"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
ADAMS TOWNSHIP, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
PAGE 296
JOSEPH BLUNK, stock-raiser and farmer, is the son of Goldsby and Elizabeth
(Pritchett) Blunk, the former a native of Indiana, the latter of Kentucky.
The paternal grandfather of our subject was a Virginian and a soldier of the
Revolution. He was known as Aaron Blount, which surname has been since
change to Blunk. Goldsby Blunk was a farmer, but labored as a steamboat man
on the Lower Mississippi River for several years, and in 1827 married and
began farming where our subject now resides, having entered eighty acres of
timber. He cleared his land, and was the first settler in that part of this
township. He was an expert hunter and marksman, a man of strong will, owner
of 237 1/2 acres, and died February 4, 1857, aged fifty-eight. Mrs. Blunk
died in 1871, aged sixty-three years. They were parents of five sons and
five daughters, and members of the Christian Church. Joseph Blunk was born
February 14, 1841. He received but a fraction of schooling, yet by
well-directed study he has obtained a fair education. When he was sixteen
years old, his father died, and he remained with his mother until he was of
age. April 10, 1862, he married Elizabeth Cown, a native of Illinois, born
November 9, 1840, which union gave being to nine children, of whom six sons
and two daughters are living. After marriage, Mr. Blunk located near his
present home, to which he removed in 1874. This farm comprises fifty-three
acres, valued at about $60 per acre, is well improved and supplied with good
stock, and the yield of his industry and care. Mr. Blunk is a progressive
citizen, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.
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