Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: John Calvin Dotson    
         Census name: J. Calvin Dotson 1
                Born: Oct- 5-1842           2 (see note 1)
                Died: Apr- 3-1913           2
              Buried:                      in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood, Doddridge Co, WV  3,4
              Census: 1900                 in Central District, Doddridge Co, WV  
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Doddridge Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation:                      postmaster, Central Station  3
            Military:                      Co L & M, 6th W.Va. Inf, Civil War  5,3
              Mother: Melissa "Milly" ___   (1814 -     ) 
Other spouse 2
                Wife: Ermina J. Wilson   6,7  
       Also known as: Ermine Wilson 6
                Born: Jul-25-1854           8
                Died: Apr-13-1875           2
              Buried:                      in Toll Gate Baptist Church Cemetery, Toll Gate, Ritchie Co, WV  9
              Father: William Smallwood Wilson 
              Mother: Juliet Lowther   (1812 - 1898) 
           M Child 1: James E. Dotson      
       Also known as: E. Dotson 10
                Born: Nov-25-1873          at Toll Gate, Ritchie Co, WV  11,2,1
                Died: May-13-1901          in Doddridge Co, WV  10,2
              Buried:                      in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood, Doddridge Co, WV  4
              Census: 1900                 in Central District, Doddridge Co, WV   (see note 2)
          Occupation: 1900                 lineman  1

Sources:
(1) 1900 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Central District) 
(2) Headstone. 
(3) Obituary. 
(4) Findagrave.com. 
(5) U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line], Ancestry.com and National 
Archives & Records Administration. 
(6) Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 270. 
(7) Obituary of husband. 
(8) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death. 
(9) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(10) West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(11) West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Birth date given in 1900 Census as Oct 1843.  But date on headstone is Oct 5
1842, which agrees with age given in obituary.
Note (2) Listed as James E. Dotson, 26, b. Nov 1873, single, occupation lineman, a
boarder in the household of Hiram & Ada (Dotson) Henry.







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