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The Bunts Family
Generation No. 1
The Bunte family is believed to be of Dutch origins. Four siblings, Conrad, Harmonius, Jacob, and Jane Bunte all emigrated from Holland some time before the American Revolution. The family located on the Hudson River, opposite the present site of the city of Hudson, New York.
Jacob Bunt married Mary Halenbeck on 5 March 1800 in the Dutch Reformed Church in Greene, New York
Conrad had one known son, Conrad, who was born in 1777 in Hudson, New York.
Generation No. 3
3. CONRAD BUNT was born 1777 in Hudson, New York. He married ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, who was born 8 September 1771 in Tarrytown, Westchester, New York, the daughter of Abraham Williams and Maritie See. Elizabeth is descended from Roger Williams of Rhode Island. She was also from the area near the Hudson River, and her father sailed a sloop. Conrad and Elizabeth had one known child, Conrad Aaron Bunts.
Generation No. 4
4. CONRAD AARON BUNTS was born 09 November 1793 in Colchester, New York, and died 09 December 1883 in Ellsworth, Trumbull County, Ohio. He married NANCY GEE 14 April 1831 in Trumbull County, Ohio, daughter of NICHOLAS GEE and NANCY FURMAN. She was born 16 February 1810 in Colchester, New York, and died 27 February 1896 in Alliance, Ohio.
Conrad was the first to add the letter (s) to the name BUNT. He came to Ellsworth in the spring of 1823 - he remained until Fall and then went back to New York. He came back to Ellsworth again in the spring of 1827, walking the entire distance each time. Conrad purchased land from Simon Perkins, agent of the Connecticut Land Company, in Ellsworth, Trumbull County, Ohio, and he and his family spent the remaining years of their lives there. Both Conrad and Nancy are buried in the Ellsworth Village Cemetery.
Conrad and Nancy (Gee) Bunts had six children:
(1) Ann E Bunts, who was born in 1835 in Ellsworth Township, Mahoning, Ohio. Ann married P N
WEAVER, 22 December 1852, Mahoning County, Ohio in a ceremony performed by Rev. Ira Norris.
(2) William Carey Bunts, who was born in 1833 in Berlin, Trumbull County, Ohio and who died 16 January
1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. William married Clara Evans Barnhisel, the daughter of Henry Barnhisel.
(3) John C Bunts
(4) Helen Bunts, who married Morgan Shafer
(5) Louise Bunts, who married Burr Shafer
(6) Emory A Bunts. Emory died while still a young man in a horse accident. He never married.
Generation No. 5
WILLIAM CAREY BUNTS , son of Conrad A, was born 1833 in Berlin, Mahoning County, Ohio, and died 16 January 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. He married CLARA EVANS BARNHISEL Abt. 1859, daughter of HENRY BARNHISEL.
William attended Union School at Poland, Ohio and there met his future wife, Clara Evans Barnhisel of Girard, Ohio (Liberty Township). He also attended Allegheny College at Meadville, PA for one year and was Secretary of the Philo Franklin Literary Society there. Clara also attended Steubenville Female Seminary. William C Bunts was admitted to the bar in 1856 and practiced law several years in Youngstown. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning County in 1860 and served one term. William practiced law with Tod and Hutchins in Youngstown, Ohio until 18 September 1862 when he organized at Canfield, Ohio a company of infantry, Co G, 125th OVI, which served in the Civil War with the Army of the Cumberland under Rosecrans and Thomas. Captain Bunts was detached because of illness in the Spring of 1863 and spent time in a hospital in Nashville, TN. Upon leaving the hospital he was appointed Acting Assistant Adjutant on Staff of Maj Gen Rosecrans. He was subsequently discharged in 1864.
William practiced law with Lindsley at Nashville, 1864-1866. He then returned to Ohio and practiced in Findley and was later City Solicitor of Cleveland and had a legal practice there as well. He was Commander of Hampson Post of GAR.
William C Bunts and Clara Barnhisel had seven children, of whom five survived to adulthood.
(1) Henry C Bunts.
Henry read law and entered practice in Cleveland, Ohio, where he became the Assistant City Solicitor
before his death in 1898.
Lakewood’s Bunts Road was named after Harry C. Bunts, an attorney and one-time first assistant
solicitor of Cleveland who never lived in Lakewood. Originally the road was not much more than a trail
on Dr. Jared P. Kirtland’s farm. It was known as Kirtland Lane. In October 1894, 17 years after the
doctor’s death, lawyer Bunts and three other investors in the Kirtland estate (Charles A. Cook, Charles
Goulder and W.H. Beavis) met to plan a new wide road through the property from Lorain Avenue
northward. They discussed a new name for it and finally decided to use one of their own. They cast lots,
and Bunts’ name was plucked from the hat. The name Kirtland Lane surfaced again, however. In 1961,
it was chosen for a new Lakewood street -- really a northern extension of Bunts -- that picks up at
Edgewater Drive and runs to the lake on part of what once was Dr. Kirtland’s farm.
This article appeared in the Lakewood Sun Post December 8, 1988
(2) Frank Emory Bunts who married Harriet Taylor.
(3) Cora Bunts, who married John Stambaugh. John later became the President of the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company.
(4) Susan Bunts, who married Hugh Bryson Wick of Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio. Hugh was
later with the Elyria Iron and Steel Company and Steel and Tube Inc. ... the family lived in Elyria and
Cleveland.
(5) Fred Bunts, who married Louise Payne Griffith. Fred and his family later lived in Chicago, working
with Jones Laughlin Steel Company.
Generation No. 6
Frank Emory Bunts, son of William C, married Harriet Taylor October 1888. See Biographical Sketch.
Frank and Harriet Taylor Bunts had three children:
(1) Clara Louise Bunts, born 23 Mach 1890, who married Edward C Daoust
(2) Virgil Taylor Bunts, who was born in 1893 and who died in 1896.
(3) Alexander T Bunts, born 9 March 1897.
Generation No. 7
Alexander T Bunts , son of Frank,was born 09 March 1897. He married MARY ? and they had two known children, Frank and Elizabeth.
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