Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Jessamine Co. MORTON RICE FUNK is a descendant of the early German settlers who emigrated from Maryland and Pennsylvania about the years 1798 and 1800. John Funk, the father of Mr. Funk, was one of the most industrious farmers in Jessamine County. In 1819 he was twenty-one years of age, and immediately commenced hard work on a farm. At the end of that year he bought a horse, for which he paid $60. Before the close of his life, in 1861, his estate was estimated to be worth $80,000. The mother of Morton Funk was Nancy Rice, daughter of John Rice. She died in 1866 in the sixty-seventh year of her age. Mr. Funk was born June 19, 1828, and was married to Miss Nannie Bourn, May 11, 1864. His wife is the daughter of Davis Bourn, a citizen of Jessamine County. Four children have been born to the marriage of Mr. Funk: Mrs. Leana Horine, Miss Mamie, Annie Bertie and John. Mr. Funk owns 300 acres of land in one of the most beautiful sections in Jessamine County. The father of Mrs. Funk was the youngest son of Elijah Bourn who was the son of Andrew Bourn, of Orange County, Va., who settled in Kentucky in 1793. Andrew Bourn, the paternal grandfather of David Bourn, went to school with James Madison near Port Conway, Va., was born in 1747, and died in 1791 in Virginia. Funk Rice Bourn Horine Madison = Orange-VA MD PA Germany http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jessamine/funk.mr.txt