I have my grandmother's history,written and pasted in the 1920's,open to John Dunn's obit,plus a handwritten paragraph.Ruhama Ely Brown, grand dau of Ruhama Blackman m 1824 Savil Justice,and lived here,and must have adjoined [nearly?] in the 1850's the cabin of Jon Dunn, bJan 1st,1819 -Dec 28,1900,who married March 16,1848,Sarah Ann HEANY[?] .cOUNTY MONIGHAN WAS HIS BIRTH,BUT he worked in his uncle's drug store in Coose Hill,County Caven .May 1st,1848 they sailed.and would float by canal most of the way from New York City,to Cincinnati. .After a couple,they would move one field east of south Bantam station,and he would work in Benj Ely's store in Bantam.Benj Ely's parents,Samuel and Rachel Leeds Ely,m 1804 at Port Republic ,NJ where James Blackman left,1815,and Sarah Blackman Collins left,1803. [I make his 1850-59 cabin as between the Jegley farm and South Bantam ststion,on the C,G,+P RR,on Moore Rd. Clermont Co,Oh. Anyway,1859, John Dunn and family moved from near Ruhama Blackman Justice to a mile south of Nicholsville, where,if he continued small town store clerking, John Dunn would have worked for Wesley and Mary Blackman McClain. His dau,Martha Dunn,and my grandmother,Ruhama Ely [Brown] taught together years in Bethel -Tate,Oh schools. >From Welsh mountians,Ireland can be seen. I wonder if Wales also had the potato disease that caused the 1848 Irish potato famine? On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:12:31 -0600 "MGski" <mggrab@polarcomm.com> writes: > I have all these names from two different branches, Dunns and > Blackmans, > going around in my head. My Mary Blackman was born in New Jersey, > probably > Gloucester County, but her death cert said only New Jersey. Mary > Blackman > and Samuel L. Dunn had a son, Oliver Jeremiah Dunn who married > Elizabeth > Isaac. It's Elizabeth Isaac who was from Peniel. Good grief! I > messed > that up. Great-granny Lizzie was a full blooded Welsh woman. I > don't know > where she and Samuel Dunn met, but they had their children at > Lockland, > Hamilton County, OH. I'm so sorry for the mix up, but it's great to > here > about Peniel. Mary G. >