• Name: Nannie Evers Dunlap
• Sex: F
• Birth: June 13, 1880
• Death: May 21, 1981
• Buried in Lot 154 at Green Hill Cemetery near Churchville, Va.
• Unmarried. Retired Practical Nurse. At present in Oak Ridge Nursing Home in Staunton, Va.

Father: Samuel Alexander Dunlap
Mother: Elisabeth Ann Rohrer (Eliza) B: 1842 D: 1913

Marriage  never married

Here is a story by Maurice Mackenzie Collins about his Aunt Nannie Evers Dunlap. 

NANNIE EVERS DUNLAP, 6/13/1880- 5/21/1981 Aunt Nannie (my mother’s younger sister) was born in the "old" Dunlap house on Swoope Branch about one mile west of Lone Fountain, Virginia, a daughter of Samuel Alexander Dunlap and Eliza Ann (Rohrer) Dunlap. She is the last surviving direct member of the family and was 100 years old on June 13, 1980.

As a young girl, Aunt Nannie was quite sickly and at times it was thought she could not live. By the time she reached adulthood she had overcome her ill­ness and seldom was indisposed afterwards.

Although she had several suitors during her earlier years (two of whom I knew quite well) Aunt Nannie never married.

In her early 20’ a Aunt Nannie taught school at Jennings Gap and at Lone Fountain. She walked to and from the school houses each day at both of these assignments. My first day in school was at Lone Fountain and Aunt Nannie was my first teacher. She was quite strict but all the pupils seemed to like her.

After a few years of teaching Aunt Nannie decided that she wanted to take up nursing as a career. She went to Richmond first and then to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore to study nursing but after a short time she decided that she wanted to do practical nursing which became her field of work. She worked for approximately 60 years as a practical nurse, chiefly in Augusta County.

When I was a boy (from 6 to 15 years of age) Aunt Nannie was a frequent guest in our home. Her disciplinarian ways "never stare the rod and spoil the child” which she probably acquired during her teaching experiences never seemed to desert her. Many a time I did my fastest sprinting with Aunt Nannie in hot pursuit! A few times she ‘out-sprinted’ me ... to my regret. I really respected her and learned that if I did not have a twenty-foot start never to enter a foot race with her.

Aunt Nannie is widely known for her sterling character, her devotion to her religious convictions, her willingness to help those in need, and for her affec­tion for her relatives and friends.

Aunt Nannie passed away at 9 o’clock on Thursday night (May 21, 1981) at the Oak Hill Nursing Home in Staunton, Va.. at the age of 100 years, 11 months, and 8 days. The funeral service was conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday (May 23) in Glossbrenner United Methodist Church by the Rev. C. W. Tinsman and the Rev. Raymond Pettitt. Burial was in Lot 134 in Green Hill Cemetery.

Aunt Nannie was largely responsible for my preparation of this booklet and asked me several times during her illness if I had finished it. Strange as it may seem, she passed away the very day I completed the assignment! I have just added these two paragraphs with my typewriter.

M. M. C.
Maurice Mackenzie Collins

May 1, 1981