BRUNK, GEORGE, was born Dec. 22, 1804, in Miami county, Ohio. At seventeen years of age he came to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1821. He entered eighty acres of land in what is now Ball township, returned to Ohio, and brought his mother, and stepfather, Thomas Royal, with his brothers and sisters, to Sangamon county, and settled them on the land he had entered, where Dr. Shields now resides. He entered more land, built for himself a hewed log house, and was married Dec. 30, 1827, to Mary Boyd. She was born Jan. 1, 1806. They had eight children, three of whom died young.

AMANDA J., born April 7, 1830, married Daniel G. Jones. See his name.

MARY E., born Dec. 17, 1831, married Eugene Owens. They had six children. The third one, JOHN F., died at two years of age. The other five, GEO. B., DANIEL G., EMMA E., ULYSSES GRANT and ARTHUR R. reside with their mother, in Cotton Hill township.

SUSANNAH, born May 28, 1833, died March 15, 1847.

MARIA C., born Nov. 23, 1835, married Dow Newcomer. See his name.

EVELINE, born March 26, 1844, married Lockwood Rusk. See his name. She died, and left one child in Cotton Hill township.

Mrs. Mary Brunk died March, 1847, and Mr. Brunk was married March 1, 1849, to Eliza Armstrong. They had three children, namely:

MARTHA A., born Jan. 8, 1850, married Thomas J. Nuckolls. See his name.

THOMAS ALBERT, born July 30, 1853. He was educated under the guardianship of Philemon Stout, at Shurtleff College, and resides in Ball township.

GEORGE A., died at six years of age.

Mrs. Eliza Brunk died Oct. 4, 1860, and Mr. B. married Dec. 12, 1861, to Emily Talbott. They had two children, viz.: TALBOTT F. and JOSEPH C., who reside with their mother.

George Brunk died Sept. 2, 1868, near where he settled in 1824. His widow married Lindsay H. English, and resides two miles southeast of Springfield.