A GENEALOGICAL MISCELLANY, MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE
By Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1996CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTE
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One of the "human" reasons that the Cumberland Presbyterian Church seemed to flourish in the Medon area in the antebellum period and afterwards was the presence of one of the church's most popular and persuasive ministers in West Tennessee, the Reverend William Munroe Dunaway (1811-1872), a native of Lancaster County, Virginia who migrated to Middle Tennessee and from there, in 1835, to western Tennessee. He owned a large farm off the Jackson-Bolivar Road (Riverside Drive Extended) for years. He resided in Jackson towards the close of his life and died soon after being elected mayor of this growing city. (THE MASONIC JEWEL, Memphis, Tenn., volume 2, #10, October 15, 1872, pages 158-159. Encomium for Dunaway)
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