The Simeon Adams Dunn and Adeline Rawson Dunn home is located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Parley and Hyde streets. The property baught from Joseph and Emma Smith. It was the first 2 story home built in Nauvoo. Simeon was a farmer and a Nauvoo policeman. He also worked on the Nauvoo Temple. Twenty children were born to Simeon. Adeline Rawson was the mother of the first seven children all born in Michigan. Four died as infants in Michigan. Three young daughers Adaline, Mary and Bestsy moved to Nauvoo with their parents about 1839. Adaline died in Nauvoo 1841, Simeon's second wife Margaret Snyder was the mother of two children born in Nauvoo. One infant died, Margaret died in Nauvoo a few months later 1946. Simeon Adams Dunn and four daughters left Nauvoo in 1846. Adline and Margaret where both seal to their husband in the Nauvoo Temple Jan 22 1946.
The Dunn family Simeon and his fourth wife Harriet Atwood Silver and three of the four girls migrated to Utah together, arriving in 1848 with President Brigham Young's family.
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