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Elizabeth Jane Willis & her husband are listed in her father's DAR record.
In 1783, in Botetourt County, Virginia, Elizabeth married James Carnachan Dunlap. In 1785, after the birth of two sons, Elizabeth and James migrated to Clark County, Kentucky (then known as Fayette County, KY) via the "Wilderness Road" and settled in the Bush Settlement, just north of Boonesboro, Kentucky, on the Lower Howard's Creek.
The Wilderness Road was the principal route used by settlers for more than fifty years to reach Kentucky from the East. The Wilderness Road was steep, rough, narrow, and it could only be traversed on foot or horseback. Despite the adverse conditions, thousands of people used it. [1]
In 1799, the family crossed the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky and settled in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near Mt. Sterling. When crossing the mountains, from family stories, we are told her spouse placed two small children in baskets and placed them across the horses back and brought them across that way. According to our information the two children would have been John Dunlap, born about 1793 and Sarah (Sallie) Dunlap, born 1796. It is there near Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky, that all the children grew to maturity.
Elizabeth and James were the parents of eight children:
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