And yet, the order of the acts has been schemed and plotted,
And nothing can avert the final curtain's fall.
I stand alone. All else is swamped by Pharisaism.
To live life to the end is not a childish task.
-Boris Pasternak
James Carnachan Dunlap
*James was the Son of John Dunlap, of Strabane, Ireland.
*James's Mother was Sarah Ector.
*When James Carnahan Dunlap was about 16 years old he left Ireland and went to England and stayed about one year. He then took passage on a sailing vessel for America. The name of the boat is believed to have been the "Hibernia" meaning Ireland. He was on the boat for six months and landed on the Virginia coast in the year 1758.
*James was a Revolutionary War soldier enlisting on February 3 1776 in Captain Abraham Smith's Company, 6th Pennsylvania Battalion Pennsylvania Line, under the command of Colonel William Irvine. The Company of Captain Abraham Smith was raised in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. In the last week of March, 1776, the Battalion marched to Albany, New York; on June 8, 1776 this unit engaged enemy British and Canadian forces near Syracuse, New York, near the Canadian border, in the "Battle of Three Rivers" (Trois-Rivières). Those not captured or killed in this battle withdrew to Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, New York under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Hartley to winter. They had several fights with the Indians during this time.
Private James Carnahan Dunlap had only one eye which excused him from further military service in Kentucky to fight Indians there in 1785. Presumably, he lost one eye in the Revolutionary War. His pension application (S35904) states he was discharged at Albany, New York about fifteen months after his enlistment for one year; thus giving a discharge date of May 1777.
James Dunlap was a resident of Pennsylvania until 1779 and was in Virginia from 1779 until 1785, living in Botetourt County, Virginia, where he married Elizabeth Jane Wills in 1783. They then went to Clark County, Kentucky which was then named Fayette County in 1785. They took the Wilderness Road and settled in the Bush Settlement just north of Boonesboro, Kentucky on Lower Howard's Creek.
In the year 1799, he crossed the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky and settled in Montgomery County, near Mt. Sterling. When crossing the mountains, from family stories, he placed two small children in baskets and placed them across the horses back and brought them across. According to the most accurate information the two children would have been John Dunlap, born 1795 and Sarah (Sallie) Dunlap, born 1796. Here near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky all the children grew to maturity. James was listed in the 1810 census for Montgomery County, and was interviewed there for a Kentucky newspaper, by a Mr. Shane, when he was 103 years old. James died at 103 years, 11 months, and 25 days, on June 24 1844.
A Revolutionary War Hero Buried Near Atchison
So far as The Globe has learned only one of the heroes of the Revolutionary War lies buried In this vicinity: James Dunlap, who lies in an unmarked grave in the Dunlap private burial ground three and one-half miles south of DeKalb. When the West was opened to settlement, the great majority of the soldiers under George Washington had long since been gathered to their reward, and Uncle Jimmy Dunlap lived to see the West, and assist in its marvelous development because of his unusual years and vitality. He had other distinctions than being a soldier In the Revolutionary War: he was 103 when he died.
James Dunlap was an Irish boy who settled in Virginia at such an early date that he had to break cane to clear a piece of ground to make his home. What part he played in the Revolutionary war is not known to his grandson. Allen H. Dunlap. now a white-haired old man of 79, and who was a boy of 12 when the Dunlap family traveled across the continent from Kentucky to Missouri, the memory of the old man being somewhat dim. They started in August 1843, and the personnel of the party is proof that women are not alone in devotion to kin: William Dunlap, son of the Revolutionary War hero, and father of Allen H. Dunlap, of DeKalb, wanted to try his fortunes in the West, but didn't want to leave any of his kinsfolk behind, so he collected two big six-horse teams, with wagons, and one two-horse wagon, gathered up his father, an aunt and uncle, and their family, a sister and her family, his own family, and a married daughter and her family, twenty-six in all, piled them in the wagons, and turned toward the West. The oldest in the party was James Dunlap, age 103, and he was also the spryest. The youngest in the party were Ellen Emeritta and Julianne Julitta Wills, aged I8 months, the twin daughters of William Dunlap's sister. These twins, now 65 years of age, are still living, and their home is in Waterville. Kansas, where four sisters, all Spins, live together.
There were twenty-six in the party, but their number did not prevent them from visiting en-route, and they stopped to visit kin In Indiana and Illinois, and were three months on the way, reaching their destination, three and one-half miles south of DeKalb, November 17. 1843. Allen Dunlap remembers that they had plenty to eat on the way, principally bacon and corn bread. They started with Just enough butter to last them, and it was pretty strong toward the end of the trip, but their appetites were good, and they ate it. Reaching DeKalb, William Dunlap bought what is now the Samuel Bromley farm, and here he lived for many years. The spry little old gentleman of 103 years loved to work, which may account for his long life, and also his premature death, and he was the happiest one in the family when the spring came and he could work out of doors. This was in 1844. "the year of the big flood." when the Missouri river extended all the way from the Kansas hills to the Missouri hills, and in some places reached beyond them. The sun would shine in a promising way, and without warning it would be raining again. The spry old gentleman of 103 loved to make a garden, and was driven in from his task a dozen times a day by sudden rains chasing the sun away. "I am not going to be driven in." he told his son one day, and he went out to work on his garden patch, and the sun shone, and the rain poured, and the sun shone, and the rain poured, alternately all day, but he kept at his garden and the next morning the old gentleman of 103 was no longer spry, for he was very sick, and a week later he died.
A little corner was cut off the farm and fenced in for a Cemetery, and here the Revolutionary War Hero, aged 103 years, 10 months, and 13 days, was laid. His grave has never been marked: the family always intended to, but never did. He is not alone in the Cemetery; There are ten or twelve Dunlaps lying near him, and most of them have monuments, though they didn't fight in the Revolutionary War. One of the Dunlap men, who is buried there, has his grave guarded by the graves of his three wives. The fourth, sad to relate, outlived him, and made the marble-told tale of his life Incomplete by being buried somewhere else. The descendants of the hero of the Revolutionary War unfortunately have no letters, no papers, and no old musket as relics of their brave ancestor; all that they can hand down is the memory of him; that he was kindly, and bright, and spry, always spry; many a time after they settled on the farm, he, would ride to DeKalb and back, a distance of seven miles. And he was the best fisherman in the family. He was so spry that if it hadn't been for that garden, and the rain, he might be living yet.
William Dunlap, whose love for his kin prompted him to get up a family reunion in Kentucky and prolong it across the plains to Missouri, stayed on the farm till he died, in 1870, at the age of 86 years.
Allen Dunlap, the boy of the family reunion, is now 79 years of age and lives in retirement in the suburbs of DeKalb. He stayed on his father's farm till 1850. when he went overland to California, four months on the way in an ox team. The writer of this has met many who succumbed to the gold fever, but has yet to meet a man who got any gold by it. Allen Dunlap located at Placerville. and mined for two years, and would have grown rich if the others had been willing to stay. Always that "if!" They came back by steamer, crossing the Isthmus of Panama on foot, and then by boat to New Orleans, up the river to Weston. He remained on his father's farm till the spring of 1856, when he came to Atchison and clerked for Rice McCubbin.
Mr. Dunlap was on the "other side" in the question that was making times restless in Kansas, and enlisted in a small company organized in 1356, under Captain Robinson, to make Kansas a slave state. They first went to Lecompton, and then to Lawrence, and had returned as far as Hickory Point, when the sixteen in this little company were met by 150 men under Jim Lane. They were coming back to Atchison to disperse when Lane met them, but their peaceable intentions didn't prevent a fight, and the "other side" lost one man, who was killed, and three or four were wounded, including Captain Robinson. Mr. Dunlap would like to know if there are any others now living of the little handful of men under Captain Robinson that day.
After clerking at the Rice McCubbin store a short time longer, he joined one of Major Russell's and Waddell's outfits, and went as far as Fort Kearney, Nebraska. Returning to DeKalb he clerked in dry goods stores there till he went into the hardware business, retiring twelve years ago. He has lived in DeKalb since 1861, and in the same house for forty-two years.
The wife of Allen Dunlap is the "oldest citizen" of DeKalb. Her maiden name was Ann Allee, and. when her parents moved there sixty-eight years ago. she was a baby of 18 months. There was a small town there even at that early date, but the hills all around were covered with a forest so dense that her father blazed a path through the woods so that they wouldn't lose the way in going to visit an aunt less than a mile away. They lived in a log cabin, and many a time Mrs. Allee would have to run out in the snow, with the baby in her arms to keep the smoke from choking them to death. There was no good method of ventilation in those days, and the fireplace sent as much smoke into the room as it sent up the chimney. Mrs. Dunlap says that tobacco was raised on the hills as early as 1840. She recalls one man who raised 400 pounds a year, but he never sold any. It kept him busy growing and curing 400 pounds, and then smoking and chewing it all, but, having raised it, he had to consume it. and was, consequently, kept busy all the year round.
*Published in The The Atchison Weekly Globe (Atchison Kansas) May 13 1909.
*James married Elizabeth Jane Willis in 1783 in Botetourt County Virginia.
They had 8 Children:
James Carnachan Dunlap Junior
1783–1845
William Harold Dunlap
1785–1871
Alexander Dunlap
1787–1872
Elizabeth Dunlap Ellison
1789–1869
Andrew Washington Dunlap Senior
1791–1847
John Dunlap
1795–1867
Sarah "Sallie" Dunlap Wills
1796–
Thomas Dunlap
1799–1867
*In Gaelic, The Name Carnachan Means "Victorious".
*James Dunlap's youngest brother was John Dunlap of Pennsylvania and was a printer. His uncle was William Dunlap who was a Minister in Virginia.
*Information on James Courtesy of Ancestry.com
*Information on James' Parents and family, including James' only surviving photograph, Courtesy of William Dunlap (50528365)
And nothing can avert the final curtain's fall.
I stand alone. All else is swamped by Pharisaism.
To live life to the end is not a childish task.
-Boris Pasternak
James Carnachan Dunlap
*James was the Son of John Dunlap, of Strabane, Ireland.
*James's Mother was Sarah Ector.
*When James Carnahan Dunlap was about 16 years old he left Ireland and went to England and stayed about one year. He then took passage on a sailing vessel for America. The name of the boat is believed to have been the "Hibernia" meaning Ireland. He was on the boat for six months and landed on the Virginia coast in the year 1758.
*James was a Revolutionary War soldier enlisting on February 3 1776 in Captain Abraham Smith's Company, 6th Pennsylvania Battalion Pennsylvania Line, under the command of Colonel William Irvine. The Company of Captain Abraham Smith was raised in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. In the last week of March, 1776, the Battalion marched to Albany, New York; on June 8, 1776 this unit engaged enemy British and Canadian forces near Syracuse, New York, near the Canadian border, in the "Battle of Three Rivers" (Trois-Rivières). Those not captured or killed in this battle withdrew to Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, New York under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Hartley to winter. They had several fights with the Indians during this time.
Private James Carnahan Dunlap had only one eye which excused him from further military service in Kentucky to fight Indians there in 1785. Presumably, he lost one eye in the Revolutionary War. His pension application (S35904) states he was discharged at Albany, New York about fifteen months after his enlistment for one year; thus giving a discharge date of May 1777.
James Dunlap was a resident of Pennsylvania until 1779 and was in Virginia from 1779 until 1785, living in Botetourt County, Virginia, where he married Elizabeth Jane Wills in 1783. They then went to Clark County, Kentucky which was then named Fayette County in 1785. They took the Wilderness Road and settled in the Bush Settlement just north of Boonesboro, Kentucky on Lower Howard's Creek.
In the year 1799, he crossed the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky and settled in Montgomery County, near Mt. Sterling. When crossing the mountains, from family stories, he placed two small children in baskets and placed them across the horses back and brought them across. According to the most accurate information the two children would have been John Dunlap, born 1795 and Sarah (Sallie) Dunlap, born 1796. Here near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky all the children grew to maturity. James was listed in the 1810 census for Montgomery County, and was interviewed there for a Kentucky newspaper, by a Mr. Shane, when he was 103 years old. James died at 103 years, 11 months, and 25 days, on June 24 1844.
A Revolutionary War Hero Buried Near Atchison
So far as The Globe has learned only one of the heroes of the Revolutionary War lies buried In this vicinity: James Dunlap, who lies in an unmarked grave in the Dunlap private burial ground three and one-half miles south of DeKalb. When the West was opened to settlement, the great majority of the soldiers under George Washington had long since been gathered to their reward, and Uncle Jimmy Dunlap lived to see the West, and assist in its marvelous development because of his unusual years and vitality. He had other distinctions than being a soldier In the Revolutionary War: he was 103 when he died.
James Dunlap was an Irish boy who settled in Virginia at such an early date that he had to break cane to clear a piece of ground to make his home. What part he played in the Revolutionary war is not known to his grandson. Allen H. Dunlap. now a white-haired old man of 79, and who was a boy of 12 when the Dunlap family traveled across the continent from Kentucky to Missouri, the memory of the old man being somewhat dim. They started in August 1843, and the personnel of the party is proof that women are not alone in devotion to kin: William Dunlap, son of the Revolutionary War hero, and father of Allen H. Dunlap, of DeKalb, wanted to try his fortunes in the West, but didn't want to leave any of his kinsfolk behind, so he collected two big six-horse teams, with wagons, and one two-horse wagon, gathered up his father, an aunt and uncle, and their family, a sister and her family, his own family, and a married daughter and her family, twenty-six in all, piled them in the wagons, and turned toward the West. The oldest in the party was James Dunlap, age 103, and he was also the spryest. The youngest in the party were Ellen Emeritta and Julianne Julitta Wills, aged I8 months, the twin daughters of William Dunlap's sister. These twins, now 65 years of age, are still living, and their home is in Waterville. Kansas, where four sisters, all Spins, live together.
There were twenty-six in the party, but their number did not prevent them from visiting en-route, and they stopped to visit kin In Indiana and Illinois, and were three months on the way, reaching their destination, three and one-half miles south of DeKalb, November 17. 1843. Allen Dunlap remembers that they had plenty to eat on the way, principally bacon and corn bread. They started with Just enough butter to last them, and it was pretty strong toward the end of the trip, but their appetites were good, and they ate it. Reaching DeKalb, William Dunlap bought what is now the Samuel Bromley farm, and here he lived for many years. The spry little old gentleman of 103 years loved to work, which may account for his long life, and also his premature death, and he was the happiest one in the family when the spring came and he could work out of doors. This was in 1844. "the year of the big flood." when the Missouri river extended all the way from the Kansas hills to the Missouri hills, and in some places reached beyond them. The sun would shine in a promising way, and without warning it would be raining again. The spry old gentleman of 103 loved to make a garden, and was driven in from his task a dozen times a day by sudden rains chasing the sun away. "I am not going to be driven in." he told his son one day, and he went out to work on his garden patch, and the sun shone, and the rain poured, and the sun shone, and the rain poured, alternately all day, but he kept at his garden and the next morning the old gentleman of 103 was no longer spry, for he was very sick, and a week later he died.
A little corner was cut off the farm and fenced in for a Cemetery, and here the Revolutionary War Hero, aged 103 years, 10 months, and 13 days, was laid. His grave has never been marked: the family always intended to, but never did. He is not alone in the Cemetery; There are ten or twelve Dunlaps lying near him, and most of them have monuments, though they didn't fight in the Revolutionary War. One of the Dunlap men, who is buried there, has his grave guarded by the graves of his three wives. The fourth, sad to relate, outlived him, and made the marble-told tale of his life Incomplete by being buried somewhere else. The descendants of the hero of the Revolutionary War unfortunately have no letters, no papers, and no old musket as relics of their brave ancestor; all that they can hand down is the memory of him; that he was kindly, and bright, and spry, always spry; many a time after they settled on the farm, he, would ride to DeKalb and back, a distance of seven miles. And he was the best fisherman in the family. He was so spry that if it hadn't been for that garden, and the rain, he might be living yet.
William Dunlap, whose love for his kin prompted him to get up a family reunion in Kentucky and prolong it across the plains to Missouri, stayed on the farm till he died, in 1870, at the age of 86 years.
Allen Dunlap, the boy of the family reunion, is now 79 years of age and lives in retirement in the suburbs of DeKalb. He stayed on his father's farm till 1850. when he went overland to California, four months on the way in an ox team. The writer of this has met many who succumbed to the gold fever, but has yet to meet a man who got any gold by it. Allen Dunlap located at Placerville. and mined for two years, and would have grown rich if the others had been willing to stay. Always that "if!" They came back by steamer, crossing the Isthmus of Panama on foot, and then by boat to New Orleans, up the river to Weston. He remained on his father's farm till the spring of 1856, when he came to Atchison and clerked for Rice McCubbin.
Mr. Dunlap was on the "other side" in the question that was making times restless in Kansas, and enlisted in a small company organized in 1356, under Captain Robinson, to make Kansas a slave state. They first went to Lecompton, and then to Lawrence, and had returned as far as Hickory Point, when the sixteen in this little company were met by 150 men under Jim Lane. They were coming back to Atchison to disperse when Lane met them, but their peaceable intentions didn't prevent a fight, and the "other side" lost one man, who was killed, and three or four were wounded, including Captain Robinson. Mr. Dunlap would like to know if there are any others now living of the little handful of men under Captain Robinson that day.
After clerking at the Rice McCubbin store a short time longer, he joined one of Major Russell's and Waddell's outfits, and went as far as Fort Kearney, Nebraska. Returning to DeKalb he clerked in dry goods stores there till he went into the hardware business, retiring twelve years ago. He has lived in DeKalb since 1861, and in the same house for forty-two years.
The wife of Allen Dunlap is the "oldest citizen" of DeKalb. Her maiden name was Ann Allee, and. when her parents moved there sixty-eight years ago. she was a baby of 18 months. There was a small town there even at that early date, but the hills all around were covered with a forest so dense that her father blazed a path through the woods so that they wouldn't lose the way in going to visit an aunt less than a mile away. They lived in a log cabin, and many a time Mrs. Allee would have to run out in the snow, with the baby in her arms to keep the smoke from choking them to death. There was no good method of ventilation in those days, and the fireplace sent as much smoke into the room as it sent up the chimney. Mrs. Dunlap says that tobacco was raised on the hills as early as 1840. She recalls one man who raised 400 pounds a year, but he never sold any. It kept him busy growing and curing 400 pounds, and then smoking and chewing it all, but, having raised it, he had to consume it. and was, consequently, kept busy all the year round.
*Published in The The Atchison Weekly Globe (Atchison Kansas) May 13 1909.
*James married Elizabeth Jane Willis in 1783 in Botetourt County Virginia.
They had 8 Children:
James Carnachan Dunlap Junior
1783–1845
William Harold Dunlap
1785–1871
Alexander Dunlap
1787–1872
Elizabeth Dunlap Ellison
1789–1869
Andrew Washington Dunlap Senior
1791–1847
John Dunlap
1795–1867
Sarah "Sallie" Dunlap Wills
1796–
Thomas Dunlap
1799–1867
*In Gaelic, The Name Carnachan Means "Victorious".
*James Dunlap's youngest brother was John Dunlap of Pennsylvania and was a printer. His uncle was William Dunlap who was a Minister in Virginia.
*Information on James Courtesy of Ancestry.com
*Information on James' Parents and family, including James' only surviving photograph, Courtesy of William Dunlap (50528365)
And yet, the order of the acts has been schemed and plotted,
And nothing can avert the final curtain's fall.
I stand alone. All else is swamped by Pharisaism.
To live life to the end is not a childish task.
-Boris Pasternak
James Carnachan Dunlap
*James was the Son of John Dunlap, of Strabane, Ireland.
*James's Mother was Sarah Ector.
*When James Carnahan Dunlap was about 16 years old he left Ireland and went to England and stayed about one year. He then took passage on a sailing vessel for America. The name of the boat is believed to have been the "Hibernia" meaning Ireland. He was on the boat for six months and landed on the Virginia coast in the year 1758.
*James was a Revolutionary War soldier enlisting on February 3 1776 in Captain Abraham Smith's Company, 6th Pennsylvania Battalion Pennsylvania Line, under the command of Colonel William Irvine. The Company of Captain Abraham Smith was raised in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. In the last week of March, 1776, the Battalion marched to Albany, New York; on June 8, 1776 this unit engaged enemy British and Canadian forces near Syracuse, New York, near the Canadian border, in the "Battle of Three Rivers" (Trois-Rivières). Those not captured or killed in this battle withdrew to Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, New York under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Hartley to winter. They had several fights with the Indians during this time.
Private James Carnahan Dunlap had only one eye which excused him from further military service in Kentucky to fight Indians there in 1785. Presumably, he lost one eye in the Revolutionary War. His pension application (S35904) states he was discharged at Albany, New York about fifteen months after his enlistment for one year; thus giving a discharge date of May 1777.
James Dunlap was a resident of Pennsylvania until 1779 and was in Virginia from 1779 until 1785, living in Botetourt County, Virginia, where he married Elizabeth Jane Wills in 1783. They then went to Clark County, Kentucky which was then named Fayette County in 1785. They took the Wilderness Road and settled in the Bush Settlement just north of Boonesboro, Kentucky on Lower Howard's Creek.
In the year 1799, he crossed the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky and settled in Montgomery County, near Mt. Sterling. When crossing the mountains, from family stories, he placed two small children in baskets and placed them across the horses back and brought them across. According to the most accurate information the two children would have been John Dunlap, born 1795 and Sarah (Sallie) Dunlap, born 1796. Here near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky all the children grew to maturity. James was listed in the 1810 census for Montgomery County, and was interviewed there for a Kentucky newspaper, by a Mr. Shane, when he was 103 years old. James died at 103 years, 11 months, and 25 days, on June 24 1844.
A Revolutionary War Hero Buried Near Atchison
So far as The Globe has learned only one of the heroes of the Revolutionary War lies buried In this vicinity: James Dunlap, who lies in an unmarked grave in the Dunlap private burial ground three and one-half miles south of DeKalb. When the West was opened to settlement, the great majority of the soldiers under George Washington had long since been gathered to their reward, and Uncle Jimmy Dunlap lived to see the West, and assist in its marvelous development because of his unusual years and vitality. He had other distinctions than being a soldier In the Revolutionary War: he was 103 when he died.
James Dunlap was an Irish boy who settled in Virginia at such an early date that he had to break cane to clear a piece of ground to make his home. What part he played in the Revolutionary war is not known to his grandson. Allen H. Dunlap. now a white-haired old man of 79, and who was a boy of 12 when the Dunlap family traveled across the continent from Kentucky to Missouri, the memory of the old man being somewhat dim. They started in August 1843, and the personnel of the party is proof that women are not alone in devotion to kin: William Dunlap, son of the Revolutionary War hero, and father of Allen H. Dunlap, of DeKalb, wanted to try his fortunes in the West, but didn't want to leave any of his kinsfolk behind, so he collected two big six-horse teams, with wagons, and one two-horse wagon, gathered up his father, an aunt and uncle, and their family, a sister and her family, his own family, and a married daughter and her family, twenty-six in all, piled them in the wagons, and turned toward the West. The oldest in the party was James Dunlap, age 103, and he was also the spryest. The youngest in the party were Ellen Emeritta and Julianne Julitta Wills, aged I8 months, the twin daughters of William Dunlap's sister. These twins, now 65 years of age, are still living, and their home is in Waterville. Kansas, where four sisters, all Spins, live together.
There were twenty-six in the party, but their number did not prevent them from visiting en-route, and they stopped to visit kin In Indiana and Illinois, and were three months on the way, reaching their destination, three and one-half miles south of DeKalb, November 17. 1843. Allen Dunlap remembers that they had plenty to eat on the way, principally bacon and corn bread. They started with Just enough butter to last them, and it was pretty strong toward the end of the trip, but their appetites were good, and they ate it. Reaching DeKalb, William Dunlap bought what is now the Samuel Bromley farm, and here he lived for many years. The spry little old gentleman of 103 years loved to work, which may account for his long life, and also his premature death, and he was the happiest one in the family when the spring came and he could work out of doors. This was in 1844. "the year of the big flood." when the Missouri river extended all the way from the Kansas hills to the Missouri hills, and in some places reached beyond them. The sun would shine in a promising way, and without warning it would be raining again. The spry old gentleman of 103 loved to make a garden, and was driven in from his task a dozen times a day by sudden rains chasing the sun away. "I am not going to be driven in." he told his son one day, and he went out to work on his garden patch, and the sun shone, and the rain poured, and the sun shone, and the rain poured, alternately all day, but he kept at his garden and the next morning the old gentleman of 103 was no longer spry, for he was very sick, and a week later he died.
A little corner was cut off the farm and fenced in for a Cemetery, and here the Revolutionary War Hero, aged 103 years, 10 months, and 13 days, was laid. His grave has never been marked: the family always intended to, but never did. He is not alone in the Cemetery; There are ten or twelve Dunlaps lying near him, and most of them have monuments, though they didn't fight in the Revolutionary War. One of the Dunlap men, who is buried there, has his grave guarded by the graves of his three wives. The fourth, sad to relate, outlived him, and made the marble-told tale of his life Incomplete by being buried somewhere else. The descendants of the hero of the Revolutionary War unfortunately have no letters, no papers, and no old musket as relics of their brave ancestor; all that they can hand down is the memory of him; that he was kindly, and bright, and spry, always spry; many a time after they settled on the farm, he, would ride to DeKalb and back, a distance of seven miles. And he was the best fisherman in the family. He was so spry that if it hadn't been for that garden, and the rain, he might be living yet.
William Dunlap, whose love for his kin prompted him to get up a family reunion in Kentucky and prolong it across the plains to Missouri, stayed on the farm till he died, in 1870, at the age of 86 years.
Allen Dunlap, the boy of the family reunion, is now 79 years of age and lives in retirement in the suburbs of DeKalb. He stayed on his father's farm till 1850. when he went overland to California, four months on the way in an ox team. The writer of this has met many who succumbed to the gold fever, but has yet to meet a man who got any gold by it. Allen Dunlap located at Placerville. and mined for two years, and would have grown rich if the others had been willing to stay. Always that "if!" They came back by steamer, crossing the Isthmus of Panama on foot, and then by boat to New Orleans, up the river to Weston. He remained on his father's farm till the spring of 1856, when he came to Atchison and clerked for Rice McCubbin.
Mr. Dunlap was on the "other side" in the question that was making times restless in Kansas, and enlisted in a small company organized in 1356, under Captain Robinson, to make Kansas a slave state. They first went to Lecompton, and then to Lawrence, and had returned as far as Hickory Point, when the sixteen in this little company were met by 150 men under Jim Lane. They were coming back to Atchison to disperse when Lane met them, but their peaceable intentions didn't prevent a fight, and the "other side" lost one man, who was killed, and three or four were wounded, including Captain Robinson. Mr. Dunlap would like to know if there are any others now living of the little handful of men under Captain Robinson that day.
After clerking at the Rice McCubbin store a short time longer, he joined one of Major Russell's and Waddell's outfits, and went as far as Fort Kearney, Nebraska. Returning to DeKalb he clerked in dry goods stores there till he went into the hardware business, retiring twelve years ago. He has lived in DeKalb since 1861, and in the same house for forty-two years.
The wife of Allen Dunlap is the "oldest citizen" of DeKalb. Her maiden name was Ann Allee, and. when her parents moved there sixty-eight years ago. she was a baby of 18 months. There was a small town there even at that early date, but the hills all around were covered with a forest so dense that her father blazed a path through the woods so that they wouldn't lose the way in going to visit an aunt less than a mile away. They lived in a log cabin, and many a time Mrs. Allee would have to run out in the snow, with the baby in her arms to keep the smoke from choking them to death. There was no good method of ventilation in those days, and the fireplace sent as much smoke into the room as it sent up the chimney. Mrs. Dunlap says that tobacco was raised on the hills as early as 1840. She recalls one man who raised 400 pounds a year, but he never sold any. It kept him busy growing and curing 400 pounds, and then smoking and chewing it all, but, having raised it, he had to consume it. and was, consequently, kept busy all the year round.
*Published in The The Atchison Weekly Globe (Atchison Kansas) May 13 1909.
*James married Elizabeth Jane Willis in 1783 in Botetourt County Virginia.
They had 8 Children:
James Carnachan Dunlap Junior
1783–1845
William Harold Dunlap
1785–1871
Alexander Dunlap
1787–1872
Elizabeth Dunlap Ellison
1789–1869
Andrew Washington Dunlap Senior
1791–1847
John Dunlap
1795–1867
Sarah "Sallie" Dunlap Wills
1796–
Thomas Dunlap
1799–1867
*In Gaelic, The Name Carnachan Means "Victorious".
*James Dunlap's youngest brother was John Dunlap of Pennsylvania and was a printer. His uncle was William Dunlap who was a Minister in Virginia.
*Information on James Courtesy of Ancestry.com
*Information on James' Parents and family, including James' only surviving photograph, Courtesy of William Dunlap (50528365)
And nothing can avert the final curtain's fall.
I stand alone. All else is swamped by Pharisaism.
To live life to the end is not a childish task.
-Boris Pasternak
James Carnachan Dunlap
*James was the Son of John Dunlap, of Strabane, Ireland.
*James's Mother was Sarah Ector.
*When James Carnahan Dunlap was about 16 years old he left Ireland and went to England and stayed about one year. He then took passage on a sailing vessel for America. The name of the boat is believed to have been the "Hibernia" meaning Ireland. He was on the boat for six months and landed on the Virginia coast in the year 1758.
*James was a Revolutionary War soldier enlisting on February 3 1776 in Captain Abraham Smith's Company, 6th Pennsylvania Battalion Pennsylvania Line, under the command of Colonel William Irvine. The Company of Captain Abraham Smith was raised in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. In the last week of March, 1776, the Battalion marched to Albany, New York; on June 8, 1776 this unit engaged enemy British and Canadian forces near Syracuse, New York, near the Canadian border, in the "Battle of Three Rivers" (Trois-Rivières). Those not captured or killed in this battle withdrew to Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, New York under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Hartley to winter. They had several fights with the Indians during this time.
Private James Carnahan Dunlap had only one eye which excused him from further military service in Kentucky to fight Indians there in 1785. Presumably, he lost one eye in the Revolutionary War. His pension application (S35904) states he was discharged at Albany, New York about fifteen months after his enlistment for one year; thus giving a discharge date of May 1777.
James Dunlap was a resident of Pennsylvania until 1779 and was in Virginia from 1779 until 1785, living in Botetourt County, Virginia, where he married Elizabeth Jane Wills in 1783. They then went to Clark County, Kentucky which was then named Fayette County in 1785. They took the Wilderness Road and settled in the Bush Settlement just north of Boonesboro, Kentucky on Lower Howard's Creek.
In the year 1799, he crossed the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky and settled in Montgomery County, near Mt. Sterling. When crossing the mountains, from family stories, he placed two small children in baskets and placed them across the horses back and brought them across. According to the most accurate information the two children would have been John Dunlap, born 1795 and Sarah (Sallie) Dunlap, born 1796. Here near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky all the children grew to maturity. James was listed in the 1810 census for Montgomery County, and was interviewed there for a Kentucky newspaper, by a Mr. Shane, when he was 103 years old. James died at 103 years, 11 months, and 25 days, on June 24 1844.
A Revolutionary War Hero Buried Near Atchison
So far as The Globe has learned only one of the heroes of the Revolutionary War lies buried In this vicinity: James Dunlap, who lies in an unmarked grave in the Dunlap private burial ground three and one-half miles south of DeKalb. When the West was opened to settlement, the great majority of the soldiers under George Washington had long since been gathered to their reward, and Uncle Jimmy Dunlap lived to see the West, and assist in its marvelous development because of his unusual years and vitality. He had other distinctions than being a soldier In the Revolutionary War: he was 103 when he died.
James Dunlap was an Irish boy who settled in Virginia at such an early date that he had to break cane to clear a piece of ground to make his home. What part he played in the Revolutionary war is not known to his grandson. Allen H. Dunlap. now a white-haired old man of 79, and who was a boy of 12 when the Dunlap family traveled across the continent from Kentucky to Missouri, the memory of the old man being somewhat dim. They started in August 1843, and the personnel of the party is proof that women are not alone in devotion to kin: William Dunlap, son of the Revolutionary War hero, and father of Allen H. Dunlap, of DeKalb, wanted to try his fortunes in the West, but didn't want to leave any of his kinsfolk behind, so he collected two big six-horse teams, with wagons, and one two-horse wagon, gathered up his father, an aunt and uncle, and their family, a sister and her family, his own family, and a married daughter and her family, twenty-six in all, piled them in the wagons, and turned toward the West. The oldest in the party was James Dunlap, age 103, and he was also the spryest. The youngest in the party were Ellen Emeritta and Julianne Julitta Wills, aged I8 months, the twin daughters of William Dunlap's sister. These twins, now 65 years of age, are still living, and their home is in Waterville. Kansas, where four sisters, all Spins, live together.
There were twenty-six in the party, but their number did not prevent them from visiting en-route, and they stopped to visit kin In Indiana and Illinois, and were three months on the way, reaching their destination, three and one-half miles south of DeKalb, November 17. 1843. Allen Dunlap remembers that they had plenty to eat on the way, principally bacon and corn bread. They started with Just enough butter to last them, and it was pretty strong toward the end of the trip, but their appetites were good, and they ate it. Reaching DeKalb, William Dunlap bought what is now the Samuel Bromley farm, and here he lived for many years. The spry little old gentleman of 103 years loved to work, which may account for his long life, and also his premature death, and he was the happiest one in the family when the spring came and he could work out of doors. This was in 1844. "the year of the big flood." when the Missouri river extended all the way from the Kansas hills to the Missouri hills, and in some places reached beyond them. The sun would shine in a promising way, and without warning it would be raining again. The spry old gentleman of 103 loved to make a garden, and was driven in from his task a dozen times a day by sudden rains chasing the sun away. "I am not going to be driven in." he told his son one day, and he went out to work on his garden patch, and the sun shone, and the rain poured, and the sun shone, and the rain poured, alternately all day, but he kept at his garden and the next morning the old gentleman of 103 was no longer spry, for he was very sick, and a week later he died.
A little corner was cut off the farm and fenced in for a Cemetery, and here the Revolutionary War Hero, aged 103 years, 10 months, and 13 days, was laid. His grave has never been marked: the family always intended to, but never did. He is not alone in the Cemetery; There are ten or twelve Dunlaps lying near him, and most of them have monuments, though they didn't fight in the Revolutionary War. One of the Dunlap men, who is buried there, has his grave guarded by the graves of his three wives. The fourth, sad to relate, outlived him, and made the marble-told tale of his life Incomplete by being buried somewhere else. The descendants of the hero of the Revolutionary War unfortunately have no letters, no papers, and no old musket as relics of their brave ancestor; all that they can hand down is the memory of him; that he was kindly, and bright, and spry, always spry; many a time after they settled on the farm, he, would ride to DeKalb and back, a distance of seven miles. And he was the best fisherman in the family. He was so spry that if it hadn't been for that garden, and the rain, he might be living yet.
William Dunlap, whose love for his kin prompted him to get up a family reunion in Kentucky and prolong it across the plains to Missouri, stayed on the farm till he died, in 1870, at the age of 86 years.
Allen Dunlap, the boy of the family reunion, is now 79 years of age and lives in retirement in the suburbs of DeKalb. He stayed on his father's farm till 1850. when he went overland to California, four months on the way in an ox team. The writer of this has met many who succumbed to the gold fever, but has yet to meet a man who got any gold by it. Allen Dunlap located at Placerville. and mined for two years, and would have grown rich if the others had been willing to stay. Always that "if!" They came back by steamer, crossing the Isthmus of Panama on foot, and then by boat to New Orleans, up the river to Weston. He remained on his father's farm till the spring of 1856, when he came to Atchison and clerked for Rice McCubbin.
Mr. Dunlap was on the "other side" in the question that was making times restless in Kansas, and enlisted in a small company organized in 1356, under Captain Robinson, to make Kansas a slave state. They first went to Lecompton, and then to Lawrence, and had returned as far as Hickory Point, when the sixteen in this little company were met by 150 men under Jim Lane. They were coming back to Atchison to disperse when Lane met them, but their peaceable intentions didn't prevent a fight, and the "other side" lost one man, who was killed, and three or four were wounded, including Captain Robinson. Mr. Dunlap would like to know if there are any others now living of the little handful of men under Captain Robinson that day.
After clerking at the Rice McCubbin store a short time longer, he joined one of Major Russell's and Waddell's outfits, and went as far as Fort Kearney, Nebraska. Returning to DeKalb he clerked in dry goods stores there till he went into the hardware business, retiring twelve years ago. He has lived in DeKalb since 1861, and in the same house for forty-two years.
The wife of Allen Dunlap is the "oldest citizen" of DeKalb. Her maiden name was Ann Allee, and. when her parents moved there sixty-eight years ago. she was a baby of 18 months. There was a small town there even at that early date, but the hills all around were covered with a forest so dense that her father blazed a path through the woods so that they wouldn't lose the way in going to visit an aunt less than a mile away. They lived in a log cabin, and many a time Mrs. Allee would have to run out in the snow, with the baby in her arms to keep the smoke from choking them to death. There was no good method of ventilation in those days, and the fireplace sent as much smoke into the room as it sent up the chimney. Mrs. Dunlap says that tobacco was raised on the hills as early as 1840. She recalls one man who raised 400 pounds a year, but he never sold any. It kept him busy growing and curing 400 pounds, and then smoking and chewing it all, but, having raised it, he had to consume it. and was, consequently, kept busy all the year round.
*Published in The The Atchison Weekly Globe (Atchison Kansas) May 13 1909.
*James married Elizabeth Jane Willis in 1783 in Botetourt County Virginia.
They had 8 Children:
James Carnachan Dunlap Junior
1783–1845
William Harold Dunlap
1785–1871
Alexander Dunlap
1787–1872
Elizabeth Dunlap Ellison
1789–1869
Andrew Washington Dunlap Senior
1791–1847
John Dunlap
1795–1867
Sarah "Sallie" Dunlap Wills
1796–
Thomas Dunlap
1799–1867
*In Gaelic, The Name Carnachan Means "Victorious".
*James Dunlap's youngest brother was John Dunlap of Pennsylvania and was a printer. His uncle was William Dunlap who was a Minister in Virginia.
*Information on James Courtesy of Ancestry.com
*Information on James' Parents and family, including James' only surviving photograph, Courtesy of William Dunlap (50528365)
Inscription
James Carnachan Dunlap
Cemetery
Established prior to 1837
Restored 1900-1994
Recorded 1994
By Great Great Great Grandson
Earl Barton Jones and Wife
Billie (Armstrong) Jones
James Carnachan Dunlap
PVT PA Line 6 BN
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Aug 1 1740
June 24 1844
Gravesite Details
Headstones are in wonderful shape.
