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Kathy,
I have a theory about your Dollar family in Hot Spring Co., AR...There is a Mary J. Jones listed as wife of Louis B. Jones at household 8/8, on the same page as Franklin Dollar and the others you mentioned. She is Mary J. Dollar, daughter of Elijah Jackson Dollar. Mary was. b. ca. 1852, St. Clair Co., AL and her father, Elijah was b. ca. 1821 in AL. He married Mary Polly Garrett 20 Jul 1843, St. Clair Co., AL.
According to my records, Mary J. Dollar had 9 siblings--Samuel, Reuben, Minard, Arminda, William S. "Bunk", Eleanor, Cynthia, Washington, and Jackson. Obviously the name Franklin is not in the list. However, Elijah Jackson Dollar did have a brother, James Pinckney Dollar (m. Mary Stracener). James P. Dollar had a son named Benjamin F. Dollar, b. ca. 1845. That is the approximate age of the Franklin Dollar found in the Hot Spring Co., AR Census in 1900. Franklin reports he was born in Georgia, but that could have been an error.
So, the lineage of these folks as I understand it might be:
Reuben Dollar b. 1791 SC,
m. 1st to Unknown
Children:
James Pinckney Dollar
Nimrod Dollar
Elijah Jackson Dollar
m.2nd to Abigail McKnight
Children:
John
Mary Ann
Reuben W.
Isaac W.
Andrew M.E.
Louisa Elizabeth
(Several of these siblings went to Arkansas. Reuben W. and Isaac W. were in Conway Co., AR by 1860. Isaac appears to have served in the Civil War while in Arkansas. His wife, Delilah Linder is listed as a widow in 1870 Pulaski Co., AR. The Federal Mortality Schedule for that county and year shows a J.W. Dollar who died of consumption. The birth date and birth place reported match for Isaac Dollar so I suspect his middle initial was "W." and the "I" was mistranscribed as a "J".
By 1870, Catherine Smith, the widow of Reuben W. Dollar had removed from Arkansas and was in Madison Co., AL, living next door to her brother-in-law Elijah Jackson Dollar.
I did not track James Pinckney Dollar, except that he was married 6 Aug 1837 to Mary F. Stracener in St. Clair Co., AL and by 1840 he was living in his own household in the same county. By 1850, James P. was still in St. Clair Co. I did not attempt to follow him beyond that date.
Children of James P. & Mary Stracener Dollar:
Mary A.
Abigail
Reuben H.
Benjamin F. (Franklin?)
Susannah
So, the Mary J. Dollar (Jones) and Franklin Dollar of the 1900 Hot Spring Co. Census seem to be cousins. Their fathers were brothers. I think the William F. Dollar listed next to Franklin Dollar is probably his son and that the "F" might stand for Franklin. There is a cemetery record on Interment.net for a Frank W. Dollar buried in Hot Spring Co., AR, at Grant Chapel Cemetery. He must be a relation, though, as his birthdate was noted as 1886.
As to the orphans in the Cantrell household, I don't have any data on that. Certainly they must be related to Franklin Dollar in some way. It also looks like Franklin was widowed twice as the birthplace for the mother of his youngest daughter is different than the birthplace of the mother of the other children.
These are not "my" Dollars. I researched them because Elijah Jackson Dollar was in Madison Co., AL in 1870, just across the border from Lincoln Co., TN where my Elijah Dollar resided. I spent some time separating these families so that I could distinguish them in the records. These men are from the same Dollar family, but a different branch.
Please let me know if this hypothesis makes any sense to you.
Monica Wilbanks Buzbee
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