Cordy was the son of Naum Dunning and Mary "Polly" Hughey.
He was united in marriage on July 18, 1861 in Lawrence County, Missouri with Julia Frances Hickman by Julia's maternal uncle, William R. Davis, M.G.
Cordy and Julia had one child, Dora Florence Dunning, who was six months old when her father died of Typhoid in Arkansas.
Cordy's Story
..After receiving word that her husband was dangerously ill, Julia and her mother Sally set off in a flat-bed wagon to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to bring Cordy home. (A trip of probably about a hundred miles.) The women went alone as they knew it would be foolhardy to attempt traveling across either Confederate or Union lines with menfolk. Julia planned to bring Cordy home and nurse him back to health, but when they arrived he was feverish with pneumonia (typhoid), and barely conscious. When asked how he was, he could only point one finger upward--seeming to indicate he knew that he was dying. Cordy was brought home to the Hickman homestead and buried in the small family graveyard. His tombstone has one finger pointing upward.
..Julia died only nine years later leaving their orphaned daughter Dora to be raised on the homestead by her Grandmother Sally Hickman. Sally saved Cordy's Civil War pension to finance Dora's education at Drury College in Springfield, Dora being in the first graduating class. Dora's interest and vocation was music and Sally managed to buy her a piano, a rarity in farm homes. Dora married John Hervey Craven and had two sons; Clyde Hervey and Floyd Hickman Craven. Both sons married, but neither had children, thus leaving no further descendants from Cordy Dunning's line.
..Cordy's picture (bust pose in an easel type frame), is described as of a handsome brunette man in a Union Army uniform and cap, is a treasured family keepsake kept on an antique dresser by Hickman descendant Mary Susan Shepherd.
[Biography information shared by Mary Elizabeth (Hickman) Barger in 1998.]
CIVIL WAR - UNION
May 25-Sep. 1, 1861 Peter F. Clark's Independent Cavalry Lawrence County Home Guard
[Goodspeed's History of Lawrence County Missouri]
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76 Reg't E.M.M., Capt. Roberts. Dunning, Cordy C., Private, Co. C, Enrolled August 12, 1862 at Mt. Vernon, Mo., Ordered into service Aug. 15, 1862
at Mt. Vernon, Mo. by Gen. Brown. Remarks: "Enlisted in U.S.A. Aug. 15"
[Missouri State Archives]
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Dunning, Cordy C., Enlisted Aug. 16, 1862 as Private at Lawrence Co., Missouri in Co I 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment. Mustered out
Jan. 21, 1863 at Fayetteville, Arkansas [Ancestry.com]
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Dunning, Cordy C., Pvt. Enlisted Aug. 16, 1862 in Lawrence Co., Mo., age 27. Died of typhoid Jan. 21, 1863 at Fayetteville, Ark.[http://couchgenweb.com/civilwar/1stcavidx.hmtl]
He was united in marriage on July 18, 1861 in Lawrence County, Missouri with Julia Frances Hickman by Julia's maternal uncle, William R. Davis, M.G.
Cordy and Julia had one child, Dora Florence Dunning, who was six months old when her father died of Typhoid in Arkansas.
Cordy's Story
..After receiving word that her husband was dangerously ill, Julia and her mother Sally set off in a flat-bed wagon to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to bring Cordy home. (A trip of probably about a hundred miles.) The women went alone as they knew it would be foolhardy to attempt traveling across either Confederate or Union lines with menfolk. Julia planned to bring Cordy home and nurse him back to health, but when they arrived he was feverish with pneumonia (typhoid), and barely conscious. When asked how he was, he could only point one finger upward--seeming to indicate he knew that he was dying. Cordy was brought home to the Hickman homestead and buried in the small family graveyard. His tombstone has one finger pointing upward.
..Julia died only nine years later leaving their orphaned daughter Dora to be raised on the homestead by her Grandmother Sally Hickman. Sally saved Cordy's Civil War pension to finance Dora's education at Drury College in Springfield, Dora being in the first graduating class. Dora's interest and vocation was music and Sally managed to buy her a piano, a rarity in farm homes. Dora married John Hervey Craven and had two sons; Clyde Hervey and Floyd Hickman Craven. Both sons married, but neither had children, thus leaving no further descendants from Cordy Dunning's line.
..Cordy's picture (bust pose in an easel type frame), is described as of a handsome brunette man in a Union Army uniform and cap, is a treasured family keepsake kept on an antique dresser by Hickman descendant Mary Susan Shepherd.
[Biography information shared by Mary Elizabeth (Hickman) Barger in 1998.]
CIVIL WAR - UNION
May 25-Sep. 1, 1861 Peter F. Clark's Independent Cavalry Lawrence County Home Guard
[Goodspeed's History of Lawrence County Missouri]
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76 Reg't E.M.M., Capt. Roberts. Dunning, Cordy C., Private, Co. C, Enrolled August 12, 1862 at Mt. Vernon, Mo., Ordered into service Aug. 15, 1862
at Mt. Vernon, Mo. by Gen. Brown. Remarks: "Enlisted in U.S.A. Aug. 15"
[Missouri State Archives]
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Dunning, Cordy C., Enlisted Aug. 16, 1862 as Private at Lawrence Co., Missouri in Co I 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment. Mustered out
Jan. 21, 1863 at Fayetteville, Arkansas [Ancestry.com]
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Dunning, Cordy C., Pvt. Enlisted Aug. 16, 1862 in Lawrence Co., Mo., age 27. Died of typhoid Jan. 21, 1863 at Fayetteville, Ark.[http://couchgenweb.com/civilwar/1stcavidx.hmtl]
Cordy was the son of Naum Dunning and Mary "Polly" Hughey.
He was united in marriage on July 18, 1861 in Lawrence County, Missouri with Julia Frances Hickman by Julia's maternal uncle, William R. Davis, M.G.
Cordy and Julia had one child, Dora Florence Dunning, who was six months old when her father died of Typhoid in Arkansas.
Cordy's Story
..After receiving word that her husband was dangerously ill, Julia and her mother Sally set off in a flat-bed wagon to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to bring Cordy home. (A trip of probably about a hundred miles.) The women went alone as they knew it would be foolhardy to attempt traveling across either Confederate or Union lines with menfolk. Julia planned to bring Cordy home and nurse him back to health, but when they arrived he was feverish with pneumonia (typhoid), and barely conscious. When asked how he was, he could only point one finger upward--seeming to indicate he knew that he was dying. Cordy was brought home to the Hickman homestead and buried in the small family graveyard. His tombstone has one finger pointing upward.
..Julia died only nine years later leaving their orphaned daughter Dora to be raised on the homestead by her Grandmother Sally Hickman. Sally saved Cordy's Civil War pension to finance Dora's education at Drury College in Springfield, Dora being in the first graduating class. Dora's interest and vocation was music and Sally managed to buy her a piano, a rarity in farm homes. Dora married John Hervey Craven and had two sons; Clyde Hervey and Floyd Hickman Craven. Both sons married, but neither had children, thus leaving no further descendants from Cordy Dunning's line.
..Cordy's picture (bust pose in an easel type frame), is described as of a handsome brunette man in a Union Army uniform and cap, is a treasured family keepsake kept on an antique dresser by Hickman descendant Mary Susan Shepherd.
[Biography information shared by Mary Elizabeth (Hickman) Barger in 1998.]
CIVIL WAR - UNION
May 25-Sep. 1, 1861 Peter F. Clark's Independent Cavalry Lawrence County Home Guard
[Goodspeed's History of Lawrence County Missouri]
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76 Reg't E.M.M., Capt. Roberts. Dunning, Cordy C., Private, Co. C, Enrolled August 12, 1862 at Mt. Vernon, Mo., Ordered into service Aug. 15, 1862
at Mt. Vernon, Mo. by Gen. Brown. Remarks: "Enlisted in U.S.A. Aug. 15"
[Missouri State Archives]
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Dunning, Cordy C., Enlisted Aug. 16, 1862 as Private at Lawrence Co., Missouri in Co I 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment. Mustered out
Jan. 21, 1863 at Fayetteville, Arkansas [Ancestry.com]
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Dunning, Cordy C., Pvt. Enlisted Aug. 16, 1862 in Lawrence Co., Mo., age 27. Died of typhoid Jan. 21, 1863 at Fayetteville, Ark.[http://couchgenweb.com/civilwar/1stcavidx.hmtl]
He was united in marriage on July 18, 1861 in Lawrence County, Missouri with Julia Frances Hickman by Julia's maternal uncle, William R. Davis, M.G.
Cordy and Julia had one child, Dora Florence Dunning, who was six months old when her father died of Typhoid in Arkansas.
Cordy's Story
..After receiving word that her husband was dangerously ill, Julia and her mother Sally set off in a flat-bed wagon to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to bring Cordy home. (A trip of probably about a hundred miles.) The women went alone as they knew it would be foolhardy to attempt traveling across either Confederate or Union lines with menfolk. Julia planned to bring Cordy home and nurse him back to health, but when they arrived he was feverish with pneumonia (typhoid), and barely conscious. When asked how he was, he could only point one finger upward--seeming to indicate he knew that he was dying. Cordy was brought home to the Hickman homestead and buried in the small family graveyard. His tombstone has one finger pointing upward.
..Julia died only nine years later leaving their orphaned daughter Dora to be raised on the homestead by her Grandmother Sally Hickman. Sally saved Cordy's Civil War pension to finance Dora's education at Drury College in Springfield, Dora being in the first graduating class. Dora's interest and vocation was music and Sally managed to buy her a piano, a rarity in farm homes. Dora married John Hervey Craven and had two sons; Clyde Hervey and Floyd Hickman Craven. Both sons married, but neither had children, thus leaving no further descendants from Cordy Dunning's line.
..Cordy's picture (bust pose in an easel type frame), is described as of a handsome brunette man in a Union Army uniform and cap, is a treasured family keepsake kept on an antique dresser by Hickman descendant Mary Susan Shepherd.
[Biography information shared by Mary Elizabeth (Hickman) Barger in 1998.]
CIVIL WAR - UNION
May 25-Sep. 1, 1861 Peter F. Clark's Independent Cavalry Lawrence County Home Guard
[Goodspeed's History of Lawrence County Missouri]
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76 Reg't E.M.M., Capt. Roberts. Dunning, Cordy C., Private, Co. C, Enrolled August 12, 1862 at Mt. Vernon, Mo., Ordered into service Aug. 15, 1862
at Mt. Vernon, Mo. by Gen. Brown. Remarks: "Enlisted in U.S.A. Aug. 15"
[Missouri State Archives]
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Dunning, Cordy C., Enlisted Aug. 16, 1862 as Private at Lawrence Co., Missouri in Co I 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment. Mustered out
Jan. 21, 1863 at Fayetteville, Arkansas [Ancestry.com]
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Dunning, Cordy C., Pvt. Enlisted Aug. 16, 1862 in Lawrence Co., Mo., age 27. Died of typhoid Jan. 21, 1863 at Fayetteville, Ark.[http://couchgenweb.com/civilwar/1stcavidx.hmtl]
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