BIO: John Y. Dunlavy, Montgomery Co., Ky

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 
From: Diana Flynn <ivie@tima.com>


JOHN Y. DUNLAVY is a native of Montgomery County, KY., born July 15, 1804, the second 
of ten children of DANIEL and MARTHA (YOCUM) DUNLAVY;  the father a native of 
Pennsylvania and the mother of Kentucky.  John Y. passed his youth at hard work on his 
father's farm, securing little education, and at the age of twenty-two years went to 
Henry County, Indiana, and a little later to Wayne County, but soon thereafter came to 
Lawrence County.  January 8, 1829, he married NANCY WOOLERY, and to this union twelve 
children have been born, six now living:  EMILY,  wife of DAVIS S. JOHNSON;  REBECCA, 
who married ROBERT FOSTER, deceased;  NORVAL, who married EVALINE FISH;  JOSEPH L., 
who marrid FLORA R. GRIFFITH;  GEORGE C., unmarried, and MARGARET A., wife of W. 
REYNOLDS.  Mr. Dunlavy was formerly a carpenter and wheelwright, but his leading 
occupation has been farming.  He owns eighty acres of good land, and is an influential 
Democrat, and has been for sixty years.  He has been Justice of the Peace and is well 
respected.