Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, Butler Co. JOSEPH BLUNK, Butler County, was born November 2, 1833, in Harrison County, Ind., where he grew to manhood, and, in 1875, removed to Meade County, Ky.; in 1876, to Hancock County; in 1880, to Daviess County, and in 1883 he located in Butler County, where he now resides. His father, Andrew Jackson Blunk, a native of Jefferson County, Ky., died in 1877, at the age of seventy years. He was the son of Andrew Blunk, who was born in Virginia, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. Andrew J. married Mary, daughter of Henson and Jane Johnson of Harrison County, Ind. (died in 1873, aged seventy years). Their offspring were John, Henson (died in the Mexican war), Joseph, Jane (Farnsley), Andrew, Levi, Amos and William. Joseph Blunk procured a common English education in youth. He was married August 15, 1850, to Adaline, daughter of Thomas and Susan (Gwartney) Wright, of Harrison County, Ind. (born April 16, 1834), and to them have been born William T., Mary E. (widow of Charley Fransell), Levi H., Andrew J., Susan E. (Renfrow), John S., Minnie M. and Virginia B. Mr. Blunk is a farmer owning 259 acres of land in a good state of cultivation. Blunk Johnson Farnsley Wright Gwartney Fransell Renfrow = Harrison-IN Meade-KY Hancock-KY Daviess-KY Jefferson-KY VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/butler/blunk.j.txt