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William received his medical degree, probably in Lexington, Ky, where his brother James studied. Around 1830, he moved to Aberdeen, Ms. After the death of his wife Mary and his oldest child, Anna, from typhoid, he took the three boys and moved to McLennan Co, Tx He named his plantation there, near Waco, "Spring Hill". Both of his younger sons, Timothy and William , fought in the Civil War. Timothy was killed in that war. In 1866, William left the management of the plantation to his son, Francis Marion, and moved to , Galveston Co, Tx where he founded the cotton firm of "W.A. Dunklin and Company". In 1866 in Galveston, he married the widow, Ann Gibson Cline of Port Gibson, Tx

WILLIAM ALANSON DUNKLIN, son of William Dunklin by his wife Anne Hendricks Hamilton, was born in South Carolina January 30, 1810. He moved from there to Colloraine Hill, Lowndes County, Alabama, with his father's family in 1819-20. From Alabama he went to Aberdeen, Mississippi, 1857, and from thence to McLennan County, Texas, just prior to the Civil War. He was a man highly respected throughout the State of Texas for his keen sense of honor, justice and great moral as well as physical courage. He was a physician of prominence, with dignified and courteous manners. He founded the cotton firm of W. A. Dunklin and Co. of Galveston, Texas, of which firm he was the senior member. He married twice, first Mary Eliza Rogers, the daughter of Timothy Rogers and his wife Mary (called "Polly") Miles (daughter of John Miles and "Polly" Deane*)