John Ander Dunn, Sr.
John Ander Dunn, Sr., was born, June 22, 1840, in Ireland. He worked his way on a boat that brought him to New York, N. Y. He then travelled Southward across America working on the railroad to New Orleans. In New Orleans he worked for a Funeral Home for about two years. He then came Eastward to Mobile, Alabama. He arrived in the Mobile area about 1870. Harriet Douglas and menbers of her family drove turkeys to Mobile to sell. There she met John A. Dunn. He came back to Wayne County and later they were married. Harriett Douglas was the daughter of Drewery Douglas, a Methodist Protestant Lay-Preacher, and Elizabeth Walley, his wife. John Ander Dunn was a Roman Catholic who converted to the Methodist Protestant Church in Wayne County. My grandmother, Mary Elizabeth "Molly" Dunn, who married James Nathaniel Dunnam, told my family of saving news papers, and magazines for him to read. He was described as an avid reader, and well read. In later years he taught the Men's Bible Class in the Providence Methodist Church in Wayne County. It is said, by members of the family, that he spoke of having worked in a hospital in Dublin before he left for America. He was naturalized as a American Citizen, which was signed on March 12, 1898 in Wayne County, Mississippi. He died December 7, 1919 and was buried in Dunn Family Cemetery, Wayne County, Mississippi.
The Children of John Ander Dunn, Sr. and Harriett Douglas are: