Frederick Funston of Kansas: His Formative Years, 1865-1891 The
Kansas Historical Quarterly, Summer, 1974  By Thomas W. Crouch
The Adventurous life of Frederick Funston ended abruptly in a
hotel lobby at San Antonio, Tex., on February 19, 1917, because
of a heart attack. Funston was born in New Carlisle, Ohio, on
November 9, 1865. His mother was the wife of Edward Hogue
Funston, a farmer in Bethel Township, Clark County. This baby,
heir to a long line of "Scotch-Irish" connections, was named for
his paternal grandfather who had emigrated in 1800 from County
Dungal, Ireland, to the United States with his parents while he
was still a young lad. Subsequently the Irish immigrant had
lived for a period in the vicinity of Paris, Ky., and he had
later continued his migration westward to Clark county, Ohio. In
1823 the senior Frederick brought another stream of British
ancestry into the family with his marriage to Julia Stafford,
who was a native of Giles county, Va. Her father's origins went
back to Ireland while h