Louisa F. (Carroll) Dunn
(1841-1900)
Louisa F. (Carroll) Dunn was born in 1841 near
Masontown, Preston County, WV, the daughter of James
M. and Elizabeth (Burke) Carroll.
On Sept. 30, 1866, at the age of 25, Louisa married Oliver Dunn (1843-1890), the son of John Dunn of Monongalia County, WV. Upon marriage, they began residing in Preston County, and moved to Kingwood in about 1872.
Their grave marker, seen here in October 2008, is bathed in such strong late afternoon sunlight that the otherwise legible letting could not be made out.
The Dunns had one daughter, Alice Ringer.
The Preston County Journal once noted that Oliver "was a member of the M.E. Church, and was an honest, upright and highly respected citizen."
Oliver passed away at
the age of 47 on May 18, 1890, and was buried
at the Maplewood Cemetery in Kingwood. The Journal
reported:
It is with regret that we have to chronicle the death of our fellow-townsman, Oliver Dunn... He was taken with the grip some six weeks previous, but did not give up till three weeks before his death, when he took his bed, and died of pneumonia... His mother arrived here a week before his death.
At Oliver's funeral, added the Journal, "The attendance was large. There were present from abroad Mr. and Mrs. S.W. Hartley, Mrs. Edgar M. Hartley, Miss Louna Hartley, of Masontown, Mrs. Silvester Barker, a sister of Mr. Dunn, and her husband, of Monongalia County, and other relatives of Valley District, this county."
Louisa outlived him by a decade. She died at the age of 59 on April 9, 1900, but the details of her passing are not known. She rests for eternity beside her husband (Section 3) in Maplewood Cemetery. A 2006 search for her obituary in the Preston County Journal, on microfilm in the West Virginia and Regional History Collection at West Virginia University, was unsuccessful. Their grave marker is inscribed "Father & Mother" at the top.
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| Sleepy Kingwood, ca. 1908 |
Daughter Alice
Dunn ( ? - ? ) married Samuel Forman Ringer (1860-1939), the
son of Joseph and Cynthia (Forman) Ringer. The wedding took place in May 1889.
Said the Morgantown Post, Samuel was "a native of Bruceton ... [and]
had resided in Morgantown for more than 40 years. He was a member of the Wesley
Methodist Church. They resided at Jones Avenue and 201
Green Street in Morgantown, Monongalia County, WV. Samuel worked as a carpenter
for more than half a century. In the early 1900s, Alice's aged grandfather, James
Miner Carroll, resided in their home, where he eventually died in 1906. In
May 1939, the Ringers celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Samuel suffered from cardiac failure at the age of 79, and died on Nov. 9, 1939.
He was laid to rest in Morgantown's Oak Grove Cemetery. "Mr. Copeland"
was the informant for his death certificate. Alice outlived her husband, but her
fate is unknown. The Ringers had three children -- Oliver D. Ringer of
Philadelphia, PA; Mrs. Ira J. Copeland of Morgantown; and Betty Scott.
Daughter Betty Dunn ( ? - ? ) married Wayne Scott (1890-1943), a veteran of World War I, and the son of Sanford and Jennie (McCauley) Scott. They resided in Fairmont, Marion County, where Wayne was a self-employed store keeper. At the age of 53, Wayne died of angina pectoris on May 21, 1943, with burial at Oak Grove Cemetery in Morgantown.
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