joined in this deed, from which it is to be inferred that she was deceased at that
date.
Abraham Tunes was one of the purchasers, with Caus Rittenhouse and John
Gorgas, on March 4, 1713-14, of the De Wees paper mills, the first in America.
On May 2, 1723, Abraham Tunes conveyed to his eldest son, William Tunes,
four hundred acres of the five hundred acres surveyed to him in right of the pur-
chase of Benjamin Furley, and the partition between him and John Lucken, in
Towamencin township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, and William
settled thereon. The name of Abraham Tunes, as signed to the various deeds,
above recited, though appearing in the body of the deed as "Tunes," is written in
proper form, "Abraham Teunisen." from which it may be inferred that his father's
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Christian, and not his surname, was "Teunis," quite a common name among the
Hollanders, and that, according to a Dutch custom of the time, the "sen" was added
to the father's Christian name, to make the surname of the son. It is therefore im-
possible, without research abroad, to trace the ancestry of this pioneer of the
family in America.
It is not possible to definitely determine the date of the death of Abraham Tunes
(or Teunisenj, of "Sommerhausen," as a careful search of the civil records of
Philadelphia county fails to disclose any probate records on his estate. It is prob-
able that in his old age, having lost his wife, he conveyed all his real estate to his
two sons, William and Anthony, and thereafter made his residence either with
one of them or with his daughter, Alice, wife of Jacob Levering, of Roxborough.
The births of his five children appear of record at Abington Friends' Meeting.
It was not until some years after they had become landowners that the early set-
tlers of Germantown made a concerted movement to have themselves declared ad-
herents of the English Crown, in order that their title to real estate, under its
jurisdiction, might become indefeasible. At a meeting of the Provincial Council
at Philadelphia, May 15, 1706, the petition of one hundred and fifty "high and low
Germans" was presented, requesting "(seeing they are not at present believed to
be secure in their estates), for remedying the unhappiness they may be engaged in,
if they still be considered foreigners, the Assembly may be convened with all Con-
venient speed & a Bill be recommended from this Board for naturalizing all &
every of the Petitioners, that they may have an undoubted right to hold, enjoy,
alienate, sell & dispose of any of their lands, as the natural born subjects of Eng-
land may or can do in this Provunce, & also that they may be capable of Electing
& being Elected, to serve in Assembly & other Offices ; also that some of the Petrs.
(petitioners) being Mennists who, (with their Predecessors for 150 Years past)
could not for Conscience sake take an Oath, the same provision may be made for
them by a law, as is made for those called Quakers in this Province, and that the
said Law may be sent home with the rest, past by the Assembly, in order to obtain
the Queen's Royal Approbation." Whereupon, "the petition being argued and
considered. It is Resolved that is highly reasonable the Petrs. and all others in
their circumstances should be rendered Secure in their Estates and Titles in their
Lands in this Province" * * * "leave is given the Petrs. to procure the Attorney
General to draw up a bill for that purpose, to be laid before this Board, where it
shall meet with all due Encouragement." It was not, however, until September
28, 1709, that the bill was finally passed by the Assembly and presented to the
Governor and Provincial Council, September 29, for naturalizing these Germans.
The names of those naturalized, headed by Francis Daniel Pastorius, is given in
the bill, and the name of "Abraham Tunnis" appears among them.
Issue of Abraham and BathshehaTunes, of Sommerhausen, Philadelphia county:
Elizabeth Tunis, b., Germantown, May 2. 1685;
Trintje (Catharine) Tunis, b., Germantown, Jan. 16. 1687:
William Tunis, b. Nov. 2. 1688; m. (first) Magdalena, dau. of Weigard Levering, of
Roxborough, pioneer of the prominent Phila. family of that name: (second) Christian
, who survived him. He received from his father, 1723, a deed for 400 acres of
land in Towamencin twp.. now Montgomery co., on which he settled, and where he d.
1748. letters of administration being granted on his estate to his eldest son, Abraham
Tennis (as all of his children signed the name), Jan. 17, 1748-9; his widow. Christian,
renouncing.
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H'illiam and Magdalena (Levering) Tunis had issue:
Abraham Tennis, settled in Richland twp.. Bucks co.; d. there, 1750, leaving a
widow, Anna, and several children;
Anthony Tennis, d., Towamencin, 1750, leaving an only child, Christina;
Samuel Tennis, of Towamencin, of whom we have no further record;
John Tennis, of Towamencin, of whom we have no further record;
Elizabeth Tennis, m. Morris; mentioned in will of her brother, Anthony,
1750.
Alice Tunis, b. Jan., 1691-2; m. Jacob Levering, youngest son of Weigard, and brother
of Magdalena, wife of her brother, William;
Anthony Tunis, "second son," b. March 24, 1693-4; of whom presently.
Anthonv Tunis, second son of Abraham and Bathsheba Tunis, of Chestnut
Hill, Philadel])hia county, was born at Germantown, March 24, 1693-4, and as
above shown, received from his father a deed for the "Somnierhausen" home-
stead, at Chestnut Hill, including his father's purchases of 1693, 1708 and 1712. He
married at the Merion Meeting of Friends, December 5, 1718, Mary, eldest daugh-
ter of John Williams, one of the pioneer Welsh settlers in the "Welsh Tract," in
Merion township, by his wife, Ellen, daughter of Arendt Klincken, a Dutch set-
tler in Germantown 1687. They continued to reside in Philadelphia county, Ger-
mantown township, until after 1740, conveying at different periods portions of
the Chestnut Hill property received from his father, but removed to Lower
Merion township, on the opposite side of the Schuylkill, 1740; though he continued
to own a portion of the Chestnut Hill property until August 20, 1746. when he
made a conveyance to Michael Hillegas of ten acres thereof. He had, however,
purchased two hundred and eighty-five acres in Chester county, 1730, which he
conveyed in 1743, without having settled thereon. On his removal to Lower
Merion, he purchased two considerable tracts of land near Merion Meetinghouse,
and resided there until his death, 5mo. 20, 1762, when they were devised to his
sons, Abraham and Joseph, respectively, by his will dated February 6, 1762, and
probated at Philadelphia, May 29,, of the same year. These two "Messuages or
Tenements" and tracts of land, described in his will, are doubtless the same as
those marked on Scull and Heap's map of Philadelphia county, 175077, as
"Tunis."
Anthony Tunis, member of Radnor (or Merion) Monthly Meeting of Friends,
was married at Merion Meetinghouse, as before stated, 1718, and the births of his
nine children are recorded on the register of that meeting. His father, Abraham
Teunisen, was doubtless, "with his predecessors for 150 years Past," as expressed
in the petition which he and others presented to Provincial Council 1706, a Men-
nonist, and like a number of his corn-patriots, finding no church of his sect in the
colony on their arrival, affiliated with the Friends, and was recognized as a mem-
ber, though we have been unable to find his name on the records of the meetings
of that vicinity. Mary (Williams) Tunis, widow of Anthony, was buried in the
Friends' graveyard at Merion, September 19. 1769.
Issue of Anthony and Mary (IVilliams) Tunis:
Elinor Tunis, b. Sept. 8, 1719, probably eldest dau., deceased at date of father's will, and
mentioned therein as "Elinor Cook," and her children— Elinor, Anthony, and Mary
Cook, m. Isaac Cook, at Abington Meeting, Sept., 1739; ^
Bathseba Tunis, b. 2mo. (April) 28, 1721; m. Evan Griffith; named in father's will;
Alice Tunis, b. 4mo. (June) 10, 1723; d. before her father; m. at Merion Meetinghouse.
7mo. (Sept.) I, 174Q, Joseph Lees, and had issue (mentioned in grandfather's will) —
.\gnes. Catharine. Tunis, Phebe, and Elizabeth Lees;
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Agnet Tunis, nientiout-d in father's will; ni., Dec. 12, 1751, Anthony Levering, her cousin,
son of Jacob and Alice (Tunis) Levering;
Catharine Tunis, b. i2nio. (Feb.) 10, 1727-8; m., June 2. 1749, Isaac, son of Abraham
and Mary (Peters) Kite, of Blockley, and grandson of James Kite, of Blockley, by his
wife, Mary, dau. of WilUam Warner, pioneer settler of Blockley, an account of whom
and his descendants is given elsewhere in these volumes;
Abraham Tunis, b. i2mo. (Feb.) 6, 1732-3; d. 1767; m. Hannah Humphreys; of whom
presently ;
Joseph Tunis, b. i2mo. (Feb.) 8, 1735-6; d. May 13, 1773; prominently identified with
Merion Meeting;
Elizabeth Tunis, b. lomo. (Dec.) 9, 1739; m., Oct. 30, 1759. Peter Righter, of Merion;
Hannah Tunis, mentioned in father's will as "Hannah Riber," possibly an error of the
scrivener, and meant for "Elizabeth Righter."
Abk.\ii.\m Tunis, eldest son of Anthony and Mary (_ Williams) Tunis, was
born February 6, 1732-3, in Germantown township, Philadelphia county. He
married at Merion Meetinghouse, 1755, Hannah Humphreys, and when his father
executed his will, 1762, was living on a plantation belonging to the father in Lower
Merion, which was by the will devised to him. He did not long survive his father,
however, as letters of administration were granted on his estate to his widow,
Hannah, and the latter's stepfather, Richard George, September 2, 1767. His
widow married, December 9, 1769, Charles Horton, and she and her three chil-
dren, by Abraham Tunis, are mentioned in will of Richard Cieorge, 1771, and that
t)f her mother, Esther George, 1776. At a session of the Orphans' Court of Phila-
delphia county, held June 8, 1772, guardians were appointed for the children of
Abraham and Hannah Tunis, on petition of the eldest son, Anthony, then just
past fifteen years of age. and the real estate of their father, inherited bv them, wa^
divided by deed several years later.
Abraham Tunis married at Merion Meetinghouse, November 13, 1755. Hannah,
only child of Benjamin Humphreys, Jr.. of Haverford township, Chester county,
by his wife, Esther, daughter of Isaac and Anne (Craven) Warner, of Blockley.
Philadelphia county, and granddaughter of William and Anne (Dide) Warner.
))ioneer settlers of Blockley.
Benjamin Humphreys, Jr., father of Hannah (Humphreys) Tunis, was born
in Haverford, January 17, 1701-02, and died there prior to December 19, 1740,
on which date his widow, Esther (Warner) Humphreys, married (second) at
Merion Meetinghouse, Richard George, of Blockley, whom she also survived, but
by whom she had no children. Richard George died 1771, and Esther, his widow.
1776; the w'ills of both mentioning the four children of Abraham and Hannah
( Humphreys ) Tunis.
Daniel Humphreys, father of Benjamin, was born in Llangelynin parish, county
of Merioneth, Wales, 1660, and was eldest son of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Reese 1
Humphreys. Samuel Humphreys died at Bryn-tallwyn. Merionethshire. Wales.
1677, and, July 27. 1683, the widow. Elizabeth, received from the Quarterly Meet-
ing of Merionethshire, a certificate for herself and five of her six surviving chil-
dren to transport themselves to Pennsylvania ; her eldest son, Daniel, having pre-
ceded her to this province, 1682. Samuel Humphrey was one of the early converts
to the doctrines of Friends and suffered much persecution for his religious faith,
some account of which is given in the "Narrative of John Humphrey," of Merion.
a brother of Samuel, who had come to Pennsylvania and settled in Alerion. Phila-
delphia county. T683. and died there, September 28, 1699. Benjamin Humphreys.
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the other surviving son of Samuel and Ehzabeth, accompanied his mother to
Pennsylvania, and inherited the farm of his uncle, John, the narrator, above men-
tioned, in Merion, and died there 1738. He married Mary Lewellyn, and left
several daughters.
Daniel Humphrey, as before stated, came to Pennsylvania in 1682. He later took
up land in Haverford, and married at Merion Meetinghouse, October 25, 1695,
Hannah, daughter of Thomas Wynne, Speaker of the first Provincial Assembly of
Pennsylvania. 1682-83, having accompanied William Penn to America in the
"Welcome."
Daniel and Hannah (Wynne) Humphreys were parents of ten children, six
sons and four daughters. Their son, Charles (named in will of Esther (Warner-
Humphreys) George, as her brother-in-law, and made one of the executors there-
of), was a member of Continental Congress, 1774-76, having served continuously
in Provincial Assembly from Chester county, 1763-75. Joshua Humphreys, son
of Joshua, and grandson of Daniel, was a prominent ship-builder in Philadelphia,
and designer of several ships of the early American navy ; a great-grandson, Sam-
uel Humphreys, was Chief Constructor of the Navy, 1815-46. General A. A.
Humphreys, of the United States .\rmy. who served with distinction in the Civil
War, was also a descendant.
Hannah Humphreys Tunis, widow of Abraham Tunis, married (second), De-
cember 9, 1769. Charles Horton, but does not appear to have had any children by
him. The date of her death was March 21. 1806. She is mentioned in the will of
her mother, Esther George, 1776.
Issue of Abraham and Hannah (Humphreys) Tunis:
Anthony, b. April 10. 1757; d. 1806; m., Haverford Meeting, July 14. 1778, Mary Thomas
(b. 1750; d. July 28, 1843). and had issue :
Charles Humphreys;
William, who d. in 1828:
.^braham, b. about 1787: m., 1809, Mary Hansel, and had issue:
Charles Humphreys, b. Oct. 2, 1810; d.. Phila.. March 23, 1897; m., May 16,
1833. Elizabeth Shepard (b. March 3, 1813), and had issue:
Mary Ann, b. Feb. 8, 1834: d. April 7, 1835;
John L.. b. Nov. i, 1835; d. March 9, 1859;
Edwin T., b. Nov. 26, 1837; d. Dec. 16, 1878:
Henrietta, b. June 2. 1840; living: m.. Nov. 10, 1858, Solomon G.
Grone, and had issue :
Emma Bergman, b. April 20, i860;
George Henry, b. April 23, 1863; m.. May 2. 1883, Ida Eliza-
beth Beaver, and had issue :
Eva Tunis, b. Aug. 19, 1884;
Charles Humphrey, b. Dec. 11, 1885; m., Dec 15, 1910.
Linda O'Daniel;
George Henry, Jr., b. Feb. 22. 1890; d. April 20, 1891 ;
Hiram Beaver, b. June 20. 1892.
Lilian Elizabeth, b. May 23. 1865.
Charles H., Jr., b. Feb. 22, 1843: d. Aug. 10, 1844:
Anna Maria, b. Nov. 27, 1845; d. July 9, 1850.
John Hansel, b. 1815; m. Georgiana Lowe, of Talbot co., Md., and had issue:
Sarah Catharine, b. 1838; m. John Cockey, of Kent Island, and had
issue — Julia; Mary; Mordecai Thomas; Emma Tunis; John Han-
sell Tunis, who m. May Tolson, and had three children — William
Edwin, Charles Carroll, and Irving Clay Cockey;
Charles, b. 1839; d. in inf.;
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William Wrightson, b. 1841 ; m. Sarah Dabney, and had three chil-
dren :
Edith Dabney Tunis, b. 1875; m. W. W. Sale:
Robert LeRoy Tunis, b. 1880;
Allen Tunis, b. 1889.
Theophilus, b. 1842; m. (first) Sarah Mahomer, (second) Bessie
Wilson: by first wife had issue — Robert Matthias Mahomer Tunis,
b. 1873, m. Elizabeth Ferebee, and has one child— Elizabeth Fere-
bee Tunis, b. 1910; and by second wife — Suzaine, b. 1895;
Joseph Theodore, b. 1844: m. Helen Dawson Kemp and had six
children :
Albert Dashields, b. 1873, d. 1905:
Joseph Kemp, b. 1876: m. Blanche Mellinger, in KX33, and they
have three children ;
Sarah Caulk, b. 1878:
John Oliver, b. 1880:
Elizabeth, b. 1882;
Archer Carlton, b. 1884; m. Ethel Farlow, in 1910.
John Oliver, b. 1845, d. in young manhood:
Lyman, b. 1847, d. a young man;
Edwin Lowe. b. 1848: m. Jennie Wrightson, and had three children:
Oliver Lyman, b. 1872: m. Julia Jackson, in 1896, and has two
children: Edwin, b. 1897, and Virginia, b. 1907:
Mary Blanche, b. 1874 ;
Howard Hansel, b. 1876.
Henry Clay, b. 1851 ; m. Viola White, in 1882, and had five children:
May, b. 1883; m. Williatn Green, in 1909: they have one child;
Grace, b. 1885; d. 1907:
Helen, b. 1887;
Charles, b. 1889;
Mildred, b. 1891.
Walter Hansell. b. 1854: m. Rosalie Ijams. in 1881. and they have
two children :
Harry Ogle. b. 1882:
Ruby. b. 1884.
Florence, b. 1864, unm.
Zachariah, b. 1807: m., 1828. Teresa Hammer, and had issue:
Mary;
Richard, b. 1832; living: m. Isabella, dau. of Robert and Margaret
(Gibson) Thomson, and had issue:
William Henry, b. 1856; m. Elizabeth Gibson, and they have
three children: Isabella, William Henry Jr.. and George C;
Mary, b. 1858: d. 1877;
Robert Wallace, b. Jan. 19, 1866; m.. April 14, 1898. Florence
Harper Treichler. and had issue:
Florence Willoughby, b. April 20, 1902;
Richard Meredith, b. Jan. 22, 1905;
Robert Wallace, Jr.. b. June 26. 1906; d. in inf,
Madge Gibson, b. 1869: m. Nathaniel G. Horn;
Frank Higgins. b. 1876; d, 1901;
Edna Teresa, b. 1880: unm.
Thomas, b. 1820 :
Sarah :
Jane.
Rees, of whom we have no further record:
Priscilla, b. Jan. 31, 1791: d.. Libertyville, Pa., Feb. 6. 1879;
Jane, m. McKeever. and had issue :
Sarah, who m. her first cousin, William Timis.
Anthony, of whom we have no record;
Richard, who d. in 1838.
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Richard, b. Aug. 12, 1759; d. 1808; m. Jane Roberts; of whom presently;
Benjamin, b. Aug. 16, 1762;
Esther, b. Sept. 20, 1765.
Richard Tunis, second son of Abraham and Hannah (Humphreys) Tunis,
born in Lower Merion township, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, August I2,
'759. ^''^^ but eight years of age at the death of his father, and his mother remar-
ried two years later. The later years of his childhood were possibly spent in the
home of his maternal grandmother, Esther (Warner) Humphreys-George, and
her second husband, Richard tieorge, on an adjoining property. The will of
Richard George, who seems to have died childless, gives legacies to his "step-
grandchildren," children of his wife's daughter, Hannah 1 lorton, and directs that
his wife, Esther, rear and educate her grandson. Benjamin Tunis, youngest of the
three step-grandsons.
The forty-six acres of land which .Abraham Tunis inherited under his father's
will, were conveyed to Richard Tunis, by his brothers and sister, prior to August
17, 1783, on which date Richard Tunis, then of Lower Merion, conveyed it to
William Stadelman. This was approximately the date of the marriage of Rich-
ard Tunis, and he seems to have at once taken up his residence in the city of
l^hiladelphia, where he engaged in the mercantile business. He owned at different
periods, business stands on Water street, Sixth street, and at the corner of George
street and Swanwick alley, and "messuages and tenements in Point Pleasant.
Kensington. Northern Liberties of Philadelphia." His will, dated May 14, 1808,
and proven May 25, 1808, devises his estate equally to his children — Hannah,
Jehu, Thomas, and Jane — when they shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years.
He, however, directs that his son, Jehu, be established in the mercantile business,
in partnership with James Way, "who for some time hath principally conducted
my concerns in trade": and that the executor be authorized to loan to said Jehu,
the whole estate for that purpose, the partnership to begin on January i. 1809.
Richard Tunis married at the Lutheran Evangelical Church of St. Michael's
and Zion. Philadelphia. August 12. 1783, "Geane" (Jane), born May 26, 1755.
died September 26. 1807. daughter of John Roberts, Jr., of Merion, by his wife.
Jane Downing, and granddaughter of John Roberts, of Merion, in the Welsh
tract, Philadelphia county, by his wife, Hannah, daughter of Robert Lloyd, of
Merion, by his wife, Lowry Jones, daughter of Rees John William, the eminent
Quaker of the Welsh tract.
John Roberts, Sr., was the first of the three husbands of Hannah Lloyd, whom
he married. November 20, 1720. He died in the year succeeding his marriage,
and before the birth of his only child. John Roberts, Jr., which occurred October
15, 1721. John Roberts, Jr., died November 4, 1778; he married, June t, 1743,
Jane Downing, born in Concord, Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1723,
and died in Merion, October 29, 1795. She was the daughter of Thomas Down-
ing, founder of Downingtown, Chester county, Pennsylvania, born in Bradnich.
Devonshire, England, December 14, 1691, and died at Downingtown, January 13.
1772. With his second wife, Thomazine, mother of his children, he came to Ches-
ter county in 171 7, and operated a mill in Concord until 1733, when he removed to
Sadsbury, and from there to the site of Downingtown. 1739; erecting there mills
and other manufactories, and establishing important industries, which were en-
larged and continued by his sons and grandsons.
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Issue of Richard and Jane (Roberts) Tunis:
Hannah Tunis, b. Nov. 12, 1786; m., March 4, 1812, Andrew EHicoti, of Baltimore, Md„
son of Andrew and Esther (Brown) Ellicott, of Bucks co., Pa., later of Ellicott's
Mills, Md.: they had four children: Jane, Eliza. Maria and Andrew; she died Sept.
S, 1819;
Jehu Tunis (see reference to his establishment in business with James Way, in above
account of his father's will) ; m. Miss Fo.x ;
John Roberts Tunis, b. 1789; d. Oct. 31, 1819: m., Feb. 18, 1819, Elizabeth Mary Pember-
ton, dau. of Hon. George Fox, of "Champlost," by his first wife, Mary Pemberton ; no
Thomas Roberts Tvnis, b. March 1, 1792; d. Feb. 26, 1829; m. Ann Eliza Guest: of
whom presently ;
Jane Tunis, b. 1796: d. Sept. 12. 1861 : m., Sept.. 1824. Evan Poultney, of Baltimore. Md.
Thom.\s Roberts Tunis, third son of Richard and Jane ( Roberts ) Tunis, was
born in Philadelphia, March 1, 1792, and died there February 26, 1829. He mar-
ried, May 6, 1822, Ann Eliza, daughter of John Guest (born 1768), by his wife,
Rebecca Hall (born 1775), and great-granddaughter of John Guest (born January
3, 1713), who married, December 23, 1743, Elizabeth Simmons, and great-great-
granddaughter of (jeorge Guest, Jr., who married at Burlington Meeting, New-
Jersey, August 15. 1701, Elizabeth, daughter of Judge James Marshall, who with
his wife, Rachel Hudson, had come from Yorkshire, England, 1683. George
(juest, Jr., was a son of George and Alice (Bailyes) Guest, who came from
Birmingham, county Warwick. England, about 1680, and settled for a time at
Burlington, New Jersey, but removed to Philadelphia soon after, and resided in a
cave on the bank of the Delaware, where George Guest died in 1685. His widow,
-Mice Guest, later erected a house near the site of the cave, in which she resided
until her death, August, 1755, at a very advanced age. She was a daughter of
William Bailyes, of Birmingham, and his wife, Alice, daughter of Thomas Chan-
ders, of county Warwick, and granddaughter of William Bailyes, Sr., of the same
{jiace, who married Alice Sommerland, January 26, 1612-13. George Guest, Sr.,
was a son of John Guest, of Birmingham, covmty Warwick, and his wife, Joanna.
Thomas R. Tunis and Ann Eliza Guest were married at the residence of the
bride's mother. Seventeenth and Sansom streets. May 6. 1822. in the evening, by
Robert Wharton, then Mayor of Philadelphia.
Issue of Thomas Roberts and Ann RJiza (Guest) Tunis:
Rebecca Guest Tunis, b. Dec, 16, 1823: m.. June 27. 1848, Rev. Edward Baldwin Brucn.
and had four children — James. Edward, Ella, and Catharine Bruen. She died in
Phila., Jan. 7. 1904;
Jehu Roberts Tunis, b. at Seventeenth and Sansom sts., Phila., -Aug. 22„ 1825: d.. Chicago,
111.. Sept. 14. 1848; buried at Woodlands Cemetery. Phila.:
Richard Tunis, b. Oct. 14, 1826:
Thom.\s Roberts Tunis. Jr., b. June 14. 1828: d. Jan. 6. 1868: m. Anna Callender Price;
nf whom presently.
TiioM.\s Roberts Tunis. Jr., youngest son of Thomas Roberts and .\nn Eliza
I (juest) Tunis, born, Philadelphia, June 14, 1828, received the major portion of his
education in France, but was a student at the University of Pennsylvania in 1844;
in the sophomore year of the class of 1847, and a member of the Zelosophic Soci-
ety there. He was a merchant in Philadelphia, as had been his father and grand-
father, and a member of the Episcopal Church. He died January 6, 1868. He
was married, November 25. 1856. at the Church of the Epiphany. T^hiladelphia,
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by Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania, to Anna Callender, born No-
vember 3, 1834, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Gillingham (Simmons) Price,
of Philadelphia, a member of the Society of Friends, to which sect the Tunis
family had belonged until the marriage of Richard Tunis, grandfather of Thomas