CHAMPAIGN COUNTY OHIO - DUNLAP, REVEREND JAMES (published 1881)

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From: The House of Dunlap, by Rev. James M. E. Hanna
(pp. 54-55)

REVEREND JAMES DUNLAP (1773-1866)
(Parents: Major William Dunlap (1743-1816) and Robecca Robertson, a lady
of Scottish descent)

He was a Baptist minister.  He had been reared and educated a
Presbyterian and was a devoted member of that church until his marriage
at the age of 21, he entered the Church of his wife_s father and began
preaching in the frontier wilderness of Kentucky.  Rev. James Dunlap was
the first Dunlap in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois.  He was born
in Augusta County, Virginia, July 10, 1773, and died in Jacksonville,
Illinois, February 28, 1866, in his 93rd year.  At the age of 11 years
he went with his father_s family to Kentucky.  He married Emily Johnson
August 29, 1784 in Kentucky.    She was born in Virginia, October 5,
1777, and died in Jacksonville, Illinois, March 13, 1848, at the age of
70 years, 4 months, and 27 days.

Rev. James Dunlap, after his marriage, resided several years near
Urbana, Ohio.  Several of his sons immigrated to Jacksonville,
Illinois.  In 1844, he moved to Jacksonville and lived surrounded by
most of all the members of his family.  He was the father of 13 children
who lived to be grown men and women.  He was a minister in the Baptist
Church for more than 50 years.  He was blessed by his numerous and
highly favored posterity, consisting at the time of his death: 13
children, 83 grandchildren, 106 great grandchildren and 7 great-great
grandchildren.  The children of Rev. James Dunlap and his wife, Emily
Johnson Dunlap were: William, Rebecca, Mary, John, James, Elisabeth,
Nancy, Edward, Jeptha, Stephen, George A., Samuel, Minerva.

One of his sisters, Patsy, born June 13, 1798, married Archibald
Henderson in Kentucky; later they moved to Illinois and raised a
family.  Patsy Dunlap Henderson died in Illinois, July 3, 1834, leaving
several children, all girls, except William Henderson, who died about
1940.

There are many descendants of rev. James Dunlap in Champaign County,
Ohio, as well as in Fayette and Bourbon Counties, Kentucky.  A large
number of grandchildren and great grandchildren are located in and near
Urbana, Ohio.

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