William Dunbar

Abt 1782 - Aft 1855  (~ 74 years)

• Name	William Dunbar
  Born	Abt 1782	,,Pa
  Gender	Male
  Died	Aft 1855	,,Ca
  Record Change	12 Apr 2009
  Occupation	.. Old Hatter
  Reference Number	KL2B-OD
  Person ID	I52539	120k
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2015

  
  

  Family	Sarah Prather,   b. Abt 1790, of, Hardinsburg, Breckenridge, Ky ,   d. Bef 1860, Twin Springs, Linn, Ks  (Age ~ 69 years)
  Married	26 Dec 1807	Washington Co. Kentucky
  Children	1. Henry Dunbar,   b. 1808, ,Breckinridge, Ky ,   d. 1877, Cadmus, Scott Twp, Linn, Ks  (Age 69 years)  [Natural]   2. Frances Dunbar,   b. Abt 1810, ,Breckinridge, Ky  [Natural]   3. William P. Dunbar,   b. Abt 1812, Breckinridge, Ky. ,   d. Bef 1848, Lafayette, Stark, Ill.  (Age ~ 35 years)  [Natural]   4. George Washington Dunbar, Sr,   b. Abt 1813, of, Breckinridge, Ky ,   d. 1896, ,Stark, Il  (Age ~ 83 years)  [Natural]   5. Rosanna Nancy Dunbar,   b. Abt 1815, ,Breckenridge, Ky ,   d. Abt Nov 1837, Knox, Illinois  (Age ~ 22 years)  [Natural]   6. Lutetia Dunbar,   b. 22 May 1818, ,Breckinridge, Ky ,   d. 05 Oct 1846, ,Stark, Il  (Age 28 years)  [Natural]   7. Jackson Dunbar,   b. 18 Aug 1819, ,Breckenridge, Ky ,   d. 01 Apr 1865, Lafayette, Knox, Il  (Age 45 years)  [Natural]   8. Washington Dunbar,   b. 21 Sep 1822, of, Breckinridge, Ky ,   d. 29 Oct 1907, ,Henry, Il  (Age 85 years)  [Natural]   9. Robert Roland Dunbar,   b. 17 Aug 1824, ,Breckinridge, Ky ,   d. 12 Oct 1907, 3805 Michigan, Kansas City, Jackson, Mo.  (Age 83 years)  [Natural]   10. Sarah Jane Dunbar,   b. May 1826, ,Breckinridge, Ky ,   d. 04 Jun 1905, Eagle Grove, Hardin, Ia  (Age ~ 79 years)  [Natural]   11. Missouri Ann Dunbar,   b. 28 May 1828, ,Breckinridge, Ky ,   d. 13 Aug 1909, Twin Springs, Linn, Ks  (Age 81 years)  [Natural]   12. Jefferson Dunbar,   b. Abt 1833, Frakers Grove, Knox, Il  [Natural]   13. Stanley F Dunbar,   b. 10 May 1834, ,Breckinridge, Ky ,   d. 22 Aug 1862, Wethersfield Twp, Henry, Il  (Age 28 years)  [Natural]   14. Lafayette Dunbar,   b. Abt 1835, Frakers Grove, Knox, Il  [Natural]
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2015
  Family ID	F19302	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Born in Pennsylvania and shown as that on the 1850 Stark Co. Ill. Census for William Dunbar. Also 0n the 1880 Henry Co. Census for his son Washington Dunbar ,it shows his father born in Pa. Married Sarah Prather in Washington Co. Kentucky on 12-26-1807 by the same justice of peace who married Abraham Lincoln's parents in the same year Washington Co. Archives Bk 1-80. Bought 147 acres in Breckenridge Co. from Edmund and Polly Taylor on 10-10-1825 who had purchaced a tract from Robert Rawling 3-22-1823. Breckenridge Co. Archives G-242 According to his son Washington's death certificate they were in Tazwell County llinois by 1832 from Breckinridge County Kentucky. This is further supported by a puchace of land by William Dunbar in Tazwell Co. on 04-18-1831. 1834 Moved to Knox Co. Ill. from Tazwell Co. Illinois. Founded the town Lafayette Illinois named after one of his sons LaFayette pronounced "Layfayette" no connection to the french it is believed he had seven children The Dunbar Farm was purchaced from Michael Fraker now located in Stark Co. SW 1/4 of section 18 in Goshen Twp. The Walnet Grove on the property is known as Frakers Grove. He Gave his land to his son LaFayette and went with the gold seekers to California in the 1849 Gold rush. One article says 13 children I have 14 there may have only been one William not William P or William C. William was a hatter. Isaac Pulhamous went back to Illinois in 1858 to get his children and to care for Sarah Prather Dunbar. Sarah died shortly after arriving in Kansas without William Dunbar. She is buried at the Twin Springs Cemetery at Scott Twp, Linn, Kansas. I assume William went off to California to the gold rush before 1858 since there is no mention of him in Isaac's obituary. He probably died en route or in California. William,s son LaFayette was the first Dunbar land owner in Twin Springs, Scott Twp, Linn County, Kansas in 1857. LaFayette declared 2 acres of his land to be a Public Buring Ground Forever and deeded the land to the county. William probably left Kansas at that time for California.