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J. D. DUNN
J. D. DUNN, a prosperous farmer, and a man of remarkable mechanical
talent and skill, is a native of Meriwether County, in which he was born in 1828; his parents, William
and Beddy (Johnston) Dunn, having settled in this county the preceding year.
Here his father, who was born in Jones County, Georgia, in 1800, built what is known as the Greeneville
Road. He was the son of Alexander and Beddy (O’Neal) Dunn, the former a native of Maryland and a
soldier of the Revolutionary War, who, after residing in Jones County for a considerable time, removed
to Chambers County, Alabama, where he passed the closing years of his life. The wife of William Dunn
was the daughter of David Johnston, an early settler of Jasper County, Georgia.
The son, J. D. Dunn, was reared upon the farm, with the few advantages for education of that early
period. In 1850 he moved into Woodbury, Meriwether County, where he, having learned the trade of
carriage and buggy making, engaged in that business.
In 1861 he enlisted in the militia under Capt. Frank Strozier, and was elected adjutant.
After the war
Mr. Dunn returned to his business in Woodbury, and has a large establishment and thriving trade-carriage
building. He is also a skillful house carpenter, and has done some marvelously fine work in that line.
The Robert E. Lee Institute at Thomaston, Upson County, now a college of considerable note, is a
monument of his mechanical skill.
Mr. Dunn is a man of varied talents; he has been justice of the peace for eighteen years, winning the
esteem of all with whom he has been concerned; has been a member of the democratic executive committee
for the past two years, and withal has found time to oversee the affairs of his large and beautiful
farm in the vicinity of Woodbury, and prove himself a practical farmer. He is a member of the Odd
Fellows and the Masonic fraternity.
In 1848 Mr. Dunn married Miss Catherine F. Findley, daughter of Riley and Catherine (Oliver) Findley,
who were early settlers of this county, in which Mrs. Dunn was born Dec. 14, 1831. Mr. Dunn and his
wife are both active members of the Missionary Baptist Church; they were blessed with two children:
John D. and Kittie P. On Jan. 5, 1891, Mr. Dunn was bereft of his wife by death.
Source: Memoirs of Georgia, Containing historical accounts of the states civil, military, industrial and professional interests and personal sketches of many of it’s people, Volume II, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895
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