Dorothy Mae Eason Lorenz's paternal grandmother (Bill's maternal great-grandmother). Born November 28, 1872 in Georgia, daughter of Marion B. Dunn and Mary Frances Dunn. Married Robert Edmund Lee Eason. Four known children including Thomas Howell Eason Sr (Dorothy's father). Widowed by 1917. Per 1920 US Census lived as head of household in Ellaville, Schley County, GA — home owned free. Died December 10, 1948. Buried Ellaville City Cemetery, Find a Grave memorial 51003068.
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Ten ancestors in one Georgia cemetery
1881-1948
Ten direct ancestors of Dorothy Mae Eason Lorenz are buried at Ellaville City Cemetery in Schley County, Georgia. The Dunns, the Easons, the Sellars, the Greshams all returned to that single ground over six decades. If you walk the cemetery today, you walk among Marion B. Dunn (Confederate veteran, died 1923), his wife Mary Frances Royal Dunn, their daughter Irene Rebecca Dunn Eason, her husband Robert Edmund Lee Eason, his father William Thomas Eason V (also a Confederate veteran, 5th Battalion Georgia Infantry), William Thomas's wife Julia Virginia Sellars Eason, and the rest. Ellaville is the family's physical center.
Source: Parallel agent research session 2026-06-06