William Thomas (Tom) DUNNAGAN (DOAS)
William joined Capt. Haywood's Co. of Partisan Rangers at Woodville, Haywood County. This County became part of the 15th Tenn Cav. He was paroled at Gainesville Ala. He was only 15 when he enlisted.
The story was told to me by Bob Dunagan that William was resting on a sawdust pile,when General Forrest ordered him to do somethingjust after he got up a Yankee shell hit the pile he was lying on,blowing it apart.
William worked as a mechanic on sawmills and cotton gins around Eaton and on the Mississippi River below Dyersburg. He got sick while at Memphis and came back to Tom's place below Central where he died.
William did not have a headstone until I got one through the V.A. in 1991.The S.C.V. and 31st Tenn. Inf had a memorial service during the Dunagan family reunion.
Died a few days after childbirth.
1860 Alabama census indicates he was married to Mary (Unknown), who
was born in 1842.
There were 17 children in this family.
"...My grandfather was William Griffin. He married a Miss Drinkard and had three children, two boys and one girl. My father was the oldest and his name was Ivy Thomas Griffin. The next was a sister, who married twice. She had one child by her first marriage, who
married Door White, of Thomasville, and she had two sons by her last marriage -- J. W. Reid, of Campelle and J. T. Reid of Opine. The third child was John Griffin, who lived nearby all his life near Bashi and Choctaw Corner. He married a Miss Dunning of Dixon Mills and they had a large family."
Married twice. Had one child by first marriage. Two sons by second marriage.
Had large family.