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From: Rita Bryant <>
Subject: Cavitt Book p 157
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:17:38 -0600

CHAPTER XV

The Dunn Family connected to Cavitt history through the wife of Josephus
Cavitt, Catherine Ann Dunn, granddaughter of James Dunn, I, and daughter
of James Dunn, II. This material is taken from the research of a
great-grandson of James Dunn, I, John Belvedere Brooks Cavitt, and the
writings of his mother.

James Dunn, I, married Ann Hayes. Both lived and died in Ireland.
Their five children were: lst. Jennie, 2nd. Annie, 3rd. William,
4th. James, II, 5th. Mary. In 1821 all five children of James and Ann
Hayes Dunn emigrated to America.

I. Jennie Dunn married Alexander Mawhinney. Their four children:
Jennie, Ester, George, Jim Mawhinney

II. Annie Dunn married Phelan A. Casky. They moved to Illinois and
settled near Chicago to get away from slave holding people. Their eight
children were:
A. Ann Dunn Casky
B. Alex Casky (had two sons, three daughters)
C. George Casky (had two sons, four daughters)
D. Catherine, died single
E. Margaret, married but had no children
F. Jane, married a Mr. Flemming (had two sons, one daughter)
G. Elizabeth Casky, died single
H. Robert Casky, married and lived in Alabama. He fought on the
Confederate side in the Civil War joining in 1860. Only once did he
visit his family in Chicago. He was a very successful business man.

III William Dunn, II (named for his father's brother, William Dunn,
who after
the death in Ireland of his first wife came to Alabama and married Mary
Casky). William II, married a Miss Cooper of a proud family. They
lived in Alabama. Their ten children were:
A. James Dunn, married a Miss Dunnigan, moved to Mississippi and later
to Navarro County, Texas, where he
was known as Mississippi Jim Dunn.
B. William Dunn, Jr., a successful rancher in Taylor and Coleman
Counties, Texas, died a bachelor.
C. John Dunn married and lived in Mississippi.
D. Alexander Dunn, killed 1861 in Civil War.
E. Charles Dunn, moved to Texas and married, was killed in Civil War in
1861, known as "a born soldier."
F. George
G. Dan Dunn, moved to Texas, married Ruth Matthews and was killed in a
duel
in Wheelock, Texas, by a man named Lehrman.
H. Jane Dunn, married a Mr. Wilder in Alabama. After his death she
moved
to Texas.
I. Elizabeth, married a Mr. Curley in Alabama, had one daughter, Mary
Curley,
who married a Mr. Hickman. Mary Curley Hickman lived near Nexia,
Texas.

J. Ann Dunn, married a Presbyterian minister.

IV. Mary Dunn, I, married John Young in Ireland, December 1812. They
came to America and settled in Pennsylvania to be near the Castle
kinspeople. They had seven children. They moved to Green Castle, Green
County, Alabama, and from there to Robertson County, Texas, where they
lived close by her brother, James Dunn, II, on a part of the Stephen
Gafford Headright League of land. Their children were:

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