Louisa Brown Dunagan

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Personal and Family Information

Louisa was born on 30 SEP 1818 in Hall County, GA, the daughter of Ezekiel Jackson Dunagan and Lydia Ann Brown.

She died on 25 OCT 1893 in Pleasant Valley (now Naylor), AR.

Her husband was William Graham, who she married on 10 DEC 1839 in Hall County, GA. Their eight known children were William Andrew (1838-1932), Ezekiel Dunagan (1840-?), Samuel A. (?-?), Liddia L. (?-?), Susan Abigail (1842-1905), Margaret (?-?), Julia (?-?) and Augustus Clayton (?-?).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)


 

Louisa Brown Dunagan
(1818-1893)

 

Ezekiel Jackson Dunagan
(1771-1836)

 

Joseph Dunagan Sr.
(1740-1810)

 

Thomas Dunagan
(1706->1782)

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Sarah
(c1706-?)

 
   

Sarah Unknown
(-?)

   
 
 
     
 
 
   

Lydia Ann Brown
(1775-?)

   
 
   
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
   
 
 
     
 
 

Events

EventDateDetailsSourceMultimediaNotes
Birth30 SEP 1818
Place: Hall County, GA
Death25 OCT 1893
Place: Pleasant Valley (now Naylor), AR

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Note 1

Donated 3 acres of land for the Pleasant Valley ME Church and cemetery. ouisa wound up er husband's business in Georgia, sold all household goods. Their part of the business was worth $1100, but the war came and they never did get all of it. Stopped at Chattanooga and stayed a few weeks in a rented house; crosed the Mississippi river at Memphis; found a new log house waiting for them. Suffered many hardships as a pioneer woman, bushwackers and theives during the war. Owned 320 acres. Gave each of her children part.

Note 2

An 1889 publication titled “souvenir Sketches of Georgia and Florida” has write-ups on several Hall Countians and descendants of Hall Countians. These personality sketches tell about the migration of families from this area and the accomplishments of their offspring.

Ezekiel D. Graham was born in Jackson County Sept.4, 1840. His father, William Graham, was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1814, and a grandson of William Graham, of Charlotte, N. C., one of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. William, father of Ezekiel Graham, moved to Jackson County when a boy, and for several years was engaged in the mercantile business in that county.

On Dec. 10, 1839, William Graham was married in Hall County to Louisa B. Dunnagan, daughter of Ezekiel Jackson and Lydia Ann Brown Dunnagan, a well known family of Hall [County]. In 1858, William and Louisa moved to Arkansas where William turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. At the outbreak of the War Between the States, he joined the Confederate Army and died while in the service in 1862. William and Louisa Dunagan Graham were parents of eight children: Ezekiel D., Samuel A., Liddia L., Susan, William A., Margaret, Julia, and Augustus.

Ezekiel D. Graham, subject of the personality sketch, was brought up principally in Chattooga County Georgia and was educated in Lafayette. In 1858 he was licensed to practice law and was admitted to the bar in Trenton. He practiced his profession at Trenton until the commencement of the war and he joined the Confederate Army as a private in Company C, of the 6th Georgia Infantry. He was soon promoted to first Lieutenant of his company and from that to Captain of the company, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. He then returned to Trenton and resumed the practice of law. In 1865, he was elected from Dade County to the constitutional convention, and in 1870 was elected from Dade County to the legislature. In 1872, he was elector for president and vice president on the Georgia state ticket, and in 1874 was again elected to the legislature from Dade County and served one term. In 1877, he moved to Cartersville and engaged in the legal profession. Ezekiel Graham was married June 19, 1866, to Laura Mann, daughter of Emanuel and Jane Taylor Mann who moved from Georgia to Knoxville, Tenn. The couple became parents of five children: William M., Lou, Kate, Laura, and Cora Graham. In 1888, Ezekiel Graham was a delegate from Georgia to the National Democratic Convention which met in St. Louis, MO.

Ezekiel Jackson Dunagan, grandfather to Ezekiel Graham, is buried in Hall County.

Personality sketches in Hall during 1869 The Times of Gainesville, September 15, 1974 - Sybil McRay, Special to The Times