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 1831 - 1863 (32 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. | Cyrus DUNNING was born on 4 Jan 1831 in Connecticut; died on 27 Jan 1863 in Salem, NE. Notes:
Name: Cyrus DUNNING
?Reference Number: 802
?Sex: M
?Birth: 1779 in Connecticut 1
?Death: AFT 1854 in Nebraska 1
?Note:
From Pioneer History of Clarksfield [ this is in Huron County, Ohio], by Dr. F. E. Weeks 1908, Clarksfield, Ohio, 1987 copy retyped [pagination differs between the two versions] and indexed by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield,
pg 70
"Cyrus Dunning was born in Connecticut in 1779 and in 1819 was married to Sally Wheeler, a sister of Johnson and Jesse Wheeler. They came to Clarksfield in 1833 and settled on a farm north of Rowland's corners, next to the Wakeman line. After a few years the youngest daughter, Sarah, died of consumption followed, in a few months by the mother who died in 1841 and sister, Mary, who died March 3 1842. This left Mr. Dunning with two sons, Oliver, 18, and Cyrus, 9 years of age. After a few years Oliver married Lucretia Wheeler and they kept house for Mr. Dunning until about 1845, when he married a widow Smith , of Wayne County, Ohio, who had several children, among whom were Orville P. and Lemuel, the latter of whom married Mary Rogers and died in Clarksfield. After some years Mr. and Mrs. Dunning became too old to take care of themselves and she went to live with some of her children in Norwalk, while he lived with his children. In 1854 the old lady died and Mr. Dunning went to Nebraska, with his sons. Cyrus Jr. had married Lucy Wheeler. The father and sons died in Nebraska."
?Change Date: 31 AUG 2010
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Marriage 1 Sally WHEELER b: ABT 1785 in most likely Connecticut?Married: 1819 in Connecticut
Children1.Has No Children Mary DUNNING b: ABT 1819
2.Has Children Oliver W DUNNING b: BET. 1821 - 1822 in Connecticut
3.Has No Children Sarah DUNNING b: ABT 1823 in Connecticut
4.Has Children Cyrus DUNNING b: BET. 1830 - 1831 in Connecticut, USA
Marriage 2 Sally \ Lally (Unknown) SMITH b: BET. 1793 - 1794 in Vermont?Married: 1845 in Huron County, Ohio 2
Sources: 1.Type: Book
Author: Weeks, Dr. F. E.
Note:
Pioneer History of Clarksfield [Ohio]
Publication: originally self published 1908. Retyped, repaginated, and indexed version by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield 1987.
Note:
Photocopy given by Myron Allgood to Susan Hopkins
Text: Myron Allgood was a close friend of Dr. Weeks. and a local and family historian in his own right. Note, the Wakeman Public Library now has the original version of this work online and searchable. Pagination will be different.
Date: 31 AUG 2010
2.Type: Book
Author: Weeks, Dr. F. E.
Note:
Pioneer History of Clarksfield [Ohio]
Publication: originally self published 1908. Retyped, repaginated, and indexed version by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield 1987.
Note:
Photocopy given by Myron Allgood to Susan Hopkins
Text: Myron Allgood was a close friend of Dr. Weeks. and a local and family historian in his own right. Note, the Wakeman Public Library now has the original version of this work online and searchable. Pagination will be different.
Date: 31 AUG 2010
Page: pg 70, See Cyrus' notes.
Cyrus married Lucy Ursula WHEELER on 25 Sep 1856. Lucy (daughter of Jr. Asa WHEELER and Olive MINOR) was born on 10 Apr 1831 in Clarksfield, OH; died on 16 Apr 1915 in Indianola, NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Nettie DUNNING
 died about 1934.
- 3. Kate DUNNING was born on 21 Jun 1857 in near Mound City, MO; died on 16 May 1931 in Indianola, NE.
- 4. Richard DUNNING was born in 1851 in Nebraska.
- 5. John DUNNING was born in 1861 in near Salem, Richardson Co., NE; died on 21 Jan 1937; was buried on 23 Jan 1937 in Cedar Grove Cemetary, Indianola, NE.
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Generation: 2
| 2. | Nettie DUNNING (1.Cyrus1) died about 1934. Notes:
Nettie had a child (that was aborted) by her brother John. She was very sweet, but "not all there"
When her niece, Alice Thomas, found out about John molesting Nettie, she waited one night in Nettie's bed. When John came to the bed, Alice attacked him. According to Alice, the molestation stopped after that.
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| 3. | Kate DUNNING (1.Cyrus1) was born on 21 Jun 1857 in near Mound City, MO; died on 16 May 1931 in Indianola, NE. Notes:
According to Uncle John Wolfe, there were 10 or 12 Thomas graves of children in the cemetery at Indianola, Nebraska. He also says, Grandmother praticed abortion. When dying she asked Mother, "Do you think I will go to heaven? " This would be confirmed by the 1900 census where Kate said that she had 11 births, three living.
Ina Mae Wolfe remembers that when she was very young and the family went to Indianola for Grandma Kate Dunning Thomas's funeral, Ina broke out in a terrible rash. Grandpa Bob Thomas took her around the yard asking finding out exactly what
plants she had touched while she was out in the yard. It turned out that she had been bitten by bedbugs instead. Because of the rash, Ina was sent over to stay with Mary, the former foster child of Bob and Kate Thomas and so missed the
funeral.
"My first view of Indianola was the 25th of April '78 (1878). It was a very nice looking clean, little place-- a store, drug store, court house, a small little school house, a hotel, and a small dwelling house or two. A buffalo cow laarriated
out east of the town some little ways was a novel one to us at least.
While the size of the town was not so ________ as we had grown up in Nebraska and had seen the small places grow along with us and sure Indianola had grown. New settlers coming in the fall and the coming of the railroad made things go fast but
we must remember the school, church and Sunday school was already well laid out and the people and children as well was glad to have those things that they were well attended by those in or living near here, I sometimes think better then than
now. The added thought is to think of so many of the glad hands extended to the new comers here who have gone to the last home. While gone they are not forgotten. Now looking at the churches and nice homes and trees you have to stop and think,
has all this been done since you first saw Indianola." Kate Dunning Thomas
Kate married Robert Hanson THOMAS on 15 Mar 1883. Robert (son of Abel THOMAS and Harriet W. BLAIR) was born on 15 Apr 1851 in Galesburg, IL; died on 13 Jul 1931 in Indianola, NE; was buried on 15 Jul 1931 in Indianola, NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 6. Jr. Robert H. THOMAS was born in Apr 1893 in Nebraska; was buried in Washington (state).
- 7. Lucy H. THOMAS was born in Feb 1890 in Nebraska; was buried in probably in Indianola.
- 8. Mary A. Duborks was born in Dec 1888 in Nebraska.
- 9. Alice Mae THOMAS was born on 6 Dec 1890 in Indianola, NE; died on 9 May 1975 in Billings, MT.
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| 5. | John DUNNING (1.Cyrus1) was born in 1861 in near Salem, Richardson Co., NE; died on 21 Jan 1937; was buried on 23 Jan 1937 in Cedar Grove Cemetary, Indianola, NE. Notes:
He came to Red Willow county in 1878, where he was a mail carrier for many years. His knowledge of the topography in this country was such that he could plot every section of ground or city lot in the Red Willow area. Camp Duke Alexis Park and
C.C.C. camp near Hayes Center, was established on historical data furnished by this pioneer carrier. He eas playing cards with a group of friends in Indianola,when he suffered a heart attack that ended his life.
His wife and his sister were both named Nettie. Ina Mae Wolfe confirms this.
Family/Spouse: Nettie T. Strickland. Nettie was born on 26 Feb 1866 in Iowa; died on 17 Mar 1961 in Kearney, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 3
| 6. | Jr. Robert H. THOMAS (3.Kate2, 1.Cyrus1) was born in Apr 1893 in Nebraska; was buried in Washington (state). Notes:
According to Uncle John Wolfe, he was killed in a motorcycle accident probably about 1930. His son, Bobby Third he was called, died of disease as a young boy. There were two girls in the family. One visited the Wolfe's in McCook.
Family/Spouse: Marjorie Hope Shumaker. Marjorie was born in Oct 1894 in Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 7. | Lucy H. THOMAS (3.Kate2, 1.Cyrus1) was born in Feb 1890 in Nebraska; was buried in probably in Indianola. Notes:
According to Uncle John Wolfe, Lucy died in the flu in the great epidemic of 1918, never married.
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| 8. | Mary A. Duborks (3.Kate2, 1.Cyrus1) was born in Dec 1888 in Nebraska. Notes:
Mary was informally adopted by Robert and Kate Thomas. In the 1900 census she is listed as a 12 year old boarder, last name of Dubarks, parents from Germany. There were other Dubarks (also Duborko) in Red Willow County about that time. Mary is listed as a daughter of Robert Hanson Thomas in his obituary (Mrs E.H. Korb of Indianola).
Robert and Kate's daughter Alice was sickly and about the same age as Mary. Grandma Dunning took Alice to live with her and Mary was raised by Robert and Kate Thomas.
Mary married Earl Holt Korb about 1904 in Nebraska. Earl was born on 28 Mar 1882. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 4
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