Daughter of Catherine and Henry BLUEROCK. She may not be the mother of all of his children.
Benjamin Black DUNNAGAN (DOAS)
CONFLICT: 1850 census, TN would indicate that Benjamin DUNAGAN may
have died prior to 1850.
Twin to Marge A.
Twin to Sarah
Benjamin Black DUNNAGAN (DOAS)
CONFLICT: 1850 census, TN would indicate that Benjamin DUNAGAN may
have died prior to 1850.
Elizabeth was Mrs. Elizabeth Petty Adcock
Both parents born in North Carolina.
During the 1850 census Conder is at home with his parents in Bates Co., MO. (p 233). He is reported to have served in the C.S.A during the Civil War with Col. Sidney D. JACKSON, MO. Cav. Conda may have joined the Union Army during the Civil War.
Conder and family are residents of Vernon Co., MO. (p 585) during the 1870 census, then soon after 1876 the family removed from Vernon Co., MO. on to Tarrant Co., TX. and later on to Denton Co., TX. by 1880, later removing to OK., he settled the family near Ada, OK. at the Center community. Conder and family were not located in the 1880 TX. census nor the 1900 or 1910 OK. census.
MY ANCESTOR, CONDY DUNAGAN
By Martha G. GujdaEighteen Sixty-one was the year the Civil War began and Military forces were everywhere in Montevallo Township, Missouri. The State of Missouri was very divided in its loyalties. Many people who settled there came from northern states and sided with the Union. However, both Condy and his wife Margaret's families had come from Southern States and their sympathy was with the confederacy. Condy made his decision to join the Confederate Army. Both Condy and Jesse N. Bellew, Margaret's brother, enlisted in Col. Sidney D. Jackman's Missouri Cavalry, and they were assigned to Company A.
Condy did not want to leave his wife and child in Missouri, as it was a very dangerous place to be. And so, before reporting to the company to which he was assigned, Condy took Margaret and his young son, James Thomas south to Independence County, Arkansas to live with his Aunt Susan, who had married Col. Morgan Magness. Aunt Susan Dunnigan was the sister of Matilda, Condy's mother. The Magness family lived on a large plantation on the White River near Magness Arkansas. When Condy was sure of the safety of Margaret and James Thomas, he returned to Missouri and joined Col Jackman and Company A.
During the Civil War, "every acre of ground in Montevallo Township was the scene of some incident worthy of record. Every crossroad was the locality of a skirmish; every schoolhouse and prairie field was the mustering place or a drill ground. Someone kept count and at the close of the war it was reported that no fewer than 36 men had been killed in the vicinity of old Montevallo" (The History of Vernon Co. MO)
Wile Margaret was living with Condy's Aunt Susan in Arkansas; she would meet Condy from time to time. They had a meeting place beside the White River, and when it was safe they would rendezvous. On one of these occasions, Margaret conceived her third daughter, who was born on the 3rd of Dec. 1864 and was named Missouri Cassandra Magness Dunagan. Missouri was named for the entire occasion. However, she was called Zuda. How she got this nickname remains a mystery.
Condy served as a private under Col. Jackman. His military service record did not list the battles he was in. We do know however, that near the end of the war on the 1st day of May, 1865, Condy was captured, as was Jesse N. Bellew, his brother-in-law. They were sent to a prison camp in Arkansas together with the Confederate Army of Brigadier Gen. M. Jeff. Thompson CSA. General Thompson surrendered to Major Gen. G. M. Dodge, USA. Condy was released from Jacksonport, Arkansas on the 5th of June 1865 so he was only a prisoner for about one month. On Condy's "muster and descriptive roll" he is described as: Age 37 yrs. Eyes-blue, Hair-black, Complexion-fair, Height 6 feet 0 inches. Where born-Tennessee, Remarks-none."
At the end of the Civil War, Condy went to the Magness Plantation in Independence County, Arkansas and got his wife, son, and newborn daughter and returned to Vernon Co. Missouri. There was still much division among the people about the Civil War. Any confederate sympathizer or person who had served with the Confederacy was disenfranchised and generally discriminated against. In fact, it was not until the 1872 general election that anyone who had been in the Confederate Army could vote without taking a test of oath or a proof of loyalty to the Union. In the general election of 1870, B. Gratz Brown, a liberal Republican was elected Governor of Missouri. Ex-confederates were not allowed to vote in this election. In the year 1872 Condy S. Dunnagan filed to run for the office of the House of Representatives of the State Government. "The principal ground on which he based his appeal for votes was on the promise that if elected he would go to Jefferson City with a wagon and ox team, take his provisions and bring back his salary and spend it at home." (History of Vernon Co. MO. P. 627) Condy was an honest, no nonsense man. The area was going through a post war recession and Condy wanted to "prop-up" the economy. He lost the election to H.P. Gray, The Democratic front-runner.
Later that same year, Condy sold his land in Vernon Co. MO and moved his family to Tarrant Co. Texas, where he stayed and became a Teamster. He hauled supplies into Indian Territory. While there he sighted his land where he eventually would live. When the "Run" of 1889 was allowed by the United States Government, Condy made the run and obtained his land in Pontitoc County Indian Territory, which became Oklahoma. Condy began to farm the land he obtained in the "Run of 1889", but he had great difficulty with it. You see, this black stuff kept coming up out of the ground and it was next to impossible to raise a good crop there. He traded the land for another more fertile 160 acres and raised cattle, and corn. Today there are oil wells on the land that Condy traded away. He lived there in Oklahoma the rest of his life and in 1913 died at the age of 85 years.
Both parents born in North Carolina