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Rev. I. N. Dunnahoo, farmer and stock grower of Kentucky Township, Saline County, came upon the stage of action in the State of Georgia in the year 1830, and is the son of John W. and Susan B. (Patman) Dunnahoo, natives of Georgia, of Irish parentage. The father was the son of James Dunnahoo, who was reared in Virginia, removing to Georgia at a very early day. John W. was reared and educated in that State, receiving a good common school education. He was married in 1820, and soon after commenced farming on his own land, being a man of considerable property, and owning before the war a large tract of land and some twenty-five or thirty slaves. He has a family of twelve children, three of whom survive: John B. (resides in Georgia), Elizabeth (wife of H. Bradshaw, living in Georgia), and I. N. (who forms the subject of this sketch). John W. Dunnahoo, at the age of eighty-eight, and his wife at the age of eighty-nine years, are still living at the old home near Rome, Ga. During the war he lived at Jackson, Ga., losing much property also near Rome. He is a Democrat, and with his wife is a member of the Primitive Baptist Church. I. N. Dunnahoo was reared as a farmer’s lad on the farm of his father in Georgia, receiving his education in the schools of his native county. At the age of seventeen years he began as overseer on his father’s plantation, continuing this until his twenty-fifth year. Then coming to this State he bought the land on which he now resides, consisting of 400 acres, with twenty-five cleared. He owns some 900 acres in this place, with 250 under cultivation, besides which he formerly owned a tract of ninety acres, forty under cultivation, near Benton, which he has given to his children. In 1863 Mr. Dunnahoo joined the Confederate army, enlisting in Miller’s cavalry, Gen. Fagan’s escort cover. He was taken prisoner at Longview, Ark., and taken to Rock Island, Ill., where he was confined one year less three days. Being exchanged just before the close of the war, he was placed in the infantry at Shreveport, La. Here he was furloughed, going home and not returning. He was paroled May 12 with his old company at Little Rock. After the war he returned home finding his family in a destitute condition. He was completely broken up, owning nothing but his farm of 400 acres and a couple of horses. All above that he has made since the war. By hard work he has paid an obligation of $2,000, and today is no man’s debtor. He has been twice married, his first wife being Laura J. Medlock, whom he married in 1868. [See sketch of Dr. Medlock.] By this marriage he became the father of eight children, six of whom are now living (two dying when young): Mary (wife of Dock F. Dobbins), Elizabeth, Paralee (with Mrs. Dobbins), Benjamin (practicing medicine at Alexandria, Pulaski County), John (at home), and Martha W. (at Hot Springs with her aunt, Mrs. O’Briant), Etta (at home). Mrs. Dunnahoo was a member of the Baptist Church, and died December 27, 1879. In 1881 Mr. Dunnahoo was married to Jennie F. Thresher, daughter of Robert Thresher, a native of Tennessee. Mr. Dunnahoo has been a minister of the Baptist Church for seventeen years, and has baptized and married a goodly number. In politics he is a Democrat. He is one of the liberal contributors of the county to churches, schools and public enterprises. Mrs. Dunnahoo is a sister of Robert Thresher, one of the leading lights in the Baptist Church, who has been in the ministry for thirty years. He is also one of the teachers of the Malvern graded schools.