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Ancestors

James Delaplane Dunbar

1832-1900
Born 1832, birthplace unsettled
Died 1900
Children include Edward

A farmer in Saint Albans Township, Hancock County, from at least 1870, and in Adams County for twenty years before that. He married twice. Lavina McCane, an Ohio woman, married him at Adams County in April 1852, and by the census of 1860 they had four children at Keene: Jane, the twins Josephus and Josephine, and John. Lavina walked out on him in March 1864, and in June 1867 the Adams County court granted him a divorce for desertion. The next year he married Mary Louisa Prentiss in the same county, a woman twenty-three years his junior who had also been married before. They had nine children between 1868 and 1887. Three of the boys died small, two of them on consecutive days in November 1881. Edward Chester was the eighth. He died on the first of February 1900 at Stillwell and is buried at Breneman Cemetery. Mary outlived him by thirty-five years and was brought back from Missouri to be buried beside him.

Children

Edward Chester Dunbar (1885-1930)

Sources

Edward Chester Dunbar, died 2 October 1930 at West Point, Hancock, Illinois; born 27 April 1885 at "Spillwell, Ill."; buried 5 October 1930 at Augusta. Parents James Dunbar and Mary L. Printess. Wife Georgia Dunbar.
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900. Schwank: 19 marriages statewide, the earliest 1858, and none in Whiteside before SCHWANK, JOHN G to BENNER, SARAH E on 23 February 1882, which is fifteen years after Catharine Barbara was born. Hancock County holds one Dunbar (Bert H. Dunbar to Mary Long, 1898) and one Greer (Clifford L. Greer to Henrietta James, 11 August 1885). No Prentiss marriage to a Dunbar anywhere.
Adams County, Illinois, 14 September 1868, the bride entered as Mary Litchliter. She had married Henry Lytchliter in Lewis County, Missouri, on 14 October 1862, at fourteen or fifteen.
Keene, Adams, Illinois. James Dunbar, born about 1832 in VIRGINIA. Levinia Dunbar, born about 1828 in OHIO. Jane Dunbar, born about 1852 in Illinois. Josephus Dunbar and Josephine Dunbar, both born about 1854 in Illinois. John Dunbar, born about 1859 in Illinois. Enumerated near them: William Dunbar, born about 1835 in Indiana, Adaline Dunbar, born about 1842 in Indiana, Isabella Dunbar, born about 1848 in Illinois, and Philip Dunbar, born about 1856 in Illinois.
Adams County, Illinois, 4 April 1852, James D. Dunbar and Lavina McCane. One filing of the entry gives his residence as Burton Township, Adams County, Illinois.
James D. Dunbar v. Lavina Dunbar, petition, Adams County, Illinois, Divorce Case Files 1865-1868, FamilySearch image 3:1:3Q9M-C37S-R33N-C.
James D. Dunbar v. Lavina Dunbar, report of the master in chancery, Adams County, Illinois, Divorce Case Files 1865-1868, FamilySearch image 3:1:3Q9M-C37S-R377-Q.
Chancery Record, Adams County, Illinois, Court Records 1867-1868, final decree in James D. Dunbar v. Lavina Dunbar, FamilySearch image 3:1:3Q9M-C33J-5S3B.
Divorce case file, James D. Dunbar v. Lavina Dunbar, Adams County Circuit Court, June Term 1867, case 1910, in Adams County, Illinois, Divorce Case Files 1865-1868, FamilySearch images 3:1:3Q9M-C37S-R33N-C (petition), 3:1:3Q9M-C37S-R377-Q (master's report), 3:1:3Q9M-C37S-R3C7-8 (summons) and 3:1:3Q9M-C37S-R36T-L (decree); and the Chancery Record, Adams County, 1867-1868, 3:1:3Q9M-C33J-5S3B, 3:1:3Q9M-C33J-5S3R and 3:1:3Q9M-C33J-53SJ. History of Wayne County, Indiana (Chicago, 1884), pages 162 and 330 to 331, Centre Township, FamilySearch images 3:1:3Q9M-CSZK-X6R and 3:1:3Q9M-CSZK-69PX-J. Find a Grave memorials 36733492 (William Dunbar, Richland Cemetery, Union County, Indiana) and 69600076 (Rebecca Dunbar, Witt Cemetery, Union County, Indiana).

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