[554] 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
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
