Broad Valley Orchard

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I was going to write this summary later in the week, but Winter just won’t let go up here in the mountains of South Central Pa.   So, I’ll do it today while the wind howls and the snow blows.  I have to wait until the compost piles thaws  so I can fertilize the orchard and [...]

Hello,  This will be the final narrative family history essays of my winter writing project.  Next week I’ll do a summation of what I learned (I am astounded by all the grandchildren Old William had, and many of them also had children).
THOMAS HENRY DUNN - 1857-1943
As I wrote before, my paternal great-grandfather’s, and his descendant’s [...]

William(2) P. Dunn and Martha Cecelia n. Beach Dunn
William (2) 1852-1905 was the eldest son of William (1) Dunn and Magdalena Senneger.  William (2) married Martha in 1857 at the Newry Lutheran Church.  The Beach family lived in Duncansville.  They had no children but family researchers report that they did help raise some of the [...]

Roman (aka Bird, Fogel, and Sennenger) was the elder of two young sons that Magdalena Sennenger brought into widower William Dunn’s household.  I too was raised by a step-father, and like Roman I got out of that house as soon as I could.  Roman ‘ran away’ to the Civil War, and joined up at 17 [...]

Last week I wrote about the mostly Altoona born grandchildren of James Bradley Dunn and Joseph Milton Dunn, sons of William Dunn and and Mary McCloskey.  When I was a boy in Ambridge, Pa., I never heard that I had relatives from Altoona.  I hope to some day meet some of my distant cousins in [...]

In 2007 I learned that my Dunn family of Ambridge had roots in Blair County, Pa.  I visited their Genealogical Society, and court house and was able to prove “First Family” status for old William Dunn, ie. he had lived in Hollidaysburg when the county was incorporated in 1847.  When I was resting up in [...]

Ida Flora Dunn
Ida Flora Dunn was born in Hollidaysburg on 18Jan 1873.  She was baptised at the family church on 15 Feb 1873, with Jacob and Anna Culley as her sponsors.  Their mother Louisa died soon after Ida’s sister Clara was born.  Ida’s life left few records.  She followed the same career as did her [...]

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Last week I wrote about Bertha’s three older sisters, Martha, Mary, and Sarah.  This week I’ll write about Bertha, and then next week about her two younger sisters Clara Frances, and Ida Flora.  I’ve decided to keep my winter essay project going until the Spring Equinox, because I have found some interesting tidbits about the [...]

After Magdalena (Sennenger/Fogel) Dunn died in about 1861, my guess is that old William hired young  Louisa Alwein/Hammond to be the nurse/housekeeper for his children of his first and second marriages who were still living at home.  By 1863 William married Louisa and they had 6 daughters.  This week I’ll write about their first three [...]

In 1860 William Sr. and Magdalena Dunn were raising their joined families.  They lived with their four sons, plus two of the children from his first marriage, and her two sons from previous marriage(s?).  Two of William’s sons from his first marriage, soon went off to the Civil War and survived, as did Magda’s two [...]