Laura Mabelle Dunbar

Birth Name Laura Mabelle Dunbar
Gramps ID I069
Gender female
Age at Death 47 years, 1 month, 18 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth 1859 Lincoln, Illinois Birth of Laura Mabelle Dunbar

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Death 19 February 1906 Morgan Park, Illinois Death of Laura Mabelle Dunbar

[2] [3] [4]
Burial   Mount Hope Cemetery, Morgan Park, IL Burial of Laura Mabelle Dunbar

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Parents

Father Erastus Dunbar [I266]
Mother Mary Warren [I267]

Families

Married Husband Henry James Strong [I068]
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage calculated about 1877   Marriage of Strong, Henry James and Dunbar, Laura Mabelle

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  Children
  1. Caroline Mabelle Strong [I071]
  2. Warren Erastus Strong [I070]
  3. Laura Griffith Strong [I064]
  4. Mary Beatrice Strong [I072]
  5. Harry Dunbar Strong [I074]
  6. Lida Packard Strong [I073]

Narrative

by Norm Robertson II, "Narrative Family History"

Dix's mother, Laura Mabelle Dunbar, was born in Lincoln, Illinois, in 1859. She ahd a younger half sister, Katherine Bates, her father, Erastus Dunbar, was killed in the Civil War and her mother remarried. She and Harry J. Strong were married, probably in about 1877 and lived in and around Chicago where Harry worked. They lived in Rogers Park, then a suburb not part of Chicago, until 1891. Carrie, Warren, and Dix were born there. In 1891 they moved to a house on Aldine Square. It is still there at about 36th Street and the IC tracks. Dix talked about playing around the Douglas monument (Douglas of the Lincoln Douglas debates) which was in the middle of the square. It is still there although Douglas' body has been removed and reburied in Springfield. In the next four years they moved to 58th and Calument, then to 61st and Prairie. In about 1896 they moved to Morgan Park and then Mr. Strong had a house built on 110th Street near Ashland. This was the home Dix remembered the most and talked about the most.

from "Family History", Norman Lewis Robertson II

Laura Mabelle Dunbar was the only surviving child out of 13 from her [Mary Warren's] first marriage....

Source References

  1. Norman Lewis Robertson II, “Narrative Family History” [S0018]
  2. Norman Lewis Robertson II, phone interview December 1995 [S0026]
  3. Visit with Norm Robertson II and Norm Robertson III, 4 October 2008 [S0246]
  4. Narrative Family History by Norm Robertson II [S0259]
  5. “Family History”, Norman Lewis Robertson II [S0007]

Pedigree

  1. Erastus Dunbar
    1. Mary Warren
      1. Laura Mabelle Dunbar
        1. Henry James Strong
          1. Caroline Mabelle Strong
          2. Warren Erastus Strong
          3. Laura Griffith Strong
          4. Mary Beatrice Strong
          5. Harry Dunbar Strong
          6. Lida Packard Strong

Ancestors