DUNN, DANGERFIELD D.
DANGERFIELD DUNN’S RECORD PROBABLY WAS UNPARALLELED
Weekly Democrat-Gazette, July 15, 1926
In All of County’s 50,000 Citizenship as to Nativity and Residence on Same Land.
Dangerfield Dunn, who died July 6 on the farm, two and a half miles north of McKinney, on which he was born more than seventy eight years ago. was one of the few native-born Collin county citizens of that advanced age living in this generation. The county had been organized only about two years when he first saw the light of the world. In the same year that he was born, McKinney came into chartered existence. His father was the first county clerk of Collin county, who was elected July 13, 1841 to that important position in the first county-wide election that was ever held in this county after it was organized. Other officials chosen at the same election were:
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Elected July 13, 1846.
Z. Roberts, chief justice; Moses G. Wilson, district clerk; Tola Dunn, county clerk; King Custer, sheriff; John Fitzhugh, Godfrey Baccus, Peter F. Lucas and John Wilson, county commissioners; Wm. W. Butler and Jacob Baccus, justices of the peace for Precinct No. 2. Lucas did not qualify as county commissioner nor Butler as justice of the peace, the former being elected and qualifying as justice of the peace of Precinct No. 3. Wm. Butler and Joel F. Stewart were chosen at this election and qualified as justices of the peace for Precinct No. 1.
Dangerfield Dunn was therefore one of our earliest pioneer citizens. Although nearly four score years old, he died possessed of a large portion of the original headright of land which his father secured by nominal purchase from the government before he was born. We doubt if his record, as a native and landholder of the county, can be equaled or duplicated in any other instance.
Mr. Dunn loved the farm and stuck to it throughout his long life. His only ambition was to make a faithful husband, a dutiful father and a worthy neighbor and citizen. Peace to his ashes, and honor to his memory.
His sister, Mrs. F. M. Hunn, deceased, was reputed to be the first white child born in what is now the Collin county border limits. If there was a native of the county, living at the time of his death, which occurred on July 6, 1926, as old as he was (78 years, 5 months and 2 days) this paper is not aware of such a person.
His farm, on which he was born, owned and where he always lived, is located on the McKinney-Sherman piked highway, two miles north of McKinney.
Weekly Democrat-Gazette, July 15, 1926
In All of County’s 50,000 Citizenship as to Nativity and Residence on Same Land.
Dangerfield Dunn, who died July 6 on the farm, two and a half miles north of McKinney, on which he was born more than seventy eight years ago. was one of the few native-born Collin county citizens of that advanced age living in this generation. The county had been organized only about two years when he first saw the light of the world. In the same year that he was born, McKinney came into chartered existence. His father was the first county clerk of Collin county, who was elected July 13, 1841 to that important position in the first county-wide election that was ever held in this county after it was organized. Other officials chosen at the same election were:
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Elected July 13, 1846.
Z. Roberts, chief justice; Moses G. Wilson, district clerk; Tola Dunn, county clerk; King Custer, sheriff; John Fitzhugh, Godfrey Baccus, Peter F. Lucas and John Wilson, county commissioners; Wm. W. Butler and Jacob Baccus, justices of the peace for Precinct No. 2. Lucas did not qualify as county commissioner nor Butler as justice of the peace, the former being elected and qualifying as justice of the peace of Precinct No. 3. Wm. Butler and Joel F. Stewart were chosen at this election and qualified as justices of the peace for Precinct No. 1.
Dangerfield Dunn was therefore one of our earliest pioneer citizens. Although nearly four score years old, he died possessed of a large portion of the original headright of land which his father secured by nominal purchase from the government before he was born. We doubt if his record, as a native and landholder of the county, can be equaled or duplicated in any other instance.
Mr. Dunn loved the farm and stuck to it throughout his long life. His only ambition was to make a faithful husband, a dutiful father and a worthy neighbor and citizen. Peace to his ashes, and honor to his memory.
His sister, Mrs. F. M. Hunn, deceased, was reputed to be the first white child born in what is now the Collin county border limits. If there was a native of the county, living at the time of his death, which occurred on July 6, 1926, as old as he was (78 years, 5 months and 2 days) this paper is not aware of such a person.
His farm, on which he was born, owned and where he always lived, is located on the McKinney-Sherman piked highway, two miles north of McKinney.
