JO ANN , thanks for update. YES, seems like should be obit. BUT, there would be Death Certificate. WE/YOU have came a long way on proving this family. THANKS for sharing. marie, iowa -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jo Ann Whitworth Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 12:03 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [SELLERS] SELLERS/DOBBS On the 1930 Census for Jackson County, Bar______ (can't quite make out last part) Township, Oklahoma there is listed Thomas M. Dobbs, wife Jennie, son Vernon, son Wiley (may have been misspelled), son Emmrett, and Daughter Ethel. The children were born in Oklahoma, the parents in Texas. Thomas M.'s parents were listed as from TN and Ill, and Jennie's as being from Alabama. (Source: Ancestry.com and Crystal. www.cityofaltus.org/images/uploads/dept_0101/genericsqlecec.asp lists Jennie (Mrs. T.M.) Dobbs (born 1870, died 1970) and T. M. Dobbs, born 1869, died 1944, as buried in the Altus City Cemetery, Altus, Oklahoma. Today I received a letter from the Jackson County Clerk, Altus, Oklahoma saying she could not find any records of land deeds for T. M. Dobbs, but that there were several other Dobbs listed in the land records. She also copied and sent the following information: CD#18 Altus Birth Dobbs, Vernon, Dec 13, 1908, age 20 Dobbs, Nylie, May 20, 1912, age 16 Dobbs, Emmett, Jan 28, 1915, age 14 Dobbs, Ethel, May 2, 1918, age 10 Those have T. M. Dobbs listed as Parent or guardian My cousin, who knew my grandmother, Fannie Lee Sellers Niblett Medlin, as a child (he still lives on the next street from the old house that belonged to Fannie Lee when she was married to her last husband, William Medlin) says that the JENNIE DOBBS, buried at the Altus City Cemetery is Fannie Lee Sellers Niblett Medlin's sister, Jennie Sellers who married a DOBBS. I believe that the Jennie Sellers who married Thomas M. Dobbs in Hunt County, Texas is this same Jennie Dobbs, and that T. M. Dobbs is Thomas M. Dobbs. The problem is that an obit for Jennie and Thomas M Dobbs cannot be found. If Jennie was one hundred years old when she died, it would seem to me tha it would have gotten a write up in the papers of the day in Oklahoma. But my internet research has turned up nothing so far. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message