Mintier Lines - S08 - Dunlap ========== DUNLAP Name - The Scottish family name, Dunlap or Dunlop, provides valuable evidence of the early history and origin of the Parish of Dunlop in Scotland. The name is derived from two Gaelic words: "dun" which means a "Hill fort" or "Strong place," and "luib" which denotes a "bend". The chieftains of this ancient race built their home on hills, which provided a natural means of defense. Near the Church of Dunlop there is such a hill. It stands at the confluence of three small streams, the Templehouse Burn, the Black Burn, and the Glazert Water. Near the point of junction the Glazert sweeps around the bill in a picturesque bend. Hence the name: the fortified hill (Dun) byu the bend of the stream (Luib) - Dunlop. Arms: Azure; an eagle displayed with two heads argent, holding in the dexter paw a sceptre and in the sinister paw a rose proper with a bordure of the second, charged with cinquefoils and mullets alternately of the field. (Quoted from material in files of Chalmers McConahey) Samuel Dunlap, my great-great-great-great grandfather, was born, as nearly as is known, sometime between 1700 and 1718 in the province of Ulster, Ireland. His branch of the Dunlap family was earlier from Ayrshire, Scotland. After the religious wars of King James II his family left Scotland and settled in Ireland. He, his wife Sarah and a family of young children came to America. They settled in Bart Twp., Lancaster County, Penna. in 1751. He took out a land grant there Feb. 3, 1753 and the deed to the land was granted Feb. 3, 1755. (This is the location of Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church (1727) and Octorara Associate Presbyterian Church (1754). Samuel Dunlap died in Bart Twp. in 1776, according to his will which was probated June 11, 1776. The Will of Samuel Dunlap I, Samuel Dunlap, of Bart Township, Lancaster County and the Province of Pennsylvania, being sick and weak of body, but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for all his mercies, and calling to mind the mortality of the body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make, constitute, and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all -- I recommend my soul unto the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in decent Christian (sic) Burial (sic) at the discretion of my Executors, and as touching such worldly estate as it has pleased God to vest me with in this life, I give, devise, and dispose of the same in the following manner and form: First, I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife, Sarah Dunlap, and to my son, Samuel Dunlap, and to my son, John Dunlap, the plantation whereon I now live with all my household furniture, implements, husbandry (sic) together with by whole stock of cattle to them and to their heirs and assigns, to hold, occupy, and enjoy forever. Item. I give and bequeath to my son William Dunlap, the sum of ten pounds to be paid out of my estate two years after my decease. Item. I give and bequeath to my son-in-law, Samuel McDowell, the sum of eight pounds to be paid out of my estate three years after my decease. Item. I give and bequeath to my son-in-law, Samuel Work, the sum of seven pounds to be paid out of my estate four years after my decease. Item. I give and bequeath to my son-in-law, Eleazor Jenkins, the sum of seven pounds to be paid out of my estate four years after my decease. 2. Item. I give and bequeath to my son, Adam Dunlap, the sum of one hundred pounds to be paid out of my estate one year after my decease. I do constitute, make and ordain my well beloved wife, Sarah Dunlap, and son, Samuel Dunlap, the sole executors of this my last Will and Testament; and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke, and disannul all and every other former testaments, wills, legacies, bequests, ratifying and conforming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-fifth day of May in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Six. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Samuel Dunlap as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our name. John Paxton John Leckey (Signed) Samuel Dunlap) Robert Roulston Will probated and letters granted testamentary June 11, 1776. Samuel Dunlap's third child was William Dunlap, my great-great-great grandfather, who was born in 1747 in Ireland and came to America with his parents when he was four years old. He owned land in Bart Twp., Lancaster County, Penna. in 1771. He came West to Ohio County near West Liberty, W. Va. (Virginia, at that time) in 1775. He obtained land there with the deed dated Dec. 1, 1779. This deed is recorded at Wheeling, W. Va. (When Brooke County was set off from Ohio County, the land bought lay in Brooke County so the deed is also recorded at Wellsburg, W. Va.) The land was on Short Creek close to where it flows into the Ohio River. The country to which William Dunlap moved his family in 1779 was a remote frontier and but sparsely settled. They traveled the path called Braddock's Trail by pack houses both for themselves and their furniture. The first Court in the locality was held at the town now known as West Liberty, W. Va. on Nov. 2, 1778 and the number of tithables was returned as 325. That, it is believed, was the entire number of persons in Ohio County over ten years of age. William had taken up his land on Short Creek seven years before West Liberty was incorporated as a town on Nov. 29, 1786. There is a story in the Sherrard Family History about how the oldest son, William Sherrard, was sent to hunt for some flax seed since no flax seed was to be found on the Ohio side of the river. At length he got three pecks of seed from William Dunlap in Ohio County. This happened about 1805. We know that the family attended the Presbyterian Church at West Liberty but the records of that church have been lost. William Dunlap's first wife, whose name we do not know, died soon after the birth of his first child, Samuel. On Oct. 8, 1771 he married Martha Gamble (1754-1811). They had eleven children: Adam, William, Josiah, Sarah, Alexander, Rebecca, Prudence, John, James, Jane and Rachel. William Dunlap died on his farm near West Liberty (now W. Va.) on July 17, 1819. In William Dunlap's will he mentions a third wife, Mary. 3. Adam, the first child of William Dunlap by his wife, Martha Gamble, was my great-great grandfather. Adam was born in 1772, probably in Bart Twp., Lancaster County, Penna. and died in 1840 at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. Adam Dunlap came to Ohio in 1796 and settled on land east of Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson County. This land was across the Ohio River and only a few miles inland from where his parents lived in Virginia (now West Virginia). On this farm the brick house that he built was still standing in 1969. (The farm later became the Sarah E. Jenkins' farm). It is a two-story brick house with a stone foundation and is said to have been built about the first of the 19th century. The house is built on a hillside and the basement has full-length windows on one side. This room was the kitchen where the family did their cooking on a huge fireplace. The house overlooks a valley with wooded hillsides. Other buildings are on another hill and the springhouse is down the hill in front, built of the same material as the house and still in use. (1969) On April 23, 1799 Adam Dunlap was married to Sarah Kirk by Rev. James Hughes who was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at West Liberty, Ohio Co., Va. Sarah Kirk was born Jan. 1, 1777. She died Sept. 29, 1822. She is buried in an abandoned cemetery (Oak Grove) about one and one-half miles east of Mt. Pleasant, not far from the Adam Dunlap farm. The inscription on Sarah Dunlap's tombstone reads: In memory of Sarah, consort of Adam Dunlap, who departed this life September 22, 1822, aged 44 years . "At length the span of life is o'er She's gone and will return no more Relentless death has (closed) the scene She's gone, why should we mourn Or wish that she could still return. Has not King Jesus called her home There to enjoy the fruits of faith And triumph in her Savior's death To endless ages yet to come." The Short Creek Presbyterian Church which was organized in 1798 stood nearby this cemetery. The first services were held under a tree. Later services were held for twenty years in a log house four miles east of Mt. Pleasant. The next eleven years the church occupied a building at the Oak Grove cemetery. In 1829 the church building in Mt. Pleasant was started and Adam Dunlap was on the building committee. By this time he had moved to Mt. Pleasant and built a brick house which is still standing on the main street (Union Street), presently (1970) across the street from the Mt. Pleasant Church parsonage. It is a two-storied house with an ell in which a school was held. Beside the grave of Sarah Dunlap is that of Martha Parker, my great-great-great grandmother, whose gravestone reads, "In memory of Martha Parker, consort of James Parker and mother of Sara Dunlap, who died July 29, 1823 in her 82nd year." she was evidently born in 1741. Her second husband must have been James Parker, since Sarah's maiden name was Kirk. Note that Sarah died on year before her mother. In the census of 1820 a woman of the age of Martha Parker was living at the home of Adam Dunlap. 4. Adam Dunlap married a second time Catherine Jones who was a widow and whose maiden name was Catherine Zoll. She is buried in the Seceder Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant. Adam Dunlap who died in 1840 was buried beside Sarah Kirk Dunlap at Oak Grove Cemetery. Martha Dunlap, my great grandmother, daughter of Adam and Sarah Dunlap, was born near Mt. Pleasant, Ohio July 7, 1804. She was married to Thomas McCune April 21, 1825. Thomas McCune was the sone of Joseph and Mary Shannon McCune and was born May 30, 1799. These great grandparents are buried in the Seceder Cemetery at Mt. Pleasant. Eight children were born to them. The fourth child of Martha and Thomas McCune was William (1836-1913), my grandfather. (See McCune and Alexander lines for further history.) (This letter by Ruth Pemberton Dunlap whose father was a brother of Adam Dunlap, and therefore my great-great-great uncle, is included because it gives a picture of the times.) Postmarked Wheeling, W. Va. Dear Cousin Minnie: November 30th, 1882 I thought I would drop you a few lines this cold morning to let you know I had not forgotten you and to say how sorry I was that I was not at home when your Father and Will were here. How gladly would I have entertained them for former kindness. Believe me it is not forgotten. He also asked me for my sketch of the past. Would have sent it ere this but expected to have been with you this winter. Am disappointed in doing so as my Grandson Charlie Rice is with me going to school and I could not leave him. I now send you my sketch. Please look over imperfections. I am growing old. A Reminiscence of the Past; Having lately returned from a visit to my sister, Mrs. G. R. Botsford of Wheeling, and while going round viewing the great improvements that have been made since I first visited them some fifty years ago, I was led to look back to the still greater changes that had been made since our Forefathers first emigrated to this country, among whom was my Father William Dunlap who came here from near Lancaster, Penna. in 1775. Any any person acquainted with the History of our country at that time will know something of the hardships they had to endure. Where that proud and flourishing city (Wheeling) now stands the Red man roamed at large. It was one vast wilderness with scarce a bridle path through the country and here and there a block house for the white man to flee to in time of danger. Even yet the stranger will pause and look with awe when pointed out to him the Precipice where the daring McCullough made his fearful leap on horseback when pursued by the Indians; he knew it was the only chance for life and he escaped without being hurt. When the Indians came to the top and looked over they would not follow. In 1799 my Father married a Lady named Ruth Murray of the Royal Murrays of Scotland with who he lived happily for 55 years. Their ages untied were 160 years at the time of their deaths. The house is till standing at the foot of the hill about one-half mile from West Liberty where they were married. I have often heard Mother tell (that) when bedtime came they went up a ladder on the outside and through a window to bed. What would the girls of the present day think of that now? They had ten children, seven of whom are living-four Brothers and 3 Sisters whose ages aggregate 492 years. The oldest is 80 and the youngest 62. There was not a death among Brothers and Sisters for 57 years and with the exception of the oldest Brother who married in 1825 and moved to Ohio we have all married and lived in Ohio County where we were born. None of use more than 12 miles from Wheeling. 5. I think some of you might come to see me. I do not live grand but my heart is as big as if I lived in a palace but goodby for the present. Your affectionate Aunt Pemberton (Ruth Dunlap) (Ruth Dunlap Pemberton had one sone in gray and one son in blue during the Civil War. Although in rather modest circumstances she had attended more than one Inaugural Ball in Washington.) DUNLAP [Genealogy was slightly reformatted to ease reading] I. Samuel Dunlap 1700/1718-1775 m. Sarah ________________ Came to America 1751 May be buried at Middle Octorara Presbyterian Cemetery, Lancaster Co., Pa. 1. Samuel 174 2. John 174-1798 m. Rachel _______________ 3. William 1747-1819 m. 1. ___________________ 2. Martha Gamble 1754-1811 3. Mary ______________ 4. Agnes m. Samuel McDowell 5. Mary m. Samuel Work 6. Ruth m. Eleazor Jenkins 7. Adam II. William Dunlap 1747-1819 m. 1. ___________________ Came to America in 1751 2. Martha Gamble 1754-1811 Lived in Bart Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa. 3. Mary ______________ until 1775. Then to farm near West Liberty, West Virginia. 1. Samuel (only child of first wife) m. Jane Kirk 2. Adam 1772-1840 m. 1. Sarah Kirk 1781-1855 Buried at Oak Grove Cem. Mt. Pleasant, Ohio 2. Catherine Zoll Jones 1781-1858 3. William 1774- m. Ruth Murray 4. Josiah 1776 5. Sarah 1778- m. _______________ Hedges (Higges) 6. Alexander 1780- m. Ann Curtis 1805 7. Rebecca 1782- 8. Prudence m. _______________ Hedges (Higges) 9. John m. Rachel Curtis 1811- 10. James 11. Jane m. _______________ McFadden 12. Rachel m. _______________ Bounds III. Adam Dunlap 1772-1840 m. Sarah Kirk 1777-1822 Buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Ohio 1. William 1800-1872 m. Eliza Axtell (East) 2. James C. 1802-1842 m. Ann McCormack 3. Martha 1804-1841 m. Thomas McCune 1799-1847 4. Jane 1807-1875 m. Cunningham Kithcart 5. Sarah Hedges 1809-1875 m. William Bigger IV. Martha Dunlap 1804-1841 m. Thomas McCune 1799-1847 Buried in Old Seceder Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Ohio 1. Joseph 1826-1877 m. Mary Jane Medill 2. Adam 1827-1866 m. Margart A. Medill 3. Sarah Jane 1829-1902 m. Robert DeLafayette West 4. Samuel 1831-1863 Single 5. James 1833-1868 m. Mary J. Keller 6. William 1836-1913 m. Elvira Alexander 7. Thomas died in childhood 8. Martha Ann died in childhood V. William McCune 1836-1913 m. Elvira Alexander 1839-1920 1. Mary Kate *1859-1885 m. Alexander McMannis 2. Elwood Clyde 1862-1885 Single 3. Pearl Amsden 1870-1960 m. William A. Mintier VI. Pearl Amsden McCune 1870-1960 m. William A. Mintier 1869-1936 1. Wilma McCune 1898-[1983] Single 2. Wendell Reid 1900-[1985] m. Sara Byrnes [1902-1994] 3. Harold Nichol 1905-[1986] m. Virginia Esterquest [1909-2000] VII. Wilma McCune Mintier 1898-[1983] Single VII. Wendell Reid Mintier 1900-[1985] m. Sara Byrnes [1902-1994] 1. Donna Jean [xxxx]- m. David McKay [xxxx]- VIII. Donna Jean Mintier [xxxx]- m. David McKay [xxxx]- 1. Barry Reid [xxxx]- 2. Steven Alan [xxxx]- VII. Harold Nichol Mintier 1905-[1986] m. Virginia Esterquest [1909-2000] 1. Martha Jane [xxxx]- m. Wiley Sanders 2. Patricia Ann 1935-1948 Buried in New Concord, Ohio 3. Robert Nichol 1940-[2002] m. Eve Shawn [(div)] 4. Barbara Elaine [xxxx]- VIII. Martha Jane Mintier [xxxx]- m. Wiley Sanders 1. William Daryl [xxxx]- 2. Mark Earl [xxxx]- 3. Wilene Carol [xxxx]- VIII. Robert Nichol Mintier 1940-[2002] m. Eve Shawn [(div)] 1. Charles Willard Ivan [xxxx]- 2. Patricia Ann [xxxx]- 3. Nicholas Shawn [xxxx]- VIII. Barbara Elaine Mintier [xxxx]- ========== Source: 1970, "A Brief History of Some of the Family Lines of Wilma McCune Mintier", written and self-published for family members by Wilma McCune Mintier, 1970; Full typewritten, copied text in possession of William Daryl Sanders, Wilma's GrandNephew. Transcribed by William Daryl Sanders in Sections, predominantly separated by main family group. ---------- Mintier Lines - Sections S01 - Intro - Thank you and poem S02 - Mintier S03 - Hammond S04 - Henderson S05 - Nichol S06 - McCune S07 - Rotheram S08 - Dunlap S09 - Alexander S10 - Mitchell S11 - Appendix - Poem and several photocopies of family pictures [HTML, Text and PDF versions online Copyright 2007 by William Daryl "Bill" Sanders. Any reproduction, printing, or selling of this content is prohibited without express written consent from William D. Sanders. More can be found at http://www.orangefrogproductions.com/ofp2o_family_999_wmm_s00.shtml.] ==========