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Anna Rebecca Dunham

Gender: Female
Parents:
Martin Dunham
Emma A. Miller
Birthdate: 13 Apr 1903
Birthplace: Georges TWP., Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Christ. Date:
Christ. Place:
Death Date: 16 Sep 1998
Death Place: Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania
Burial Date:
Burial Place: Miller Sisler Cemetary, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Artifacts:

Notes:
Research Notes -- David G Brewer (001-781-205.area1.spcsdns.net)
Information courtesy of Glenna Bishop:

Anna Rebecca Dunham (Martin) was born on 13 Apr 1903 in Georges Twp, Smithville, Lancaster, PA.  She
died on 16 Sep 1998 in South Union (Uniontown), Fayette, PA
 	Anna Rebecca (Dunham)(Quinn) Draper died at the age of 95 years of old age. She had been  living
Fayette Health Care Center in South Union (Uniontown), Pa. following a hospital stay resulting from a
broken hip. Her remains were cremated and buried in the Miller Cemetery in Smithfield, Fayette, PA.
where her parents and some of her brothers and sisters are buried. Her first husband, Guy Edward
Quinn is buried in Morgantown, W.Va. After her 1st husband died in coal mining accident in
Morgantown, Monogalia, WV, she married Harry Draper on 20 Apr 1946; her second husband, Harry Draper
is buried in Montgomery, Ala. She outlived her daughter, Mabel, a son, Francis Franklin, an infant
son, Guy Edward Quinn Jr., both of her husbands and a grandson, Francis Franklin Jr. At the time of
her death only two sisters, Edith (Dunham) Ball and Pearl (Dunham) McLaughlin and one brother Frank
V. "Dick" Dunham remain of her parents' thirteen children. Her death certificate states that she died
of Coronary Artery Disease and that additional illnesess at the time of death were: Dementia Anxiety
Neurosis, Diabetes Mellitus, and Degenerative Arthritus. Although the death certificate indicates
"dementia", she remained very alert and fully cognitive up until after breaking her hip. She had
lived with her sister, Pearl until this time. Pearl was not able to care for her after the accident
and found it necessary to place her in the nursing home where she resided at the time of her death. 
      		SS# 424-25-7544  (Last residence listed as Chesapeake City, Chesapeake, VA)
	Sources:  Anna Rebecca Dunham Quinn
			SS Death index
			Dick Dotson

Anna married Guy Edward Quinn, son of Edward C. Quinn and Florence Francis Hardin on 20 Dec 1922 in
Clarksburg, Harrison, WV.  Guy was born on 29 Jun 1901 in Brownsville, PA.  He died on 8 Jan 1943 in
Morgantown, Monogalia, WV.  He was buried on 11 Jan 1943 in Morgantown, Monogalia, WV.
Family records indicate Guy was born in Brownsville, Union, PA, as were his brothers; however,
according to John V. Schroyer of the Registrar of Wills office in Uniontown, PA birth records for Guy
have not been located (dated 1974).  Guy Edward Quinn was a coal mining foreman for the Pursglove
Coal Mining company in Pursglove, Monoghalia, WV.  He died as a result of a mine fire in the
Pursglove mine fire of January 8, 1943 as he attempted to save the lives of several of his
crew-members. He is buried in the Lawnwood Cemetery of Morgantown, Monogalia, WV.  His wife Anna
Rebecca Dunham Quinn was presented the Carnage Medal for his heroism by Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife
of then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  The medal and newspaper clippings are in the possession
of Richard L. Dotson, Sr, (grandson). Guy Edward Quinn was the twin to Roy Quinn who died as an
infant in PA.  
		Sources:  Anna Rebecca Dunham Quinn
			Copies of original birth, death, & marriage certificates

Guy and Anna had the following children:  
F	i.   Mabel Kathleen Quinn was born on 7 Jan 1924 in Cheathaven, Fayette, PA.  She died on 16 Apr
1991 in San Antonio, TX.  She was buried in Ft. Sam Houston Military Cemetery, San Antonio, TX.
1st marriage to Everett L. Dotson on 20 Dec 1940 in Morgantown, Monoghalia, WV.; 2nd marriage to Ben
Youngman on 15 Jul 1966.  Mabel Kathleen (Quinn)(Dotson) Youngman is the name on all documents,
including all official records as she signed it and her death certificate.  However her birth
certificate has her name as Mabel Catheleen Quinn, pronounced by her mother Anna Rebecca Dunham Quinn
as Cath-e-leen.  
			Sources:  Anna Rebecca Dunham Quinn
				SS Death index
				Dick Dotson (son) 
M	ii.  Guy Edward Quinn (II) was born on 20 Mar 1927 in Whitehorse, Chester, PA.  He died on 27 Apr
1927 in Whitehorse, Chester, PA of crib death.
			Sources:  Anna Rebecca Dunham Quinn

M	iii  Francis Franklin Quinn (Sr.) was born on 6 May 1931 in  Maidsville, Monogalia, WV.   He died
on 3 Apr 1973 in Perry, Houston, GA. 
		*see 3rd generation
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