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Sylvester S. Dunagan

Birth	:	17 Jun 1861 Morgan County, Indiana, USA
Death	:	16 Jul 1951 Lamar, Chase County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	Venango Cemetery, Venango, Perkins County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.7416992, -102.0175018
Description	:	Printed in the Benkelman, NE Post, August 1951 Sylvester S. Dunagan The Post recently received a letter from a girl who was once well known in Benkelman and in the Pleasant Valley district telling of the death of her father, S. S. Dunagan at Lamar, Nebraska, on July 16th. The girl in question was known to her friends here as Miss Sylvia Dunagan and later married a man by the name of Harris and more recently was married to S. C. McGonagle, likewise an early Dundy county resident. She operates the Persian Date Garden at El... Read More	Printed in the Benkelman, NE Post, August 1951 Sylvester S. Dunagan The Post recently received a letter from a girl who was once well known in Benkelman and in the Pleasant Valley district telling of the death of her father, S. S. Dunagan at Lamar, Nebraska, on July 16th. The girl in question was known to her friends here as Miss Sylvia Dunagan and later married a man by the name of Harris and more recently was married to S. C. McGonagle, likewise an early Dundy county resident. She operates the Persian Date Garden at El Centro, Calif., specializing in the growing of dates with some ranch activities added as a side issue, and under the new order of things Mr. McGonagle is now assisting in these operations and only recently his brother, C. F. McGonagle, returned from El Centro and other California points where he had visited with his relatives. Sylvester S. Dunagan was born in Morgan county, Indiana, June 17, 1861, and was married to Mrs. Ellen Bourne on February 18, 1885. (Buffalo County, Nebraska - parents were Thomas Dunagan and Eliza Applegate - George Ford and Armenia Brimhall. In 1920 Sylvester S. Dunagan of Venango, Nebraska was listed as a Resident Minister of the Society of Friends) Mrs. Bourne had three children at the time of their marriage, two of whom survive him, they being Oscar Dunagan of Elm Creek, Nebraska, and Lillian Smith of Lamar, Nebraska, at whose home Mr. Dunagan lived several years previous to his death and he was making his home with her when he died. The other son died in infancy. Mrs. Dunagan died at San Bernardino, Calif., July 15, 1893, and in 1897 Mr. Dunagan was married to Annie Watkins at Grant, Nebraska. Mr. Dunagan homesteaded in Perkins county in 1886 and it was there where Mrs. McGonagle and her sister Elva, (now Mrs. Freeman O'Neall) and one son Frank, who died at the age of four months, were born, while Roy W. and Verl Dunagan were born in Dundy county. One other son, Ivan, died in infancy. The Dunagan family moved to Perkins county in 1886 and then moved from there to Dundy county in 1889 where he engaged in farming in the Pleasant Valley neighborhood for many years. Mr. Dunagan was a very religious man and was early . ordained as a minister in the Friends church where he not alone served as a pastor but as an officer in the Friend's yearly meeting. At one time he was likewise a trustee of the Friend's College at Central City, Nebraska. He held pastorates in the Pleasant Valley church at different times and served two years in the same position at Grant and later continued in charge of churches in eastern Nebraska and in Indiana for several years. To his first marriage two children survive, they being Mrs. McGonagle of El Centro, Calif., and Mrs. Elva B. O'Neall of Loveland, Colo., and of his second marriage, surviving are Roy V. Dunagan, pastor of the Friends church at Cherokee, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Verl Broyles of El Centro, Calif., along with 12 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren and the two step-children, Oscar Bourne and Lillian Smith of Lamar, Nebr. Funeral services were held at Venango, Nebraska, in the church in which the deceased had preached years ago and interment was in the Venango cemetery ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ The cemetery manager – Mrs. Reichman – said that his wife ANNIE I is buried there. "Some say her middle initial was L, but it's "I" on the tombstone. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ Sylvester married Annie I. Watkins 22 Dec 1897.

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Where is Sylvester S. Dunagan's memorial?
Sylvester S. Dunagan's memorial is located at: Venango Cemetery, Venango, Perkins County, USA.
When did Sylvester S. Dunagan death?
Sylvester S. Dunagan death on 16 Jul 1951 in Lamar, Chase County, Nebraska, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Sylvester S. Dunagan's memorial?
Latitude: 40.7416992
Longitude: -102.0175018

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Ellen Armenta Ford Dunnigan

(1852 - 1893)

Annie Isabella Watkins Dunagan

(1866 - unknow)

Siblings

Children

Vere Dunagan

(1893 - 1893)

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