caucasians created much indignation among families of Phoenician descent in this section." But I imagine if the United States Census listed them as mulattoes their listing will remain. But it is a terrible claim to place on people if they do not have negro blood. I often have wondered just how deeply the census takers went into an intelligent study of it at that early period.
I have gone into some detail in this reply to explain the mooted question and why it is not possible for me to give you a definite answer. I hope this may assist you to some extent.
Sincerely,
Mrs. John Trotwood Moore
State Librarian and Archivist
1830 Hawkins County, Tennessee census information on BUNCH:
Benjamin Bunch
Jesse Bunch (stepson of Rachel, son-in-law of Benjamin))
Lambert Bunch (Son of Benjamin, brother to Sallie)
Rachel Bunch (widow of Joseph Bunch, sister to Benjamin and Paul Bunch)
Paul Bunch (brother to Rachel and Benjamin Bunch)
Green Bunch
Christopher Bunch
1840 Hawkins County, Tennessee census information on BUNCH:
John A. Bunch
Benjamin Bunch
Lively Bunch (daughter of Rachel)
Rachel Bunch (widow of Joseph Bunch)
Samuel Bunch (stepson of Rachel)
1830 Greene County, Indiana census information on Free Colored Persons:
723 182 Julius Bunch - 1 male 0-10 years old - 1 male 55-100 years old (Julius Bunch)
724 182 Samuel Nolen - 4 males 0-10 years old - 9 males 10-24 years old - 9 males 24-36 years old - 1 male 36-55 years old - 1 female 24-36 years old
725 182 John Mitchell - 1 male 0-10 years old - 1 male 10-24 years old - 1 male 55-100 years old - 4 females 10-24 years old - 1 female 55-100 years old
726 182 York Jones - 1 male 0-10 years old - 1 male 55-100 years old (York Jones) - 2 females 10-24 years old
727 182 Israel Bunch - 1 male 10-24 years old (Israel Bunch) - 1 female 0-10 years old - 1 female 10-24 years old
728 182 Clayborn Bunch - 2 males 2-10 years old - 4 males 10-24 years old - 1 male 55-100 years old (Clayborn Bunch) - 1 female 10-24 years old - 1 female 24-36 years old - 1 female 55-100 years old
729 182 Shadrach Moore - 2 males 0-10 years old - 1 male 10-24 years old - 1 male 36-55 years old (Shadrack Moore) - 2 females 0-10 years old - 1 female 36-55 years old (Priscilla Bunch Moore - Shadrack Moore & Priscilla Bunch were married in Cumberland County, Kentucky July 18, 1816. Priscilla's family had moved to Cumberland County, Kentucky several years prior to 1815. 1815 was probably when Shadrack Moore's
family moved there. Priscilla is probably the daughter of Israel or Julius Bunch and a grandaughter of Micajah Bunch)
730 182 James Bunch - 1 male 24-36 years old (James Bunch)
1830 Hawkins County, Tennessee census information for Bunch:
(all listed as white)
page 76
Benjamin Bunch
1 male 60-70 (Benjamin Bunch born 1770 in North Carolina, brother to Rachel Bunch & Paul Bunch)
1 female 10-15
2 females 15-20
1 female 50-60 (Mary Bunch, born about 1774 in Pittsylvania, Virginia, died in 1881 about 110 yrs. old)
(Paul Bunch & Mary "Polly" Dotson married 1789 in North Carolina)
Jesse Bunch
1 male under 5 (Jesse Bunch Jr.)
1 male 10-15 ( Joseph Bunch ? born May 21, 1812, died May 11, 1859, buried Bald Hill Cemetery, Greene County, Indiana)
1 male 30-40 (Jesse Bunch)
1 female under 5 (Eleanor "Ellen" Bunch)
2 female 5-10 (Sheba Bunch & Cynthia Bunch)
1 female 20-30 (Sarah "Sally" Bunch daughter of Benjamin Bunch)
Lambert Bunch
2 males under 5
1 male 5-10
1 male 30-40 (Lambert Bunch born 1790, son of Benjamin & Mary "Polly" Dotson, brother of Sarah "Sally" Bunch)
1 female under 5
1 female 5-10
1 female 10-15
1 female 30-40
page 77
Rachel Bunch
1 male 5-10
1 male 10-15
1 female 20-30
1 female 50-60 (Rachel Bunch, sister to Benjamin Bunch & Paul Bunch)
Paul Bunch
1 male under 5
3 males 10-15
1 male 20-30 (Micajah Bunch)
1 male 40-50 (Paul Bunch, brother to Benjamin Bunch & Rachel Bunch)
4 females under 5
2 females 5-10
1 female 10-15
1 female 40-50 (Nancy Bunch)
Green Bunch
2 males under 5
1 male 20-30
1 male 80-90
1 female 20-30
Christopher Bunch
Military Land Grants in Greene County, Indiana for soldiers of War of 1812:
Name: Bunch, Jesse
Regiment: 7th. Regiment Virginia Militia
Granted to: Jesse Bunch
1840 Greene County, Indiana census information for Jesse Bunch:
(Listed as Free Colored People)
2 males under 10 (Benjamin Bunch & Evan Bunch born 1832, buried Bald Hill Cemetery, Greene County, Indiana)
2 males 10 to under 24 (Jesse Bunch Jr. & ?)
0 males 24 to uunder 36
1 males 36 to under 55 (Jesse Bunch)
0 males 55 to under 100
0 males 100 and above
1 females under 10 (Celia Bunch)
3 females 10 to under 24 (Sheba Bunch, Cynthia Bunch & Eleanor Bunch)
0 females 24 to under 36
1 females 36 to under 55 (Sarah Bunch)
0 females 55 to under 100
0 females 100 and above
1850 Greene County, Indiana census information for Jesse Bunch:
(no race given)
name: Jesse Bunch
event:
Census
event date: 1850
event place: Richland, Greene, Indiana, United States
gender: Male
age: 70
birthplace: North Carolina
estimated birth year: 1780
dwelling house number: 596
family number: 596
line number: 27
nara publication number: M432
nara roll number: 148
film number: 442926
digital folder number: 004191994
image number: 00090
Household - Gender - Age - Birthplace
Jesse Bunch - M - 70 - North Carolina
Sarah Bunch - F - 50 - North Carolina
Evan Bunch - M - 1 - Tennessee
Benjamin Bunch - M - 13 - Tennessee
Celia Bunch - F - 11 - Tennessee
Sheba Edwards - F - 25 Tennessee
Franklin Cox - M - 23 - Virginia
Elleanor Cox - F - 23 - Virginia
1850 - Jesse Bunch born 1780 received a land grant, bill of 1850, for land in Greene County, Indiana in 1851, after he was discharged in
Norfolk, Virginia.
Bald Hill Cemetery, Tulip, Greene County, Indiana
These are photos taken 11/5/2012 at Bald Hill Cemetery in Tulip, Greene County, IN. You can get there by setting your TomTom to Latitude 39.08153, Longitude 86.84899. You will find a slightly used driveway or lane. If you have never been there, you might have to ask a nearby neighbor where the lane is, we had to. There is no sign at the road. We drove a short distance, then had to walk about 1/2 mile up the hill. The graveyard was neatly kept but very, very old. All these people are buried on a hill that has a view, and is at the same level, of the Tulip Tressel. Very nice place to be laid at rest.
People that Find-A-Grave have listed that are buried at Bald Hill Cemetery, Tulip, Greene County, Indiana:
Beasley, Amanda J. Cox b. 1854 d. Jan. 28, 1931 - Beasley, Edward E. b. Jan. 15, 1834 d. Oct. 15, 1880 - Bland, Allan b. May 12, 1859 d. Jan. 16, 1934 - Bland, Dora Kimball b. Apr. 17, 1863 d. Dec. 6, 1929 - Bland, Lettie Jane b. Nov. 1, 1833 d. Dec. 24, 1915 - Bland, Ollie b. Sep. 9, 1844 d. May 8, 1915 - Bunch, George b. 1859 d. 1861 - Bunch, Isaac b. 1861 d. 1863 - Bunch, Jesse b. unknown d. unknown - Bunch, Jesse b. 1825 d. 1851 - Bunch, Joe b. May 21, 1812 d. May 11, 1859 - Cox, Bush b. 1879 d. 1882 - Cox, Champlain b. unknown d. unknown - Cox, George Washington b. 1856 d. Feb. 1, 1936 - Cox, Howard b. 1877 d. 1927 - Cox, Mary Ellen b. 1858 d. Dec. 24, 1912 - Flake, Amos Wesley b. Nov. 2, 1856 d. Feb. 2, 1941 - Flake, Harley E. b. 1883 d. 1943 - Flake, Nancy Anna Bland b. Mar. 18, 1866 d. Feb. 18, 1916 - Kimball, Andrew Jackson b. Jun. 23, 1865 d. Jan. 1, 1943 - Kimball, Fidelia Bays b. Jan. 28, 1869 d. Mar. 19, 1927
Greene County Folklore: Ever since I started tracing my family tree, about 40 years ago (it's 2012 now), I've always heard the story about a Jane Bland who was buried on a steep hill. They took her body up with a horse and wagon. The wagon overturned and the body came out of the casket. It has just dawned on me that this was probably the cemetery (Bald Hill Cemetery at Tulip, Greene County, Indiana) that happened at. There is a Lettie Jane Bland buried here, I believe she was the wife of Moses Bland. Anyway, after walking up that hill I can see how easily that might have happened. By the way, I turn 70 years old next month.
Beasley, Amanda J. Cox b. 1854 d. Jan. 28, 1931 - Beasley, Edward E. b. Jan. 15, 1834 d. Oct. 15, 1880 - Bland, Allan b. May 12, 1859 d. Jan. 16, 1934 - Bland, Dora Kimball b. Apr. 17, 1863 d. Dec. 6, 1929 - Bland, Lettie Jane b. Nov. 1, 1833 d. Dec. 24, 1915 - Bland, Ollie b. Sep. 9, 1844 d. May 8, 1915 - Bunch, George b. 1859 d. 1861 - Bunch, Isaac b. 1861 d. 1863 - Bunch, Jesse b. unknown d. unknown - Bunch, Jesse b. 1825 d. 1851 - Bunch, Joe b. May 21, 1812 d. May 11, 1859 - Cox, Bush b. 1879 d. 1882 - Cox, Champlain b. unknown d. unknown - Cox, George Washington b. 1856 d. Feb. 1, 1936 - Cox, Howard b. 1877 d. 1927 - Cox, Mary Ellen b. 1858 d. Dec. 24, 1912 - Flake, Amos Wesley b. Nov. 2, 1856 d. Feb. 2, 1941 - Flake, Harley E. b. 1883 d. 1943 - Flake, Nancy Anna Bland b. Mar. 18, 1866 d. Feb. 18, 1916 - Kimball, Andrew Jackson b. Jun. 23, 1865 d. Jan. 1, 1943 - Kimball, Fidelia Bays b. Jan. 28, 1869 d. Mar. 19, 1927
Greene County Folklore: Ever since I started tracing my family tree, about 40 years ago (it's 2012 now), I've always heard the story about a Jane Bland who was buried on a steep hill. They took her body up with a horse and wagon. The wagon overturned and the body came out of the casket. It has just dawned on me that this was probably the cemetery (Bald Hill Cemetery at Tulip, Greene County, Indiana) that happened at. There is a Lettie Jane Bland buried here, I believe she was the wife of Moses Bland. Anyway, after walking up that hill I can see how easily that might have happened. By the way, I turn 70 years old next month.