MySource:GayelKnott/Dunn Family email

Erma Gipson

May 26, 2009

I show Martin van Buren Dunn born August 18, 1837 in Iroquois County, Illinois. He was a physician in Holt County, Missouri.
He practiced also in Iowa and Nebraska wih his brother Samuel Mitchel Dunn. He moved to Holt County in 1860 and practiced there for 16 years. He was married to Rebecca M. Oliver of Salem, Nebraska. He died in 1876. Rebecca died May 1, 1881. They had 6 children. In the obit of Martin it said his father was an early graduate of the Medical College in Lexington, Kentucky, and for many years a prominent practitioner in Iroquois County, Illinois. It also said his grandfather Walker (Thomas C.) was a surgeon in the Florida War, and was with General Jackson.

Samuel Mitchel Dunn was born July 10, 1830 in Indiana (probably Jasper County). Died November 10, 1912. He is buried in Home Cemetery, Tarkio, Missouri. He married Nancy Jane Harrell from Iowa. He practiced medicine in Maryville, Missouri for 20 years. He was a member of the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) and saw service as an Army surgeon.

Both Samuel and Martin were brothers of Elizabeth "Betsy" Ann Dunn who is my great grandmother. She was married to Dr. John William Dunn and they lived in Tarkio, Missouri. Her parents were Samuel Mitchel Dunn and Nancy Walker. My grandfather was also named Samuel Mitchel Dunn. His father owned race horses and loaned them to my grandfather to make the 1889 Run of Oklahoma.

Jay Wright

Re: Addison Dunn --- 57th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, October 2, 2010 [edited to remove non-relevant content]
    "A History of the Formation, Settlement and Development of Hamilton County, Indiana...," by Augustus Finch Shirts (1901), p. 214, lists him as one of the signers of the constitution of the Fidelity Lodge, No. 309, A. F. & A. M., in 1854 -- as "A. N. [sic] Dunn," The same book, p. 334, in a roster of soldiers in the 57th Regiment, lists him as Addison M. Dunn.      the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors system lists him as Addison A. Dunn --- at this link : http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm
     "Indiana in the War of the Rebellion by the Indiana Adjutant General's Office" is available on Google Books, and he's listed on page 59 as "Dunn, Addison M." Check it out at http://books.google.com/books?id=hcqSyQhMpd4C&pg=RA1-PA59&lpg=RA1-PA59&dq=%22addison+m.+dunn%22&source=bl&ots=kj6_xsYjzY&sig=YZAAE_oyFYEwyYgMAzY1eazaZ10&hl=en&ei=pYqnTNyVI8Gclge_w63WDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22addison%20m.%20dunn%22&f=false
     "Slave and Freeman: The Autobiography of George L. Knox," (University Press of Kentucky, 1979), p. 206, calls him Addison M. Dunn. Check it out on Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=2e_n_AIaxSUC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=%22addison+m.+dunn%22&source=bl&ots=fHMcj6sIj7&sig=M7U1igw1UXCEmnyh4L6mnxYTWy0&hl=en&ei=pYqnTNyVI8Gclge_w63WDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCsQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22addison%20m.%20dunn%22&f=false
     Lastly, attached are two images. One is a JPG image of Dunn's carte de visite, which was with the Civil War papers of my great-great-grandfather (neither my great-great-grandfather nor Dunn made it home from the war alive). That _might_ be Dunn's own signature under the photo or somebody may have added the name
     Addison's nickname [was] "Ad." My evidence for that is . . . an original letter from Dr. Isaac S. Collings to his daughter, Elmira, written the day after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox. (I own the original letter.) In the letter, Dr. Collings tells about Addison Dunn's burial in a ditch, and he refers to him consistently as "Ad." . . . . Dr. Collings was, at the time he wrote the letter, the Assistant Surgeon of the 57th Indiana Regiment, the same regiment in which Addison Dunn served.

Re: Addison Dunn --- 57th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, October 5, 2010 [edited to remove non-relevant content]
Feel free to post Addison's photo. I submitted it to the Indiana State Library (just go down to 57th Regiment) http://www.in.gov/library/2508.htm