This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cates, Copeland, Dodson, Cummings Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RKT.2ACIB/209.2 Message Board Post: Your Dodsons may be related to mine. I am looking for Edward Dodson who was living with his daughter's family (Copeland) in Alamance Co NC in 1850. and, according to that census, was born abt 1779 in North Carolina. I know his wife was Elizabeth Cummings. Does anyone know his siblings and children? Did he have a brother William? He lived in Orange Co in previous censuses and had at least three sons and one daughter Elizabeth "Betty". I'm trying to connect him to Ella Esperan Dodson of Orange who married Sidney S Cates. Her gravestone says she was born Dec 1850 but there is no girl by those names in 1860 in either Orange or Alamance. Elizabeth Dodson Copeland's husband Ashford was my 3xgreat granduncle.