Dungan Family Cemetery

The Dungan Family Cemetery is located in Northumberland County, near Callao.  The cemetery is situated in a grove of trees, adjacent to farmland.  It is a quite, peaceful setting.  The last Dungans to have owned this property were Christopher and Juliet Dungan, who are buried at Henderson United Methodist Church in Hyacinth, near Callao.

Four headstones remain.  However, it has been determined that approximately seventy graves occupy the cemetery.  It is likely that the unmarked graves were originally marked with wooden markers, which have long since decayed.  Those buried there are believed to be the descendants of David and Nancy Dungan, perhaps including David and Nancy themselves, since no other record of their burial site seem to exist.

The five known to be buried there are Joseph White Dungan and his wife Elizabeth H. Winstead Dungan, Fernando C. Dungan, son of Joe White and Elizabeth Dungan, Garrett Parkerson Dungan, and his wife Nancy Winstead Dungan.

Both Joe White and his brother, Garrett Parkerson, were grandsons of David Dungan.   Their wives, Elizabeth and Nancy, were sisters, daughters of Septimus William Winstead and Lucy Fulks.  Interestingly, a third Dungan brother, John David, married a third Winstead sister, Rebecca.  She, however, was the daughter of Septimus Winstead's second wife, Chloe.  It is possible that they, too, are buried in this cemetery.

The headstones themselves are quite ornate and beautiful.  The inscriptions read as follows.



In Memory of Joseph W. Dungan                          

Born Jan. 20, 1832
Died Feb. 12, 1902

"Peaceful be thy silent Slumber
Peaceful in the grave so low
Thou no more will Join our number
Thou no more our sorrows know.
Yet again we hope to meet thee
when the day of life is fled,
and in heaven with joy to greet thee
where no farewell tears are shed."




Mrs. E. H. Beloved
Wife of
J. W. Dungan
March 26, 1838 (?)
Nov. 18, 1913

"In the way of righteousness
is life and in the pathway
thereof there is no death."






Fernando C. G. Dungan
Son of
Joseph and Elizabeth Dungan
Born Dec. 19, 1860
Died Sept. 14, 1878 (?)

"For he shall give his angels
Charge over thee to keep thee
in all thy ways."



Garrett and Nancy Dungan share a headstone, inscribed simply with their names and their birth and death dates.  Garrett served in the Confederate Virginia Militia, 37th Regiment, Company E, with the rank of Private.






The Dungan Family Cemetery is cared for and maintained by George Bernard Dungan, Jr., a 3rd great-grandson of David and Nancy Dungan.  He resides in Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia.


Photos are courtesy of Bernard Dungan and Marsha Benya.