Working on the DODD familys, I encounter many other lineages that seem to interlock to some of the DODD familys-their connections lost in time. Wouldn't it be something to really know how so many familys of the early settlers really did know each other into many generations? I do know that generations carried their lineage in their memories. My mother could recite who was born, died, what, when and where and who moved and when,why and stories that went with the moves. WE have lost much by loosing track of those memories. In searching for DODD children of ashley haywood dodd and lucy ann cave dodd, we have located a family of patterson people who married two children of this couple and their parents played a large part in the raising of one of the grand children...purloined away for some unknown reason and raised in Louisiana, we have searched for this youngster born in 1862 and for his descendants. IN so doing the patterson familys are joined in this search for finding out what did happen to the parents and the reasons that events happened as they did? Remembering that events of the civil war had impact on more than just the soldiers who bore the death of it--it also ate others in its path across time. tHINKING ON THE SUBJECT : about familys who connect or ties before Texas?. One on line friend, writes: I have a WEBB who married a Lipscomb, and a MAYNOR who married a STEPHENS. And Lucinda is name common in more than one WEBB branch. The WEBBs came from Edgecombe/Nash Co. but seem to have had a presence in several NC around those, including Rutherford. AND it appears the WEBBs stopped off in Waxhaw Community, Union Co., SC before hitting Jefferson Co., GA. Moreover, my William Henry WEBB, Matilda Caroline Webb Patterson's brother, went to Newberry, SC after the Civil War....we haven't a clue why. But I suspect some unknown kin relationship. I DO know a wagon train from Edgecombe came to Sandersville, GA in 1797, which I think was Washington Co., GA then, if I remember correctly. Could be the Pattersons, Webbs, Dodds, et al were all in it.?? Other very early sirnames in SC and VA and NC that connect are: PETTY, MASSEY, GRABENER, HEWES, CRISS, GULLETT, SAMPIER, KITE, DODD, BRYANT, LOWERY-LOWRY, MCLEAN, MCKOWN, WILLIAMS, GOODWIN, MOORE, COLLINS, POUNDS, RUNYAN,Turner, CAMPBELL, BROWN, CAVE-CAVES, MORGAN,MARSH, PACK AND JAMES--CARPENTER,CLINE,NARRID, HUGG.... just to name a few of our aux lines. IF any of the members of this DODD mailing list OR PATTERSON LIST OR MILAM CO. TX LIST? know of the wagon trains or lists of members--please advise where that data is found? Our line of DODD people came from VA to SC to NC to alabama and to texas and then spread out through out all texas, okla, ark, louisiana and then points west. Our COLLINS and POUNDS line was from ala to mississippi and then to louisiana and texas by 1854. ASHLEY dodd's FAMILY SETTLED AROUND MILAM CO. TX, Bandera, Bowie, Burleson, Williamson, Falls, Erath, Cass, Harris, Polk and others. The CAVE/ Brown lineage was from Barnsdall district early in rev. days. A strong line of patriots down to today. AS the movie: PATRIOT, so happened in the CAVE?Brown family. (CAVE married into DODD in alabama). Thanks to the list and if anyone has some DODD or PATTERSON ... stories connecting familys?--lets hear them.?..who knows it might be my granny or yours? Your blocked wall --may have my answers on the other side? sincerely, judy hugg grimes, yorba linda ca.