Gundy, John Van (Vangundy)

Born: 1830-01-02 Scott County, Illinois

Died: 1905-07-02 Macon County, Illinois

Flourished: Scott County, Illinois

Alternate name: Vangundy

John Van Gundy was a farmer who lived most of his life in Scott County, Illinois. In October 1854, he married Sarah Ann Scoby, with whom he would have nine children. In 1860, Van Gundy was farming near Naples, Illinois, and owned real property valued at $6,000 and a personal estate of $1,000. He continued farming in Scott County until 1873, when he moved to Macon County, where he purchased a farm in Milam Township.

Obituary, Decatur Herald (IL), 4 July 1905, 8:1; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Scott County, 1 October 1854, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Scott County, IL, 52; Past and Present of the City of Decatur and Macon County Illinois (Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1903), 883; Gravestone, Greenwood Cemetery, Decatur, IL.