Re: DOBKINS family of VA, TN, AR, TX
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In reply to:
DOBKINS family of VA, TN, AR, TX
1/18/00
From an article about the Martin Goddard saddlery shop in Benton Co., ARK, Alexander Dobkins was listed as a customer along with several other men including some Cherokees like Stand Watie between the years of 1859 and 1861. A reply by Diane Briggs McKinzie to your first posting might have some missing pieces of a puzzle for some other Benton Co. families including my Tucker/Wright line.
Mrs. McKinzie wrote that her gggrandmother married in 1857 and the young couple immediately drove 700 head of cattle to Fresno, CA, later returning to visit her sister Melvina Dobkins Tucker according to a newspaper article. One of the Goddard family, Columbus, went to CA in 1854, returned in 1859 to stay in the Benton Co. area.
1857 was about the time when James Solomon Wright, oldest son of Griffin and Malinda Tucker Wright living in Benton Co., went to California and stayed according to his 1892 CA obit. Malinda's siblings' in-law lines included Pylant (a surname of a Presby. minister in NW ARK by 1840), Dollar (some of the family says it was Dollins), Smith, etc.--names in Lincoln Co., TN "leaking" into north Alabama and Mississippi besides Missouri. The Tucker/Wright line was Presbyterian before the Civil War, but Griffin could have been a part-time Baptist preacher. Some of the kids moved to north Texas, marrying into a Bourland/Chisum line and a Redwine/Carr line (also in Benton Co., ARK) in the Hunt, Grayson, Cooke, Denton, Collin, Montague, Parker, Stephens, probably Hood Counties in TX. Four of the kids wound up to stay in California, Edith Chapman Wright Duncan Martin, Thomas Jefferson Wright, John B. Wright, and James S. Wright; their mother Malinda moved there from Benton Co. about 1874.
Appreciate any information.