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- From:
PAST AND PRESENT
A HISTORY OF IRON COUNTY, MISSOURI
1857-1994
VOL I. - PAGE 202
See pages 202-203 for biography of Hugh Brown DUNN
ELIHU DUNN was born October 1823 and married Maria ?, possibly a Lewis.
They lived in the Glover area which at that time was Madison County.
They owned about 320 acrea. Their seven children were born there: Mary
Jane, born 1843, married William Houston; Robert Andrew, born 1844,
married Martha Seals; Adeline, born 1845, married William Carroll;
Catherine, born 1849, married Benjamin Dennis and ? Zack Key; John
Randal, born 1852, married Mary Matkin; Emaline, born 1854, married
Florence Knight; Maria Dunn died betwenn 1860 and 1864
Elihu and Margaret Elvira Smith Pinkly were married in April 1864. She
had three children by her first husband William Pinkly, who died in the
Civil War, months before the last child was born. Those children were
James, born 1856; Mary Jane, born 1858; and Rhoda Louise, born 1862.
The children of Elihu and Elvira were;Isaac, born 1865, married Jane
Reed; Ollive (Ollie) born 1866, married Will Calkins; Hugh Brown, born
1868, married Ida Belle Bone; William, born 1870, never married.
Elihu owned much land in Iron County and was a farmer. When the Big
Creek Church was formed in 1854, he was chosen as one of the first two
deacons. Elihu died in September 1870, leavin Elvira with about nine
children yet to raise and six months pregnant with Will, who was born
with a crippled foot. Elvira had a lot of tragic things happen in her
lifetime, but she lived to be 75 and raised her children and
granchildren. She died in October 1915 and is buried at Big Creek
Cemetery.
(submitted by Opal L. Lewis, 5914 Hwy. 17, South, Green Cove Springs, FL
32043)
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