DUNAWAY
DUNAWAY, FOSTER
Lebanon on the Preston, by Adelle Rogers Clark
The third store owner (in Lebanon) was Foster W. Dunaway, who settled in Dallas in 1848. There, he first operated a leather shop in a lean-to on John Neely Bryan’s cabin.... Dunaway’s second venture in business was a drug store in Dallas, which was claimed as the first in the city. When he came to Lebanon he continued in the drug business. Later, however, he opened a general store, but, because of the difficulty of buying merchandise during the Civil War, Dunaway was forced to close his store. (p 12)
Foster Dunaway was not one who helped select the name Lebanon, but he did become acquainted with the village shortly after it was established. Mr. Dunaway returned to visit Lebanon some fifty years later and intrigued whittlers on the front porch of the main store with this tale.
“Fellow, do you see that little rise over there?” he asked, pointing to the east.
“Sure, Mr. Fos, we’ve been seeing it for a long time. What about it?”
“Well, fifty years ago today a bunch of us came up from Dallas and camped there.”
“Fifty years ago today! What happened that makes you remember it so well?” questioned Dwight James.
“This is what happened. You see, I came to Texas from Tennessee in 1848, when Dallas was only seven years old. Just across from where the courthouse is now, I established the first drug store in Dallas. Like a lot of the early settlers in this part of the country, I was always dreaming of a better place to live. That’s why we came– but we sure got more than we bargained for!”
“What happened? What makes you remember it?” Another friend urged him to explain his story.
“The Comanches make me remember it!” Mr. Dunaway spoke emphatically. “Those Indians swooped down on us about sundown on that little rise yonder, and they fought us all the way to McKinney where there was a fort. I guess they were after our horses, but we didn’t give them a ghost of a chance to capture them.” (p 66).
Lebanon on the Preston, by Adelle Rogers Clark
The third store owner (in Lebanon) was Foster W. Dunaway, who settled in Dallas in 1848. There, he first operated a leather shop in a lean-to on John Neely Bryan’s cabin.... Dunaway’s second venture in business was a drug store in Dallas, which was claimed as the first in the city. When he came to Lebanon he continued in the drug business. Later, however, he opened a general store, but, because of the difficulty of buying merchandise during the Civil War, Dunaway was forced to close his store. (p 12)
Foster Dunaway was not one who helped select the name Lebanon, but he did become acquainted with the village shortly after it was established. Mr. Dunaway returned to visit Lebanon some fifty years later and intrigued whittlers on the front porch of the main store with this tale.
“Fellow, do you see that little rise over there?” he asked, pointing to the east.
“Sure, Mr. Fos, we’ve been seeing it for a long time. What about it?”
“Well, fifty years ago today a bunch of us came up from Dallas and camped there.”
“Fifty years ago today! What happened that makes you remember it so well?” questioned Dwight James.
“This is what happened. You see, I came to Texas from Tennessee in 1848, when Dallas was only seven years old. Just across from where the courthouse is now, I established the first drug store in Dallas. Like a lot of the early settlers in this part of the country, I was always dreaming of a better place to live. That’s why we came– but we sure got more than we bargained for!”
“What happened? What makes you remember it?” Another friend urged him to explain his story.
“The Comanches make me remember it!” Mr. Dunaway spoke emphatically. “Those Indians swooped down on us about sundown on that little rise yonder, and they fought us all the way to McKinney where there was a fort. I guess they were after our horses, but we didn’t give them a ghost of a chance to capture them.” (p 66).
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