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L. S. DUNNING was born on the Muddy Fork of Little River, Trigg County, Ky., December 25, 1889, and is the ninth child of a family of thirteen born to Levi and Jeanette M. (Carney) Dunning. This family are of English origin; they immigrated to North Carolina at an early day. Shadrach Dunning, the great-grandfather of our subject came to Kentucky. He settled in what is now Trigg County, as early as 1803, and selected for his home a tract of land lying on the Muddy Fork of Little River, where he followed the vocation of a farmer until the time of his death. After coming to this county his descendants became scattered, part of them going to Missouri and part to Texas. The father of subject was born in Bertie County, N. C., October 8, 1797, and died in Trigg County, April 16, 1853. The mother was born in the same county and State, on the 24th of November, 1803, and died in Trigg County on her farm April 3, 1877. In many respects Mrs. Dunning was a very remarkable woman. Left in moderate circumstances at the death of her husband, she, by close application to business, succeeded in a few years in acquiring a competency; confining her attention to agricultural pursuits, she increased the original homestead from about 600 or 800 acres to over 1,500 acres, and was considered the most successful woman in the county. Mr. L. S. Dunning enlisted in 1862, in Company B, Eighth Kentucky Regiment, Confederate Army, and served till May, 1865; he participated in the siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Guntown and in the charge on Paducah, where Col. Thompson lost his life, and served in other engagements. At the close of the war he returned to his mother’s farm, where he remained several years. In 1871 he removed to his present farm, which at that time contained 120 acres; this he has increased to over 600 acres and is one of the best improved farms in the neighborhood, and speaks well for his success as an agriculturist. Mr. Dunning was married in 1871 to Miss Henrie, daughter of the late Dr. L. D. Shelton, of Christian County. They have a family of four children—three sons and one daughter.