Thursday, March 20, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Obituary - Charlotte Starnes Dunagan
Charlotte Starnes Dunagan, 91
Passed Away: 03/01/2014
Charlotte Starnes Dunagan, age 91 of Gainesville, GA, passed away on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at her residence following an extended illness.
Memorial services will be held on Monday, March 3, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the Chapel of Memorial Park Funeral Home. Reverend Jerry Mauldin will officiate. The family will receive friends on Sunday, March 2, 2014 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mrs. Dunagan was born on May 6, 1922 in Gwinnett County to the late James Wesley Starnes and May Langley Starnes. She was the owner and operator of Charlotte Alterations and was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church. Mrs. Dunagan is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Gordon Arthur Dunagan sons, Ronald Wayman Dunagan, and Randy Westley Dunagan.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Pam and Rev. Jerry Mauldin of Gainesville, GA, 8 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, 4 great great grandchildren, and brother and sister-in-law, Thomas and Faye Starnes of Monroe, GA.
Memorial Park Funeral Home, 2030 Memorial Park Road, Gainesville, GA 30504 is in charge of arrangements.
Charlotte Louise Starnes Dunagan was married to Gordon Arthur "Red" Dunagan who died in 1984. Red, as he was called, served in the U. S. Marine Corps in WWII and was active for many years in the American Legion. His father was Arthur R. Dunagan, his grandfather was Alfred Benton Dunagan, one of 4 sons of John Franklin Dunagan and Francis Samanthra Bryant Dunagan. Red Dunagan's 2nd great grandfather was Joseph Ellis Dunagan.
The picture below of Charlotte and Red was taken at a dance at the American Legion in Gainesville, GA, not sure what year.
Passed Away: 03/01/2014
Charlotte Starnes Dunagan, age 91 of Gainesville, GA, passed away on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at her residence following an extended illness.
Memorial services will be held on Monday, March 3, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the Chapel of Memorial Park Funeral Home. Reverend Jerry Mauldin will officiate. The family will receive friends on Sunday, March 2, 2014 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mrs. Dunagan was born on May 6, 1922 in Gwinnett County to the late James Wesley Starnes and May Langley Starnes. She was the owner and operator of Charlotte Alterations and was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church. Mrs. Dunagan is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Gordon Arthur Dunagan sons, Ronald Wayman Dunagan, and Randy Westley Dunagan.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Pam and Rev. Jerry Mauldin of Gainesville, GA, 8 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, 4 great great grandchildren, and brother and sister-in-law, Thomas and Faye Starnes of Monroe, GA.
Memorial Park Funeral Home, 2030 Memorial Park Road, Gainesville, GA 30504 is in charge of arrangements.
Charlotte Louise Starnes Dunagan was married to Gordon Arthur "Red" Dunagan who died in 1984. Red, as he was called, served in the U. S. Marine Corps in WWII and was active for many years in the American Legion. His father was Arthur R. Dunagan, his grandfather was Alfred Benton Dunagan, one of 4 sons of John Franklin Dunagan and Francis Samanthra Bryant Dunagan. Red Dunagan's 2nd great grandfather was Joseph Ellis Dunagan.
The picture below of Charlotte and Red was taken at a dance at the American Legion in Gainesville, GA, not sure what year.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Dunagan, Georgia
Darline Dunagan Scruggs
This is an 1899 map showing Dunagan, Hall County, Georgia. It is here that Joseph and Joshua Dunagan brought the first group of white settlers. Shortly after their arrival, Ezekiel and Isaiah came with the second group of settlers. Ezekiel stayed and raised his family in this same area. At the time of his death in 1836, he owned three thousand acres. Ezekiel’s descendants remained on his land and built a community that was known as Dunagan, Georgia. The Dunagan community can be seen on this map located under the “A” in the word “HALL”.
Source: http://mydunaganrootsandbranches.com/2014/01/24/dunagan-georgia/
This is an 1899 map showing Dunagan, Hall County, Georgia. It is here that Joseph and Joshua Dunagan brought the first group of white settlers. Shortly after their arrival, Ezekiel and Isaiah came with the second group of settlers. Ezekiel stayed and raised his family in this same area. At the time of his death in 1836, he owned three thousand acres. Ezekiel’s descendants remained on his land and built a community that was known as Dunagan, Georgia. The Dunagan community can be seen on this map located under the “A” in the word “HALL”.
Source: http://mydunaganrootsandbranches.com/2014/01/24/dunagan-georgia/
Sunday, December 22, 2013
The Scottish and Irish Slave Trade and the Dunagan Family
I have ancestors on my 3rd great grandmother's (Lucinda Beall m. Joseph Ellis Dunagan of Hall County) family side, Col. Ninian Beall who served with the Scottish Army which was defeated by General Cromwell in 1650 at the Battle of Dunbar. Col. Ninian Beall and what was left of his regiment were taken prisoner and later sold into slavery to Barbados Planters in the West Indies. He somehow escaped and ended up in Maryland, becoming a planter himself, developing a large plantation where Georgetown is located today. In the 1970s his grave in Georgetown was excavated and relocated but they discovered that Ninian Beall was 6'7" and had red hair. He lived to be 92 years old and was a devoted elder of the Presbyterian church. This may be where I get my height. DNA is a mystery to me and it's like rolling the dice. What is most interesting about this history I have learned is that I am a descendant of slaves.
There were many white Irish and Scottish who came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children. England was emptying their prisons.
Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.
But, are we talking about African slavery? King James II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbor.
The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.
Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.
From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.
During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.
Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle.
As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts.
African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude.
In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new “mulatto” slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.
England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat.
There is little question that the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not more in the 17th Century) as the Africans did. There is, also, very little question that those brown, tanned faces you witness in your travels to the West Indies are very likely a combination of African and Irish ancestry. In 1839, Britain finally decided on it’s own to end it’s participation in Satan’s highway to hell and stopped transporting slaves. While their decision did not stop pirates from doing what they desired, the new law slowly concluded THIS chapter of nightmarish Irish misery.
But, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was only an African experience, then they’ve got it completely wrong.
Irish slavery is a subject worth remembering, not erasing from our memories.
But, where are our public (and PRIVATE) schools???? Where are the history books? Why is it so seldom discussed?
Do the memories of hundreds of thousands of Irish victims merit more than a mention from an unknown writer?
Or is their story to be one that their English pirates intended: To (unlike the African book) have the Irish story utterly and completely disappear as if it never happened.
None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books conveniently forgot.
Source: "The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White” Slaves" by Don Jordan, Michael Walsh
There were many white Irish and Scottish who came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children. England was emptying their prisons.
Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.
But, are we talking about African slavery? King James II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbor.
The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.
Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.
From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.
During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.
Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle.
As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts.
African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude.
In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new “mulatto” slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.
England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat.
There is little question that the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not more in the 17th Century) as the Africans did. There is, also, very little question that those brown, tanned faces you witness in your travels to the West Indies are very likely a combination of African and Irish ancestry. In 1839, Britain finally decided on it’s own to end it’s participation in Satan’s highway to hell and stopped transporting slaves. While their decision did not stop pirates from doing what they desired, the new law slowly concluded THIS chapter of nightmarish Irish misery.
But, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was only an African experience, then they’ve got it completely wrong.
Irish slavery is a subject worth remembering, not erasing from our memories.
But, where are our public (and PRIVATE) schools???? Where are the history books? Why is it so seldom discussed?
Do the memories of hundreds of thousands of Irish victims merit more than a mention from an unknown writer?
Or is their story to be one that their English pirates intended: To (unlike the African book) have the Irish story utterly and completely disappear as if it never happened.
None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books conveniently forgot.
Source: "The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White” Slaves" by Don Jordan, Michael Walsh
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Dunagan Reunion 2013
This was our fourth year to host the annual Dunagan Reunion for the gathering of Ezekiel and Lydia Ann Brown Dunagan’s descendants. I found that this year I was really looking forward to seeing the familiar faces of my new-found cousins. We have a real sense of family that has developed over these four years. My cousin Brad Dunagan overheard two of our little ones discussing, with astonishment, how many people they were related to. I think it is wonderful that they can come out and know that they belong to a family much bigger than the one they live with.
We began our Saturday at Dunagan’s Chapel located in east Hall County, Georgia. This is the area that Ezekiel and his family lived. It was known as Dunagan, Georgia back then. At the time of his death in 1836, Ezekiel owned over three thousand acres there. We still have Dunagan’s living on parts of his land today. This is also where Ezekiel and Lydia’s graves are located. We visited the gravesite and returned to the church to discuss and share information on our family and its history.
On Sunday we gathered at the Paul E Bolding Post of the American Legion in Gainesville, Hall, Georgia. This is year we honored our family members who labored to develop, defend, and serve this great nation of ours. We have had Dunagan’s and allied family members serve our nation in every conflict since the Revolutionary War to present date. We have also had judges, mayors, congressmen, senators, and governors in our proud lineage.
Reverand Roger L. Dunagan of Lumpkin County, Georgia offered a prayer and blessing on the food, after which we shared a delicious southern pulled pork barbecue with banana pudding for dessert. In addition to good food, and great company, we had music provided by Brad and Mike Dunagan’s band, Longstreet Station.
We had family members traveling from many states to attend this year. Thanks to each of you, near and far, who attended this year’s Dunagan Family Reunion. We are looking forward seeing you all and more next year.
Darline Dunagan Scruggs
We began our Saturday at Dunagan’s Chapel located in east Hall County, Georgia. This is the area that Ezekiel and his family lived. It was known as Dunagan, Georgia back then. At the time of his death in 1836, Ezekiel owned over three thousand acres there. We still have Dunagan’s living on parts of his land today. This is also where Ezekiel and Lydia’s graves are located. We visited the gravesite and returned to the church to discuss and share information on our family and its history.
On Sunday we gathered at the Paul E Bolding Post of the American Legion in Gainesville, Hall, Georgia. This is year we honored our family members who labored to develop, defend, and serve this great nation of ours. We have had Dunagan’s and allied family members serve our nation in every conflict since the Revolutionary War to present date. We have also had judges, mayors, congressmen, senators, and governors in our proud lineage.
Reverand Roger L. Dunagan of Lumpkin County, Georgia offered a prayer and blessing on the food, after which we shared a delicious southern pulled pork barbecue with banana pudding for dessert. In addition to good food, and great company, we had music provided by Brad and Mike Dunagan’s band, Longstreet Station.
We had family members traveling from many states to attend this year. Thanks to each of you, near and far, who attended this year’s Dunagan Family Reunion. We are looking forward seeing you all and more next year.
Darline Dunagan Scruggs
Monday, August 12, 2013
Ezekiel Dunagan and Lydia Ann Brown Dunagan's Final Resting Place Preserved
Ezekiel Dunagan (1771-1836) was buried alongside his wife, Lydia Ann Brown Dunagan, on their estate located in east Hall County, Gainesville, Georgia. Ezekiel was a veteran of the War of 1812, The Creek Indian Wars and a member of the Georgia Militia, first stationed at Ft. Early, Jackson County Georgia, in the mid 1790s until 1814. He was listed as a spy, which probably was a reference to him being a scout for the fort. Ezekiel was my 4th great grandfather and had 19 children, with descendants today in almost every state of the U. S. The original gravesite was marked only by the large natural stones on either side of the current granite grave marker. The landscape timbers are temporary until a decision is made to use either metal(black iron) fence enclosure or stone pavers. We needed something to contain the crushed marble stone so I used landscape timbers. Thanks to all those who helped with this preservation project.
Location:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=34.301254,-83.718795&num=1&t=h&z=20
Monday, July 1, 2013
FAMILY BIBLE MARRIAGE RECORDS - WILLIAM ANDREW DUNAGAN
From the family Bible of William Andrew and Martha Meldonia "Mellie" Cochran Dunagan
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