General Notes

Henry Clay Bunting, fourth child of Redding Bunting, was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1839. He was educated in the public school and at Madison College, Uniontown. In 1857 he went west, locating in Bonaparte, Iowa, but after two years returned to Fayette county, where he farmed near Oak Grove cemetery, until the outbreak of the civil war.

He enlisted April 18, 1861, in the Fayette Guards, the first company raised in the county. The same day they went to Pittsburgh, where on April 22, 1861, they were mustered into the United States army as Company G, Eighth Regiment, 8th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
For twenty years he was in the employ of the Dunbar Furnace Company, and for four years, 1889 to 1893, was postmaster at Dunbar, appointed under the administration of President Benjamin Harrison.

In 1895 he was elected justice of the peace, serving until 1900. He served as burgess of the village two terms, and for two years was truant officer, a position he then resigned. He is a Republican, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Union Veteran Legion.

He married, in 1867, Phoebe Jane, daughter of Robert and Harriet (Strickler) Wood, both deceased. Children: 1. Harriet, now bookkeeper for George Swearingen, general merchant, of Dunbar, 2. Mary, married Bert Wood, whom she survives. 3. Anna, deceased; married George Tarr, of Uniontown. 4. Ella, married I. M. Hodgson. 5. Redding, residing at Pittsburgh. 6. Harry, a patternmaker residing at home. 7. Joseph, who clerked three years in store at Dunbar, worked at the carpenter's trade two years and is now farming. 8. Robert, died in infancy. 9. Ried.