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Mrs. John A.
Dunaway
(Sarah Jean
Owen Dunaway)
1932-2006
Sarah Jean Owen Dunaway
was born in Atlanta, GA, the daughter of James Newton Owen
and Hattie Maybelle King.
She was married in 1981 to the late John Allen Dunaway,
Sr. Mrs. Dunaway was Office Manager of the Atlanta
Sales office of Progressive Farmer and
Southern Living magazines. She continues
to reside in Atlanta, where she remains active in the
local community.
Memberships
* National Gavel Society
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
(Honorary Governor
General; past Georgia Branch Governor)
* Dames of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660 (Organizing Governor
General;
Governor General Emerita)
*
National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters
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(Honorary President General)
*
National
Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons
* First Families of Georgia 1733-1797 (Honorary Governor
General)
* Dames of the Court of Honor (past President of the
Georgia Society)
* United Daughters of the Confederacy (Honorary
President General;
current
Chairman of the Memorial Building Board of Trustees; past
President of the Georgia Division)
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(past Historian
of the Baron DeKalb Chapter)
* National Society Daughters of American Colonists (past
Recording
Secretary of the James Edward Oglethorpe Chapter)
* Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century (past
Registrar of the Ann
Pope Washington Chapter)
* National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth
Century
* United Daughters of the Confederacy (past President of
the Alfred Holt
Colquitt Chapter;
oversight of all Georgia Division records)
* National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (former
First Vice
President and former Second Vice President of the Georgia Society;
former First Vice President and former Treasurer of the General
John
Floyd Chapter)
*
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench &
Bar 1565-1861
* Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars
* National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and
Patriots of the
American Revolution
*
Huguenot Society of
Founders of Manakin in the Colony of
Virginia
* National Huguenot Society
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
* Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesman 1607-1783
* Presidential Families of America
Mrs. Dunaway was awarded the
Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal and the Winnie Davis
Medal
by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was
also awarded the
Robert E.
Lee Medal for outstanding contributions above and beyond
the required duties of an Advisor, by the Children of the
Confederacy.
Authorship
First Families of Georgia 1733-1797 Lineage Book
Volume I (with
Deputy Governor General)
National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
Lineage Book IX
(with Editor General)
Other Notes
Mrs. Dunaway was a board member of the DeKalb History
Center; the Hebron Historic Society; the Georgia Women
of Achievement; the Historical Oakland Cemetery
Foundation; and the Marietta Conferate Cemetery
Foundation, Inc. She also served as Chairman of
"Save Georgia's Historic Flags" collection in the State
Capitol Museum's Hall of Valor.
In addition, Mrs. Dunaway was a Kentucky Colonel and an
Arkansas Traveler. She also held memberships in the Owen
Family Association; Rucker Family Association; Grace
Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star; Atlanta Historical Society; Georgia Trust for
Historic Preservation, Inc.; Georgia Historical Society;
Atlanta Preservation Center; Georgia Humanities Council; Friends of Georgia Archives
(member of the organizing committee); the Northeast
Georgia History Center at Brenau University; and Friends of the
National Archives.
Mrs. Dunaway was honored by the
Georgia
Historical Records Advisory Board with the Award for
Advocacy, "for her tireless efforts on behalf of the
preservation of historical records in Georgia".
Furthermore, she was the recipient of one of the Annual
Georgia Governor's Awards in the Humanities, honoring
those who have fostered an understanding of Georgia's
cultural traditions, thereby strengthening community,
character and citizenship in the State.
She was an active member of Westminster Presbyterian Church
of Atlanta.
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