Samuel
Dunaway
Born in Halifax Co. Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of Samuel Dunaway
and Maachah Elizabeth (Vaughn) Dunaway
Husband of
Nancy (Shaw) Dunaway
— married
4 Jan 1802 in Halifax, VA
Descendants 
Father of
Meacea Dunaway, William Marion Dunaway, John Dunaway, Charles Dunaway, Thomas Paul Dunaway, Drury Dunaway, Williamson Jackson Dunaway and Doctor Samuel Dunaway
Died
at age 43
in Rutherford Co. TN
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Oct 2018
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Biography
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L4SK-XQ4 "Between 1806/1807, Samuel Dunaway Jr. & his wife Nancy Shaw and their infant daughter Meacca left Halifax County, Virginia for Tennessee. Brothers Drury, Thomas and William with sister Frances (Enoch Tucker's wife) went with him. Their father Samuel Sr died in Halifax Co. in 1837, their mother died in Halifax just before the children left for Tennessee. Samuel Jr. died in August 1817 one day after his 43rd birthday. He was the first person buried in the Dunaway Graveyard located off of Dunaway's Chapel Road, .09 miles south of Dunaway's Chapel Methodist Church."
Family property, cemetery and chapel located on Dunaways Chapel Road in Lascassas TN.
2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Regiment (Cocke's Co.) W. Tennessee Militia, 2nd Division (Maj.-Gen. Wm Carroll) - Nov. 1814 - May 1815: Battle of New Orleans.
Sources
- From existing family tree from collaboration with cousins.
"Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X5YR-P4T : 11 February 2018), Samuel Dunaway and Nancy Shaw, 04 Jan 1802; citing Halifax, Virginia, reference p51; FHL microfilm 31,918.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Samuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Samuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- David Dunaway
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup R-A10680, FTDNA kit #494351
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~3.12%
David Dunaway :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch DJ4939944 [compare], FTDNA kit #494351
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~1.56%
Michele (St Cyr) Childs :
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~1.56%
Laura Lynne (Wilkinson) Hedgecock :
Living DNA, GEDmatch A764300 [compare], Ancestry member hedgemeister1
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