Henry Co, Mo - Albert Dunlap died about 8:30 Friday evening at his home in Uneeda, in the south part of the county. He had been in failing health for more than three years. August 1922 his physician took him to Kansas City, where he underwent an operation, but they told him he would never be well again. He had internal cancer and other complications. Nobody knows the terrible suffering he had undergone in those long weary months. Love, nursing and skilled medical care could not alleviate the pain during those last weeks, his body had become so diseased. His family and neighbors were ever ready to do everything in their power. The day before he had expressed the wish that he believed he could eat some young rabbit. His son borrowed a shot gun to shoot the rabbit, which he left in the kitchen. Friday night, the young folks had gone to a near by pie supper and his wife had gone to bed. One son was sleeping in a tent near the house. He heard the report of a gun, hurried to the house to find his father had shot himself through the heart, only breathing few minutes thereafter. The pain had been more than he could bear. Mr. Dunlap was 53 years old last February. He married Miss Cora Dugan about 25 years ago. This beloved companion survives with their six children; Mrs. Robert Ragland, who lives near the home place; Robert, James, Josephine, Bonnie and Evelyn. He also leaves the following brothers and sisters; J.F. Dunlap, Montrose; William Dunlap, Texas; Walter Dunlap, Kansas City; Elza Dunlap, Leavenworth, Kansas; Mrs. Alice Gensel, St. Joe; Mrs. Lucy Delany, Canada. Mr. Dunlap was a great lover of home and family. His great concern during the last illness was the welfare of his loved ones. He wanted to leave them well provided for in every way. Many times he had expressed a desire that the end of his suffering would come and his great desire was that it come quickly. He had been the blacksmith at Uneeda for 17 years. He was always honest and industrious, held in the highest esteem by every neighbor. Each one feels that they have lost a personal friend, as he had extended every one kindness and courtesy in some way. He was always ready to help in time of need. Nothing was too hard for him to do whether it was for neighbor or his own loved ones. Not a citizen in the county will be more missed than he. He was a Democrat in politics and always stood by his party, willing to serve his country in any capacity that needed him. He was collector of Bear Creek township at the time of his death. Rev. Dillman, pastor of the Montrose Methodist church, conducted the funeral at his late home at Uneeda Sunday at 1 P.M. Burial in the Montrose cemetery. The house and yard were filled with sorrowing relatives and friends.
Father: Adam D. Dunlap b: 12 Feb
1832 in Augusta County, Virginia
Mother: Mary Paxton b: 21 April 1837 in
Virginia
Marriage 1 Cora
Florence Dugan b: 10 Dec 1870 in Illinois
- Married: 1894
Florence
Belle Dunlap b: 25 Sep 1898 in Missouri
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Robert
Adam Dunlap b: 5 Jan 1900 in near Montrose, Henry County, Missouri
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Josephine
Dunlap b: 23 Sep 1902 in Montrose, Henry County, Missouri
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James Albert Dunlap b: 2 Dec 1903 in
Missouri
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Bonnie
A. Dunlap b: 26 Jul 1906 in Montrose, Henry County, Missouri
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Julia
Evelyn Dunlap b: 19 April 1908 in near Montrose, Henry County, Missouri
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