William W. Dunn, of Murray County, Georgia, and Bradley County, Tennessee

Establishing the Identity of William W. Dunn

William W. Dunn, aka William Walter? Dunn:

Relationships established: William Dunn and Elizabeth Holland, as parents of Alfred Estes Dunn (established by Alfred's Tennessee death record, 1929). William W. Dunn and "Mary L" Holland (established by Mollie Chambers Kimsey's Tennessee death record, 1956). W W Dunn and Mary Cole, as parents of Robert T Dunn (established by Robert's Texas death record, 1950).


Records which establish the middle initial as "W":

US Census, 1880, W W Dunn, widowed, with children: Mary, Daniel, E. L., W. J., A. E., and John Dunn, all born in Tennessee. Sister: M. C. Dunn, aged 24.

Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967: William W. Dunn + Mary Cole, 21 Oct 1880, Murray County, Georgia

Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966: William W Dunn (and wife, Mary L Holland) in entry for (daughter), Mollie Chambers Kimsey, died 03 Mar 1956, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee.

Texas Deaths, 1890-1976: W W Dunn (and wife, Mary Cole) in entry for (son), Robert T Dunn,

No middle initial, but middle initial can be established by comparing info in death record to info in census and marriage records:

Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963: William Dunn (and wife, Elizabeth Holland) in entry for (son), Alfred Estes Dunn; died 14 Mar 1876, Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee.

Comparison: A E Dunn, aged 3 (born 1877, Tenn.); son of W. W. Dunn, 1880, Polk, Tennessee.

[Last record, above: Compare Albert Estes Denn, son of William W. Dunn.]

Joseph Callaway Jr. and Catherine Ann Browning - Ancestors of Thomas Howard Callaway and Callaway Campbell

Joseph Callaway, Jr., married Catherine Ann Browning
about 1709, (of) Essex, Virginia, British Colonial America

Above is just a quick reference to the couple, as entered on Family Search.

Below is web page linked, which is attached to Joseph Callaway, Jr., as a source:

A. D. Gedge pages on Rootsweb:

Callaway and Langhorne, etc. Rootsweb Page with Joseph Callaway Lineage
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~adgedge/genealogy/ourresearch/aqwn68.htm#3448

Page was cited by researcher, Alice Gedge.

Of interest in this lineage:

Capt. Thomas Callaway (mentioned only, in a source, as brother of Col. William Callaway, son of Callaway and Browning).

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Some descendants, per research of others: 

Currently attached in online family trees (wiki, with sourcing in progress) 
not mentioned in Gedge page, but could be correct: 

Captain Thomas S. Callaway (b. 1712 Essex Co., VA; died 1800, Jefferson, Ash Co., NC) is currently attached in the Callaway - Browning family group, as a son.
     His wife is currently shown as Sarah Baker (marriage, 1735, Brunswick County, Virginia).

Next, currently added to the family group of Thomas S. Callaway and Sarah Baker, as a son (needs further research): 

Thomas Callaway (1753-1819) + Jude Ann Farrar (m. 1768, Bedford, Virginia);

Next, currently added to the family group of Thomas Callaway + Jude Ann Farrar, as a son (needs further research):   

Joseph Callaway (14 April 1779 – 28 October 1832)  + Nancy Howard 
  Marriage: 24 Feb 1807, Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States

Joseph and Nancy, above, are currently entered as the parents of Nancy Elvira Callaway, Thomas Howard Callaway, Lucinda Frances Callaway, and Rebecca Callaway. There may be others.

Nancy Elvira Callaway married Charles C. Campbell and was the mother of Callaway Campbell, long-time resident of Murray County, Georgia. Thomas Howard Callaway, Nancy's brother, was president of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad. He moved from Monroe County, Tennessee, to Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, briefly lived in Murray County, Georgia (where he helped his nephew, Callaway, start a farm), and then moved up to Polk County, Tennessee. His sister, Lucinda Frances Callaway, was the first wife of Dr. Pleasant John Graves Lea, of Tennessee, mentioned in the Myra Inman diary and in the Charles Campbell papers. P.J.G. Lea was killed in Missouri by marauders during the Civil War. The other sister, Rebecca,  married a Donaho, and later, a Lea.

This is a quick clip from various sources. I have researched some of it personally – mainly Thomas H. Callaway and siblings. I cannot verify everything as entered in the tree, but the families appear in several old family histories – I pulled selected data and the link to the Rootsweb page to keep it as a reference..

Jeremiah Green, Tax, Bradley County, Tennessee

1862 Assessment List
Bradley County, Tennessee

Name  District Acres Valuation Tax Mf Page

Green, G.S., dist. 3, 160 acres, valued at 600, tax of 2.1, page 7
Green, Jeremiah dist. 3, 200 acres, valued at 960, tax of 3.36, page 7

http://www.tngenweb.org/bradley/Bradley1862Tax.htm

Accessed 13 March 2005

William Henry Dunn, of Bradley County, Tennessee, and Murray County, Georgia; Son of Nancy C. Dunn, and husband of Nova Bookout

William Henry Dunn of Bradley County, Tennessee; and of Murray County, Georgia
Husband of Nova Bookout

   (not the same as William Houston Dunn, husband of Mary Pritchett)
   (not the same as William H. Dunn, husband of Nancy M. Carter)
   (not the same as William Henry Harrison Hayes "Bill" Dunn, of White County, Tenn.)

William Henry Dunn of Bradley County, Tennessee (son of Jim Dunn and Nancy C. Dunn)
Birth: 27 Jul 1882. Death: 3 Jan 1941 (the death record has this mistake: it happened in 1941, but the coroner wrote "1940" in the blank for the year; however, the deceased was last seen alive on 2 Jan. 1941--so clearly there is a clerical error on the death certificate).

The death record has him as William Henry Dunn and has his wife as Nova Dunn, but the indexers could not read the writing, and indexed her name as "Noute" Dunn. This William Henry Dunn was buried at Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, Murray County, Georgia, on 5 Jan. 1941. Although he has a double stone with the name of his wife, Nova Bookout, she is not buried beside him. She remarried some time after 1940 and is buried beside her second husband, V.C. Davis.

Marriage Record
State of Tennessee, Bradley County
Page 125
Marriage License for Will H Dunn, age 46, and Nova Bookout, age 43 (granted 15 June 1927).
Marriage Bond: Will H Dunn and Mary L Hayes, of Bradley County, Tennessee: Marriage Bond of Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollars; bonded 15 Jun 1927.
Marriage Solemnization for Will H Dunn and Nova Bookout: 15 June 1927, by Samuel ?Milton?, M.G.
Returned on 16 June 1928, signed by L?? Brock, Clerk.

Notice that "Mary L. Hayes" who helped put up the bond for this marriage, would be Mary L. (Dunn) Hayes, sister of William H. Dunn, and wife of James H. "Jim" Hayes. In 1930, this William H. Dunn is listed as brother-in-law of James Hayes (whose wife is Mary L. Hayes). Also in the household is Nova Dunn (William's wife). They live on Hall's Chapel Road, Murray County, Georgia, where the Bookouts have been known to live.

These are the siblings of this William H. Dunn:

Martha Josephine Dunn (wife of Henry Hill Headrick)

James Monavel Dunn (husband of Lillie Mary Magdalene Prince)

Mary L. Dunn (wife of James H. "Jim" Hayes)

John Lee Dunn (husband of Kadell Samantha Mantooth)

The mother of these children, Nancy C Dunn, was in Murray County, Georgia, moved to Bradley County, Tennessee, and possibly moved back to Murray County, Georgia.

Living beside the Bookouts in 1910 are Joseph P. Dunn and Nancy E. (Putnam) Dunn. That Joseph P. Dunn (probably named Joseph Perry Dunn after his uncle of that name, who died in 1905 and is not listed in the 1910 census). The Joseph P. Dunns who lived beside the Bookouts is the brother of yet a different William Houston Dunn (born 1843), who moved out to Texas and married Nancy Mahalia Carter.

There are quite a few William H. Dunns and Joseph P. Dunns, many of them named for each other. That's why it helps to study brother-sister relationships, aunt-uncle relationships; and to look at marriage bonds and land deeds.

The death record has his middle name as "Henry," though I had always thought that he was also called "Huse," just like the other one!

Death Record of William Henry Dunn
Apparent Date of Death: 3 January 1941 (but says 1940; simple clerical error, because he was last seen alive by doctor in 1941; and the certificate was filed in 1941).

Georgia Deaths, 1928-1942, Cert. no. 33699: death of William Henry Dunn, male. Birth: 27 Jul (est. 1883), Ga. Death: 3 Jan "1940" (should be 1941--clerical error in source; has 1/3/1940); Doctor last saw deceased alive on 2 Jan. 1941. Place of Death: Crandall, Murray, Georgia. Cause of Death: Chronic Rheumatic Fever. Wife of Deceased: Nova Dunn (indexed as Noute Dunn). Mother of Deceased: Nancy Dunn (born in Blunt Co., Tenn). Father of deceased: Not Known. Informant: Mrs. Will Dunn, of Crandall, , Ga. Burial: 5 Jan. 1941 (or 1940!) Buried at Calvery Cemetery, Crandall, (Murray), Georgia. Undertaker: Kenemer Brothers, of Dalton, (Whitfield), Ga. Filed: 9 May 1941. Registrar: J. B. Higdon. [Extract by D.K. Pritchett, Family Search contributor.]

Citation
"Georgia Deaths, 1928-1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJX9-64CR : 11 March 2018), William Henry Dunn, 03 Jan 1940; citing Crandall, Murray, Georgia, United States, Georgia State Archives, Morrow.

Obituary of Thomas H. Calloway (Thomas H. Callaway), Sweetwater Enterprise, 1870 (via TNGenWeb)

Obituary of Thomas H. Calloway

(Alternate Surname Spelling: Callaway)
Sept. 1, 1870, |Sweetwater Enterprise|, Sweetwater, Monroe Co., Tenn.

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Death of President Calloway---This estimable Christian gentleman and valued citizen breathed his last at half past two o'clock Monday morning at White Cliff Springs in this county. His many friends had been for some time prepared for the sad event, although they hoped to the last that kind and skillful attention might prolong his life for several years. Colonel Calloway was born in Knox County on the 15th day of January, 1812. About the year 1821 he removed with his father, Joseph Calloway, to this county. In 1838, having been appointed one of the surveyors of the Ocoee District, he removed to Cleveland. Shortly after this he married a daughter of Hon. Luke Lea, then Entry Taker of the Ocoee District. On the 5th of February, 1852, he was elected President of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, but resigned in September, 1853. On the 25th of July, 1865, he was re-elected to the same position, and on the 27th of November, 1868, he was elected President of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. On the 29th of November, 1869, the East Tennessee and Georgia and East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Companies having been consolidated, he wa elected the first President of the consolidated companies, and was holding this position at the time of his death.

Colonel Calloway was an active and consistent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in all the relations of life set a bright example to those who would win respect and love. We know of no other man in East Tennessee whose loss would be so generally and sincerely deplored.

His remains were taken to Cleveland on Tuesday and buried with Masonic honors. The number in attendance at the funeral was very large, comprising delegations from along the line of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad.

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Citation: Glenn Teffeteller (ed., transcriber, contrib.), "Death of President Calloway" (Sept. 1, 1870, Obituary of Thomas H. Callaway, president of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad), in File 3 (FILE3.TXT), Sweetwater Enterprise, (Sweetwater, Monroe Co., Tenn.), 11/18/1869 - 4/7/1876, Monroe Co., TN, Early Newspaper Abstracts 1868 – 1908, Newspaper Index for Monroe County, Tennessee, Monroe County in Tennessee GenWeb (tngenweb.org), accessed 8 Feb. 2018. URL: http://‌tngenweb.org/‌monroe/‌newspaper/‌FILE3.TXT.

My own additional research note: Thomas H. Calloway or Thomas H. Callaway, was president of East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad before and after the Civil War. He resigned during the War, when the Confederacy took over the railroad company. Callaway, a very wealthy man even by today's standards, lived in, and was strongly associated with these counties in Tennessee: Bradley County, Monroe County, Polk County. He also briefly lived in, and owned property in, northern Murray County, Georgia.

Burials in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee (Civil War and Later) - (Link)

Found this OCD text transcript of an old book listing burials in Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee, and cross-matching them with the Myra Inman Diary.

Burials in Cleveland, Tennessee
https://archive.org/stream/deathnoticesincl00snel/deathnoticesincl00snel_djvu.txt

Thanks to a "new" search engine, 

Searx.me
https://searx.me

Wow! It certainly returned more results for me than Google or DuckDuckGo!

Brick-Wall Family: Jacob Jr. "Jake" Headrick + Harriet "Hattie" Hall, of Murray County, Georgia, and Polk County, Tennessee

Brick-wall family of Jacob and Harriet "Hattie" (Hall) Headrick, of Murray County, Georgia; Polk County, Tennessee; and Bradley County, Tennessee. This family resided in Murray County, Georgia, in 1880.

GENERATION I:
Jacob "Jake" Headrick (Born to Jacob and Polly Rice Headrick).
          FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch ID: KL7D-4V7.
​Married Harriet "Hattie" Hall (Born to C. Martin Hall + Mildred Ann Barksdale).
     (Married 20 October 1861, Polk County, Tennessee).
had these children, all born in/near Cisco (old Cohuttah Springs/Hughes) Georgia, all of northern Murray County, Georgia:

GENERATION II:
II. William H. Headrick, also known as W.H. Headrick.
Born 1862.
Resided in Hanceville, near Cullman, Alabama, in 1905.
Probably never married.
Died 7 August 1927 in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee. Buried 8 August 1927 in Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia.

II. Myrtle Ann Headrick
Born 1866. (mystery girl)

II. Mary "Mollie" Headrick, born 1867 (mystery girl)
In 1900, boarded with Mrs. Dr. Joseph A. Price (a widow) in Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia; her younger sister, Minnie Headrick, also boarded there.

Pretty sure this is her; Dr. Joseph A. Price treated her father, Jacob Headrick, for free, so they may have been family friends; sister, Mary, seems to be boarding there, too; apparently never married or married late in life; unless she is the one who married S.R. Grant in 1886 in Murray Co., Georgia, and perhaps became widowed or divorced before 1900.

II. Jaly L. Headrick (also known as Julia Lovely Headrick; pretty sure she is the same person).
Born 1868. Died 1898-1900, possibly in Oregon.
Married Charles Milton Shields on 12 December 1885, in Bradley Co., Tenn.
Charles and Jaly Headrick Shields had four children: 

(1) Joseph E. Shields
   Born: 2 July 1886, Cleveland, Bradley, Tenn.
   Died: 26 November 1935, Miami, Dade, Florida.

(2) Frank Shields
   Born: March 1888, Oregon.
 
(3) Minnie Ola Shields
     Born: 12 September 1889, Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon.

(4) Mark Shields
   Born: July 1898, Oregon.

II. Lucy Headrick
Born 1869 (mystery girl)

II. Frances "Fannie?" Headrick
Born 1872 (mystery girl)

II. Sarah "Sally?" Headrick
Born 1873 (mystery girl)

II. Andrew Jackson Headrick
Born 1875 (mystery boy)

II. Minnesota "Minnie" Headrick (mystery girl).
Born 1877; lived with guardians, Powell and Frances "Fannie" Hall Lowe before 1899 in Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee; later may have lived awhile in Cullman, Alabama, with older brother, William H. Headrick.

In 1900, boarded with Mrs. Dr. Joseph A. Price (a widow) in Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia; her older sister, Mary "Mollie" Headrick, also boarded there; (Pretty sure this is her; Dr. Joseph A. Price treated her father, Jacob Headrick, for free, so they may have been family friends; sister, Mary, seems to be boarding there, too).
(mystery girl; apparently never married or married late in life)

II. Martin Headrick
Born 1880 (mystery boy)

II. Cordelia "Cordie, Delia" Headrick
Born 27 September 1883; (alternate birth year, from census: 1882).
Moved to Cullman, Alabama -
         (prob. abt. 1899 when guardian, Powell H. Lowe of Cleveland, Bradley, Tenn., died).

Probably moved to Cullman to live w/older brother, Wm. H. Headrick.
Resided: Pct. 13, Walker, Ala. - 1910. Resided: Cordova, Walker, Ala. - 1930.
Married: Robert Jackson Grubbs, 11 January 1903, Cullman, Alabama.
Died: 24 September 1941, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee.
Buried: 26 Sept. 1941, Lomenick Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tenn.

Robert J. and Cordelia Grubbs had these children:

(1) Jewell Pearl Grubbs. Born: 1904,

(2) Francis A. Grubbs
   Born: 1908.
   Resided: Pct. 13, Walker, Alabama - 1910.
   Resided: Chicago, Cook, Illinois - 1935.
   Resided: Berwyn, Cook, Illinois - 1940.
   Died: 3 February 1945, Chicago, Cook, Illinois.
   Buried: 6 February 1945, Acacia Park, Chicago, Cook, Illinois.

(3) Emma E. Grubbs. Born: 1911

(4) Minnie G. Grubbs. Born: 1918

(5) Headrick Jackson Grubbs
   Born: 1919. Died: 1987

Guardians of the three minor children, Minnie, Martin, and Cordelia (from 1893 to probably 1899): 
Powell H. Lowe (b.1844; died 1899; lived in Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee).
Francis "Fannie" (Hall) Lowe (sister of Harriet Hall Headrick).
   (b.1845 Polk Co., Tenn.; d.1920 Mobile, Mobile, Ala.).
            Resided in Cleveland, Bradley, Tenn. May have lived in Mobile, Ala. before 1920.

Surnames: HEADRICK, HALL, GRUBBS, SHIELDS, BARKSDALE, LOWE.

Brick-Wall Lineage: representing one line of descendants of old Jacob and Polly (Rice) Headrick, out of Jacob "Jake" Headrick Jr. and Harriet Hall.

Contact via email (hint): cohuttablue-genes (at Yahoo...)

Photo of Drusilla Catherine Headrick and Alice Headrick Burns

Alice Headrick Burns (left) and her aunt, Drusilla Headrick Grigsby

Drusilla Catherine Headrick, born 10 1861 in Murray County, Georgia, was the daughter of William and Mary Comings (Emert) Headrick. She married first, John Keith, in Bradley County, Tennessee, and later, Samuel W. Grigsby, in Murray County, Georgia. She never had any children, but she and Sam raised Sam's nephew, Walt.

Drusilla was my father's beloved "Aunt Sis," a great aunt. Daddy and Lois (Headrick) Cox, Uncle Horace's daughter, were the only ones who ever mentioned Aunt Sis to me, as far as I can recall. They both loved her. Apparently she was a kind old woman. I believe she made a dress for Lois once, maybe many clothes.

We have an old photo of Aunt Sis. In it, she is very old and wise looking. She is sitting with her niece, Alice (Headrick) Burns, my Granny's older sister. Alice is in an old ladder-back chair and is leaning over with her arm around Drusilla. It is the photo of a loving niece, and I can almost feel the kindness and protective instinct of Alice toward her old aunt.

The photo above is retouched (manually, by me), but I'm providing copies the raw, damaged photos below for documentation and comparison. The speckling over Alice's eye in the damaged photo was caused by my original retouch years ago, an attempt with a pencil on the original photo. The actual photo just has white spots where the glossy/image layer of the photo is just gone.

Alice Headrick Burns and Drusilla Headrick Grigsby, original image before retouch; has some colored-pencil retouching on the original.

Caption on the back of the Drusilla Headrick Grigsby/Alice Headrick Burns photo

I plan to do a few more posts about Drusilla Headrick.

I first published the photo and documentation on my website, Southern Muse. I also shared it on FamilySearch (to be picked up by Ancestry, of course), and am reposting it here. My reasons are that I fear a site-hosting fiasco as Yahoo switches over to Aabaco Small Business. God forbid that I should lose Southern Muse after all these years, but it could happen. I can't imagine trying to transfer that large, cumbersome, disorganized site that I've built to a new host, if it should come to that. I'll just try to salvage a few gems ~ among them, Drusilla.