Re: MARRIAGE FOR SAMUEL F.DOTSON &MARTHA
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In reply to:
MARRIAGE FOR SAMUEL F.DOTSON &MARTHA
1/14/00
Bess, My grandfather had a half-sister named Martha Jane Nichols who married a Dotson, probably in Missouri. She was born in Kentucky in 1843, the daughter of Joel Jackson Nichols and unknown. On the 1860 Pettis County Missouri census she is listed as living in her father's household. She had at least two older full sisters, Mary Elizabeth who married a Moore, and Susan B. Nichols who married a Jennings. She was still alive in 1888 when her father died according to his probate records. This is all the info I have but am certainly hoping to find a connection here. Family legend says her father was married 4 times and had 22/23 children but his later children refused to talk about him. It is believed he was a Southern sympathizer during the Civil War years. Kay