Jim who is your Newton C Dodson, several of your names listed below are similar to that of some of my ancesters I also have 2 Elisha Dodsons . well I have a sick child to look after. Kyle Stokes at captain@ipa.net -----Original Message----- From: Jim Harmon <jharmon@earthlink.net> To: DODSON-L <DODSON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, March 03, 1998 10:12 AM Subject: Elisha Dodson b. abt 1788 >Can anyone help me on who the parents of Elisha A. Dodson were? > >Descendants of Elisha A. Dodson > > >Generation No. 1 > >1. ELISHA A.1 DODSON was born Abt. 1788, and died Abt. 1864. He >married (1) RUTHEY (SURNAME UNKNOWN) Abt. 1810. He married (2) SELIA >(SURNAME UNKNOWN) Aft. 1852. > > > Children of ELISHA DODSON and RUTHEY UNKNOWN) are: > i. DELILAH2 DODSON, b. Abt. 1812; m. JOHN HANLEY, 1833. > ii. MARY DODSON, b. Abt. 1815; m. WILLIAM ALLEN. > iii. SARAH C. DODSON, b. Abt. 1817. > iv. NEWTON C. DODSON, b. Abt. 1820; m. (1) MARTHA ANN MOORE; m. (2) >MILBRIE CAUDLE. > v. JULIA DODSON, b. Abt. 1822; d. 1895; m. JOHN HUBBARD, 1838. > vi. PHOEBE DODSON, b. Abt. 1824, AL; m. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CREEL, >December 05, 1835, Tuscaloosa Co. AL. > >Notes for BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CREEL: >"At Liberty on Bear Creek" >by Charles E. Boyd, c. 1984, Banner Press, Birmingham, AL. > >p.87 Elder Benjamin Franklin Creel (1817-188?) > >Elder B.F. Creel was pastor at Liberty Church 1849-51. His membership >in those years was at Macedonia Church from where he served as a >delegate to the Tuscaloosa Association in 1849 and 1850. He was >probably among those who joined the anti-mission group when Macedonia's >congregation split on the missionary issue. He was listed as a >Primitive Baptist minister in the 1860 census of Marion Co., Ala. where >he had moved by that time. Elder Creel was a grandson, like Elder Isaac >Hagler, of Capt. Isaac Dodson. His parents were Joshua Creel >(1792-1838) and Ruth (Dodson) Creel. He was married in 1835 to Phoebe >Dodson, daughter of Elisha and Ruth Dodson, who along with her parents >was a founding member of Liberty Church. Elder Creel's brothers, >Jackson, Isaac, Washington and Wm. J., and his sons, John Thomas and >Joshua D., all served in the Confederate Army. Brothers Jackson and >Washington did not return from the war. > > vii. EMILY DODSON, b. Abt. 1827; m. AHAZ CAUDLE, 1844. > viii. JESSIE M. DODSON, b. Abt. 1830; m. TABITHA (SURNAME UNKNOWN). > > >-- >Jim Harmon mailto:jharmon@earthlink.net >GENEALOGY WEBPAGE AT http://home.earthlink.net/~jharmon >FTM WEBPAGE AT >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/a/r/James-C-Harmon/index.html >BROWN, COSTNER, DOUGHERTY, HARMON, HARRIS, HAYLES, MADDUX, MARRS, MIZE, >PARSONS, >POWELL, SLEMP/SLIMP, UPCHURCH > >"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who >are laughed >at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they >laughed at >the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl >Sagan > >