Son of Daniel Dunbar (1794-1860) and Joanna Haggard (1795-1869)
"Warder's wife, Lydia, died a few years after their arrival in Illinois and following the birth of William, their fourth child. On November 27, 1856, Warder took his second wife, Maria Louisa Nardin. Warder's orphaned children now had a mother and Warder was looking forward to his new life in Illinois, but he had not reckoned with "slavery." Four years later Abraham Lincoln would defeat Stephen Douglas for the presidency of the United States. In 1858 the Lincoln-Douglas slavery debates attracted national attention. Warder abhorred slavery, so he looked west toward Kansas Territory where rapidly increasing settlers from the north were swelling the ranks of the anti-slavery forces in that territory. Warder acquired a covered wagon and four yoke of oxen, loaded his possessions and family and headed for Kansas, where they homesteaded some land and built a new home, and added nine children to their family. Their new home was in Cherokee County, the southeastern corner of Kansas.
SOURCE:"The Forebearers of the Four Dunbars", by Carl & Lorene Dunbar, El Paso TX, 1991, (privately published genealogy: 'a family history of the Dunbars and their allied families dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries').
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Maria taught Warder to read and write. Warder paid $3.00 per acre for 160 Acres. Warder sent Elihu and Wm. "to the new lands taken from the Indians who had sided with the South, and they located the land in Cherokee County of Cherry Creek for their father."
SOURCE: Lucy Dunbar Beamer (memoirs).
"Warder's wife, Lydia, died a few years after their arrival in Illinois and following the birth of William, their fourth child. On November 27, 1856, Warder took his second wife, Maria Louisa Nardin. Warder's orphaned children now had a mother and Warder was looking forward to his new life in Illinois, but he had not reckoned with "slavery." Four years later Abraham Lincoln would defeat Stephen Douglas for the presidency of the United States. In 1858 the Lincoln-Douglas slavery debates attracted national attention. Warder abhorred slavery, so he looked west toward Kansas Territory where rapidly increasing settlers from the north were swelling the ranks of the anti-slavery forces in that territory. Warder acquired a covered wagon and four yoke of oxen, loaded his possessions and family and headed for Kansas, where they homesteaded some land and built a new home, and added nine children to their family. Their new home was in Cherokee County, the southeastern corner of Kansas.
SOURCE:"The Forebearers of the Four Dunbars", by Carl & Lorene Dunbar, El Paso TX, 1991, (privately published genealogy: 'a family history of the Dunbars and their allied families dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries').
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Maria taught Warder to read and write. Warder paid $3.00 per acre for 160 Acres. Warder sent Elihu and Wm. "to the new lands taken from the Indians who had sided with the South, and they located the land in Cherokee County of Cherry Creek for their father."
SOURCE: Lucy Dunbar Beamer (memoirs).
Son of Daniel Dunbar (1794-1860) and Joanna Haggard (1795-1869)
"Warder's wife, Lydia, died a few years after their arrival in Illinois and following the birth of William, their fourth child. On November 27, 1856, Warder took his second wife, Maria Louisa Nardin. Warder's orphaned children now had a mother and Warder was looking forward to his new life in Illinois, but he had not reckoned with "slavery." Four years later Abraham Lincoln would defeat Stephen Douglas for the presidency of the United States. In 1858 the Lincoln-Douglas slavery debates attracted national attention. Warder abhorred slavery, so he looked west toward Kansas Territory where rapidly increasing settlers from the north were swelling the ranks of the anti-slavery forces in that territory. Warder acquired a covered wagon and four yoke of oxen, loaded his possessions and family and headed for Kansas, where they homesteaded some land and built a new home, and added nine children to their family. Their new home was in Cherokee County, the southeastern corner of Kansas.
SOURCE:"The Forebearers of the Four Dunbars", by Carl & Lorene Dunbar, El Paso TX, 1991, (privately published genealogy: 'a family history of the Dunbars and their allied families dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries').
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Maria taught Warder to read and write. Warder paid $3.00 per acre for 160 Acres. Warder sent Elihu and Wm. "to the new lands taken from the Indians who had sided with the South, and they located the land in Cherokee County of Cherry Creek for their father."
SOURCE: Lucy Dunbar Beamer (memoirs).
"Warder's wife, Lydia, died a few years after their arrival in Illinois and following the birth of William, their fourth child. On November 27, 1856, Warder took his second wife, Maria Louisa Nardin. Warder's orphaned children now had a mother and Warder was looking forward to his new life in Illinois, but he had not reckoned with "slavery." Four years later Abraham Lincoln would defeat Stephen Douglas for the presidency of the United States. In 1858 the Lincoln-Douglas slavery debates attracted national attention. Warder abhorred slavery, so he looked west toward Kansas Territory where rapidly increasing settlers from the north were swelling the ranks of the anti-slavery forces in that territory. Warder acquired a covered wagon and four yoke of oxen, loaded his possessions and family and headed for Kansas, where they homesteaded some land and built a new home, and added nine children to their family. Their new home was in Cherokee County, the southeastern corner of Kansas.
SOURCE:"The Forebearers of the Four Dunbars", by Carl & Lorene Dunbar, El Paso TX, 1991, (privately published genealogy: 'a family history of the Dunbars and their allied families dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries').
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Maria taught Warder to read and write. Warder paid $3.00 per acre for 160 Acres. Warder sent Elihu and Wm. "to the new lands taken from the Indians who had sided with the South, and they located the land in Cherokee County of Cherry Creek for their father."
SOURCE: Lucy Dunbar Beamer (memoirs).
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