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Sources consulted for the biography of:Shed Dungee (1831–1900)
Primary Sources
- Dates of birth and death inscribed on gravestone in cemetery at Mount Olive Baptist Church, Cumberland County
- Dungee correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Marriage Register, Cumberland County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
- United States Census Schedules, Cumberland County, 1870, 1880, 1900, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Election results in Election Record no. 14 (1879) and no. 17 (1881), Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia
- Cumberland County Order Book, 52:380, Library of Virginia
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), vi (photograph), 13
- Biographical and family information in Marilyn Mildred White, "'We Lived on an "Island"': An Afro-American Family and Community in Rural Virginia, 1865–1940" (Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, Austin, 1983), esp. 92–101, 109, 307–310, 314 (reproducing biography by son Grant A. Dungee in Cumberland Central Call, June 1940)
Newspapers
- Richmond Daily Whig, May 5, 1879; February 4, 1880; October 13, 1881; October 27, 1881
- Richmond State, March 8, 1880
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, March 9, 1880
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