Henry Ernest Bumgardner

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Source: Claude Marion Shawbell III
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My Grandfather, Henry provided much of the Bumgardner-Beery information for me when I started genealogical research in 1961. His hand written original letter is in the Archives. An interesting historical experience of his childhood: "My Dad, Henry Harrison, sold pies to the Army when he was 13 years old during the Civil War. I had the pleasure of going back to Kentucky with Dad and Mother when I was 8 years old...During the Civil War my Dad showed this Colonel how to cross the Green River, and he never lost any men. My Dad he never forgot. We stayed with the old Colonel on our visit. The Colonel had five old maid daughters and they took me everywhere they went. They had a lot of fine gated horses and we went riding every day. When my Dad was about 18 years old, the Colonel had a Gunsmith make my Dad a cap and ball rifle as a Gift. I was awfully small at 8 years old but this old Colonel and his home and daughters I've never forgotten. They lived in Louieville (sic), Kentucky.
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Henry married Ruth Estelle Beery, daughter of Thomas Calvin Beery and Cora B. Davis, about 1913. (Ruth Estelle Beery was born on 8 August 1894 in Ashton, Sumner, Kansas, United States and died on 27 April 1932 in Arkansas City, Cowley, Kansas, United States.)