Eliza Green Dunavan

GRANDMA DUNAVAN’S DEATH
She Had Resided at Denton, Texas, for Sixteen Years

Mrs. Eliza G. Dunavan died last Wednesday night at the residence of her son, N. H. Dunavan, on West Oak street. Funeral services were held at the family residence yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock. The interment was at the Odd Fellows cemetery. Mrs. Dunavan was eighty-two years of age.

“Grandma Dunavan had lived here sixteen years and was well known and universally loved.

“You could not say too much of her sweet disposition and kindly nature,” said a friend to us, “She was one of the sunshiniest and most lovable of women I ever knew.” Elder J. B. Cole conducted the funeral services.¹

Eliza Green Dunavan was born in Licking county, Ohio, September 26, 1814, the oldest child of John and Barbara (Grove) Green. She married William Lair Dunavan November 6, 1831, in Rutland township, La Salle county. He was born November 9, 1808, in Licking county. They farmed in Rutland for many years, but in 1880 they moved to Denton, Texas, where William died May 3, 1889. Eliza died October 28, 1896.

They had nine children:
Albert F. (1832-1913
Emma L. (1834-1905) married Benjamin Hite
John (1836-    )
Elizabeth (1838-1916) married Cyrus Debolt
James William (1840-1906)
Rachel (1845-1856)
Celestia (1847-1847)
Jesse C. (1854-1880)
Noah H. (1856-1922)

1. Denton (Tex.) Chronicle, November 6, 1896, p. 2, col. 6