Charles Walter Dunn Sr

Brief Life History of Charles Walter

When Charles Walter Dunn Sr was born in September 1846, in Troy, Troy Township, Perry, Indiana, United States, his father, John Dunn, was 37 and his mother, Nancy Hatfield, was 39. He married Sarah C Witten in 1868, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Big Clifty, Grayson, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 4 Parker, Grayson, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 10 May 1909, in Grayson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 62.

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Family Time Line

Charles Walter Dunn Sr
1846–1909
Mary Elizabeth Henderson
1844–1936
Marriage: 1873
Leonora Ann Dunn
1873–1955
Victoria Dunn
1878–1954
Charles D Dunn
1880–1888
Fannie Mae Dunn
1883–1948
Leslie Theodore Dunn
1884–1918
Lula Jane Dunn
1886–1980
Charles Walter Dunn Jr
1889–1973
Eliza Ermine Dunn
1891–1959
Alfred Renzo Dunn Sr
1893–1992
Carrie Dunn
1895–1982
Ollie Myrtle Dunn
1897–1971

Sources (30)

  • 1860 US Census for Pleasant Hill, Mercer, Kentucky
  • Legacy NFS Source: Charles W. Dunn - Published information: birth: September 1846; Troy, Perry, Indiana, United States
  • Chas. W. Dunn, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"

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World Events (8)

1850 · 8th Most Populated State

According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.

1851 · Constitution of 1851

Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .

English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).

Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Last year, I set out to bring down the brick wall which concealed the identity of my GGG grandfather, John Dunn, b.1810 SC m. Nancy Hatfield. For 20 years, genealogists couldn't identify John, nor Nan …

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