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26. Lewis Abnor DUNAGAN was born on 28 October or December 1843 in Surry County, North Carolina. He was on the Census in 1850 in N. Div. Silvan District, Surry County, North Carolina. He was married to Nancy Jane WRIGHT on 29 April 1869 in Mercer County, West Virginia. In 1870 he appeared on the Census in East River, Mercer County, West Virginia. After Nancy's death, on 24 August 1882 he married  Eliza Virginia Whittaker. Lewis died on 14 June 1908 in Mercer County, West Virginia. He was buried in Whittaker Cemetery, Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia.  

27. Nancy Jane WRIGHT was born about 1839 in Campbell County, Virginia. She was on the 1850 Census in Appomattox County, Virginia. When she married Lewis, she is listed as "Nancy J. Motley, widowed." Her first husband was probably  William Motley born c1799 from Bedford County, Virginia (parents unknown), who died in Mercer County, Virginia on 15 April 1859. She was in the 1870 and 1880 Census in Mercer County, West Virginia. She was also known as "Mannie."

Lewis and Nancy's only child was:


Eliza was born 27 October 1845 in Giles County, Virginia daughter of William Aaron WHITTAKER and  Rutha WILBURN. Eliza died 15 October 1941. She was buried in Whittaker Cemetery, Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia.  Eliza had two children from a prior to marrying Lewis, possibly in Mercer County, West Virginia:

i.  Nellie WHITTAKER was born in 1867 and died in 1873.

ii.  G. Luther WHITTAKER was born in 1869 and died 3 June 1904

Lewis and Eliza had the following children in Mercer County, West Virginia:

i. William Abnor DUNAGAN was born 6 August 1883. He married  Faye ANDERSON. He died 20 March 1949.

ii.  Lewis Ambrose DUNAGAN was born 15 November 1887 and died 27 July 1956. He never married.

iii. ----- DUNNAGAN married George Ernest Maitland WHITTAKER son of James Harvey WHITTAKER (Eliza's brother) and Clarah WRIGHT (cousin of Lewis's first wife, Nancy Jane; daughter of  Camden G. WRIGHT).





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