This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dotson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/He.2ADI/141 Message Board Post: I'm looking for any information on the Elisha Dotson family who lived in Cairo IL in 1880 (3rd Ward, according to the census). They had an 11 yr old daughter, born in KY. My g-grandmother was Lucy Jane Dotson, born in KY about 1870, supposedly in Cairo KY. She never said anything about her family or childhood, so very little is known. I'm grasping at straws, but I think this 1880 census record is a good straw to grasp. Thanks, Colleen