Pleasant Dunn (abt. 1826 - abt. 1881)

Born about 1826 in Yazoo, Mississippi, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Emiline (Roden) Dunn — married 15 Feb 1848 (to before 1879) in Fulton, Itawamba, Mississippi, United States

Husband of Sarah L (Jones) Dunn — married 11 Sep 1879 in Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States

Descendants

Died about 1881 at about age 55 in Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States

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Biography

Pleasant was born about 1826 in Mississippi. Pleasant Dunn ... He passed away about 1881 in Tallahatchie County, MS..

Pleasant Dunn owned and operated an express line of covered wagons, drawn by oxen. He hauled both freight, as well as, people across wilderness of mostly untamed country, wild animals, and hostile Indians....not to mention slow moving, stubborn oxen.

Both Pleasant and Emiline Dunn were very religious church going Christians of the old fashioned "Southern Baptist" stock, some of the family say they were Camelites.

Pleasant Dunn lived most of all his life in MS, except for the Civil War years when he wandered into Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, and Tenn. Family members have indicated that he almost left MS at one time to go to McKinney, Collin County, TX where his sons had moved...he had bought his ticket and was on the train...he decided to get off and stay in MS.

Family has also indicated that Pleasant's death was caused by a team of oxen running away with him as he was hauling cotton...shortly after his marriage to Sarah....abt 1881. If this is true, he would have been about 57 at the time of his death.

Sources

• "Mississippi 1870 Census, Charleston, Tallahatchie County.]] Shows Pleasant Dunn 55 (should be 440 Farmer-Waggoner, born Miss, his wife Emiline age 40 (should be 42) house wife born in Georgia. Also list eight children, Andrew Jackson 18, Isiac P (Pleasant) 16, Hiram 14,Elias 13, Cisero 12, John S. 10, Monroe 6, and Curtis 2. All eight were born in Miss."

• "United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSCZ-6WG : 4 December 2014), Pleasant Dunn, Private, Company B, 29th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, Confederate; citing NARA microfilm publication M232 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 11; FHL microfilm 821,848."

• "Mississippi, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFL3-FHP : 4 December 2014), Pleasant Dunn, 1862; from "Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing military unit Twenty-ninth Infantry, D-I, NARA microfilm publication M269 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1960), roll 333."

• "Typed written Personal interview of Ira Floyd Dunn of Forth Worth, TX in the year 1964, a descendant of Pleasant Dunn, by Dunn cousin Dorthy V. Dunn Westphal, a great grand daughter of Pleasant Dunn."

• "Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V28X-Y83 : 6 December 2014), Ples. Dunn and Sarah L. Jones, 14 Sep 1879; citing Tallahatchie,Mississippi; FHL microfilm 894,879."

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4PQ-899 : 11 August 2016), Pleasant Dunn, Beat 2, Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district ED 107, sheet 95A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0665; FHL microfilm 1,254,665."

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MFST-SXF : 17 October 2014), Pleasant Dunn, Mississippi, United States; citing p. 41, family 375, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,248."

• ""United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4L4-71H : 9 November 2014), Pleasant Dunn, Carroll county, Carroll, Mississippi, United States; citing family 449, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)."