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THOMAS H. TUNGET, farmer, P. O. Lima, was born in Warren County. Ohio, August 19, 1831; son of Peter and Sarah
(Holloway) Tunget, former a native of Stafford County, Va., latter of Maryland. They were married December 15,
1828, and their children were nine in number: John (deceased), Thomas H., Hiram (deceased), Eliza (deceased), William,
George, Mary A. (wife of John O'Neil), Lovinia (wife of William Spencer), Elizabeth (wife of William McPheron).
In September, 1833, Peter Tunget came to this county, and located in Bath Township, on the farm now owned by our
subject (then an unbroken wilderness), which, with the assistance of his sons, he cleared and improved, and here
erected a log cabin, in which he resided for several months without any doors, windows or floor, and lived on the
old homestead until his death. He died March 28, 1884, at the age of seventy seven years and six days. His wife
died March 16. 1884, in her seventy seventh year. William, the fifth child and fourth son, has resided on the old
homestead since his birth, December 11, 1836. Our subject, who was reared on the old homestead, resided there until
the fall of 1865, when he removed to Paulding County, and there lived until 1881, when he returned to Bath Township
and purchased the old homestead. He served eleven months in the late war of the Rebellion, and received an honorable
discharge. Mr. Tunget was married, May 13, 1858, to Elizabeth N., daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Neely) McClure,
who settled in. Bath in 1828. The issue of this union was two children: Laura C. (deceased) and Flaura E. In politics
Mr. Tunget is a Republican.
From:
History of Allen County, Ohio
Published by: Wamer, Beers and Company
Chicago, Illinois
1885
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