Dunn Siblings

Left to right: Frances, John, Katherine in August 1938

After identifying my great great grandmother, Katherine Butterfoss Dunn (1865-1944) in several family photographs, I noticed a few of her later in life posing with an older man and woman. On the back of the photo is handwritten "August 1938." I think they were her siblings, Frances Dunn (1858-1944) and John Dunlop Dunn (1870-1939).

Their parents were Ezra Dunn (1821-1898) and Hermione Dunlop (1827-1900). As of August of 1938, these were the three remaining living siblings, having outlived the other five. The children were born in the 1850s, 60s, and 70s in what was then called Raritan Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Although they lived and died outside of Monmouth County, they returned home for their final resting places.

I found no marriage record for John. He was buried with his parents at Rose Hill Cemetery in Matawan.

Katherine was buried with her husband, William Walling Winterton, in Green Grove Cemetery in Keyport.

Frances was buried at Fairview Cemetery in Middletown.

John and Frances appear in other group photos and separately.

This wedding picture helped me decide that this elderly woman is Frances Dunn, a sister of Katherine and John.

The back of the photo is labeled, but not with complete names:

Frances Mae

Grandma

Ruth Bridesmaid

June 15, 1940

In 1884, Frances Dunn married George Smith in Brooklyn, New York. George died at the Trenton Insane Hospital in Ewing, Mercer County, New Jersey in 1896. This institution is now called Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. (I will copy his death certificate on my next trip to the Archives to find his burial place.)

George Smith
died at the Trenton Insane Hospital on
Tuesday of last week and his body was
taken to his father's house in Middletown
Township the next day, where the
funeral was held on the following Friday.
Mr Smith leaves a wife, who
is a daughter of Ezra Dunn of this place,
and two children. Mrs Smith has
been making her home with her father
since her husband was taken to the
hospital a couple of months ago. Mr
Smith was 45 years old.

George Smith and Frances Dunn had two children, a son, Floyd K Smith (1885-1967) and a daughter, Georgia Davis Smith (1890-1971), who married Arthur Beach Nichols (1888-1971). Their daughter, Ruth Harriet Nichols (1917-2009), married George Andrew Miller (1916-1988). The newspaper article is below. Frances Mae Nicholas was Ruth's oldest sister. According to the article, the ceremony was on June 8, not June 15.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (New York). Sunday, June 16, 1940. Page 33.

MILLER-NICHOLS

Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Ruth Harriet Nichols, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Beach Nichols of 863 E. 10th St., to George Andrew Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Everett Miller of 1664 42d St., on June 8, at the Parkville Congregational Church.

The bride wore a white satin gown with a court train, long tulle veil caught with orange blossoms and carried a nosegay of baby's breath and lilies of the valley. Miss Frances Mae Nichols, her sister, was maid of honor and was gowned in nile green marquisette with a nile green veil. She carried a nosegay of Talisman roses.

Everett Miller, brother of the bridegroom was best man. William Miller, Arthur Nichols and Grant Edmonds were the ushers.

A reception followed at the Pierrepont Hotel.

After a tour of New England States the couple will reside at 687 E. 4th St.