Re: Daniel Webster Dodson DNA Testing
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Re: Daniel Webster Dodson DNA Testing
MaryE 3/18/02
Old census records say he was born in Tennessee. They also say (based on info by four son's listing on census)his wife was born in Alabama. The first record we have of him is paying property taxes in Parker County (Weatherford), Texas in 1878 & 1879. No other record is known. Four sons of whom my grandfather, Henry Clay Dodson (born in 1863), were all born in Texas; where we don't know. A distant cousin told me last year that his father born in 1889 recalled his grandfather dying when he was six or seven; this would be our Daniel. Texas didn't start keeping birth and death records until 1903.
Both my sister, Sue Steward, and I have the two volume Dodson books. We can't make anything match from there. Any help you can give would be appreciated.Thanx,Ray