Documented in 1831 as an orphan...He was bound out in that year at age 9 to learn a trade. in 1845 he was found not guiled of an affray with Paschal Robbins...
Enlisted in Co. I, 22nd Reg. NC Inf.. CSA on 8 Mar 1862. He fought in some of the worst battles of the War...He was repored wounded or missing in Oct. 1862... He was paid $11 per month in Greensboro, Aug 1863 for his military service... He walked home and was emaciated and covered with lice, a common problem for returning Confederates...The children heard him hollering. They and their mother took him to the house...He remained in poor health from his war wounds until his death...He loved his family and his land... His sons would sit him in a chair in a wagon and take him over the land to see it.. He had a clock he loved on the mantel and it was moved beside his bed shortly before he died. Alice Shaw, his granddaughter (1 Oct 1882- 7 jul 1986) was seven when she sat in the wagon that pulled him to Asheboro City Cem... The Bunting descendants dedicated a Confederate grave marker for him in 1983...The original 1889 marker is laid flat on the ground... The epitaph reads: A light from our household is gone, A voice we loved is stilled, A place is vacant in our home, That never can be filled...