DUNKUM.
Two brothers named Dunkum lived on the Carter's Bridge
Road south of Charlottesville, in the early part of the century,
and both were efficient and prosperous farmers. William,
who resided nearer town at the place lately occupied by Lord
Pelham-Clinton, and now by Mr. Harbottle, began his purchase
of land in 1803, and continued it until his plantation
comprised nearly a thousand acres. In 1837 he conveyed to
Lewis Teel, Robert Gentry and Jeremiah A. Goodman the
land on which stood the Piney Grove Baptist Church. He
died in 1846. His wife was Frances Gentry, and his children
were Mary Ann, the wife of Lewis Sowell, William L.,
Chesley, James T., Frances, the wife of Jesse L. Fry, Elizabeth,
the wife of Philip Edge, Martha, the wife of John H.
Barksdale, Susan, the wife of J. Ralls Abell, and Elijah, who
married Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Ficklin, and built
the large brick house on Ridge Street long occupied by the
late Dr. R. B. Dice.
John Dunkum lived about a mile south of his brother, where
he settled in 1807. His lands were in extent but little short
of those of William. He died in 1855. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Marshall Durrett, and his children were
James, Martha, the wife of William Pitts, Mary, the wife of
Chester Bullard, Elizabeth, Jane, and Sarah Ann, the first
wife of Philip Edge.
