Caldwell County MO Archives History .....DANIEL DUNLAP FAMILY IN GOMER TOWNSHIP 1870 
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THE DANIEL DUNLAP FAMILY IN GOMER TOWNSHIP 1870
	Narrator:  George Dunlap, 64

     Mr. Dunlap is a son of Daniel Dunlap who came into the county 1870 from 
Defiance county Ohio.  He came because of what he had heard from the McAdoo 
family, who had come from the same county to Hamilton 1868.  Mr. Dunlap's wife 
was a Miss Simmons and she had a sister who had married Dr. James McAdoo, the 
1868 druggist here.  Another sister had come out a little later on a visit to 
the Dunlaps and the McAdoos and she married Mr. James Hawks, the father of 
Fred Hawks of Hamilton.
     Daniel Dunlap bought a farm of 80 acres from Jeff Van Note who had got it 
from his father who came early in the 60s.  He paid $22 an acre, which at the 
time was all right, but land values soon fell and he felt that he had paid too 
much.  It was in Gomer township and is now the property of Mr. Richardson.
     When Mr. Dunlap came, the land had not been broken; he used oxen to break 
the prairie.  First, he broke the land around his home to avoid danger of 
prairie fires, then he broke a field.  Soon horses began to be in use and he 
used them.  They came to Hamilton through the prairie, for there were no 
fences.  There had been roads laid out, but they were not much used.
     The Dunlap children went to the so called Van Note school which was 
started 1872, and the same school house yet is in use.  They started to bury 
in the Pleasant Ridge grave yard, because in the 70s many country people did 
not think of burying in a town.  The later dead in the family are in Highland.
     Interview  1935.


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