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I got Robert Lee Dabbs of Munford that decended from the Robert Lee Dabbs of Alex City, Alabama. The question is how he got there from who. Family history says he came first to Alabama under General Jackson during the War of 1812 to handle some Indian problems with the Creek Indian uprisings. He loved the land and wanted to return. He went back home after the service to was it Virginia? Also tale says he first went to Georgia before purchasing a large portion of land in Alex City from a Virginia Land Company. He eventually got behind on his taxes on the huge portion of land. Not uncommon after the Civil War ended the cotton business and farming success down south for years. I guess goat cheese saw the market drop out too. He may have served in the military in Cuba or the Civil War, making a great sacrifice and his family could not catch up on the taxes. The government did not immediately cease the property because of the sacrifice he had made for his country or he had contacts or connections somewhere. We are talking 1,700 acres. The land is supposedly under government control in the form of forest to this day. I hear if you can pay the back taxes for the last 125 years, you can claim the property. You know family/grape vine history. Horseshoe Bend State Park is near there.
Who was Robert Lee Dabbs's father? Does his family roots take him to Georgia, Tennessee, and/or Virginia? Where did he join General Jackson's band of Indian fighters? Was it as a volunteer from Tennessee? Young bucks have to find work to make enough money to buy 1,700 acres in order to settle down to goat roping. Was the actual settler of the property, or was it his father that fought with Jackson and he inherited the land and the goat farm. (Baffled in Alabama).
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