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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According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Possible Related NamesLast 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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