Individual Details

The surname of the wife Elizabeth was provided by researchers of the Warren family. Roy David's notes included her surname, birth place as Tennessee, birth and death dates, and brothers & sisters as Emeline, Martha, Milton, and John Dabbs. [A John Dabbs married Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Oliver Jones. He was also born in TN abt 1830 according to census records. A Milton B. Dabbs, born about 1845 in TN is in the 1880 McDonald Co MO census, living next door to Pinckney Anderson, whose son married Elizabeth's daughter Nancy.]

1850 Census, Perry Co TN, p.156a, Household 460:
James Dabbs, age 45, b. SC; Martha age 42, b. VA
John C. age 20; Nancy H. age 18; James M. age 16; Elizabeth age 14; Mary age 12; Martha age 10; Lucinda age 8; Milton N. age 6 and Gideon age 4.
[This would appear to be the family of Elizabeth. Although there were many other Dabbs families in Perry Co that year, none other have an Elizabeth of this age with siblings of similar names. The family of John D. Bunch with his 1st wife is found on the previous page.]

1870 Census, McDonald Co , Richwood Twp. John Bunch, age 66, b. TN, Elizabeth age 38, Letsa 27, Mary A.24 and Louisa P.13 [John Bunch's children from an earlier marriage], John age 2, Margaret age 4 month [Elizabeth's children], Nancy J. Warren 10 and Martha Warren 8 [Elizabeth's children by William Warren]

1876 MO State Census, McDonald Co. Elizabeth Bunch age 39, Nancy Jane Warren 17, Martha Ann Warren 15, John Davidson Bunch 8, Margaret Bunch 6, Georgie Allis Bunch 4. Apparently John Bunch was now deceased.

In 1880, Elizabeth seems to be missing from the Census. Her children were living with a woman named Nancy Anderson, age 41, born in TN. Pinckney Anderson lived next door to the above Nancy in Newton Co MO.
Here is Pinckney Anderson's household in 1880. Pinckney, age 54, b. AR, Sarah E., daughter, age 21 and Nancy E., dau, age 15. Both girls also born in AR. Pinckney's Nancy is the last listing on page 262B, Hh 293; "Nancy Anderson" age 41 is the first listing on page 263C, Hh 294. The two Nancys are actually listed one right after the other.
The children living with Nancy were Martha A. age 18, John D. Bunch 11, Margaret J. 10, G. Alice 8. They are listed as daughters and son of "Nancy Anderson". Elizabeth Dabbs Warren Bunch would be about 42 this year - I think in transcribing the previous Anderson family, etc. the census enumerator misunderstood the lady's name or just lost his place and copied it over from his notes. I believe this really should always have been Elizabeth Bunch - there is no other evidence that there was ever a Bunch/Anderson marriage. There is also a boarder in the household - Henry Russell, age 25, b. TN.


Some family notes handed down in Debra Odekirk's family indicate that Elizabeth may have married a third time to a man named White, a Baptist Preacher. A search of the 1880 census reveals there was a clergyman in Newton Co MO named Pleasant M. White. He was 44 in 1880, just slightly older than Elizabeth Dabbs Warren Bunch. His wife Sarah, age 45, was living in 1880 and the had these children: James H. 18, Silas N. 16, Saml. H. 14, Samantha J. 11.

1900 census. McDonald Co, Richwood Twp, p.137, household 20.
Pleasant White, b. Mar 1836, age 64, married 30 years, b. TN as were his parents, Farmer
Elizabeth, Wife [they wrote in White instead of Wife], b. Dec 1836, age 63, married 46 years [but written above that is 30 so she must have stated the number of years since her first marriage to Wm Warren - they were obviously confused about the marriage thing] Five children born, 5 living. b. TN as were both parents.
FamilySearch has a date for the marriage to Pleasant White as 31 Oct 1895, Newton Co, and the record is posted - she was married to him as Elizabeth Bunch

Paul Barker has done extensive searching in the cemetery records of SW Missouri and has found no clue to where she was buried.

Birth	1836	Tennessee
Marriage	Abt 1858	William M Warren
Marriage	14 Jul 1867	Newton County, Arkansas - John Davidson Bunch
Marriage	31 Oct 1895	Newton County, Missouri - Pleasant White
Death	26 May 1902

Spouse	William M Warren (1837 - 1864)
Child	Nancy Jane Warren (1859 - 1926)
Child	Martha Ann Warren (1863 - 1950)

Spouse	John Davidson Bunch (1811 - 1876)
Child	John Davidson Bunch (1868 - )
Child	Margaret J. Bunch (1870 - )
Child	Georgia Alice Bunch (1872 - )

Spouse

Pleasant White (1836 - )

Father	James Dabbs (1805 - 1864)
Mother	Martha [Dabbs] (1808 - )
Sibling	George A. Dabbs (1827 - 1870)
Sibling	John C. Dabbs (1830 - )
Sibling	Nancy H. Dabbs (1832 - )
Sibling	James Madison Dabbs (1834 - 1896)
Sibling	Mary Dabbs (1838 - )
Sibling	Martha Dabbs (1840 - )
Sibling	Lucinda Dabbs (1842 - )
Sibling	Milton N. Dabbs (1844 - )
Sibling	Gideon Dabbs (1846 - )
Sibling	Sarah Frances Dabbs (1851 - )
Sibling	Emaline Dabbs (1853 - )