Capt. Fletcher D. Rundell

          Capt. Fletcher D. Rundell, born January 5, 1839, in Richland County, 
      Ohio, is the fifth son and seventh child of Hiram R. and Mercy (Wyatt) 
      Rundell, natives of new York, and of English and French descent. His 
      parents were married in new York, whence they moved to a farm in Richland 
      County, Ohio, and lived until 1842, when they came to Indiana. They 
      entered eighty acres of land in Green Township, Morgan County, which they 
      continued to improve for several years. In 1850, they removed to a farm 
      near Morgantown, where, in November of the same year, the father's death 
      occurred. The mother still lives in Morgan County.
          Capt. Rundell was reared at home until after his father's death, and 
      he was then employed to help on a farm in the immediate neighborhood. He 
      kept this situation until in 1860, when he began learning the carpenter's 
      trade in Morgantown, continuing until 1861. He enlisted in April, 1861, in 
      Company K, Seventh Indiana Volunteers, under Capt. J. K. Scott, and on 
      September 12, 1861, he enlisted in the three years' service in Company G, 
      Twenty-seventh Indiana Volunteers, under Capt. J. R. Fessler. He served 
      nearly four years, and took part in the following engagements: Philippi, 
      Laurel Hill, Carrick's Ford, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, 
      Atlanta, and a large number of smaller engagements. After the battle of 
      Antietam, he was promoted to second Lieutenant. April 5, 1863, he was 
      promoted to First Lieutenant for meritorious conduct, and soon after to 
      the rank of Captain .He received an honorable discharge November 4, 1864, 
      and returning to Morgantown was soon afterward was married to America A. 
      Holman, daughter of William P. Holman, of Morgan County. By this union 
      there was one child, Chester Q. His wife died August 12, 1867. On June 17, 
      1870, he married Mary A. Moran, daughter of John Moran, an old citizen of 
      Martinsville. They have one child, Eunice May. In 1867, the Captain came 
      to Martinsville, and has since resided there, engaged in carpentering. He 
      is a Past Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and is politically a 
      Republican; and he and wife are members of the Methodist Church.
      
      Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and 
      Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 
      1884.