DUNLAP, James C.

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J. C. Dunlap Dead.

J. C. Dunlap, whose serious illness we have mentioned from time to time during the last two months, died at his home on East Adams St., at 8:30 o’clock Sunday night.

Mr. Dunlap was one of Franklin’s progressive business men, having been in the grocery business in this city for the past twenty years and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was born in this city October 19, 1841, where he has ever since resided, ex­cepting four years’ service in the civil war as a member of the 79th Ind. Regiment commanded by Gen. Neffler and captained by Judge Daniel Howe. In his business he was honest and courteous and this, together with his many other good qualifications, won for him a host of friends. As a husband and father, he was all that his family could wish—kind, loving and generous—and for them the cup is eternally bitter.

A devoted wife and an affectionate daughter, together with many near rel­atives, are left to mourn his loss. The funeral services took place on Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the Pres­byterian church, of which he had long been a consistent member, and were conducted by the pastor, Rev. L. P. Marshall, assisted by Rev. E. S. Gar­diner, of the Baptist church. Mr. Dunlap was a member of the I. O. O. F., and they, together with additions from the Trafalgar, Whiteland, Edinburg and Greenwood lodges, took part in the services, as did also the G.A.R., of this city, of which he was a member.

The procession, which was one of the largest ever seen in this city, moved from the church at 4 o’clock to Green­lawn cemetery where the remains were consigned to their last long resting place, to await the resurrection morn, when the family circle now made desolate by the absence of the husband and father, shall be reunited, never again to be broken.

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 17, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 30, page 5 column 1

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All business houses in our city closed on Tuesday afternoon during the funeral of J. C. Dunlap.

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 24, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 31, page 6 column 1

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Mrs. Julia Dunlap has been appointed administratrix of the estate of the late J. C. Dunlap, the bond being fixed at $14,000. Upon this appointment the grocery store of Mr. Dunlap was open­ed up and the business will in the fu­ture be run by Mrs. Dunlap.

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Link to James C. Dunlap’s grave

Note: The 1870 US Federal Census, for Franklin, Johnson, Indiana records twenty-eight-year-old, Indiana-born grocer James C. Dunlap, his twenty-two-year-old, Kentucky-born wife Julia A. Dunlap, and a nineteen-year-old, Indiana-born employee Judson H. Dunlap. (Reference p. 8, family 79, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545829.)

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson