Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dunbar, David B. November 25, 1901
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Virginian Pilot November 26, 1901

                           Death of an Old Printer

Major D.B. Dunbar, one of the oldest, if not the oldest printer in the 
state, died yesterday morning at Williamsburg, where he had been taken for 
treatment about a month ago.  He was stricken with paralysis in August, 
1900, and never fully recovered from the shock, being confined constantly to 
his residence since that attack.
At the outbreak of the civil war he resigned his commission as gunner in the 
United States Navy and cast his fortunes with the Confederacy, being 
assigned to similar duty in the Confederate States Navy.
For a few years at the close of the war he conducted a weekly paper at 
Suffolk, Va. but later came to Norfolk and accepted a position on the 
Norfolk Virginian and worked on that paper until ill health caused him to 
retire.
He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Kate Wightman and one grandchild, Ernest 
Joynes.
He was an honored member of Norfolk Typographical Union No. 32 and 
represented that body as its delegate at the session of the International 
Union in Philadelphia.
No arrangements have been made for the funeral as yet.
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The obsequies of Major David B. Dunbar were held from the residence of his 
daughter, Mrs. Kate B. Wightman, No. 222 Charlotte street, at 3 o'clock 
yesterday afternoon.  The service was conducted by Rev. Dr. J. Ernest 
Thacker, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church.  The interment was in 
Elmwood Cemetery.  Members of the Masonic fraternity, of which order he was 
a member, attended the funeral.

Virginian Pilot November 28, 1901

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Elmwood?

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