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Dunaway

I don't know if I am even doing this right - am new to WeRelate and have never "talked" with anyone.

Thank you for the information about the missing brother! I don't know how I had missed having him altogether. The information about "all the boys died" came from my Aunt Emma, daughter of the youngest dau. of Thomas & Catherine, Carrie Melissa Dunaway... but of course Aunt Emma told me this when I was in about 5th grade so that would have been abt. 1960 and many many years had passed and our side of the family had migrated more than once.

I was so delighted to know someone else knew the Dunaways. I do a lot of other research in other areas and this side of my family has been neglected. I have been trying to get the core of what I knew about them, a little at a time, here at WeRelate so that I might pick them up again.

I am curious to know if you know what became of Catherine Dodson Dunaway? I have her marriage in Wisconsin and found her in Iowa but the family said she moved with the girls to Nebraska - is this true? And did she stay there? Die there? It sounds to me like she had a very hard time of it after Thomas died.

Anne

Hi Anne,

With a screen name of MizLiv I knew right away who you were. We have corresponded in the past. Your Aunt Emma is my Grandma Chandler. Most of my information comes from Annamae, but I do not think it is all acurate. If I live long enough, I will verify all of it.

I have not personally done much research on the Dunaways yet, with the exception of Catherine. I do not know what happened to her, but here is what little I do know:

Her 1st husband died on 6 Aug 1871 at Monroe, Green County, WI. She remarried, according to the WI Marriage Index pre-1907, John Walters on 25 Nov 1873 in Green County, WI. Annamae has his name as James Walters and that he died about 2 years after their marriage. I found Catherine on the 1880 census in Benton County, IA as a widow. I have a death date of 1885 for her. The State of Iowa does not have a death certificate for her. A few years ago my nephew graduated from high school in Cedar Rapids and I spent some time looking for her in a few cemeteries. Because of the limited time I had I tried to narrow it down to a few cemeteries in the neighborhood of where she had lived in 1880. I did not find her. Since then I found information online about the WPA Graves Registration Project, Tombstone Records of Delaware County, Iowa. There is a Catherine Walters b. 1814 d. 1889 and a John Walters b. 1806 d. 1883. This sounds promising except that she was suposed to be a widow by 1880.

I haven't worked on this since my fruitless romp through the Iowa cemeteries. I had not thought about the possibility that she went to Nebraska with her daughters. As far as I know only one of her children stayed in IA - Susan who married Hugh Mack. They lived many years in northern Iowa.

I am likewise delighted to know that someone else is out there looking for the Dunaways. I only found this site the other day, and the only names I could find that I am interested in were associated with your name.

Cheri

Cheri,

Oh I am so glad to hear from you. I have whined several times to my Mom that I lost contact with you - too many computers; too many lost emails over time. I had one hard drive blow and have changed providers at various points and as much as I try I seem to lose people!

I did find the marriage in Green Co. WI records for Catherine to John Walters so I am certain his name was John but she couldn't have been married to him very long before she lost him again.

There are so many threads to pursue. I keep wanting to send for film in Licking Co. Ohio because I have the Dunaways there and my daughter has family from there as well - maybe this summer I will have time to read that film. Ohio surely seems behind most states in regards to putting source records online in any form.

I think Aunt Emma was a little confused when she told stories. Not only did she wipe out all the boys but I believe she had "Aunt Susie going to Nebraska" and the Macks seem solidly rooted in Iowa. If they left at all it couldn't have been very long before returning to Iowa.

>the only names I could find that I am interested in were associated with your name. 

Well I think this is all pretty new and it has a learning curve. I have already done things I have to go back and fix now that I understand better how things work! I think it will be pretty neat though once I get the hang of it because I can work at it from any computer and work with others as well. I also am getting my dad jazzed about working on a project for the early families who settled in Orondo where Carrie and John lived and I grew up. He turned 80 last winter and he has so many memories of people that if I can pull him out of his garden long enough to help we should be able to record some things that will be meaningful to others at some point!

talk more soon,

Anne

Hi Anne,

It seems to me that my notes from the early days said there was something about Aunt Susie in CA. Later I figured out that one of her children moved to CA, and I wondered if somehow there was a visit arranged at some time when Aunt Susie was in CA to visit her child and Earl and Emma were in CA to visit his relatives.

It is ironic that the Macks lived, at one point, not only in the same place as my father's relatives, but also my mother-in-law's relatives. Small world!

Another interesting tidbit is that on the 1880 census at the Blind School in Vinton, Iowa there was a Mary Walters, age 16. I am wondering if there was a connection between her and John Walters. Don't know how to figure that one out though, or if it would be helpful at all.

I have been trying to find more of my notes. We have moved too many times, and try as I might, things get so disorganized. This summer I plan to start on a reorganization plan, which realistically could take a decade. I have changed e-mail addresses so many times that I can't even keep track, so last year I acquired my own domain so that I can always keep the same e-mail address. Next month I am going to start working on a website. I plan to start with my grandparents and my husband's grandparents, so it will be awhile before I get back to the Dunaways.

I would be very interested in your father's memories of Orondo! What an exciting project. I saw on a website for Orondo that Larry Trapp and Howard Chandler had been working on some kind of project, but Howard passed away a few years ago. I know that Howard had a lot of photos that he had scanned and spent a lot of time recording who was in them and what the dates were. It made our last Chandler reunion very interesting.

Cheri

Could you email me at mizliv@yahoo.com? I don't know how to find your email from here and I need to talk to you about Clyde!

Anne