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deputy sheriff; Orrin B., farmer; Frank F.,
B. Manly, George W.,
J. Leroy,
Lillie M., now
Mrs. J. W. Smoak, of
Orangeburg; Maggie M., and
Pearl M.
Mr. Dukes is a member of
Orangeburg camp, U. C. V., and a member of the Masonic fraternity.
Richard Simpson Dunlap was born in
Laurens county, S. C., May 20, 1830, the son of John and Mary (
Montgomery)
Dunlap, and a portion of his youth was spent in
Mississippi.
He received his education at Erskine college,
Due West, S. C., and at the Jefferson medical college, of
Philadelphia.
He was engaged in the practice of medicine in
Laurens county when the war began, and in the fall of 1861 he entered the
Confederate service as a private in Company B,
James' Third South Carolina battalion.
He was promoted lieutenant and was later made assistant surgeon of
Kershaw's brigade.
He served in many of the battles of the four years struggle and was once slightly wounded.
He was married, November 27, 1860, to Sarah Ewell Black, the daughter of
William Ewell and
Nancy Hunter (
Dunlap) Black, whose grandfather,
William Dunlap, was a major in the Revolutionary war. After the war
Dr. Dunlap gave his attention to the practice of his profession and to farming until his death, February 28, 1879.
The widow of
Dr. Dunlap still survives, together with an only son,
Rufus T. Dunlap, who was born June 18, 1867.
He was married, April 20, 1893, to
Miss Annie L. Hudgens, daughter of James M. and Ella C. (
Wharton)
Hudgens, and they have two children living:
Richard Simpson and
Margaret Hunter.
Dr. Dunlap was a very successful physician and a highly esteemed citizen.
He accumulated a fine estate, which he left to his son, who inherited with it the spirit of genial hospitality for which his father was noted.
Julius F. C. DuPre, professor of horticulture in Clemson college,
South Carolina, was born in
Anderson county, August 1, 1831, a descendant of
Josias DuPre, who with his brother,
Cornelius DuPre, came from
France to
America with the Huguenot colony.
His father was
Cornelius P. DuPre, a native of
Charleston, school teacher, merchant and farmer, who died in 1858; his mother, Mary Esther Carne, of
Charleston, of English descent.
When he was thirteen years of age his parents removed
