According to 1790 census, he owned 4 slaves.
Buried in Little Grove Cemetary, Walnut Hill, Illinois. Handcut sandrock marks his and Dorcas's grave - the oldest grave in cemetary. No lumber was available when he died so a large white oak was cut and split to make his coffin. Buried 60 feet NE of the NE corner of the church.
Served in the Revolutionary war, and received a land grant in Tennessee.
In 1817 Jonathon and family moved from Sumner Co, TN to Raccoon Twp, Marion Co, Illinois. (Corner of the NW 1/4 of Section 32, Raccoon Twp)
The following is from Brinkerhoff's History of Marion County, IL - 1909: Jonathon Bundy, son of Benjamin Bundy and Ruth Jennings, born 1755 in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, died August 16, 1819 in Jefferson County, Illinois. Before 1785, he married Dorcas Brothers, daughter of Joseph Brothers and Nancy Sawyer, she died between 1850 and 1860. Both are buried in Little Grove Cemetery near Walnut Hill, Jefferson County, Illinois. Jonathon and his family moved from Pasquotank County, North Carolina to Sumner County Tennessee shortly after 1810. Some of his kin-folk also moved to Tennessee at the same time and their descendants still live in the area. It is not known whether he was in the Revolutionary War, but he probably was because all able bodied males had to go. He was twenty one years old when the Revolutionary War started in 1776. His first child Robert was born in 1785 two years after the conclusion of the war in 1783. He probably got a military land grant in Tennessee. In 1817 Jonathan and his family moved from Sumner County, Tennessee to Illinois and settled about two miles northeast of Walnut Hill, Illinois in the N.W. corner of the N.W. 1/4 of Section 32, Raccoon Township, Marion County, Illinois. At the time he settled at this location, it was a part of Whit County, Illinois, Northwest Territory. Illinois was admitted to the Union the following year in 1818. Jefferson County, Illinois was created out of White County on March 26, 1819. Marion County was created out of the northern part of Jefferson County and the southern part of Fayette County on January 24, 1823. When Jonathan Bundy died here in 1819, this was a part of Jefferson County, also when the census of 1820 was taken. There was a Stage route from Shawneetown north-westward to Alton and another route from Kaskaskia to Vincennes, Indiana. These two routes crossed at Walnut Hill, Illinois. He and his family came to Illinois from Tennessee in wagons. They probably followed this route from Shawneetown. The name of Walnut Hill was originally called Farmington but was changed to Walnut Hill on September 1, 1823. When Jonathan died they did not have any lumber, so they cut a large white oak an split out the boards to make his coffin. A hand cut sand rock marked his and Dorcas grave for many years since it is the oldest grave in the Little Grove Cemetery. About sixty feet northeast of the northeast corner of the church, there are several Bundy's buried in the same location.
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