Susan Dunn 1818-1916

DUNN, CRAWSHAW, WAKEFIELD, NICKEL

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/23/2021 at 17:43:29

29 January 1916 - The Clinton Advertiser

Mrs. Susan Dunn, an aged pioneer of Clinton County, died at the home of her son, James Dunn of Central City, Iowa, at 8:30 on the evening of January 25th. Funeral services were held at M.E. church of Camanche Friday afternoon and burial took place in Rosehill cemetery.

Susan (Crawshaw) Dunn was born June 15, 1818 in Lancashire, England. In 1831 she came to America with her parents, settling in Lockport, New York. In 1837 the family removed to Iowa, then a territory, traveling most of the way by water on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

Mrs. Dunn has often related her experiences in the new land of how her father hewed a cabin out of logs; also of the Indians, deer, wolves and other animals all of which were very numerous here. She heard the first sermon ever preached in Camanche and also became a charter member of the M.E. church.

She was also present when the first person was buried in the Camanche cemetery.

In 1843 she became united in marriage to Alexander Dunn. To this couple were born ten children, six of whom still survive, Mrs. Sarah Wakefield of Davenport, Iowa, James and John Dunn of Central City, Iowa, Alex Dunn of Stanwood, Iowa, W. J. Dunn of Camanche and Elizabeth Nickel of Los Angeles, Cal. Also twenty-three grand-children and nineteen great grand children.

For many years she has lived among her children, her husband having died twenty-four years ago.

All through her life, Mrs. Dunn had enjoyed the best of health, old age being the cause of her death.