This is my contribution to the Mundy family research. Lines now being researched include Mundy's originating (ca. 1665)in Middlesex County, Piscataway twp., New Jersey. Most of these very early records came from the book "Nicholas Mundy and Descendents" written and published around 1890 by E. F. Mundy of New Jersey. Mundy families remained in this area (some still do) until 1819, when three of the sons of Nicholas IV Mundy ventured west to Illinois. They eventually settled in Edwards/Wabash County and farmed there. Later, one of them, Edward,migrated, with his family into Michigan, where he entered into politics.
From 1819 to 1899, Illinois was the home base of our Mundy line; those descended directly through Nicholas and his son Samuel I. Samuel IV Mundy had a son, William Reed Mundy, and that is where my connection to the Mundy line "split off" from the Samuel line of Mundy's. William Reed had a son, William Hardin Mundy (my great grandfather) who had a son Clarence Verner Mundy. He was to be one of the first of that line to venture away from Illinois. He came to Colorado to work for his Uncle Eli Knowles and Aunt Sarah Alice Mundy Knowles (she was a daughter of William Reed) on their farm at Eastonville, CO in El Paso County. He worked as a farm hand for his uncle from 1899 through 1902, when he decided he wanted to marry and start a "family line" of his own.
He returned to Mt. Carmel, IL, married his childhood sweetheart, Gertrude Asenith Newkirk in 1903, and they returned to farm in Colorado. He worked for "Uncle Doc" as the family referred to Eli Knowles, until 1912, when he and his wife and their little family of two boys and one girl moved into their own home in Elbert County. (Soon after that move, their family was increased by a third son, Hugh Whealan Mundy.)
My grandfather C.V. Mundy and grandmother Gertie Mundy lived on their home place until Gertie's death, shortly after their 50th wedding anniversary in 1953. Grandfather Mundy then moved into his only daughter's home and she cared for him until his death, back in El Paso County, where their Colorado experience began.
My father, William Ray Mundy, their eldest child, born October 1903, married Ethel Grace Wolfe in June 1925. They had four children: Niona Faye, Eugene Ray, Lyman Verne, and Robert Darrel. Eugene Ray drowned 07 Jun 1940, the other children are still living (2005). Niona Faye (me!) married Clarence Walter Case, Jr. on 1 Sep 1946. He died 7 May 1972. We had two children, Donna Lynne and Carole Anne.
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