Henry Levi DUNKS^[1]
1847 - 1914

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• Birth	21 Dec 1847	Liberty, Louisiana
  Gender	Male
  _UID	904C376A05349A418DFB2C73F167A9C47D38
  Died	29 Oct 1914	Huffman, Harris County, Texas
  Buried	31 Oct 1914	Huffman Cemetery, Huffman, Texas
  Person ID	I34	Working Emanuel Dunks
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2006

  
  

  Family	Julia Corinne GILL,   b. 20 Apr 1857, Calcasiea Parrish, Louisiana ,   d. 14 Sep 1935, Harris county, Houston, Texas (Memorial Hospital)
  Married	19 Dec 1872	New Orleans, Louisiana
  Children	1. Anna Lillian (Annie) DUNKS,   b. 12 Sep 1875, Huffman, Harris County, Texas ,   d. Dec 1969, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas   2. William Wilson DUNKS,   b. 11 Aug 1877, Houston, Harris County, Texas ,   d. 16 Dec 1957, Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas   3. Ollie DUNKS,   b. 14 Jan 1881, Huffman, Harris County, Texas ,   d. 13 Oct 1950, Houston, Harris County, Texas   4. Delia DUNKS,   b. 8 May 1883, Huffman, Harris County, Texas ,   d. 15 Jun 1960, Tenaha, Shelby County, Texas   5. EManuel M. DUNKS,   b. 15 Dec 1888, Huffman, Harris County, Texas ,   d. 19 Apr 1972, Huffman, Harris County, Texas
  Family ID	F14	Group Sheet

  
  

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• Notes

  December 18, 1935, Ella Florence Dunks Scott recalled that Henry Levi Dunks and Julia Corene Gill lived with the Emanuel Dunks' family their first year of marriage. Henry Levi Dunks and Ella's brother inherited a tract of land out of Lot 2 of the John Merry League in Harris County, Texas. They built a home presumably on the land they inherited but upon completion found that they had built their home on tract 3 of the John Merry League, Harris county, Texas, which said lot 3 was owned by W. R. Baker. This necessitated that Henry Levi Dunks purchase lot 3 from W. R. Baker, which he did. This gave him a total acreage of 678 acres of land in lots 2 & 3 of the John Merry League, Harris County, Texas. After their purchase and inheritance of these lands, they lived there peacefully, without molestation, and used and enjoyed said property as a home, for cultivation, grazing and pasture land, and used the wooded portion for the purpose of running cattle, firewood, fence posts and sold the timber off the same several times to saw mill companies. The land has been used, enjoyed, cultivated, by them for more than fifty years prior to their death, without adverse claim from any person or persons as to any part or portion or all of said land. This land has been fenced on three sides for more than fifty years. A fence ran the length of the east line of the 678 acre tract; and that it ran along the north and south lines of said 678 acre tract all the way from the east line in a westwardly direction to the woods, or timbered land, which was used as stated as run for cattle, firewood, fence posts and for selling timber off the same with a cross fence at the edge of the timber or woods. In 1895 Henry Levi Dunks built a new house on 160 acres out of lot 3 of the John Merry League, Harris County, Texas, such new house being built is the one that is now occupied by E. M. & Lyda Dunks. They lived with Granny Dunks (Julia Corene) until she died. The house is known as the Henry Levi Dunks old home place and is the place that was bequeathed to E. M. Dunks under the wills of his father Henry Levi and his mother Julia C. Dunks. The fences surrounding this land as stated above are good and substantial fences; that they wer built as such and have been kept and maintained as such. The 678 acres above named are generally considered by all who know the land to be the property of and known as "Dunks Estate". Sworn and subscribed to before a Notary Public on the 18th day of December, A.D., 1935 Henry Levi and Julia Corinne Gill met in Louisiana while Levi was helping to drive cattle and on the way they stopped off at Julia's home and spent the night and rested the cattle. He went back several times and then they married and came back by horse back. It took them three days to come back. They spent the night in Devers as it is know today. At that time Old Man Devers was alive.




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  [S1] GEDCOM file imported on 2 Nov 2003.