Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Dunson, Lewis 1828 - 
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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

   LEWIS DUNSON, farmer, P. O. Mount Victory, was born in Logan County, Ohio,
September 22, 1828; he is a son of Thomas and Beulah (Patrick) Dunson, natives
of Virginia and New Jersey respectively, and married in Logan County, Ohio, of
which their parents were the earliest pioneers. Our subject is the eldest son
and second child of a family of eleven children, six living; he was reared
principally on a farm in Hale Township, Hardin County, to which his father had
moved when the former was six years old; his education was derived from the
common schools. On August 22, 1862, he enlisted in the Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry. Company F; served in Tennessee, and fought in the battle of Stone
River and several other minor engagements; he was wounded at Stone River, and
discharged on that account February 20, 1863. He received a gunshot wound in the
right knee, and is now drawing a pension of $6 per month. In the spring of 1865,
he purchased his present farm, and has cleared and improved it. Besides farming,
he raises stock and keeps Poland-China and Chesterwhite hogs. He was married, in
June, 1849, to Miss Margaret Plews, born in Northumberland County, Penn., July
16, 1827, and a daughter of William and Mary Plows, Of the nine children born,
eight are living-Beulah, wife of John W. Thompson; John O., Benair W., Thomas,
Alice M., Temperance, W. Mark and Rush. Mr. Dunson's paternal grandfather,
Thomas Dunson, served in the Revolutionary war, in which he was wounded; he
removed from Virginia to Logan County, Ohio, before the war of 1812: married
Miss Corbing, and both died in Logan County; Johnson Patrick, the maternal
grandfather of our subject, came to Logan County shortly after the war of 1812.
Mr. Dunson and his family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is now
serving his second term of office as Justice of the Peace.

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Bucks Township

Excerpt from

"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

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