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Elisha DOTSON

Elisha DOTSON

Male 1794 - 1871  (77 years)

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  • Name Elisha DOTSON 
    Born 22 Feb 1794  Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Military From 30 Aug 1814 to 24 Mar 1815  [1] 
    Capt Henry Steed's Co D, Infantry, 5th Regt, War of 1812 
    Died 30 Aug 1871  Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I119976  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2020 

    Father Richard DOTSON,   b. 23 Oct 1752, Shenandoah Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1847, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 94 years) 
    Mother Amelia "Millie" MILLER,   b. CA 1775,   d. Between 1810 and 1819  (Age ~ 35 years) 
    Family ID F19160  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Nancy Ann Mary WINEGER,   b. 1796,   d. Jul 1847  (Age 51 years)  [2] 
    Children 
    +1. Hiram D. DOTSON,   b. 18 Jun 1825, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Dec 1901, Goose Creek, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     2. Albert G. DOTSON,   b. 1828,   d. 1910  (Age 82 years)
     3. Elisha DOTSON, Jr.,   b. CA 1832, Wood Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep 1853, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 21 years)
    +4. Irvin DOTSON,   b. 12 Nov 1836, Virginia (now West Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Oct 1917, Petroleum, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
    Family ID F51445  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Ingaba LOWTHER,   b. 7 Nov 1817,   d. 2 Oct 1899, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Married Nov 1848  Greenwood, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • 1850 Census, Doddridge Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Jul 27 1850:
      Henry Ellifrit, 28, farmer, value of real estate $300; Nancy, 28; Flora E, 4; Eleanor, 2; Mary E, 4 months. All born in Virginia except Henry, born in Maryland.
      The remaining members of the household all had the surname Dotson:
      Elisha Dotson, 55, farmer, value of real estate $500; Ingaby, 34; Elisha Jr, 16, farmer; Irvin, 13; Daniel, 3 months. All born in Virginia.
      NOTE: Relationship, if any, between these families is not certain, but may be based on the following: Elisha Dotson had a daughter with his first wife, Nancy. That daughter was Clarinda Dotson. Clarinda married George W. Ellifritt, son of Samuel Ellifritt. Henry was also a son of Samuel Ellifritt. As for Ingaba, she is believed to be a daughter of William Jesse Lowther & Mary (Lowther) Lowther, and to have been made a ward of Warner W. Chapman sometime in the 1830s after the death of her father. In the 1860 and 1870 censuses, this Dotson family was found in Wood County, and later in Kansas.
    Family ID F51446  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    2. [S182] Richard Dotson (1752-1847) and his Descendants, James M. Dotson & Barr Wilson, (Self-published, 1992), p. 191.