Marion Leroy Dunaway was the son of Isaac Dunaway and Lucy Herndon. He was born in Warren County, Georgia.
Marion and Patience met as children in Sunday School. They married in 1860. They had eight children.
Marion taught school in the Princeton Family District for several years.
He died in October 1910 in Princeton, Georgia and was buried in Princeton United Methodist Church Cemetery in Princeton.
Sources
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZMX-VRY : 13 December 2017), Marion L Dunaway, 1860. Year: 1900; Census Place: Princeton, Clarke, Georgia; Roll: 187; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0012; FHL microfilm: 1240187
1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Year: 1880; Census Place: Puryears, Clarke, Georgia; Roll: 140; Family History Film: 1254140; Page: 380B; Enumeration District: 016.
1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVV-S7CM : 13 December 2015), Marion L Dunaway, 1910; Burial, Princeton, Clarke, Georgia, United States of America, Princeton United Methodist Church Cemetery; citing record ID 17761553, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
"Georgia Deaths, 1928-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JNYK-H4Q : 4 April 2016), M L Dunaway in entry for Conaway, Cora, Mrs., 07 Feb 1930; citing Athens, Clarke, Georgia, United States, Georgia Archives, Morrow; FHL microfilm 4,122,590.
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