Hello Beth, Thank you for the information. I did check it out & found some things, I wrote a query & am waiting for a reply. Sincerely, Alice ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bpca4u@aol.com> To: <MO-AR-WRV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [MO-AR-WRV] Vandergrift/Dobbs/Dooley--TN,AR, MO--Alice > In a message dated 3/28/01 8:11:15 AM Central Daylight Time, wishis29@nep.net > writes: > > << that my g grandfather is J.Thomas Vandergrift born about 1865 in Tn. He > married Laura A Johnson {nee Dobbs} she was the widow if James Johnson, in > Oct 1887. She was born about 1869 in Mo. They had several children, names > unknown except for my grandfather Thomas Fred born in 1897/98. > In the 1920 census Laura was still alive & living in DeValls Bluff with my > grandfather & 2 Dooley grandchildren, names are Joseph & {Emma} ? > Does anyone know anything about these families ? I have been told that > they were {River People} & lived near the white river. > > Alice, I don't know whether you found what you were looking for or not? I am > just reading this and have a suggestion for you. I am related to the > Alexander line in Douglas Co., MO. We have I believe she was my ggg aunt > Pheobe or Feba Alexander who marries a Dobbs---I had communicated with her > last remaining son (I think he was) living in IL years ago. He had told me a > little about her family. > But I didn't know that they had lived anywhere except Douglas Co., MO until I > discovered Dwight Lane, a list reader at ARIZARD-L@rootsweb.com who is > related to the Dobbs family. He had picked up our aunt Pheobe Dobbs in Stone > County, AR. It seems to me that Dwight's portion of the family may have lived > in Lawrence Co., AR. > > You may want to go to the ARIZARD list and search the archives for his > information and then contact him with you questions if it looks like the > information he has posted on that ARIZARD list could be connected to your > Dobbs! I do hope it is because he is an excellent researcher! > > Great success in your research! > Hope this helps. > Beth Peck Cooper > > > ==== MO-AR-WRV Mailing List ==== > "A Society that wants to build the future must know its past, its real past, as it was."--Anatoly Rybakov > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >