The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-05-23
PASSED TO HIS REST.
Boonville and Cooper County
Mourn the Death of the
Hon. Harvey Bunce.

At $50 o'clock yesterday afternoon
at his home near Boonville, Hon.
Harvey Bunce died, after a long i'll
ness, from which at times he rallied
and gave his friends hope Of his ulti-
mate recovery.
Briefly summed up the record OF
his life runs as follows: He was born
in Brooklyn, n. Y, in 1916, and
there learned and followed the trade
of ship carpenter. He removed to
Missouri in 1887, and had lived there
ever since. He was married three
times, his first wife being Polly Anne
Moore; his second, Mary Lawton-a
sister of Mrs. H. G. Levens, of Sc
dalia; and his third, Margaret Nc
Farland, who survives him. Quite a
number Of children represented these
three marriages. Mr.. Bunce was
sheriff of Cooper county for eight
years; was.a representative in tire leg
islature one term; was a member of the
body which enacted the Drake consti-
tuition; was for many years public
administrator. director of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Bridge company and
the Beonville, st. Louis and Southern
Railway company, vice president of
the Central National bank, and ct the
time Of his death its president, having
been elected to succeed Mr.J. NJ.
Nelson.
Perhaps there was never more
notable illustration of what pluck, in
dustry, intelligence, enterprise and
honesty will accomplish tor a man a,an
in the ease of Harvey Bunee. He
came to the West friendless, PENN
less young man. The trade at wiich
he was skillful was of little, if any, use
TO him in his new home. He, there
fore, had to depend upon other mems
of livelihood and became farlHsr.
Easily and rapidly lie wen
the confidence of the community
in which he lived. His industry YVES
proverbial and his integrity spotless.
He was elected to responsible Offices
time and again, and proved faithful
to every trust.
When the Civil war came on Mr..
Bunce cast hiE fortunes with the
North. There was no stauncher
Union man in the land than he,
though one of his sons-the late Bev-
erly Bunee-was a soldier in Prices
army. His political views and con-
duct were so honorable at all times as
to command the respect Of his oppo-
nents. For many years after the var
he continued to be leader of the re-
publican party and had state repu-
tati0n as such.
Mr.. Bunce had the gift 81 making
money. He accumulated large for
tune and owned a beautiful surbur-
ban residence, the broad lawns shaded
by great forest trees, the
pastures filed with fine stock, the
fields rich in grains. At this pleas
ant retreat. surrounded by his family |
and friends he spent In elegant retire.
ment the hours not devoted tc bust
ness in town.
Within the past few wears Boon
vile has lost many Of her pioneer
citizens-Captain John Porter, Cap
tain William Baird, Col. Joseph L.
Captain Mark Williams,
Judge Adams, Andrew Adams, David
and many others whose
names do not now occur to the writer.
With them Mr.. Bunce vas Sa int
mate terms of friendship, such as OBJ
tains in small city, for many years,
and now, after the mobility of such a
life has become but precious men,
Dry, he is laid beside these sleeping
friends in a cemetery which, bv its
serene and surprising beauty. almost
invites one to the last slumber.