James Lovett BUNTING

                   BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  1. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998] 2. Data obtained December 1998 from "The Bunting Family Directory", compiled by Pauline Lyman.  [GEDCOM File from Barrie Blackburn.]

MARRIAGE-DATE-PLACE-SPOUSE:  1.Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998] 2. Data obtained December 1998 from "The Bunting Family Directory", compiled by Pauline Lyman.  [GEDCOM File from Barrie Blackburn.]

DEATH-DATE-PLACE:  1. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]  2. Data obtained December 1998 from "The Bunting Family Directory", compiled by Pauline Lyman.  [GEDCOM File from Barrie Blackburn.]

OTHER DATES-PLACES-FAMILY:  Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.
                  

                   BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  1.Cemetery Reocrds.  Kanab, Kane county, Utah.  FHL film #0873918  2. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

MARRIAGE-DATE-PLACE-SPOUSE:  Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

DEATH/BURIAL-DATE-PLACE:  1.Cemetery Reocrds.  Kanab, Kane county, Utah. FHL film #0873918 2. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

OTHER-FAMILY:  Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.

CENSUS-1900:  Subject and family living in Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  [ED.200 - Sheet 4A.]  Ellen E., wife of Edwin Ford, born in Utah, Jan 1866, age 34, married 20 years.  Mother of 8, of which 7 were then living.

OBITUARY:
Kanab Pioneer Found Dead
Last Saturday

         KANAB- Funeral services were held Tuesday at 5 p.m.. in the Kanab North Ward chapel for Ellen Elizabeth Bunting Ford, 81, who was found dead in her home last Saturday afternoon, believed that she had died in her sleep from causes incident to age.

         Mrs. Ford has been apparently well with no sickness, although she has been failing the past month.  She has been living alone sometime and it is believed that she died early Saturday morning.

         Second child of a family of 11 children, Mrs. Ford was the daughter of James L. and Harriet Dye Bunting, born in Salt Lake City January 21, 1861.  She married Edwin Mantripp Ford in the St. George temple June 24, 1880, and to the couple were born 11 children of which nine are living and as follows: Joseph L., Edwin J., Walter O., Ardell, Mrs. Susie Young, Mrs. Jacob H. Crosby and Mrs. Ellen Henderson, all of Kanab; Harriet Johnson, Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. Sarah Thomas of Denver, Colo.

         Other survivors of the deceased are two brothers, James Bunting, of Kanab and William Bunting of St. George; one sister, Mrs. Fannie Cram of Kanab; fifty-three grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren.

         Mrs. Ford was one of the early pioneers of Kanab, migrating from Salt Lake City sent by Brigham Young in 1870, living in the old Kanab fort.  She has been an active member of the LDS church, being a Relief Society teacher as long as her health permitted, and was a member of the first choir organized in Kanab.
   She has lived alone since the death of her husband who proceeded her in death, Feb. 13, 1921,

         Funeral services, conducted by Bishop Clifford Heaton, were as follows: "Resting Now From Care and Sorrow," choir; prayer, D. M. Tietjen: "Softly and Tenderly", Singing Mothers: first speaker, Z. K. Judd; vocal, "I know My Heavenly Father Knows", Boyd McAllister; second speaker Pres. Charles C. Heaton;
   sentiment by the Daughter of Utah Pioneer@s; read by Mrs.  Emma Pratt, and last song, "Sister Wast Mild and Lovely", with benediction by Melvin S. Haycock

         Pall bearers were grandsons Marson and Clifton Young, Jack Crosby, Remo Young, Don ford and Neil Crosby.

         Burial was in the Kanab City cemetery.
                  

                   DATES-PLACES-FAMILY:  Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.  [Input to PAF by Charles R. Holmes.]
                  

                   BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  1. Data obtained December 1998 from "The Bunting Family Directory", compiled by Pauline Lyman. 2. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

MARRIAGE-DATE-PLACE-SPOUSE:  1. Data obtained December 1998 from "The Bunting Family Directory", compiled by Pauline Lyman. 2. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

DEATH-DATE-PLACE:  1. Data obtained December 1998 from "The Bunting Family Directory", compiled by Pauline Lyman. 2. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

DATES-PLACES-FAMILY:  Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.
                  

                   BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

DEATH-DATE-PLACE:  Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

DATES-PLACES-FAMILY:  Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.
                  

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BIRTH-DATE-PLACE:  1. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998] 2. Cemetery records for Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  FHL #0873918

MARRIAGE-DATE-PLACE:  1. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998] 2. Marriage license #129. 16 Sep 1896.  Records for Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  FHL #0026061

DEATH-DATE-PLACE:  1. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]  2. Cemetery records for Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  FHL #0873918

BURIAL-PLACE:  Cemetery records for Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  FHL #0873918

BAPTISM-DATE: LDS Record of Members in Kanab, Kane County, Utah, North Ward.  FHL film #0026062.

OTHER-DATES-PLACES-FAMILY:  Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.

CENSUS-1900:  Subject and family living in Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  [ED.200 - Sheet 1.]  James born Aug 1870, age 29, listed as being a farmer.
                  

                   BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]  U.S. Federal census for Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  [ED.200 - Sheet 2.]

MARRIAGE-DATE-PLACE-SPOUSE:  1.Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998] 2. Marriage license #88, 15 May 1894, Kanab, Kane County, Utah, FHL #0484815

DEATH/BURIAL-DATE-PLACE:  Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

DATES-PLACES-FAMILY:  Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.

CENSUS-1900:  Subject and family living in Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  [ED.200 - Sheet 2.]  Robert Wm. born Jan 1873, age 27, married 6 years. Occupation "Farmer".
                  

                   BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

DEATH-DATE-PLACE:  Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

DATES-PLACES-FAMILY:  Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.
                  

                   BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  1.Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]  2. Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.

MARRIAGE-DATE-PLACE-SPOUSE:  1. Marriage records, Kanab, Kane county, Utah.  FHL film #0484815.  Page 1.  [License obtained 18 May 1901.  Married 31 May 1901 in St. George.  Groom 24.  Bride 24.]  2. Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn. 3. Ancestral File - ver 4.13 review made in April 1994  Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

DEATH-DATE-PLACE:  1. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]  2. Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.
                  

                   BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  1. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]  2. Cemetery records for Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  FHL #0873918

MARRIAGE-DATE-PLACE-SPOUSE:  1. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998]

DEATH-DATE-PLACE:  1. Ancestral File - ver. 4.18. [22 Sep 1998] 2. Cemetery records for Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  FHL #0873918

BURIAL-PLACE:  Cemetery records for Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  FHL #0873918

DATES-PLACES-FAMILY:  Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.
                  

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BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  1. Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.  2.  Cemetery records for Kanab, Kane county, Utah.  FHL film #0873918.

MARRIAGE-DATE-PLACE-SPOUSE:  1. Marriage records 1887-1901, Kanab, Kane county, Utah.  FHL film #0484815.  Page 250.  License #162 obtained 22 Jul 1898.  Groom 22.  Bride 18.

DEATH/BURIAL-DATE-PLACE: 1. Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.  2.  Cemetery records for Kanab, Kane county, Utah.  FHL film #0873918.

CENSUS-1900:  Subject and family living in Kanab, Kane County, Utah.  [ED.200 - Sheet 2B.]  Fanny, wife of John Cram, born May 1881, age 19, married 1 year.  Mother of 1, 0 living.

BIOGRAPHY:
                                     FANNIE BUNTING
                               By LaVon Cram Blackburn

        Fannie Bunting was born 26 May 1881 at Kanab, Utah, and died 4 April 1948 at Orderville, Utah.  Her father James Lovett Bunting was at Lee's Ferry doing church work when his wife Harriet Dye delivered their last daughter, Fannie, the eleventh child of twelve.  Fannie was baptized a member of the LDS Church in 1890 but she was only twelve years old when her loving mother died of pneumonia.

        Fannie resembled-her mother in many ways: red-auburn hair, about the same size, had the same number of children, and seemed to follow in her footsteps of always studying, teaching, and helping others.  Fannie was an excellent speller and had beautiful penmanship; her father had her do the writing in the family Bible.  She enjoyed writing, especially life histories.  She kept a diary for years and said she could have written a book of the saddest days of her life: the hard times when their father was on a mission in England, their home burning during his absence, the sudden death of her wonderful mother and the years that followed.

         Alma, the youngest brother, was just ten when their mother died: The older daughters, Eliza, Ellen, and Annie, had already married and had families of their own.  James Ebenezer was serving a mission for the church and Will had already returned from his mission and then married soon after their mother's death.  Wallace Owen, then seventeen, tried to do all he could to help his two little sisters, Fannie and Alice, and his brother and so became nearer and dearer to them.

         Fannie's school days were usual for those times, ending with an eighth grade education.  She learned to be a good cook and housekeeper like her mother. The children took turns going with their father on occasions, but most of the time they had to stay at home and see to things in his absences.  There was always work to be done with a large garden, fruit trees, honey bees, the tannery, and church jobs.  And as there was no hotel in Kanab, the Bunting home was a welcome place for travelers to spend the night and stable their horses.

         John Smith Cram and Fannie Bunting had 'kept company' before his mission and she was waiting when he returned.  They were married 22 July 1898 at Kaiab and lived in the little old Cram house with the beautiful red hills behind them until after their sixth child was born. (Later the first hospital in Kane County was built nearby and the little cottage became part of its sunken garden.  Finally the home was torn down in 1938.)  John then built the large ten-room house on the southeast corner of their lot in Kanab, still in front of the beautiful red hills.  The Cram brothers helped build the lovely two-story lumber house and the Milne brothers of Cedar City came to paint the house white and the parlor in bird's eye maple.  Fannie enjoyed showing her family and friends through the house with its big kitchen sink and the parlor with the first player piano in Kanab.  The six-foot bath tub was John's pride as it was hard for him to fit into a No. 3 wash tub.  John's mother, Margaret Smith Cram, had a room in the new family home.  She was so kind and helpful, the family loved having her with them and being a trained nurse she came in very handy.

         John and Fannie's first baby Eldred John lived only a day.  Their next was a beautiful black haired girl named Margaret for her Grandmother Cram but called Madge.  Their baby boy Donald had hair like his mother and was so good looking he won the prize in a baby contest.

         At this time John and his brothers were engaged in the cattle business.  They decided to sell the Kanab Canyon property and go to House Rock Valley, Arizona, with the first Hereford cattle in the area.  Alma, Fannie's youngest brother came to stay with her when John was away.  So it was Alma who went for Aunt Lunny Brown, the midwife, when red headed LaVon was born.  Two years later another boy, Milton, who looked like his father was born.

         Fannie and her sisters Alice and Ellen prided themselves on their beautiful families and had children the same age.  There were many loving cousins who enjoyed visiting together.

         Fannie was a kind and loving mother who could never punish her children.  She would say when your father comes he will hear about this, but when John heard about it, he never punished them either.  Fan was a good manager, when the quilts were made, fruit bottled, soap made, rag rugs worked up, and the painting done, it was evident she was expecting a new baby, a pretty girl with large eyes like John's only sister so was named Clara.  Theo James was the next baby with curly hair, but when three years old he was kicked by a horse and died from the injuries.

         During the depression Fannie and John managed to put Donald through barber school and LaVon graduated from college at Cedar City.  In 1927, John wanted his children to see the country so with the Ford truck piled high and the Buick loaded they drove to Alamo, Nevada, to visit his brother George and family.  Then on to Sacramento to visit Mark Cram and his family, and on down the coast to Long Beach.  Fannie and all were so thrilled with their first sight of the ocean that John went to the Sears and Roebuck Store and bought eight bathing suits for the children.  Then on to Phoenix where they spent the winter and put the younger children in school while LaVon returned to teach school in Cedar City.

         When the family returned from this trip they were ready for work.  They remodeled the large home, built a small rental house, and constructed the dance hall and swimming pool called 'Hillcrest"'.  Here John realized one of his life long ambitions to furnish the young people of Kane County a place to hold wholesome outdoor recreation.  And just at its peak, John died of a sudden heart attack while visiting his married daughter LaVon in Orderville.

         Fannie loved to sing, always contributed to the cultural life of Kanab, taught Sunday School, gave lessons in Relief Society.  A devoted worker in the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Fannie's name appears in the first roll book of the Kane County Chapter in 1924 and for 24 years she was listed as an active member in regular attendance.  She was second lieutenant in Camp Three from 1926 to 1928 and became County Secretary in 1930.  In 1936, she was elected County President, a position she held for two years.  Fannie also helped compile the History of Kane County published by the D.U.P.

         Fannie never got over the loss of her love and help mate.  She had depended on him so much; he could do anything she thought.  Now with five fatherless boys she wondered how she would manage.  Milt married soon after but Donald helped manage things while Locklon, Owen, Norman, and Smith were at school and in the army.  Fannie had a three-star flag in her window during World War II and spent much time writing to her boys and grandsons, encouraging them to do their best, be careful and come back.  Every penny she could save she used for War Bonds to help all she could. All came back well and grown men.

         Donald's tragic death in 1946 was too much for Fannie and when his wife Marva moved her family to Arizona to be with her family, Fannie began to fail.  Fannie died on a Sunday like John had at the Blackburns' in Orderville and was buried along side her husband in Kanab.

OBITUARY:
                                  FANNIE B. CRAM

       KANAB:  April 8 - Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Bunting Cram, 66, active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, were conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Kanab First Ward L.D.S. chapel.

       Mrs. Cram died Sunday at the residence of a daughter, Mrs. LaVon C. Blackburn, Orderville, after a lingering illness.

       A devoted worker in the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Mrs. Cram's name appears in the first roll book at the Kane county chapter of this organization (1924) and for 24 years she was listed as an active member in regular attendance.  She was second lietenant in Camp Three from 1926 to 1928, and became county secretary in 1930.  In 1938 she was elected county president, a position she held two years.

       Mrs. Cram was L.D.S. Relief Society teacher and class leader for many years and also taught in the Sunday school.  Musical interests included membership in the Kanab L.D.S. ward choir and in the Singing Mothers church group.

       Daughter of James Lovett and Harriet Dye bunting, Mrs. Cram was born May 24, 1881, in Kanab where she resided all her life.  In July 1898, she was married to John S. Cram who died in 1933.

       Surviving are eight sons and daughters:  Mrs. Blackburn; Mrs. Margaret C. Little; Mrs. Clara C. Pratt; and Norman B. Cram of Kanab; Milton B. Cram, Fredonia, Ariz. and Locklon B., Smith B. and Owen B. Cram of Los Angeles, Cal.  Also surviving are two brothers, James L. Bunting, Kanab, and William Bunting, Bountiful: 21 grandchildren and on great grandchild.  Burial in Kanab city cemetery was directed by Pickett Mortuary.
                  

                   BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  1. Cemetery records, Kanab, Kane county, Utah.  FLH film # 0873918.  2. Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn.  3. Ancestral File - ver 4.13 review made in April 1994

MARRIAGE-DATE-PLACE-SPOUSE:  1. Marriage records, Kanab, Kane county, Utah.  FHL film #0484815.  Page 42.  License obtained 4 Nov 1907.  Married 4 Nov 1907 in Kanab.  2. Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn. 3. Ancestral File - ver 4.13 review made in April 1994

DEATH/BURIAL-DATE-PLACE:  1. Cemetery records, Kanab, Kane county, Utah. FLH film # 0873918.  [Date of death shown as 14 Apr 1952.]  2. Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn. 3. Ancestral File - ver 4.13 review made in April 1994