Thanks, Linda, for looking it up. I'm going to get a check in the mail for my order. Also enjoyed the Dodson tales attached. I could add a few to these on my Samuel David Dodson. Elaine Dodson Thomas. LRHogan@aol.com wrote: > Elaine, > With your surnames I think it would be worth it to get the book. > There is 28 references to Malicote, Malicoat, Mallicoat...and there is a > feature article. There are 18 references to Nash, Dodson 10, Dotson 15 > > Had your Dodson/Dotson been in Johnson County? > Subj: Re: TNJOHNSO-L: Does it look familiar? I hope so :-) > Date: 8/26/1999 8:22:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: joe@ncta.net (Joe Wilson) > Sender: owner-tnjohnso-l@rootsquest.com > Reply-to: <A > HREF="mailto:tnjohnso-l@rootsquest.com">tnjohnso-l@rootsquest.com</A> > To: tnjohnso-l@rootsquest.com > > Hi Jack: I suppose I could figure out for absolute certain which one of the > cousins it was if I were home with the data, but I'm not. It certainly was > not the oldtimer, then in his 90s, famed for his comment that he'd "...lived > in four states, but never moved, and am living in the house I was born in." > (They'd thought they were in Virginia when they first came to Trade, then > learned they were in colonial North Carolina, then came the abortive State > of Franklin, then finally the State of Tennessee. Of course he could have > added the Territory South of the Ohio River, the designation the US Congress > gave the area while in transition from North Carolina to the State of > Tennessee.) The later lads named Reuben are named for him. He was a son of > George Dotson whose will was probated under the laws of the Territory South > of the Ohio River in 1794 (?), shortly before Tennessee became a state. > > Anyway, Okla McGlamery told me a story he got from his father who was around > when this happened. He said that when Jeff May hanged Dan Shepherd in the > Wallace Settlement the rope broke. So Jeff took his bridle reins from his > horse and strangled Shepherd in the road. It was in the fall of the year or > winter, and Shepherd had chestnuts in his pockets. So Reuben Dotson ate > Dan's chestnuts while the leather reins were twisted on his throat and he > writhed his dance of death and Jeff May screamed, "Die, you > son-of-a-bitch!". This was revenge for Shepherd's Confederate home guard > hanging of Jeff's 14 year old son. > > Another story about this Reuben came from my uncle, Alfred Wilson. Reuben > had helped with a hog killing, and was to get some meat from the several > hogs slaughtered, but the farmer-neighbor was stingy and gave nothing. So > Reuben, a strong man, took one of the hogs from the rack where they were > cooling, and carried it home on his back. Uncle Alf would salute this bit of > bold theft and raw strength with a sly line tossed in during one of his > fiddle tunes (and always aimed it at a relative): > > "Heigh-oh Sally, > Hear that crack > Yonder comes Reuben > With a hog on his back. > > The Dotsons were honest and hardworking, and the event - and Alf's humor -- > did not amuse all. Alf was the son of Julia Belle Dotson Wilson and she was > the daughter of Alfred A. Dotson of Trade, a grandson of old Reuben, and > great-grandson of George. Got it? > > Be a good boy, and do honor to that name you bear .And if an old dude of > good size climbs out of your family tree and asks for a chestnut, humor him > with as many as you can find. Joe Wilson > > ---------- > >From: "Jack Dotson" <jdotson@informix.com> > >To: <tnjohnso-l@rootsquest.com> > >Subject: RE: TNJOHNSO-L: Does it look familiar? I hope so :-) > >Date: Thu, Aug 26, 1999, 10:46 AM > > > > > Joe- > > Do you know which Reuban Dotson it was that was with Jeff May? > > > In a message dated 8/26/1999 1:31:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > erthomas@nm.net writes: > > << Subj: Re: [TNGRAING-L] Grainger County Heritage Books > Date: 8/26/1999 1:31:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: erthomas@nm.net (erthomas) > Reply-to: <A > HREF="mailto:TNGRAING-L@rootsweb.com">TNGRAING-L@rootsweb.com</A> > To: TNGRAING-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi Linda: > > Thought maybe I should make sure my family is in the book before sending a > check. Any reference to Thomas Dotson (in Grainger until 1819), his son, > Samuel > W. Dotson, (who married Frances Nash), Thomas Nash, or Dicey Mallicoat Nash? > > Elaine Dodson Thomas > >>