Note: Baptism date is after Endowment date. Error? Info taken from Ancestral File ver 4.13.
DATES-PLACES-FAMILY: Data taken from James Lovett Bunting and Harriet Dye Bunting Family History book compiled and distributed around 1980 by LaVon Cram Blackburn. [Input to PAF by Charles R. Holmes.]
OTHER SOURCES: Family records compiled (March 1975) by Pauline Bunting Lyman of Salt Lake City.
OTHER DATA: Ancestral File - ver 4.13 review made in April 1994 and PAF edited by Charles R. Holmes.
OBITUARY: James Lovett Bunting.
Southern Utah Pioneer
Dies at Advance Age
KANAB, Utah, Nov. 24 James Lovett Bunting , the last survivor of the original pioneer of Kanab, passed to the great beyond Nov. 20, 1923, at the ripe old age of 91 years. He was born Oct. 5, 1833, at Attleborough, Norfolk, England. Becoming a convert to "Mormonism", he was baptized March 7, 1953. Soon afterwards he was ordained an elder and called to labor as a local missionary. Later, he presided over the Manchester conference, holding the position until he emigrated to Utah in 1858. On May 15, 1859, he married Miss Harriet Dye (a daughter of Robert Dye and Harriet Coman), who was the mother of their twelve children.
In 1870, he was called to Kanab where he labored faithfully to make "the desert blossom as the rose". He was noted for his habits of thrift and industry. He filled many positions of honor and trust in the Church, such as stake clerk, member of the high council, counselor in the stake presidency and an active officer in Sunday schools, both in the ward and stake.
He filled a mission to Great Britain in 1878-80, presiding over the Liverpool conference, returning home in charge of a company of emigrating Saints. In 1893, after the death of his wife he went to England on a genealogical mission, gathering much information in the line. In 1897, he was called to be an ordinance worker in the St. George Temple, where he labored faithfully for 20 years, when he was released on account of failing health. Of civil offices, he acted as probate judge, has been a member of the St. George city council, and served as delegate to state conventions, etc.
In 1895, he married Hester Mayer, who preceded him to the spirit world. The following survive him: James E. of Kanab; Robert W. of St. George; Wallace O. of Cowley, Wyo.; Mesdames Harriet Ellen Eagar of Snowflake, Ariz.; Ellen Elizabeth Ford, Alice Zina Robinson and Fannie B. Cram, all of Kanab.
