Henrietta Clay ODELL DUNHAM

William
CAPTAIN
36 Ohio Regiment
Civil War Union
May 23, 1824 - August 27, 1901

*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Thursday, August 29, 1901

DUNHAM, W.H. - Dr. W.H. Dunham died at the family residence in this city on Tuesday the 27th inst. at 2:40 o'clock a.m., aged 77 years. For many years has Dr. Dunham made Bentonville his home and had, by fair and honest dealings with his fellowman, made hosts of friends, and the announcement of his death on the streets early Tuesday morning caused many expressions of sorrow from our citizens. Dr. Dunham was a good man. Those who have resided near him for many years speak of him in the highest terms as a neighbor. He was a kind and affectionate husband and father, a devout christian and a prominent Republican leader. The funeral services were held at his late residence on Wednesday and the remains were laid to rest in the Hart cemetery, four miles south of this city. To the bereaved ones the sympathy of the entire community is extended.

*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Thursday, November 21, 1901

The following memorial on the death of Dr. W.H. Dunham was read before the Benton Co. Medical Society at its meeting in this city on the 12th inst.: The life of Dr. W.H. Dunham began in Brown county, Ohio on the 25th of May 1824 and after more than 77 years ended at his home in Bentonville, Ark. on the 27th of August, 1901. In 1864 he graduated from a medical college in Cleveland, 0. After 36 years of active practice, 17 in his native State and 19 in Missouri, ill health forced him to retire, his only recnt professional services having been rendered as a member of the pension board during the last four years of his life. In 1887 he became a citizen of Bentonville, Ark. where he left many friends. His wife of more than 50 years and five children, one a physician in Missouri, are left to mourn his death. Dr. Dunham was a member of the Presbyterian church. Although unable to practice during the last 16 years of his life he never lost interest in his chosen profession. This was exemplified by his continued membership in this society and attendance at its meetings, even when it was necessary to drive to distant places of meeting. To know Dr. Dunham well was to become his friend, and to enjoy his friendship which was of that sincere, unwavering and unselfish type, was indeed a privilege. Possessed of strong convictions as to right and wrong he was ever ready to endorse the former, and his very frankness made him equally quick to rebuke the latter. An attack of apoplexy about ten years before his death left his voice permanently impaired and this, along with several mild repetitions, warned him of impending danger. About a fortnight before his death he was attacked with hepatitis, due probably to a somewhat chronic diarrhoea. Complicating this was hypostatic pneumonia and greatly increased paralysis of his throat, the latter not occurring until forty-eight hours before death. With the oncoming of this last he lost power to expectorate and he was almost literally drowned in his own sputum.


Henrietta
December 29, 1835 - May 11, 1927

*Obituary (as written)
Benton County Democrat
Tuesday, May 17, 1927

DUNHAM, Henrietta Clay ODELL - Funeral services for Mrs. Henrietta Dunham, who died at her home here last Wednesday afternoon,were held at the home on Thursday afternoon. Many friends came to pay their last respects to Mrs. Dunham, a resident of Bentonville for so many years. Rev. Arthur Henderson conducted the simple services and a double quartet sang several hymns. Burial was made in the Hart cemetery south of town. Mrs. Dunham was a native of Virginia and was born in 1838. Her parents moved to southern Ohio when she was a little girl where she grew up and married William H. Dunham in 1850. After the war Mrs. Dunham lived in northern Missouri until going to Wellington, Kansas just before moving to Bentonville in the fall of 1887. Mrs. Dunham has lived here since that time. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Mary D. Plummer and four sons: J.F. Dunham of Bentonville; Wm. Dunham of Bethany, Mo.; Dr. A.G. Dunham and George Dunham of Portland, Oregon.

*Obituary (as written)
Benton County Record
Friday, May 13, 1927

Mrs. Henrietta Dunham, the widow of the late Dr. William H. Dunham, died at her home on East Fourteenth street at four o'clock Wednesday afternoon, May 11th. The funeral services were held at the home Thursday afternoon at three o'clock. Rev. A.W. Henderson, pastor of Mrs. Dunham's church, the First Presbyterian, had charge of the services. Interment was made in the Hart cemetery. Mrs. Dunham is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Mary Plummer, of Bentonville and four sons: J.F. Dunham of Bentonville; William D. Dunham of Bethany, Mo.; Dr. A.G. Dunham, also of Missouri and George A. Dunham of Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Dunham's maiden name was Henrietta Clay Odell. She was born in Capon Bridge, Va. December 29th, 1838 and when five years of age her parents moved to Southern Ohio. Here she spent her early youth and in June 1850 she married William H. Dunham who was a medical student. During the Civil war her husband served in the Union army and was a captain in the 36th Ohio regiment. Following the war they moved to Northern Missouri where they located upon a farm and where her husband followed his professional career. Mrs. Dunham and her family lived for some time at Wellington, Kan. before moving to Arkansas. Doctor Dunham having retired, the family came to Bentonville in the early autumn of 1887 where the Dunham home has been since that time.

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