DUNNING, WILSON, DOMME

Other names associated: GRAVES, WILSON, PERKINS, SAUNDERS

I saw a post re:
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"DUNNING, WILSON

ID: JoRita Dunning-Ray - WebBoard - KS Geneology
Wed Apr 23 13:07:19 1997

Looking for info. Cephus/Franklin/LeRoy Dunning, from Greenleaf, Washington County,Ks. possible Topeka, Shawnee County also. Cephus married Sarah Jane Bidwell. Franklin married Mary Hannah Wilson. LeRoy married Alma Sarah Perry. Looking for info. " - JoRita Dunning-Ray

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Regarding the last Entry
Your email address is antiquated/needs updating:2010 March ~

I am a descendant from Alma Sarah Perry and Leroy Lemuel Dunning.
See info I have below on above surnames. I am still trying to piece things together. I will start from the top and work down to descendants as I know them.
Thanks ~ J.L. Golden Howard
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News article - Greenleaf, KS - Nov. 26, 1932
'Grandma Reaches 100 'Greenleaf Celebrates'' - 1932 -
Pioneer Woman Now A Centenarian; Is Still happy; Alert; Active

Sarah Jane Bidwell

Sarah Jane Bidwell(b. 11/21/1832) Rutland County, Vermont
m. 1849 to Cephus Oliver Dunning of Vermont;

lived/married in VT; moved immediately following marriage to 50 miles s. of Chicago(unknown city) then S. to Livingston County Illinois; then onto Kansas in 1878.
Lived on a farm south of Greenleaf since 1879.

They had three boys(Franklin Edgar Dunning,+ see below); one girl and one foster child - a girl.

Only surviving child for her 100th party was a daughter J.L. or L.J. Coppage.(two mentions- first and second initial -both opposite)

Five Generations mentioned in attendance: Mrs.(Grandma)Sarah Jane Bidwell; Ms. Stella Cox;
Mrs. Iva McFadden; Fern and Ganelle McFadden

hosted by her daughter: J.L./L.J.? Coppage and son-in-law;along came:
Mayor H.H. Kappelman paid his respects with carnations,
a tributary letter/speech written in 1832 and sent by mail: Will S. Fleming Superintendent of Schools Pittsburg, TX;
20 + friends and relatives attended.

Cake provided by Mr. & Mrs. P.P. Freeman of Leavenworth, KS

NEED INFO ON OTHER CHILDREN OF CEPHUS AND JANE'S
*** 1 girl; 3 boys
Franklin Edgar Dunning,(possibly also Fred Dunning)

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Tuesday November 21, 1933
News- Greenleaf article: '101 Years old'
SARAH JANE BIDWELL
reaches 101 has a party at Mr. & Mrs. Wannamaker's house near Greenleaf.
Nothing more reported
Attending: Mrs. S.J. Dunning, Doris and Leroy Dunning, Mr. & Mrs. James Parker, Mr. & Mrs. L.J. Coppage, Mrs. Hugh Caley of Fairbury; Mr. & Mrs. G.W. Harker; Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Garret
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WILLIAM WILSON
Obituary notice(no date):
William Wilson _ civil war veteran
d. 94; buried Kansas City, KS
survivors: son John W. Wilson of Wakeeny, KS; daughters: Mrs. John Diebolt of Wakeeny, KS; and Mrs. O.R. Perkins of Topeka, KS

Mrs. O.R. Perkins was quoted as saying,"Yotahokda" = "End Of The Trail" - Pawnee language
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FRANK or FRANKLIN E. DUNNING
2nd son of Cephus Oliver Dunning (and Sarah Jane Bidwell
according to family records[Domme/Dunning])
although it says in the obituary his mother was: F.J. Dunning of Greenleaf

Obituary Notice(no date):

Frank E. Dunning - married to Mary Hannah Wilson(then she took names:Dunning (+Perkins = have no idea how she came by that name as her last.)
d. 69 yrs. at his daughters house:

Mrs. L.M. Graves of:
917 Jackson St. Topeka, KS

buried Topeka Cemetary
service: Conwell's Noth Topeka Chapel

survived by his mother: F.J. Dunning of Greenleaf, KS

Four Children: Mrs. F.O. Wilson of Clay Center; Glenn F. Dunning of Baltimore, MD; Leroy Lemuel Dunning; Mrs. Graves(possibly L.M.Graves) of Topeka, KS

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George Graves(possibly son of Mrs. L.M. Graves???mentioned above -
or wife to???)

married to
Alice Alitto Wheeler Dunning - Graves -
according to picture documentation[Domme/Dunning]
who then gave birth to:
1)Stella Graves
2)Myrtle Graves
3)Florence Graves

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ALMA SARAH PERRY - DUNNING

Child1:
Alma Sarah Perry had a baby girl named Maxine.
Alma was to be betrothed awhile after Maxine's birth.
Her suitor was

LEROY LEMUEL DUNNING. - war veteran - SSP - stamped
1942 SS April 27
Nueces County, TX
address: 404 Virginia
Corpus Christie, TEXAS

Maxine was adopted out; Her siblings searched for Maxine later in life. Then Maxine was later reunited with an aging Alma and other siblings.

Alma Perry married Leroy Lemuel Dunning
They had 7 children together: Then Leroy and Alma split, and Leroy may have remarried a Lolita (or JoRita?).

1)Doris A. Dunning - married to - John P. Domme - She was
d.1984 Portland,Oregon - children: Sharon K.,
Gerald(Jerry), Margaret A., David, Patricia, Diana L.
2)Sonny - d. Salt Lake City, Utah - (buried?)
3)Carolyn - d. Riverside, CA(rumoured to be buried there)-
had Susie, Bobby, Kendall (spelling?children)
4)Derald R. Dunning - d. Salem,Or - married to Margaret
families in Redding, Vallejo, Portland, Concord, Shasta
large family: Larry, Virgil, Angela, Carol, Dan, Joe,
(others still 8?)
5)Virgil - d. @ 21yrs old. - died just after entry into the
war effort
6)Jocelyn - d. - rumoured to live in Texas - child:
Question: daughter?(???Darlene? - married to
Jack in 1953.
lived in - last known - San Diego, CA
7)Larry - unknown area???

Wartime - Company No.1997 - McCall,Idaho - was one of the male children's starting regiment.

ALMA had a rough life. Some of the children were being raised by their sibling(sister) towards their later childhood: Doris and her husband John Domme; cared for some and especially Derald Dunning.
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MAXINE:
Later Leroy Lemuel Dunning finally agreed to help Alma in providing her Maxine's birth records(SSN#). Question is Did she take the Dunning name? Since it required Leroy to request SSN@#? Then came the reuniting of Maxine with her younger half siblings. Maxine made a trip out to Oregon to visit Doris,and possibly Derald.
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IMMIGRANT/FOUNDING TIMES/AMERICA
Looking for info on our native background (Potawatomi)...perhaps Pawnee also - Was it O.R. Perkins?
Married to or mother to:

Have blotchy info from East coast beginnings. Conneticut, NY, Maine, VT

Family line rumoured to be Pennslvania Dutch, English, Russian(maternal line rumoured to have ascendants near the Rhine River), maternal line - Native Potawatomi, possibly Cherokee too - although some would hide the last ethnicity until the 70's. Slight mention of Irish, but little to connect the last claim yet.
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MIGRATIONS/AMERICA
One early ascendant(s)
VT, MD, NY, CT, IL, MO, OK/TX, KS, then to CA and OR
One relative had gone to Oklahoma for a time
(W. Wilson???).
Some Dunnings rumoured to continue on in Topeka, KS / Greenleaf, KS

It was said that everyone married their neighbor in Topeka/Greenleaf, KS.
Other names associated: GRAVES, WILSON, PERKINS
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DOMME, John P. - info available - spotty.

Mother and father came from Germany
growing up for mother/father S. of Rhine river area - (Russia was across the River)

Lived in Greenleaf, KS or Topeka, KS

Joseph Domme - lived in Topeka, KS - dance instructor/owner dance academy; Moved to FL in approx. 2001 to live with his daughter Julie; passed away - approx. 2005(?)
Survivors: Daughter - Julie,FL; and nieces and nephews, etc in OR.

John Paul Domme - married Doris A. Dunning - see #1 under
above for children
Mary Domme-(married?)- rumoured to have passed on in
Topeka, KS
______ another child unknown
______ another child unknown

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Darlene and Jack - are either Domme or Dunning...forgot which. Visits to: Doris A. Dunning Domme and family.

Perhaps Jocelyn Dunning's daughter or even Maxine's daughter; Mary(___)DOmme's daughter??? - I forget please excuse the error or speculation.
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DOMME/DUNNING TREE

Saunders or Celig families seem to play a part - whether married in or not it's hard to tell.
Domme/Dunning children refer to a Grandpa Saunders.
They would visit Kansas. They mentioned a Grandmother with a notably large salt box style house(aristrocratic Russian) in brick; a few aunts;plus
aunt Mary (____)Domme on their father's side.

Derald(son of Leroy and Alma Perry) and Margaret Dunning attended Jack and Darlene's 25th wedding anniversary in 1978. They are rumored to have lived both in Topeka, KS and then later in San Diego, CA