Dunbar - Robert
Source: Crawfordsville (Indiana) Review March 9, 1911 p 1
Funeral services for the late Robert Dunbar were held this (Thursday) morning at the home in Colfax, Rev. Mr. Smith of that city officiating. Burial was made in Union Cemetery. Several members of the Masonic order in Crawfordsville attended. Robert Dunbar died at his home, 7 miles north of Darlington in Sugar Creek Township at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening from the effects of blood poisoning, contracted, it is supposed, from applying what was thought to be liniment but was carbolic acid and it is thought this is what caused the blood poison, He had also been paralyzed and not able to walk for the past 7 years. Decadent was a son of Lewis Dunbar, Sr. and wife, who came to this county from Ross County, Ohio in 1830, and settled in Sugar Creek Township where Robert was born, Nov 12, 1831, being the second white child born in that township, as at that early date the rich lands of today were covered with dense forests and the inhabitants were mostly Indians. He was married to Miss Mary Maroney in150 and has lived most of his life Sugar Creek Township. To thisuno16 children were born dying infancy He was survived by a wife, nine children, 20 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren, three brothers, three half brothers, one sister and a half sister. Mr. Dunbar has been a prominent and influential farmer in the vicinity where he lived nearly all his life. He was a consistent member of the Christian Church of Colfax, also belong to the order of Masons, who had charge of the burial service. - transcribed by kbz