This Page is About the Christian Faith of the Dunnams

    It appears the Dunnams, for the most part, have been Baptist or Methodist.  Although there have been some who have expressed their religious faith  in other ways, John and Hannah Dunnam, and children, are listed in the Parish Register of the St. Thomas St. Denis Parish of South Carolina. There was a large French Huguenot Settlement there called the Orange Quarter.  John Dunnam, son of John and Hannah, married Elizabeth Cuttino, from a Huguenot family.

    Their being listed in the Parish Register does not necessarily mean they were members of that faith. The Parish Register usually listed all those who were born there, or married or died within the Parish.

    John Peter Dunnam is listed as one of the citizens of Georgetown, S. C., who sign the Articles Incorporation of the Baptist Church in Georgetown, December 19, 1801.  The Cuttinos were strong leaders in the Georgetown Baptist Church. 

    At some point, the early Dunnams became Methodists.  It may have been through the influence of Rev. Collins Woodberry, whose mother was Elizabeth  Dunnam, a sister of Robert Commander Dunnam, Sr.

    Collins Woodberry Dunnam came to Gadsden County, Florida under the  direction of the Methodist Episcopal Church of South Carolina.  He established the first Methodist work there and built the first building of the First Methodist Church of Tallahassee.

    The children of the John Peter Dunnam line, the Robert Commander Dunnam, Sr, line, and the Jacob Dunnam line, were all Methodist Episcopal at first. 

    About 1825, there developed a disagreement about the position of the clergy in the Alabama and Mississippi Conference.  This  belief is described as "Mutual Rights", and gave equal power to both laity and clergy. At that point, the descendants of Robert Commander Dunnam, Sr., and John Peter Dunnam, became members and leaders of  this group known as METHODIST PROTESTANTS.

    The Jacob Dunnam line remained in the Methodist Episcopal Church. This line moved on to Louisiana and Texas and were largely separated from the two other lines.

MINISTERS

The John Peter Dunnam Line

• Ebenezer McCants Dunnam, Jr.        Methodist Protestant

• Robert Charlie Dunnam                    Methodist Protestant

• Collin Woodberry Dunnam               Methodist Protestant

• William Lorinzo Dunnam                   Methodist Protestant

• William Lewis Dunnam                     Freewill Baptist Church

• James Terrell Dunnam                      Southern Baptist Convention

• Maxie D. Dunnam                            United Methodist Church

• Wyatt Knoxie Dunnam                     Southern Baptist Convention

• Bilbo Dunnam                                  Baptist

• Robert Earl Dunnam                        Baptist

The Robert Commander Dunnam Line

• Robert Commander Dunnam, Jr.      Methodist Protestant

• Charles V. Dunnam                          United Methodist Church

• James Jenkins *                                Methodist Protestant

• John Jenkins *                                  Methodist Protestant

• Collins Woodberry **                      Methodist Episcopal                      

The Jacob Dunnam Line

• Thomas Blackwell Dunnam               Methodist Episcopal

• Samuel Blackwell Bell Dunnam         Methodist Episcopal South

• Charles Fletcher Dunnam                  Methodist Episcopal South

• Spurgeon M. Dunnam, Sr.                Methodist Episcopal South

• Spurgeon M. Dunnam, Jr.                 United Methodist Church

• Spurgeon M. Dunnam, III                 United Methodist Church

• Dwight Harral Dunnam                      United Methodist

• Hanover Dunnam                              Methodist Episcopal 

* Married a Dunnam

** His Mother was a Dunnam

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