At the time the family came to Illinois, the journey was made in old time cumberous team wagons. Centralia Township at the time Frederick settled there in 1826, was as yet in its original wild state. In time he cleared the land and erected for himself a suitable home, and otherwise much improved the property which embraced four hundred acres. For years, he carried an active farming business and raised considerable amount of stock. Frederick Bundy was politically a staunch Democrat, and in those days he had to go over to Salem at election times to record his vote. His wife died in February, 1848. He died in the fall of 1849, having however, married secondly Elizabeth Walker, and leaving a son by that marriage. He had eight children by his first wife, the eldest William Kell; Alexander, who married Margaret Breeze, and afterwards another member of that family, who is a farmer in Washington County; Nancy Jane, deceased, first married John Harper, and afterwards Reuben Aldersonl; Dorcas married Sidney Harmon; Jeanette who never married; John joined the One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment, Company H; at the outbreak of the Civil War and died while in the service of his country; Robert was also in the Civil War, enlisting in the Jefferson County, Illinois, and died of small pox during his term of service; Sallie another daughter, married Thomas J. Hollowell and lives in Washingon with her husband.
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