11. THE BUNGERS IN AMERICA
Marie Bunger Fust's young sister, Sophia Bunger, married Hans Christoph Heinrich Huenemoerder in Germany on August 17, 1883, and almost immediately immigrated to America. Their ship was the "Westphalia" which sailed from Hamburg and Havre, France, arriving in New York City on September 11, 1883. Sophia's husband was a brother to Sophia Hunemoerder Bunger, her step-mother, so Hans was Johann Jochim Andreas Bunger's brother-in-law as well as his son-in-law! Hans changed the Hunemoerder name (meaning "giant killer") to Hummiller in America. Hans and Sophia lived near the Fred Fust farm near Dysart, Iowa. So besides her brother John Bunger, Marie Fust also had her sister nearby!
On September 20, 1884, Marie Bunger Fust's father, Johann Bunger, his second wife Sophia, and their two little sons, Heinrich and Hermann, half-brothers to Marie Fust, Sophia Hummiller, and John Bunger already in Iowa, arrived in New York City on the "S.S. Hammonia". They went directly to Iowa, settling on a farm whose inner corner touched the inner corner of the Fust farm in the same section of land. We can imagine that our Grandpa William Fust and his sisters, Aunt Frieda, Aunt Erna, and Aunt Emma, often visited with their young uncles, Henry and Herman Bunger, as well as their Grandpa Johann Bunger, Step-grandmother Sophia, and Aunt Sophia Hummiller.
Hans and Sophia Hummiller (also spelled Huemoeller) raised a large family: Fred H., born 1882 in Germany; Julius John, 1885; Martin, about 1887; twins Amanda Marie and William, 1890; Emma Mina, 1891; John Henry, 1893; George Gustav, 1900; Hans William, 1903; Harry John, 1905; and Elsie Mathilda, 1906. The Hummillers moved to Pipestone, Minnesota in about 1892, about the same time that Fred and Marie Bunger Fust moved to Rock County, Minnesota, just south of Pipestone County, north of Iowa, and west of SE South Dakota.
On September 20, 1884, Marie Bunger Fust's father, Johann Bunger, his second wife Sophia, and their two little sons, Heinrich and Hermann, half-brothers to Marie Fust, Sophia Hummiller, and John Bunger already in Iowa, arrived in New York City on the "S.S. Hammonia". They went directly to Iowa, settling on a farm whose inner corner touched the inner corner of the Fust farm in the same section of land. We can imagine that our Grandpa William Fust and his sisters, Aunt Frieda, Aunt Erna, and Aunt Emma, often visited with their young uncles, Henry and Herman Bunger, as well as their Grandpa Johann Bunger, Step-grandmother Sophia, and Aunt Sophia Hummiller.
Hans and Sophia Hummiller (also spelled Huemoeller) raised a large family: Fred H., born 1882 in Germany; Julius John, 1885; Martin, about 1887; twins Amanda Marie and William, 1890; Emma Mina, 1891; John Henry, 1893; George Gustav, 1900; Hans William, 1903; Harry John, 1905; and Elsie Mathilda, 1906. The Hummillers moved to Pipestone, Minnesota in about 1892, about the same time that Fred and Marie Bunger Fust moved to Rock County, Minnesota, just south of Pipestone County, north of Iowa, and west of SE South Dakota.
The patriarch Johann Jochim Andreas Bunger died at age 72 on February 8, 1895, and was buried at Clutier, Iowa. Then that same year, 1895, his 52-year-old widow, Sophia Hunemoerder Bunger, married Alfred Erickson, who was 6 years younger than Sophia, and they moved to Carlton County, near Barnum, Minnesota, where the Bunger boys, Heinrich and Hermann, grew to manhood.
In the meantime, Marie's brother, Uncle John Bunger, lived in Iowa for about seven years before he bought a farm near Hardwick, Minnesota. This is the farm he rented out to his nephew, Grandpa William and Grandma Bertha Fust, newlyweds in 1900, which became the birthplace of the first five Fust children -- Marie, Jacob, Rosa, Alfred, and Huldah.
Our great-grandmother, Marie Bunger Fust passed away on February 18, 1919 at Hardwick, Minnesota, of dropsy and Bright's disease.
Then, John Bunger, always a bachelor, lived with Fritz and Erna Fust until Fritz died in 1927 at the home of Mrs. Hans (Sophia) Hummiller. Then both Uncle John Bunger and Aunt Erna Fust lived with William and Bertha Fust and their family on the Cayuga, North Dakota farm until Uncle John Bunger passed away there in 1934. He is buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Luverne, Minnesota.
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