83. LUTHER & OTHERS⁵ BUNTING (KENDAL⁴, SMITH³, JONATHAN², WILLIAM¹) (#15352) birth date unknown.

Kendal died without a will. The names of his children are not known. Mrs. Carey believes that the John W. Bunting of Chincoteague & Pocomoke City descends from Kendal. Mrs. Carey names the children of Kendal as "Luther & others." (Mary Frances Carey, The Buntings of Jenkins Bridge) There is a Luther Bunting on the 1810 census of Accomack.

LUTHER & OTHERS BUNTING had the following child:

143 i. JOHN W.⁶ BUNTING (#15353) was born Jenkins Bridge, Accomack Co., VA 1833. JOHN died 1906 Chincoteague or Pocomoke City, at 73 years of age. He married SUSAN E. JESTER. (SUSAN E. JESTER is #15354.) 1906 Accomack News says his mother died when he was 6 and his father when he was 8. He worked on farms until he was 12 and came to Chincoteague and worked for Mr. Wealton for $12/year. He went to sea and moved from cabin-boy to captain. He engaged in the fish business and built a factory at the lower end of the Island. He had a son named Kendal. (Mary Frances Carey, The Bunting Family of Jenkins Bridge, 1981)

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