Biography of Henry Gunsenhouser, pages 987 / 988.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Henry Gunsenhouser, section 21, Wilmington Township, was born in Summit 
County, Ohio, Feb.22, 1834, a son of Jacob J. Gunsenhouser, who brought his 
family to De Kalb County, and settled in Stafford Township in 1836, when the 
Indians were the principal inhabitants.  He was reared a farmer, but after 
attaining his majority learned the carpenter’s trade, at which he worked 
about ten years.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Forty-fourth Indiana 
Infantry, and participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, 
Perryville, Crab Orchard, Murfreesboro, Chattanooga, and others.  At Fort 
Donelson he was wounded, and carried the ball in his body till January, 
1884.  Henry Gunsenhouser was married Oct. 21, 1857, to Ann Huffman, 
daughter of Frederick Huffman, of Stafford Township.  To them have been born 
nine children, eight of whom are living---Mary, Ella, Ada, Ida, Florence, 
John, Myrtle, and Ernest.  Sadie, twin sister of Ada, died at the age of 
four years.  Mary is the wife of William Freidenbarger, and Ella of Peter 
Whitman.  In the spring of 1865 Henry Gunsenhouser moved to Wilmington 
Township, where he has a good farm of eighty acres.    He and his wife and 
two eldest children are members of the United Brethren church.

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