DT-44-John-4

DUNHAM FAMILIES of TENNESSEE

FOURTH GENERATION IN AMERICA

44. JOHN HAMILTON 4 DUNHAM (Daniel A. 3 Daniel 2 Joseph 1) b. in Tennessee, 19 September 1828; d. of yellow fever in 1854. He m. RATILDA/ROTILDA (WOOD). John H. Dunham is buried in the Dunham Family Cemetery, Grimes, TX.

Ratilda appears on the 1860 census as the wife of J. G. Chatham.

John H. Dunham appears on the list of Slave owners in the Grimes Co., Texas Records.

John H. Dunham appears on the 1850 census in Grimes County, Texas, Family #105: [1]

John H. Dunham 22 Farmer b. TN

Retilda 19 b. AL

J. T. 0 b. TX

M. C. Johns 4 b. TX

Ratilda (Dunham) Chatham appears on the 1860 Census in Grimes County, Texas (Western Dist.): [2]

J. G. Chatham 39

Ratilda Chatham 28

Rufus Chatham 3

James W. Chatham 2

J. T. Dunham 10

Ann R. Dunham 8

Children of John Hamilton 4 and Ratilda/Rotilda (Wood) Dunham: [3]

79. i. JOSEPH TILLOTSON 5 DUNHAM, b. 1850

80. ii. ANNE REBECCA 5 DUNHAM, b. 1852

References:

1. 1850 Census of Grimes County, Texas.

2. 1860 Census of Grimes County, Texas.

3. Information submitted by Mrs. H. K. McMahan and printed in DUNHAM DISPATCH November 1995 p. 4.