The first story from former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure).
The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link: Charlie Bunnell's Bonnells & Bunnells of Note
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| Alvah Alonzo Bunnell, with his wife, Susan Cynthia Goodwin Bunnell |
Alvah Alonzo Bunnell was born 22 August 1855 in Florida, the son of Eli and Mary Ann Phoebe (Caulder) Bunnell, both of Darien, GA. His mother died when he was 9 Years old in 1864.
He served as a drummer boy with the Confederate forces about 1865.
On 14 October 1877, at Hastings, Saint Johns co, Florida, he married Susan Cynthia Godwin. She was born 24 February 1857 in Georgia just across the line from Lake City, Florida.
In the late 1880's he established a cypress shingle mill or a sawmill along the railroad in Flagler County, Florida, and proposed to furnish wood for the woodburning locomotives and prevailed on the railroad to make stops at his plant.
For lack of a better name, they called it the Bunnell stop.
By 1903 the settlement, then called Bunnell, was big enough to have a post office.
No other Bunnell seems to have been involved in subsequent development of the town, nor is one living there as of January 2015.
Alvah moved on to Miami in the early 1900s, and his wife died there 10 September 1931. He also died in Miami on 21 March 1944. They had 10 children.
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