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Submitted: 5/11/11 • Approved: 5/12/11 • Last Updated: 9/27/12 • R525915-G0-S3
Aug. 18, 1816 - Jan. 31, 1902 George was born in New York and died in Locust Grove Independence County Arkansas
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Horace was born in New York,his father was born in Massachusetts,and took his family from New York to Ohio when Horace was a child.
Horace was orphaned in Ohio abt 1824 at the age of eight years old,settled in Iowa at 21,no parents ever found.In later life he vaguely recalled 3 or 4 brothers but all the children were "farmed out"to various families who would take them,and in the transitional period of western frontier migrations they seem to have drifted apart.In 1838 at age 22 he road his pony to the new state of Iowa where he homesteaded a tract of land.
About 1840 Horace traded his land in Linn County to a soldier for land in Independence County Arkansas, sight unseen,perhaps receiving "boot" He then hired on one of the flatboats being built in that area to transport produce, and on this floated all the way down to New Orleans. Here a good price was received for his cargo,then with a pocketful of money, Horace took a steamboat back up the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers to Little Rock Arkansas. From there he walked overland for over one hundred miles to Batesville Independence County Arkansas From Batesville he went across the White River to see his new land some nine miles southwest in the direction of present day Heber Springs. On his arrival at the site he was very crestfallen to find land was mostly up and down in the beginning of the Ozark Mountains,with nothing but ravines, bluffs and declevities. He thought he could raise hogs there because the ground was thick with mast, acorns and all kinds of nuts from the towering oaks, hickories, walnuts, etc which abounded. He went back to Batesville and bought a drove of 40 hogs which he took back to his land and turned them loose to feast.They went wild among the caves, canyons and precipices and in that landscape were utterly irretrievable Being somewhat down on his uppers by this time he hired out to a neighboring farmer, James Bagley, who was a large landowner with several slaves in the vicinity of Dean Mountain. James Bagley had 19 children, all by his first wife Frances French. As his children married off, James Bagley usually set them up in places on his land, so most lived nearby. Horace was 29 when he married Harriett, she was 15 years of age. The fact that she was afflicted with congenital displacement of the hip with one leg shorter than the other, they had 11 children.
He married the youngest of Mr Bagley's nineteen children. Their share of Bagley's land extended up the west side of Dean Mountain, formerly called "Chautaunga" by the Indians, about a mile from the presant Locust Grove post office. The land was left to their youngest child Alice Chapman Dunlap, who married William Elbert Elms. Two of Alice's sister, Eliza (Mrs, Andy) Lovell and Laura (Mrs. William) Massey, lived nearby, also on part of the Dunlap property.
He came to Independence County Arkansas about 1842
Story by Charles W Hutchinson - Petaluma,California 1986
Children:
Frances E Dunlap Blevins (1851 - 1902)
Elizabeth Loraine Dunlap Lovell (1864 - 1937)
Alice Chapman Dunlap Elms (1872 - 1943)
Spouse:
Harriet Ann Bagley Dunlap (1829 - 1903)
Contributed on 5/11/11 by joycemorgan662010
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