Margaret Dunn

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Margaret Dunn (Bright)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Lincoln County, Kentucky, United States
Death: December 26, 1872 (76)
Allen City, Floyd County, Kentucky, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Henry Bright and Elizabeth Bright
Sister of Captain John Bright; Sarah Ann Culbertson; David Bright; Greenberry Bright; Catherine Luck and 2 others

Managed by: Billie June Keaffaber
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About Margaret Dunn

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27506474e

http://www.tomfangrow.com/Ancestors%20of%20Heather%20Jill%20Gibson.pdf

Notes for Margaret Bright: Taken from "Fountain Run, Yesterday and Today, on the 100th anniversaary 1855 to 1955, Lucy Goad Albright. Continued........ John ALDREDGE and Margaret BRIGHT DUNN were early settlers of Allen County, originally from North Carolina, natives of Garrard and Lincoln counties respectively. Their descendants played a major part in the settling and progress of this section. Margaret BRIGHT DUNN's father was a substantial farmer and slave owner. They were the parents of Margaret who married James NEAL, Lucy Ann, wife of Ben DOWNING, Matilda, wife of Clay FRANKLIN, Nancy, wife of John HOWARD, Amanda wife of A P HUGHES, Nellie, wife of John AKERS, John who married Jane CARUTH, and Henry who married Rhoda FLIPPIN. The above families who settled in and around Fountain Run, were extensive land owners, and were almost solidly Baptists and Democrats. In 1954 eight grandchildren of Aldredge and Margaret DUNN whose combined aages totaled almost seven hundred years, lived. Shortly after the death of W E DOWNINGG, seven of them met for a group picture for the first time together in more than forty years. The picture and names is included in this history. http://www.rootsweb.com/~kymonro2/folklore/fountainrun2.html Child of John Dunn and Margaret Bright is: 29 i. Lucy Ann Dunn, born 1830 in Kentucky; married Benjamin S. Downing Aug 1850.

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Monroe County.HENRY B. DUNN was born February 23, 1824, in Garrard County, Ky., and is the third of three sons and eight daughters, all of whom lived to be grown, born of John A. and Margaret (Bright) Dunn. John A. Dunn was born in Maryland, and when a boy was brought about 1800 by his parents and settled in Kentucky. He migrated to Monroe County in 1825; was a son of Augustine Dunn, who married Ellen Aldridge, and emigrated from Maryland about 1800. Mrs. Margaret Dunn was born in 1795, in Lincoln County, Ky., a daughter of Henry Bright, who married a Miss Pope. He and wife came from Pennsylvania, and were of Dutch parents; immigrated to Lincoln County, Ky., when a lad of eighteen years. Henry B. Dunn was reared on a farm and received a common school education. He was but a lad of thirteen years at his father's death; remained with his mother until nineteen, when he commenced the battle of life on his own responsibility. At twenty-one he purchased 300 acres at $1.53 per acre, partially improved, which he sold and purchased 225 acres where he now resides, in Gum Precinct, Monroe County, which he has improved with good residence and orchard. He married, February 11, 1847, Rhoda I. Flippin, of Monroe County, a daughter of James and Isabella (Brown) Flippin. By this marriage ten children were born - but three lived to be grown: Harriet I., J. Hughes, Josapeth [sic] A. and Nancy E. Young. Mrs. Dunn departed this life in 1863, and Mr. Dunn married, April 8, 1877, Mrs. Margaret Stahall, of Simpson County. She is a daughter of James and Nancy (Chason) Smith, who were natives of Kentucky and South Carolina, respectively. James Smith was a son of James Smith who maried Elizabeth Runnals. By her first husband Mrs. Dunn had born four children, one living, America E. Wilson. Mr. Dunn and wife are members of the Christian Church. He is a Mason; was a member of Grange, and cast his first presidential vote for Gen. Scott. Sine the war he has voted the Democratic ticket.Aldridge Bright Brown Chason Dunn Flippin Pope Runnals Smith Stahall Wilson Young=Garrard Lincoln MD PA Simpson SChttp://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/monroe/dunn.hb.txt

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Margaret Dunn's Timeline

1796
March 15, 1796
Lincoln County, Kentucky, United States
1872
December 26, 1872
Age 76
Allen City, Floyd County, Kentucky, United States