Callaway-Buchanan-Ralls County MO Archives Biographies.....DUNLAP, Robert February 26, 1763 - 
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Author: Wm. S. Bryan

From 'A history of the pioneer families of Missouri' by Wm. S. Bryan 1935
     DUNLAP.--Robert and David DUNLAP were born in Ireland, but came to America 
with their parents when they were small boys, and settled in North Carolina.  
Robert was born February 26, 1763, and at the age of twenty-five years he 
married to Elizabeth WILE, of North Carolina, by whom he had--John, David M., 
Robert, Thomas, Eliza, and Elizabeth S. In 1801 he removed to Bath county, Ky., 
and i 1821 he and his brother David removed to Missouri and settled in Callaway 
county.  In 1825 they settled where Fulton now stands, and Robert DUNLAP gave 
the name to the town, which for a number of years was called Bob Fulton on his 
account.  He died in 1848, his wife having died in 1834.  John DUNLAP married 
Elizabeth GUDGELL, and they had two children, Robert and Jane.  The former was 
killed in the Florida war, and the latter married Milton V. DAVIS, of Callaway 
county.  David M., son of Robert DUNLAP, Sr., married Polly GUDGELL, of 
Kentucky, by whom he had--Elizabeth, Andrew, Thomas, Jane, Robert A., James, 
and Mary.  Robert and Eliza, children of Robert DUNLAP, Sr., died in childhood, 
and Thomas died when he was twenty-three years of age.  James married Sally S. 
CRUMP, of Missouri.  Elizabeth married Solomon CRAIGHEAD.  David, brother or 
Robert DUNLAP, Sr., taught the first school in Fulton.  He had but one leg, and 
supplied the place of the lost member with an old-fashioned wooden peg-leg.  He 
married and had one daughter, and died of cholera, at Portland, in 1840.  The 
citizens of the place had such a dreadof the disease that they buried him as 
soon as he was dead, in the dress he had on at the time.  It was ascertained 
soon afterward that he had $2,800 in a pocket in his undershirt, and two or 
three of the boldest citizens ventured to take the body up and get the money.



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