Husband: Augustus Brinson DUNN
Birthdate: Mar 1810 Georgia
Death date: Jun 16 1886
Place of death: Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Bethel Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Father: John DUNN (b abt 1774)
Mother:
Other Spouses: Betheny (Thene) DENNIS (m Mar 17 1874)

Marriage date: Jan 7 1830
Marriage place: Hancock Co., Ga.

Wife: Rebecca KELLEY
Birthdate: 1807
Death date: bet 1870-1874
Place of death: Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial:
Father: Abner KELLEY (b abt 1784)
Mother: Margaret (b abt 1785)
Other Spouses:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Thomas Jefferson DUNN CSA
Sex: M
Birthdate: abt 1831 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: Apr 12 1888 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Dunn Family Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Marriage date: [1] abt 1854
Spouses' names: [1] Mary A. [2] Elizabeth CURRY

Child No. 2: Benjamin Franklin DUNN CSA
Sex: M
Birthdate: abt 1834 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: Jul 10 1863 Chancellorsville, VA Civil War
Burial:
Marriage date: Aug 13 1856
Spouses' names: Mary/Martha A. E. CHILES

Child No. 3: Mary Elizabeth DUNN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1835 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: 1912 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Dunn Family Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Marriage date: Oct 7 1852
Spouses' names: Israel F. JOHNSON

Child No. 4: Susan L. DUNN
Sex: F
Birthdate: Jun 19 1837 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: Mar 30 1927 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Culverton Baptist Church Cemetery, Hancock Co.
Marriage date: Dec 31 1865
Spouses' names: Augustus Franklin "Gus" DUNN CSA

Child No. 5: Elmina L (Ellen) DUNN
Sex: F
Birthdate: Nov 2 1839 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: Jan 14 1886 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Dunn Family Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Marriage date: Dec 25 1860
Spouses' names: Jasbez (Jasbar) (Marsham?) WHITE CSA

Child No. 6: James Morris DUNN CSA
Sex: M
Birthdate: Jul 1842 Hancock Co., Ga.
Death date: Dec 10 1915 Hancock Co., Ga.
Burial: Dunn Family Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
Marriage date: Mar 10 1864
Spouses' names: Mary Elizabeth DUDLEY
 
 
Documentation:
  1. Houston, Martha Lou. Marriages of Hancock County, Georgia, 1806-1850. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., c1977, reprint of 1947. page 31.
  2. Amerson, A. Binion, Jr., Odessa Mullikin Dunn, and Jane Camp Dunn. "The Dunn Families of Hancock County, Georgia". Exerps from an unpublished manuscript..
  3. The Sparta Ishmaelite, June 18, 1886.
  4. Gaissert, Margarette Godlsby, compiler, extracter, publisher. Some Church Members & Records and some History of Some Hancock County, Georgia Churches, Earliest dates 1786. Sparta, Ga : Gaissert. c1982.
  5. Living person
  6. Census, 1850, Hancock Co., Ga.
  7. R. L. Guffin: rlguffin@linux01.stillman.edu.
  8. 1860 Hancock Co., Ga. Slave Census.
  9. Census, 1870, Hancock Co., Ga.
  10. 1850 Census Hancock Co., Ga. GMD 111.
  11. Hancock Co., Ga. Wills & Administration of Estates, Book I, 1882-1909, page 267. FHL film #0222081
  12. Census, 1880 Hancock Co., Ga. GMD 112 (Jewell).
  13. 1850 Census Hancock Co., Ga.
  14. Houston. Marriages of Hancock County, Georgia, 1806-1850..
  15. Gaissert.. Some Church Members & Records and some History of Some Hancock County, Georgia Churches
  16. 1850 Census Hancock Co., Ga. ( His age was given as 19 on the 1850 Hancock Co., Ga. census.)
  17. Bethel Baptist Church, Hancock County, Georgia, 1828-1957. Reel #12. Microfilm. Mercer University, Macon, Ga.
  18. Evans, Tad. .Washington County Georgia Newspaper Clippings. c1994. 49th Georgia Regiment, Casualities at Gettysburg.
  19. Henderson, Lillian, compiler. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865. Compiled for the State of Georgia 1964. 5:142.
  20. 1850 Census Hancock Co., Ga. GMD 111.
  21. Family group sheet for George Clark.
  22. Smith, Elizabeth Wiley. The History of Hancock County, Georgia, 2 volumes. Washington, GA: Wilkes Publishing Co., Inc. c1974.
  23. Census, 1880 Hancock Co., Ga. GMD 114.
  24. Henderson. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865. vol. 5
  25. Christian Index Obituaries, 1822-1879.
  26. Henderson. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865.
  27. Dunn Family Cemetery, Hancock Co., Ga.
  28. Georgia Deaths 1919-1998
  29. Living person (great granddaughter of Augustus B. Dunn Rebecca Kelley)
  30. 1900 Hancock Co., Ga. census.
  31. Smith. The History of Hancock County, Georgia.
  32. Henderson. Georgia Roster of Confederate Soldiers. vol. 5.
  33. Living person. (great granddaughter of Augustus B. Dunn Rebecca Kelley)
  34. Shivers, Forrest. The Land Between: The History of Hancock County, Georgia to 1940. Spartanburg, SC : Reprint Co., 1990.
  35. 1910 Hancock Co., Ga., census. GMD 112, Jewell.

Notes:
Marriage(1):
  * Augustus Brinson DUNN
Birth(2):
Death(2,3): Obit. June 18, 1886. The Ishmaelite.
Will of Augustus B. Dunn mentions wife, Thenie, son, Thomas, J., James M., and children of Benjamin F., daughters Susan L., Mary Elizabeth, and Elmina. Wit: Daniel Jewell, Jr., J. T. Long. J. E. Midland. Executors: J. M. Dunn and A. F. Dunn dated Sept. 13, 1884.
  * Rebecca KELLEY
Birth(13):
Death date: Rebecca was still living August 15, 1870 as shown on the 1870 Hancock Co., Ga. census. She died between this date and the marriage of Augustus and Betheny Dennis Dudley, March 17, 1874.
General (14,9,15):
  * Thomas Jefferson DUNN CSA
Birth(2,16):
Death(2,17):
General(18,19,2,20,21,22,23):
Served in Company I, 49th Regiment Georgia Volunteers - "Pierce Guards". Wounded at Wilderness, Va. May 6, 1864. .
  * Benjamin Franklin DUNN CSA
Death(24,25): Death notice: "Dunn, B. F. 29, son of A. B. and R. Dunn died July 10, 1863, Gettysburg
General(26,6,2): Co I, 49th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Hancock Co., Ga. Wounded at Chancellorsville, Va. May 3, 1863. Died from wound July 10, 1863".
The 1860 census of Hancock Co., shows B. F. as 25, occupation "overseer", wife Mary E. (24), James (3), E. A. (F2) and infant (F). age one month. A Jasbar White, age 21 worth $1,000, John Dunn (86). Could this be John l Dunn, father of Augustus & John E.? Also George Dunn age 15 George is son of James E. Dunn and cousin to Benjamin F. J. White married Bejjamin's sister, Elmina Dec 25, 1860.
  * Mary Elizabeth DUNN
Birth(27):
Death(27):
  * Susan L. DUNN
Death date: (28): GA. Deaths Index shows death as July 8, 1924.
General (29,2): Augustus Franklin Dunn was the son on John E. , brother of Augustus B., therefore, he and Susan were first cousins.
  * Elmina L (Ellen) DUNN
Birth(2):
Death(2):
  * James Morris DUNN CSA
Birth(27):
Death(2):
General (30,31,32,33,34,35): Served in Company J, 49th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers (Pierce Guards) He joined as a private on March 4, 1862 and fought with the Army of Northern Virginia. AWOL from July 28, 1865 to Feb. 28, 1865.

Researching: Clark(e), Dennis, Dickson, Dudley, Dunn, all of whom were in Hancock County, Georgia by 1800.

Prepared Feb 15 2002 by Mary Ann Willoughby
1 Cranwood Court
Greensboro, NC 27455