James Abner Mundell (1840-1912) - Find a Grave Memorial

James Abner Mundell Veteran

Birth

8 Apr 1840

Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA

Death

22 May 1912 (aged 72)

Graham, Young County, Texas, USA

Burial

Oak Grove Cemetery

Graham, Young County, Texas, USA Add to Map

Plot

Section 1, Block 35, Space B

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son of Abner Mundell - Delilah McCoy

James Mundell married Margaret Davis on 31 May 1874 in Osage, Benton County, Arkansas.

James Mundell came to Young County as a single man settling first in the Tonk Valley Community by 1872. The Indian reservation was being pre-empted and he sold his pony for 320 acres of land. He asked that 320 acres be kept for when he returned.

Newspaper accounts suggest he went to Missouri to marry. He came back to Texas in a covered wagon.

Newspaper accounts suggest there were six children born:

May Mundell
Mattie Edith Mundell, wife of William Ransom Gay
Stella Mundell
James Irving Mundell
Twins died in infancy.

James A. Mundell died Wednesday, 22 May 1912 in Graham, Texas. He was a faithful member of the First Christian Church and was buried at Oak Grove cemetery. He was born 4 April 1840 in Pennsylvania and died at the age of 72 years, 1 month, 14 days. James Mundell moved from Pennsylvania to Missouri with his parents. In Arkansas, he married Miss Maggie Davis on 31 May 1874. In 1875, the family moved to Texas, first settling in Granbury, Hood County, Texas and then to Young County, Texas.

James Mundell served as a church deacon and Bible school superintendent for many years. He was a faithful Bible class teacher.

James Mundell volunteered for service in the Confederate army in 1863.

Survived by wife; one son; three daughters.

In 1902, James Mundell is living in Upper Tonk very close to the Wooley cemetery where his two infant children are buried.

James Mundell filed for his Confederate Pension from Young County, Texas.

Newspaper accounts show that James Mundell worked as a clerk and farmer during his sojourn in this secton.

In 1917, at the first pioneer reunion in Young County, Mrs. Mundell signed her card that she and her family came to Young County in 1885. The 1880 Anderson, Benton County, Arkansas census shows the family living there. One of the daughter, Mattie Mundell was born in Tonk Valley, Young County on 13 August 1884.