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Hi! I'm hoping to find some links to my Mundy line from the Mount Carmel, Friendsville, Cabbage Corner area in Wabash County. My Mundy line moved to Illinois in 1819, from Middlesex County, New Jersey, where they had resided, as a family since around 1665. Three or four of the boys from the Samuel III Mundy family decided to try to make their fortune in IL just after it became a state. They came by way of Palmyra, and eventually bought land and farmed in Edwards/Wabash County till the early 1900's.
My grandfather, Clarence Verner Mundy, eldest son of William Harden and Carodile Best Mundy moved to Colorado after his father's death, where he worked on the farm of an uncle Doc Knowles and aunt Sarah Alice at Eastonville, CO.
In 1903, early January, he returned to Mount Carmel, and proposed marriage to a childhood sweetheart, Gertrude Asenath Newkirk. She accepted, they were married and immediately left for Colorado. He continued for several years as a hired hand to his uncle Doc until he saved enough to purchase an acreage in Elbert County, where he and Gertie reared their family and remained until their deaths.
While the other brothers in Illinois and their families visited occasionally, I did not get to know much about our family ties during the lifetime of my grandfather or father. Both are now gone, so I'm hoping to renew acquaintances with those who knew my grandfather and his siblings, and parents. Carodile married Edwin Haupt when her brood was grown and they moved into Mount Carmel where they lived until their deaths.
My e-mail address is nidocakc@gwtc.net. I'd be glad to exchange what information I have, and surely would like to meet other neighbors, friends and relatives in Illinois who knew my Mundy family.
Niona (Mundy) Case

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