Michael Dunn
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My ancestor from Ireland is Michael Dunn. He was born 1 April 1833 in Kilkenny to Oryan Dunn and Coleen Mcginnes. He came to America via Canada. The story told is he came with a tinker as a child. No date, no name of who brought him, no port of arrival or where he enter the US or when. He is listed on the 1860 census in Potter county Pennsylvania living with a familyas a farm hand. He was a soldier in the Civil War and was wounded in Twennessee He lost both legs. He married in Tennessee Sarah Elizabeth Ellison. The military shiped him by train in a barrell of cotton home to Pennsyhlvania where his wife and her mother and siblings joined him. They had 2 sons and 4 daughters before his death in 1877.
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