Son of Dea. Elihu Gunn & Lucy Phelps Seeking information on the parents & siblings of Lucy Phelps. First Generation 1. Aaron GUNN was born on 4 Apr 1806 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts. He died on 12 Mar 1897 in , LaSalle, Illinois. History of The Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, by John Montague Smith, prepared by Henry W. Taft & Abbie T. Montague. Press of E. A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, Mass., 1899. p. 388. Served in the Black Hawk war; removed to Illinois. Source: La Salle County Directory: La Salle Township, The Past and Present of La Salle County, IL, H.F. Kett & Co., Chicago, 1877, page 606 GUNN AARON, Farmer; Sec. 10; was born in Montague, Franklin Co., Mass., April 4, 1806; he left there In 1830, being twenty-four years of age; he walked from his native town to Troy, N.Y., a distance of seventy-five miles; then took the Erie canal to Buffalo; then went to Detroit on Lake Michigan; he landed here in La Salle, in June, 1831, being the oldest settler in the Tp., and there being but few older in the Co.; Mr. G. is now in-his seventy-first year, and enjoys good health; wife was Nancy Winters, born near Dayton, Ohio, July 31, 1806; they were married May 14. 1837; have six children living and one dead: Jeanette Z., born Feb. 26, 1838; Moses. March 30.1839: Lucy, Dec. 2, 1841; Lydia 0., April 5, 1843 (died July 8, 1861); Elizabeth. Feb. 2, 1846; Aaron E. March 14, 1848; Esther Belle, March 7, 1850; has 280 acres land; value of estate, $25,000; Baptist GUNN Aaron E. farmer. Aaron GUNN and Nancy M. WINTERS were married on 13 May 1837 in Magnolia, Putnam, Illinois. Aaron GUNN and Nancy M. WINTERS had the following children: 2 i. Jeanette Z. GUNN was born on 26 Feb 1838. 3 ii. Moses GUNN was born on 30 Mar 1839. 4 iii. Lucy GUNN was born on 2 Dec 1841. 5 iv. Lydia O. GUNN was born on 5 Apr 1843. She died on 8 Jul 1861. 6 v. Elizabeth GUNN was born on 2 Feb 1846. 7 vi. Aaron E. GUNN was born on 14 Mar 1848. 8 vii. Esther Belle GUNN was born on 7 Mar 1850.