Delavan Bunn

He was among the pioneers who pushed on toward the West, sharing the privations and hardships of the frontier in Wisconsin, Dakota Territory and Oregon, and laying down his burdens at Shaw, Marion County, Oregon 5 September 1906. He was reared on a farm, and agriculture occupied his attention through life. With his parents, he moved in early life to Mansfield, Cattaraugus County, New York, then a rather new region, where virgin soil was subdued and a farm developed. In 1859 he became a pioneer on his own account and located in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, settling near the Mississippi river, in a new settlement. Here he developed a farm and again moved on in 1880 to Kingsbury County, Dakota Territory, now in the State of South Dakota, midway north and south, near the eastern border of the State. At that time homestead land was plenty, and the settler had only to choose and live upon the land a few years in order to become its owner, for a small sum paid to the Government of the United States. He was the first to introduce sheep in that section and it was successful in maintaining a profitable flock. After sixteen years’ residence in Dakota, Mr. Bunn moved again toward the setting sun, in 1896, and continued to enjoy the life of a farmer for ten years more, departing to a better land in his eighty-second year. He shared in the religious faith and hopes of his parents and was a faithful member of the Methodist Church, a thorough fundamentalist. A domestic soul, he cared little for public honors, but served at one time as chairman of the board of supervisors of the Town of Trempealeau, from a sense of duty. Usually a supporter of the Republican party, he acted for two years with the Populists while in Dakota

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=27222793&ref=wvr