Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina
Name / Age
Chang Bunker 39
Eng Bunker 39
Sarah A Bunker 27
Adalade Bunker 22
Catharine Bunker 6
Josephine Bunker 6
Julia A Bunker 5
Christopher Bunker 5
Decator [sic] 4
Nancy Bunker 3
James Bunker 2
Mary A Bunker 3 months
Patrick H Bunker 1 month
1860 United State Federal Census
Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina
Name / Age
Chang Bunker 49
Adalade Bunker 37
Josephine Bunker 17
Christopher Bunker 15
Nancy Bunker 13
Mary Bunker 11
Victoria Bunker 9
Louisa Bunker 6
Albert Bunker 3
Confederate Soldier Service
Christopher / C.W. Bunker; 20 years old; enlisted 1863; served in the 37th Battalion, Virginia Calvary, (Dunn’s Battalion, Partisan Rangers), Company I; Private (see Chinese in the Civil War, bottom, for details)
1870 United State Federal Census
Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina
Name / Age
Chang Bunker 59
Adalade Bunker 43
Christopher Bunker 25
Nancy Bunker 23
Mary Bunker 20
Victoria Bunker 17
Louisa Bunker 14
Albert Bunker 12
Isse Bunker 10
Lizzie Bunker 8
Hettie Bunker 1
Jacob Bunker 20
Jack Bunker 19
James Bunker 14
New York Herald
March 23, 1874
Chang and Eng.
1880 United State Federal Census
Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina
Name / Age
Adalade Bunker 57
Christopher Bunker 35
Albert L Bunker 23
Jesse L Bunker 19
M Elizabeth Bunker 16
Hattie I Bunker 11
United States Postmaster
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Haystack, Surry County, North Carolina
1883, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1891, 1897, 1899, 1905, 1910
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Haystack, Surry County, North Carolina
1883, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1891, 1897, 1899, 1905, 1910
(North Carolina)
July 2, 1896
Roll of Old Veterans.
The following Confederate veterans, members of Surry County Camp, No. 707, attended the Reunion at Richmond this week: ...C. W. Bunker....The following Veterans are members of the Camp, but did not attend the Reunion: ...S. D. Bunker....
(The Confederate Reunion of 1896 began June 28.)
1900 United State Federal Census
(The Confederate Reunion of 1896 began June 28.)
1900 United State Federal Census
Dobson, Surry County, North Carolina
Name / Age
Christopher Bunker 55
Mary E Bunker 39
(Wilmington, North Carolina)
October 21, 1904
Winston Sentinel: Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Bunker, of Haystack, Surry county, passed through the city last evening on their way to the St. Louis exposition. Mr. Bunker is a son of one of the Siamese towns [sic]. He has a silver dollar that has a record. Thirty years ago Mr. Bunker got it from J.M. Jones, of Boonville, and has kept it since as a pocket piece. It is worn very little and every mark on it shows plainly. It was coined in the year 1798. Mr. Bunker says he could get five dollars for it but will not sell.
1910 United State Federal Census
Dobson, Surry County, North Carolina
Name / Age
Christopher Bunker 65
Mary E Bunker 49
Christopher L Bunker 27
1920 United State Federal Census
Dobson, Surry County, North Carolina
Name / Age
Christopher Bunker 74
Mary E Bunker 55
Christopher L Bunker 37
Winston-Salem Journal
(North Carolina)
August 1, 1926
...When they [Chang and Eng] came South and settled at Mt. Airy they transferred their allegiance to the South. The Civil War found them casting their fortunes and the lives of their children on the side of the South. They were fifty years old, too old for the military service even if they had been capable of it, but they had sons, and each sent a son. Chang’s son, Christopher W. Bunker, now a veteran eighty years old, resides in Haystack in Surry County. Stephen D. Bunker, son of Eng, distinguished himself as a soldier and was wounded....
1930 United State Federal Census
Dobson, Surry County, North Carolina
Name / Age
Christopher Bunker 84
Mary E Bunker 69
Christopher L Bunker 47
North Carolina Death Certificate
Christopher Bunker, 86
birth April 8, 1845, Surry, North Carolina
death April 2, 1932, Dobson, Surry
Mary Haynes Bunker, spouse
Eng Bunker, father
Adalade Bunker, mother
Further Reading
Association to commemorate the Chinese serving in the American Civil War
Chinese serving in the Confederate army force
Christopher Wren Bunker and Stephen Decatur Bunker
Christopher Wren Bunker Letters, 1863–1864
Chinese in the Civil War
Ruthanne Lum McCunn
North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial
From Foreign Field: Service by Foreign-born Residents in North Carolina’s Confederate Ranks
North Carolina Digital Collection
Jackson, George Washington (Surry County)
C.W. Bunker mentioned on fifth page
Our State: North Carolina
The Civil War
Chang and Eng
Surry County
Carolyn Boyles, Wilma Hiatt
Arcadia Publishing, 2000
Page 63 photograph of Confederate reunion in Mount Airy probably included the Bunker brothers, Christopher and Stephen.
United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form
The owners of C.W. Bunker’s Haystack farm filed an application in 1981.
Bunker is in the National Park Service book, Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War.
(Next post: Stephen Decatur Bunker)
Chinese serving in the Confederate army force
Christopher Wren Bunker and Stephen Decatur Bunker
Christopher Wren Bunker Letters, 1863–1864
Chinese in the Civil War
Ruthanne Lum McCunn
North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial
From Foreign Field: Service by Foreign-born Residents in North Carolina’s Confederate Ranks
North Carolina Digital Collection
Jackson, George Washington (Surry County)
C.W. Bunker mentioned on fifth page
Our State: North Carolina
The Civil War
Chang and Eng
Surry County
Carolyn Boyles, Wilma Hiatt
Arcadia Publishing, 2000
Page 63 photograph of Confederate reunion in Mount Airy probably included the Bunker brothers, Christopher and Stephen.
United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form
The owners of C.W. Bunker’s Haystack farm filed an application in 1981.
Bunker is in the National Park Service book, Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War.
(Next post: Stephen Decatur Bunker)
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