A Halifax Co VA marriage record reads as follows: 3oct1794. David Lawson and Winney Dottson. Sur. Hosea Hampton. Wit. Thomas Ward. Winney signs her own consent. Married 12 Oct by Rev. Thomas Dobson who says Winney Dobson. A book called "Blue Ridge Mountain Kinfolk" chronicles the Lawson family starting with this couple. The family moved from Halifax Co sometime before the 1810 census of Stokes Co NC. One researcher has said that my Winney may be a dau of Thomas "Second Fork" Dodson. Can anyone help me connect her?? If so cuold that have beem her grandfather that married her to David Lawson, and why did she have to sign her own consent??? Thanks, Brian Rodman Birmingham, AL