Bill, Please check out the following site: http://www.greencis.net/~sandysq/gra_ty.htm Partial Records Grainger Co.,TN Marriages 1796-1827 I see listed: Samuel Dodson married Mary Williams Aug 3,1820 bondsman Samuel Dodson/William Moore I hope this helps. Mary Bill Waller wrote: > > To ALL: Anyone willing to share their ideas about the first wife of Samuel > Dodson (b VA 1774- d Grainger Co TN 1860)? Two quotes follow: (1) the Lucas > Dodson book (v1 p189) says of this Samuel "His first wife MAY HAVE BEEN Mary > (Polly) Dalton, [my emphasis]. Probably based on Reuben Dalton's 1822 Grainger > Co TN will, mentioned daughter Polly Dodson. Someone may have looked at the > 1810 partial Grainger Co TN Census and picked Samuel for her husband. ANY > PROOF FOR DALTON WIFE FOR SAMUEL? And (2) statement of this Samuel's grandson. > Grandson's father would have known his mother's name. Thanks.--Bill > ----------------------- > "The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, > Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants" said of this Samuel: > > "His first wife may have been Mary (Polly) Dalton, daughter of Reuben Dalton, > Sr. If this proves to be true, they were married during the early 1790's." > > "Samuel Dotson's first wife died before 1830 as that census shows no females > in Samuel Dotson's household. Some of the researchers on this family have the > belief that the first wife of Samuel Dotson was a Stone, but nothing has been > found to confirm this belief." > > "According to information supplied by Mr C H Dotson to family researchers, the > wife of Samuel Dodson was a Clontz. Evidently this was his second wife, Susan, > in his household on the 1850 census,..." etc. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > 1921 statement re wives of Samuel Dodson by Claiborn Hicks Dotson. > [Claiborn Hicks Dotson, 1838-1921 was grandson > and lived in the same area/county > of this Samuel Dodson/Dotson, 1774-1860. > Claiborn's marriage in 1861, one year after Samuel's death, > put him in the home of Samuel's son, William Dotson, > (father of my great grandmother, Elizabeth Minerva Dotson Waller) > who would certainly know his mother's name.] > > "Aunt Sallie McANALLY was Born March 24 1789 Died April 5, 1877 > She married Charles BURNS > too them was Born two Children Charles and Ruth > She then maried Samuel DOTSON > she was his 3rd wife > his first wife was a CLOUNCH [CLONTZ] > his Second was a STONE > Aunt Sallie as we all called her was Sallie BURNS Formily Sallie McANALLY > a sister to Grandpap McANALLY Charles a Preacher." > --------------------------------------------------------------