4-24-14
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Find A Grave contributor Martha
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Served in Civil War,
Pvt in Company I 9th Texas Militia from beat 3 Lamar County, Texas

10-10-2022
Info. From: Sherry (47010546)

Suggested edit: Absalom Dunagan, was a native of Tennessee, born about 1822. He accompanied his parents to Missouri, in childhood, and grew up in Livingston County, that State, from whence, in 1848, he came to Texas. It appears that he reached his majority without the advantage of schooling and that he depended upon his daily labor for support. He was among the 49ers who mined for gold on the West coast. He was married just before his departure for the Pacific region, and leaving his wife behind, he accompanied a party of adventurers from Lamar County, Texas, with a drove of cattle for the mining camps of the coast. The caravan was several weeks upon the. sinuous and dusty trail across the American Sahara, now and then parleying with the Indians and now and then fighting them off, but ever moving toward the mecca of fabulous fortune-making. The details of his movements in the Golden State are not accessible now, but he mined with indifferent success for a time and then returned home by way of the Isthmus of Panama and New Orleans. He seems to have been the sole representative of his family in Texas. He left brothers in Livingston county, Missouri, but we are unable to present their names here. During the Civil war he served as a member of Colonel Good's regiment from Texas. He exercised the functions of citizenship without official experience and owned to a decent respect for democratic policies and professions; but he held communion with no church or creed. His wife, Margaret (Campbell) Dunagan, was a daughter of James Campbell, a stock man and farmer who had come from Alabama to this State. She was born in Alabama, in 1833, and was about ten years of age at the time of their removal to Texas. Mr. Dunagan passed away on his farm in 1873. near where the hamlet of Atlas now stands, and his good wife survived him until 1899. Their children in order of birth are as follows: Charles C., whose name introduces this sketch; William A., of Lamar county, Texas; James C., of Paris, Texas; Carroll A., of Texarkana. Texas; Mattie, who became the wife of a Mr. Walker, died at Paris, Texas; Horace B., of Big Springs, Texas; Thomas J., who died in Lamar County; Simeon B., of Paris, and Alice, who died in Paris as Mrs. John Lillard. Thus Absalom Dunagan left a numerous family to perpetuate his name and carry on the work of subjugating Nature in Lamar and Delta Counties. A History of Texas and Texans, Volume 3 By Francis White Johnson . Texas Genealogy Trails website