Is anyone else researching the FUNSTON's? Does anyone know who the 10 children John and Mary (ATEN)FUNSTON had? I only have 5; Thomas, Jesse, Henry, Mary, Sarah. John and Mary are my 5th gr-grandparents. "John FUNSTON settled on and purchased a tract of land soon after the Revolutionary war, near where Jerseytown has since been built, and there opened one of the first stores in the county, beginning with a limited stock of goods and a limited trade in a very sparsely settled region. By dint of energy, however, the business was successfully continued there and in Jerseytown by himself and sons for many years. John FUNSTON died December 6, 1844, on one of his farms near Jerseytown at the advanced age of ninety-two years, closely identified with the church and after having lived a respected and useful life, having held the office of justice of the peace and many positions of trust and honor in his locality. His wife, formerly Mary ATEN, died November 22, 1838, aged seventy-five years, the mother of ten children" (the above from Battle) Doneva Shepard in OR