Irvin George Dunnegan

Male 1849 - 1895  (45 years)


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  • Name Irvin George Dunnegan 
    Born 30 Jun 1849  Warren Co. TN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 17 Jun 1895  Wayne Co. MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Notes from Carol E. Vaughan, great granddaughter, Lexington, KY

      Irwin George, the sixth child of Thompson Dunnegan and Sophronia Tate, was born in Warren County, TN in 1849. Thompson's family had moved from VA to middle TN sometime between 1810 and 1817. After Irvin's grandfather, Absalom Dunnegan, died in White County, TN, his uncles, John and Samuel Dunnegan left that area and moved to southeast MO around 1843. After about ten years Irvin's father Thompson followed them to Iron County, MO and later to Wayne County, MO.

      Irwin was a farmer and owned a sawmill in Des Arc which he sold to G. W. Graves in 1890 for one thousand dollars. He was involved in a number of land transfers in Wayne County. One of the deeds reflected an understanding between Irvin George and his father, Thompson, in which Irvin would have a parcel of land for a nominal cost and would provide elder care for Thompson. It was signed in 1880 by Thompson and his second wife, Sallie E. Foquaide.

      Irvin died in 1895 of injuries resulting from a very serious accident in 1894 at a saw mill in Wayne County. Carol Vaughan remembers this version as told by her grandfather, Walter C. Dunnegan. "Granddaddy said that people would come to their house and cut off patches of their own skin to graft onto his father's are flesh in hopes that his wounds would heal. He was at home in bed a long time before he died." The following death notice in the Iron County Register paints an even more agonizing and painful death.

      Iron County Register, June 20, 1895

      From Des Arc

      I. G. Dunnegan, who was scalded in a wreck on a log boom below Poplar Bluff last summer, was brought home last winter. All the flesh was burned off his legs from his hip down. He has suffered death a thousand times, and of late he suffered so much you could hear him hollow and take on for some distance. So the Doctors concluded to cut off one of his lets, and Sunday, Drs. Petit, Gay, Tates and Sebastian amputated his leg, but he only lived until night. Poor man! He is better off. May God help his bereaved widow and children! He will be buried at Des Arc Tuesday. June 17, 1895
    Person ID I14645  Master File
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2012 

    Father Thompson Dunnegan,   b. 1809, Wythe Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Sophronia Elizabeth TATE 
    Married 1835  Warren Co. TN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F7897  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Anna Kimmel,   b. 1860, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1944, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Married 1878  Wayne Co. MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Edward E. Dunnegan,   b. Jan 1878, Wayne Co. KY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co. AR Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Ida Jane Dunnegan,   b. 28 Mar 1880, Wayne Co. KY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jun 1945, Little Rock, Pulaski Co. AR Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     3. Charlie Dunnegan
     4. Etta Dunnegan
     5. Ted Dunnegan
     6. Walter Cellman Dunnegan,   b. 10 May 1893, Warren Co. MO Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 04 Jun 1959, Marshall Co. KY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     7. Irvin W. Dunnegan
    Last Modified 22 Aug 2012 
    Family ID F8120  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart