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Baltimore, Maryland, and was later a sol- dier in the American army in the revolu- tion, in March. 1777, being an ensign in Captain John Sterrett's company of Mary- land militia, and on September 21, of that year, joined the command of General An- thony Wayne. Through his military ser- vice and through the honorable records of other -lines of her ancestry, Mrs. Ebert is eligible to membership in the various pa- triotic societies of the country. The pa- triotism and loyalty of the Bowlys again found expression in the war between the states, when two of the sons of Franklin Bowl}', Devereux and Henry Bowly, served in the arm}' of the Confederate States.

The name Bowly is of French derivation, the original form, which was carried into England in the hosts of William the Con- queror, being De Beaulieu. Through con- tact with the harsher tongue it became changed to its present form through several dii?erent spellings, and the ancestor of this branch of the American family, long promi- nent in the colony and state of Maryland, is found in Daniel Bowly, a member of the Gloucestershire. England, family. There is an interesting story, worthy of narration in this place, concerning Daniel Bowly and his immigration to America. He was born in 1695, and when but a lad was walking one day along the beach near his English home, carrying a cup in his hand. He was accosted by a gentleman in the uniform of a naval officer, who asked him if he would like to see his ship, which rode at anchor in the harbor. Receiving an affirmative reply, the sea captain led the youth abroad the vessel, and, taking him below, pleased him with a thorough display of the interior of the ves- sel, but when the pair returned to the deck, the ship had gotten under way, doubtless at the command of the captain. The lad was in no way alarmed, rather rejoicing at the prospect of the voyage and the view ot new lands. The vessel on which he was making his involuntary voyage collided with an- other at sea, but was able to make the American shore, although her original des- tination had been Jamaica. Years after- v^ard Daniel Bowh' visited England, and, walking near the spot where he had been kidnapped, found the cup which he had held in his hand at the time. This was the found- ing of the line of Bowly in America.

Mark Bird Wunder. This family is Ger- man in descent and was founded first in Pennsylvania. The Virginia ancestor of the Ime was Henry Wunder, and his son was Charles Sawyer Wunder, father of Mark Bird Wunder, born near Germantown, I'hiladelphia, in August, 1813, died July 21, 1S91. He was a merchant during all of his business life. He married Elizabeth Mary Moore, born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, in January, 1823, died in January, 1S77, daughter of Reuben and Sarah (King- ree) Moore. Children of Charles Sawyer and Elizabeth Mary (Moore) Wunder: i. Mary H., married William A. Pence, a sol- dier in Company K, Seventh Regiment Vir- ginia Cavalry, Confederate States army, who was at one time taken prisoner and confined at Fort Delaware. 2. Henry S., a soldier in Company K, Seventh Regiment \'irginia Cavalry, Confederate States army, now a farmer of Mount Jackson, Virginia. 3 Reuben Moore, was for one year a mem- ber of Chew's battery, Confederate States iirmy, serving one year until the close of the war, being then but seventeen years of age. 4. Charles S. 5. Mark Bird, of whom fur- tb.er. 6. Virginia 7. Milton Moore.

Mark Bird Wunder, fifth child of Charles Sawyer and Elizabeth Mary (Moore) Wun- der, was born in Shenandoah county, Vir- ginia. May 23. 1857. After preparatory study in the public and private schools of the vicinity of his birth, he entered the Poly- technic Institute at Newmarket, Virginia, remaining there for three years. In Octo- ber, 1875, he matriculated at the University of Virginia, and after a classical course of fc)ur years in length was for two years a student in the law department, that insti- tution awarding him a B. L. degree in 1881. He was granted admission to the bar of Virginia in 1882, and at once began general practice, for several years following his pro- fession as a member of the law firm of Alex- ander & Wunder, a firm that had a success- ful and profitable continuance. After the dissolution of this association Mr. Wunder returned to independent practice, and in the years that he was in the legal profes- sion he made an honorable record. About 1890 he engaged in the building and loan business which was later formed into a Loan & Trust Company and continued until 1905, ]\Ir. Wunder was then elected clerk of Shen-