Father: William LUN
Mother: Isabella
TURNBULL
Family 1: Caroline GREGORY
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William was born in the Town of Edmeston, Otsego County, NY. The federal census of 1850 lists him as living with his parents, 2 brothers and 4 sisters on a farm in the Town of Edmeston. However his mother died in November 1850 and the New York State census for 1855 shows him living in the Town of Burlington, Otsego County with the family of Walter and Rebecca Hume where he is listed as a servant. In 1860 he was living with the family of Daniel and Aceneth Pattingill in the town of New Lisbon, Otsego County NY.
He served in the Civil War enrolling on 13 August 1862 in Company K of the 121st Regiment of NY Volunteers commanded by Col. R. Franchot and was mustered on 23 August 1862 at Herkimer NY. Records from the National Archives, which state he requested invalid pension, describe him as being 5' 9" tall with brown hair and brown eyes. Piecing together his pension records and affidavits of neighbors, it appears he had a gun shot wound to the left thigh 3 May 1863 and was hospitalized at Lincoln Hospital, Washington DC from 30 July to 22 September 1863 with pleuritis. From 26 October 1863 to 29 February 1864 he was with the invalid corps 81 "Co. 2" VRC and then was with Co. F, 18th Regiment VRC in March and April 1864. His pension requests stated he was treated for malaria in the Regimental Hospital, White Oak Church, VA and for intermittent fever at Lincoln Hospital, Washington DC. He was mustered out at Washington DC on 27 June 1865 as a sergeant per G.O. #116 dated 7 June 1865. Several books have been written about the 121st Regiment. Will Lunn found this photo of William Lunn and an unidentified friend in Civil War uniforms.
Following discharge he worked as a farm laborer at "half price" (his phrase used in his pension request) until January 1867, and thereafter was a farmer. He married Caroline Gregory in 1867 and that same year purchased her father's farm (For location see J. Gregory just north of New Lisbon Center in District # 7 on the 1868 New Lisbon map). Pension requests in 1879-1888 state he suffered from recurrent diarrhea which afflicted him 5 or 6 times a year and led to "dropsy" which in turn led to the Sleeping Lethargy. In 1878 he was treated for intermittent biliary fever which confined him to the house for 6 weeks. In 1879 he had a violent attack of "cholera morbus"
In 1885 he built the octagon barn near Welcome NY which lost its cupola in the 1970's and collapsed in the winter of 1995-6. I took a picture of the barn and the cornerstone in 1994. A picture taken in 1965 shows the cupola. No. 3 on the modern Otsego County map shows where the octagon barn was located.
At age 54 he was killed by a team of runaway horses in Stetsonville on the east side of Route 51 at a point five miles north of the intersection of county route 51 and NYS Route 23 in Morris NY. A stone marker was placed at the site (no. 4 on the modern map, and the red square on the 1868 map) by his sons. Having fallen into disrepair the marker was placed upright and brush cleared from it by the county highway department on July 25 1997.
He had two brothers and four sisters.
William and Caroline had 3 children.