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THE DUNAWAYS OF VIRGINIA Compiled by A. Elizabeth Clendening Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 59-14861. Published by S. Judson Dunaway Ogunquit, Maine MCMLIX :l D,,, CONTENTS Foreword --- ---- i Acknowledgments ___ _ ---- ___ _ii How Our History Grew A. Elizabeth Clendening ___________ __iii A Tribute to the Author S. Judson Dunaway _ ____________ _iv The Pride of a Virginian S. Judson Dunaway ______________________ v Part Page I THE DUNAWAY FAMILY OF VIRGINIA ------- --- ---- -- ----------- 1 II DERBY DUNAWAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY 3 III DESCENDANTS OF JOHN DUNAWAY Eldest Son of Derby Dunaway ____________ _ ------- 9 IV DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM DUNAWAY Second Son of Derby Dunaway________ . 12 V DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL DlJNAWAY Third Son of Derby Dunaway ------ 89 VI A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF OPIE DUNAWAY of Northumberland County _____________________ _ ______ 120 APPENDICES Appendix I A History of Lebanon Baptist Church Robert 0. Norris, Jr. _______ 121 Appendix II The Unfinished Autobiography of Raleigh Dunaway -- ___ 128 Appendix III The Hume Descent.__ __ _ _______ 136 Appendix IV What About Coats of Arms? S. Judson Dunaway _____ _ _ __ 138 Footnotes_ 140 Index of Master Numbers _________ _ 142 Index ________ _ 143 Genealogical Charts _______ _ Inserts (Inside back Cover) FOREWORD This is a genealogy of the descendants of Derby Dunaway of Lancaster County, Virginia, but does not include those of the other early Dunaways of the Northern Neck who were probably his near kinsmen, but whose relationship has not been established. Not all of Derby's descendants are in cluded, as no detailed search has been made outside of Virginia, but there is consider - able information regarding the branch of the family which migrated to Tennessee. This is, however, a fairly complete ac count of Derby's descendants in Virginia. In every work of this nature, there are bound to be errors of omission and commis sion, although every effort has been made for a correct account. Any additions or cor rections will be gratefully received by the compiler. A.E.C. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To acknowledge the help of each person who contributed to our publication would require the listing of each living descendant of Derby Dunaway, because we needed the cooperation of each to make our history complete. We are grateful to Miss Maxine Dunaway, Mrs. Rolland C. Mossman and Vernon F. Dunaway, who have been most helpful, although their descent from Derby Dunaway has not been definitely established. We express our special thanks to Alf J. Mapp, Jr., who supplied the only existing portrait of Deacon Rawleigh Dunaway, and who helped us adhere to factual data concerning our ancestors rather than divert to traditional verbal accounts;to Miss Jessie 0. Dunaway for pertinent newspaper clippings and correspondence; to Bernard D. Parham for pictures of Raleigh Dunaway and his wife, the former Anna C. George; to Miss Anna M. Baker for her report on the de scendants of Dr. T. S. Dunaway; to Mrs. Bayne Palmer 0 1 Brien for locating obscure Dunaway data and supplying pictures of the early Dunaway homes; to Robert O. Norris, Jr. for his vivid "History of Lebanon Baptist Church," and to G. Andrews Moriarty for his inval uable assistance in piecing together bits of data into the comprehen - sive report we now have. And most of all, we are grateful for the encouragement and sponsorship of S. Judson Dunaway. Without his help, this histo ry would not have been published. A.E.C. ii HOW OUR HISTORY GREW Some years ago when I saw the formal registration certificate for a dairy cow, I marveled at the records kept on the ancestry of a mere cow. That cow had a more complete family history than most humans. How much did I know about my own ancestors? As I began to fill in a crude family tree, I regretted that I had not listened more attentively as my grandfather, Raleigh Dunaway, talked of his childhood in Lancaster County, Virginia, where his fam ily lived for more than 200 years. After searching through old let ters, newspaper clippings, family birth and death records, I sent my compilation to Mrs. Jennie Harding, Heathsville, Virginia, who had been recommended by the Clerk of Lancaster County Court, and asked her help in tracing my Dunaway line. She wrote me that many Duna ways had lived in the Northern Neck counties in years past, and inten sive study of court records would be required to trace my direct line. My uncle, S. Judson Dunaway, Ogunquit, Maine, had for years manifested interest in his ancestryby seeking out persons of the Dun away name, whether related or not, during his business trips through out the United States. I told him of my attempt to learn more of our early forbears and of Mrs. Harding's suggestions for carrying on the research. At once he gave his support to the project, and, as the work progressed, expressed his enthusiasm by proposing we not stop with our direct line, but expand the scope of research to include all descendants of our first established ancestor, Derby Dunaway. Several days' searching through city directories in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., resulted in a mailing list of more than 1,200 Dunaways scattered through forty states, the District of Columbia and Hawaii. To these persons we mailed preliminary post als to tell them what we were attempting to do and to ask their help in supplying family records. A summary of our replies was not too encouraging, but we did locate several of Derby's descendants we would not otherwise have found. We also received bits of information concerning other Dunaway lines, as well as several interesting in formal Dunaway family histories. A search of early Census Records in the National Archives in Washington, D. C., helped us a great deal in establishing family units, in identifying the various Dunaways, in estimating their birthdates, their movements between counties and states, and showed us the value of property owned at the time of the census. As the data accumulated, we enlisted the services of an experi enced genealogist, G. Andrews Moriarty, Ogunquit, Maine, to help us analyze our material and assemble it in proper sequence. Mrs. Harding, who conducted our research in the Northern Neck counties, passed away in August, 1957. She evidenced great personal interest in our work because she was familiar with the area being studied and had known personally some of the Dunaways who ap pear in our history. She read the initial draft of our manuscript and expressed her satisfaction with the manner in which the records had been assembled. Gathering these records has been both fascinating and educa - tional, and while searching for relatives, I found many friends. Ill A.E.C. A TRIBUTE TO THE AUTHOR For many years I had promised myself that when time permit ted I was going to do some research work on the Dunaway Family Tree, as the only book extant was "Personal Memoirs" of Dr. Thom as S. Dunaway, published in 1900, in which he sketchily touched on some of his forbears. But this was postponed, as are manydesires as the years advance, and I never got started. And I doubt now that I ever would have, had it not been for my niece, A. Elizabeth Clen dening, who, some five years ago expressed the desire to undertake the task. I was delighted to become the sponsor and be of any possi ble assistance. In her preceding sketch, "How Our History Grew," she has been too modest in minimizing the prodigious amount of work in volved. You should review my accumulated files over the years. She gave unstintingly and untiringly of her time and efforts. My con tribution to her authorship has been practically negligible; compris ing mostly the bit of writing on "The Pride of a Virginian, " and a sketch in the Appendix on "What About Coats of Arms?" The reader of this -volume will appreciate the amount of work involved and will want to know more about the author. Even though it was decided for practical reasons to limit the scope of this work to the male line and their descendants, I feel that an exception should be made in her case, even over her protests. She was born July 9, 1916 at Fort Maginnis, Montana, the tenth of eleven children. When her mother, my sister, died two years later, my mother took her and two of her sisters to raise. For several years she was partially bed-ridden with an undetermined res piratory ailment which was later overcome. Here, a tribute belongs to my sister, Jessie O. Dunaway, whopracticallyadoptedandclaimed her as her own, and the close relationship has remained to this day. Miss Clendening was an honor graduate of the Martinsburg, West Virginia, High School and Valedictorian of her class. She has been on the secretarial staff of the Berkeley County, West Virginia, Board of Education ( 19 37 -42 ), and Chief Clerk in the County Office of the War Price and Rationing Board, Office of Price Administra tion (1942-45). Since November 1945 she has beencounty office clerk in the Martinsburg office of the Farmers Home Administration, an agency of the Unikd States Department of Agriculture. In June 1955 she was one of only 119 employees from the entire Department- - some seventy thousand -- who were invited to Washington to receive from the Secretary of Agriculture, the Honorable Ezra Taft Benson, a Superior Service Citation for outstanding work, which read: "For handling the duties of a county office in an exceptional manner evi denced by consistently correct work and unusual tact in dealing with office callers." (See picture of award being made by Secretary Ben son and copy of letter from R.