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| Name | Joseph DABBS | |
| Gender | Male | |
| HIST | Dabbs, Harris, Hancock, Hutchinson, Worthey James Dabbs and Mary Harris Part Two of Joseph Dabbs and Nancy Ann Hoggatt Proposed James Dabbs Lineage Compiled by Judy Griffin, 2007 - email address • Joseph Dabbs 1700 - 1749 + Nancy Ann Hoggatt 1716 - between 1780-1790 • .... 2 Nathaniel Dabbs circa 1737-40 - 1800 + Elizabeth Haney circa 1743 - after 1820 • .…... 3 James Dabbs bet. 1778-82 - 1841 + Mary Harris 1788 - 1852 • ............ 4 William Dabbs between 1805-06 - + Elzina Hicks, (2) Polly (Mary) Lewis • ............ 4 Samuel Dabbs 1808 - 1853 + Mary Link circa 1809 - 1855 • ................ 5 Jane Dabbs circa 1831 - + Thomas McMinis • ................ 5 Mary Dabbs 1833 - + Absolam Davenport • ................ 5 William Washington Dabbs 1836 - 1917 + Leaner Catherine Worthey 1840 - 1929 • .................... 6 William H. Dabbs circa 1859 - 1877 • .................... 6 Elizabeth Dabbs circa 1860 - • .................... 6 John Wesley Dabbs 1862 - 1921 + Mary Reister 1865 - 1956 • .................... 6 George Frank Dabbs circa 1865 - + Barbara Cable • .................... 6 Linly L. Dabbs 1867 - 1947 + Rosetta Johnson 1871 - 1938 • .................... 6 Hettie E. Dabbs circa 1869 - 1893 + William Henry Hancock 1864 - 1928 • ........................ 7 Emma Magadeline Hancock 1889 - 1920 + Linley Otto Hills (not married), + Elvin Charles Hutchinson • .................... 6 Margaret E. Dabbs 1871 - + Fred Frazier • .................... 6 Emma E. Dabbs circa 1873 - + (1) William H. Springman, + (2) William Henry Hancock • .................... 6 Nellie Jane Dabbs 1879 - + Elmer Landon • .................... 6 William Oscar Dabbs 1880 - 1973 + Mary Alice Hutchinson 1882 - 1974 • .................... 6 Mary E. Dabbs + (1) Walter Davenport, + (2) Don M. Beach • ................ 5 Jacob Dabbs circa 1839 - • ................ 5 Emaline Dabbs circa 1843 - • ............ 4 James Dabbs 1809 - bef. 1830 • ............ 4 John Wesley Dabbs 1812 - 1866 + Margaret Fuller • ............ 4 George Dabbs 1813 - + Eliza Jane Burton • ............ 4 Susannah Dabbs 1815 - + Jonathan Watson • ............ 4 Jesse E. Dabbs 1817 - 1873 + Matilda Marsh 1818 - 1865 • ................ 5 Mary Jane Dabbs circa 1839 - 1931 + Charles Henry Houston 1836 - • ................ 5 Joshua Elias Dabbs 1841 - 1928 + (1) Susan Elizabeth Worthey 1843 - 1917, + (2) Leaner Catherine Worthey 1840 - 1929 • .................... 6 Sarah E. Dabbs 1866 - 1874 • .................... 6 Jasen E. Dabbs 1868 - 1868 • .................... 6 Rosa Ellen Dabbs 1869 - 1959 + Ernest Wedding 1869 - 1944 • .................... 6 Louis E. Dabbs 1871 - 1873 • .................... 6 Emma Emmeline Dabbs 1873 - 1963 + James F. Danielson 1855 - 1929 • .................... 6 Andrew Jackson Dabbs 1875 - 1951 + (1) Alice Sager 1879 - bef. 1905, (2) + Anna B. McGrew • .................... 6 Cora May Dabbs 1877 - 1954 + (1) William J. Lewis 1873 - 1905, (2) George Spangle - 1928 • .................... 6 Lydia J. Dabbs 1879 - 1881 • .................... 6 Bertram Leroy Dabbs 1882 - 1965 + Sophia Mae Miller 1883 - 1981 • .................... 6 Pearl Spencer Dabbs 1885 - 1951 + Minnie Carter 1891 - 1982 • ................ 5 Amanda M. Dabbs 1843 - 1905 + Charles McDaniels 1827 - 1887 • ................ 5 Henry Clay Dabbs 1845 - + Letha Jane Martin 1849 - • ................ 5 Sarah E. Dabbs 1847 - 1913 + James Chappee 1845 - 1932 • ................ 5 Charles W. Dabbs 1849 - 1865 • ................ 5 George W. Dabbs 1851 - 1888 + Mattie Mathilda Gilbert • ................ 5 Ephriam Edwin Dabbs 1856 - 1941 + (1) Mary Jane Tucker, (2) Henrietta Bivens 1864 - 1947 • Second wife of Jesse E. Dabbs, Isabel Carson Devlin or Devling • ................ 5 James Dabbs circa 1873 - • ............ 4 Elias Dabbs b. 1820, Illinois + Rebecca Sackett • ............ 4 Joshua Dabbs 1822 - 1864 + (1) Sarah Jane (Brown) White - 1859, (2) Sabrina L. Schaff • ................ 5 Sarah Jane Dabbs circa 1860 - • ................ 5 Martha W. Dabbs circa 1862 - • ............ 4 Nathan Dabbs 1825 - 1850 • ............ 4 Mary Ann Dabbs before 1830 - + Reuben Fisher James Dabbs James Dabbs (Nathaniel2, Joseph1) was born between 1778-1782, probably in North Carolina, and died December 19, 1841 in Jersey County, Illinois. He married the fourteen-year-old Mary Harris 1802 in South Carolina, probably the daughter of James Harris and Elizabeth. Mary was born in 1788 in South Carolina and died on September 8, 1852 in Jersey County, Illinois. There was only one James Harris enumerated in 1800 in Union County, South Carolina, the same county where James’ father, Nathaniel Dabbs, was living by 1795. The Dabbs family migrated to Warren or Barren County, Kentucky, where they remained until circa 1819. Mary’s father, James Harris, also settled there, he was living near James Dabbs in 1810. (1) In the 1810 census for Warren County were James Dabbs, his wife Mary and three sons under age ten (one male 26-45, one female 16-26, three males under 10). The sons were probably William, our Samuel and James, Jr. In the Harris family were James and Elizabeth and nine children or others. A James Harris is said to have married an Elizabeth Gillespie. Many members of the Harris family moved to Kentucky circa 1803 and were in Tennessee by 1825. (2) There was a James Harris mentioned in a land record in or near Anson County, North Carolina (but in South Carolina), in 1754: (3) “James Harris ? a Plantation or tract of Land Cont’g 200 Acres situate as Supposed when run out to be in Anson County in the Province of N. Carolina on the S. Side of the Catawba river on the N. side of fishing Creek, Joining on the N. side of Wm Mills Survey ? Originally granted the 3d day of Feby 1754 to the Memorialist ? by the Hon’ble Matthew Rowan then President of N. Carolina but by a late resurvey of the boundary line between N. & S. Carolina the above tract of Land falls within the Province of S. Carolina in Craven County ? (sworn) the 1st of Decr 1772 Samuel Young, D.S. (signed) James Harris.” Some of the first explorers in the Warren County, Kentucky area were the Long Hunters, so termed due to the long periods of time they spent away from home. (4) It was their explorations that helped open mid-Kentucky for settlers, including the Dabbs and Harris families. There is an 1806 Kentucky land grant for a James Harris in Warren County, two hundred acres on the Hanging Fork Big Buck Creek water course, surveyed March 7, 1806. (5) A survey was done as part of the land grant process. In circa 1819 James Dabbs and his family left Kentucky for Madison County, Illinois, settling in Fosterburg Township. “. . . About the same time, James Dabbs settled on another branch [of the Wood River], a mile northwest of a man named Honeycutt. This branch has since been known as Dabbs’ creek. He left about the same time, and probably with Honeycutt. Honeycutt’s name was also given to streams.” (6) A newspaper clipping before Jersey County was established had an interview with a Rowel Honeycutt: (7) • “This land was a paradise,” says a gentle, kindly old man of 83, known in this region as Uncle Rowell Honeycutt, “When I could stand on the bluff and look down in the river bottom and count fifty deer in sight. . . . You couldn’t get lead for making bullets short of Alton then. They were rather precious. . . .” “We came in 1817. My father moved his family first into a cave in the bluff near a spring. The time of the year was May. It was pretty living. We built our fire against the back of the cave, and the smoke oozed along the roof and went out the cave door without doing any damage. The mark of the smoke’s on the cave roof yet. The country was full of game. Only six white men were here then. “Once they had a mill raising up the river. The mill’s standing yet. It ought to stand. It was built of timbers fifteen inches square. A rope broke at the raising, and one of the timbers fell and killed nearly all the men in one county! Six men. That’s about all there were in that county. “But Seeley’s mill over here; it was the place where everybody used to grind. Folks brought their grist from Jacksonville and Springfield. Jacksonville and Springfield haven’t been where they are very long though. I went over their sites in 1821 and there wasn’t a house. “ . . . But some folks here in ‘23 didn’t enjoy this country. A man’s wife got a sick and wanted a pound of tea, and he walked clear to St. Louis to get it for her. He moved back East. He said it was too hard for him here. The women did have scares. This was when the British gave a bounty on scalps. Some Indians went down [to] Woodriver and killed six children and a woman and brought away their scalps – the guile of the head, you know, where the hair grows round. Major Pruitt and some more whites got on horses and chased them down. They killed an Indian, and the rest ran for twenty-four hours and bled to death at the nose they got so exhausted. Shabbona told me about their bleeding to death. He was the only one that got away. Major Pruitt took back the woman’s scalp to her husband. . . .” There were Illinois land patents for a Rudolph Honeycutt dated April 17, 1818, and one for a James Dabbs, dated January 18, 1819, but both patents were for land in areas much further north, in present-day Fulton and McDonough counties respectively. There was an Arthel Honeycutt in Madison County in 1818. By the 1820 census, James Dabbs was in Wood River Township, Madison, County. (8) By 1821, Greene County was formed from part of Madison County, and in 1839 Jersey County was formed from Greene. By about 1826 the Dabbs were in Greene County, finally ending up in Jersey County by 1834. There were Dabbs/Dobbs in Illinois as early as 1817 to 1819, and others in various counties in the 1830s. Whether these other early Dabbs/Dobbs were related is not known. In this compiler’s files, there is a note by a family member stating “my Grandfather fought in this Battle,” written on a newspaper article on Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans. Unfortunately, I did not record my source for this, though I believe it is the same person who had made handwritten notes on the Dabbs family with some mentions of the Hutchinson family, the source of which I also did not record. I knew it had to be either a Dabbs or, much less likely, a Hutchinson. I now believe it was referring to the James Dabbs, who entered 160 acres in McDonough County in 1819. A soldier who served in the War of 1812, who desired to take advantage of the military land bounty in Illinois, could only obtain land in the Military tract in mid-western part of Illinois, which did not include Madison County. The present McDonough County was part of the Illinois Military Tract. A search of available records did not turn up any other James Dabbs, or name variations, in Illinois up to and including 1820 and 1830. However, it is difficult to determine why James did not decide to settle in McDonough County. This James Dabbs stated that he served as a private in Robinson’s [unreadable word] 7th Regiment of Infantry. This Regiment did serve at the Battle of New Orleans, a battle that has such an interesting history, not to mention the great 1959 song. There is interesting information contained in the 1820 Illinois state (territorial, not federal) census for a James Dabbs in Madison County. The entry lists a James Dabbs as head of household with one free white male over 21, eleven free white individuals and twelve free people of color. I have not been able to verify the accuracy of this information. This census appears to include information from the 1818 state (territorial) and 1820 federal censuses combined. In the 1820 federal census, James was listed, with one male and one female age 26-45 (James and Mary), four males and one female age 10-16 (William, Samuel and James Jr., one female and male unknown), and five males and one female under age 10 (John, George, Jesse, Elias and Susannah, one male unknown). There are no persons of color listed and the total household is 13, in contrast to the 12 individuals listed in the 1820 state census. James Dabbs was not listed in a check of an online 1818 Illinois census, which does agree with the information above that stated he came to Illinois in 1819. By 1824, only eleven Illinois counties were slave, Fayette, Jefferson, Wayne, Randolph, Jackson, Franklin, Hamilton, White, Gallatin, Pope, and Alexander. (9) James Dabs [sic Dabbs] gave testimony in the county’s first murder trial, held in Edwardsville, Illinois in 1823. (10) The murder was committed on Christmas Eve, 1823, between the forks of Wood River and caused great excitement in the county, resulting in the first case of capital punishment in the county. A man by the name of Eliphalet Green, who was working at Abel Moore’s distillery, had a quarrel with another worker that ended in a fistfight. Green was badly beaten. He became enraged, got his gun and shot the other worker. Green then ran away into the forests, but returned on Christmas day and gave himself up. Court was held on January 13, 1824, and James Dabbs, among others, gave testimony. The jury returned an indictment, stating that Eliphat Green “. . . not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil . . . did kill and murder, to the great displeasure of Almighty God, . . .” Green was found guilty and “hanged by the neck until he be dead, dead, dead!” on February 11, 1824. Spectators came from a distance, possibly James and his family were in the crowd. As an aside, crimes at this early time included burglary, kidnapping, theft, larceny, forgery, vagrancy, etc. For some of these, the punishment was a public whipping, from 15 to 40 lashes on bare back, well laid on, the number of lashes determined by the crime, jury, and/or judge. This was graphically described by an observer in nearby Carrollton: (11) By 1826 James was living in Greene County, in the area that would become Otter Creek, Jersey County in 1839. James purchased 30 acres there from the Federal Government for $50.00 on December 30, 1826. (12) According to the county histories: • “James Dabbs settled in Section 9 in Otter Creek Township in the spring of 1826. He was a native of South Carolina and was married in that state in 1802. Several years after that event they emigrated to Barren County, KY. Jesse Dabbs, a son, died in 1875. James Dabbs and his wife Mary were worthy members of the pioneer band. He died in 1841 and his wife in 1852.” (13) “James Dabbs settled on section 9 in this township, in the spring of 1826. He was a native of South Carolina, and was married in that state in 1802. Several years after that event they emigrated to Warren Co., KY, where they resided until 1819, when they removed to the vicinity of Wood River, Madison Co., IL from which place they came here. Jesse Dabbs , a son, was a resident of the county until 1875, when he died. James Dabbs and his wife, Mary, were members of the pioneer band. He died Dec. 19, 1841, his wife living until Sept. 8, 1852.” (14) “James Dabbs, a native of South Carolina, moved thence to Barren county, Ky., several years after his marriage, which occurred in 1802. There he resided until 1819, when he came to Illinois and settled on Wood river, north of Upper Alton. In 1826 he came to Jersey county, and located on what is now the McAdams farm, but in 1829 or 1830 he moved on section 9 of Otter creek township, where he resided until his death, which occurred December 19, 1841. With him came his brother, Samuel Dabbs.” (15) The 1872 biographical entry for James’ son, Jesse, gives similar information on James and Mary: (16) • “Jesse Dabbs was born in Barren county, Kentucky, December 22, 1817. He is the sixth child of James and Mary Dabbs, who were natives of South Carolina where, in 1802, they were married. They emigrated to Kentucky several years after their marriage, and resided in Barren county till the fall of 1819, when they emigrated to Illinois, and settled on Wood river, north of Upper Alton, where they remained till the spring of 1826, when they located on section 9, township 7, range 12, where they resided till their death. Mr. Dabbs had a family of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, all deceased, except Jesse and Elias. He followed farming through life. His wife was a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Dabbs died December 19, 1841, aged fifty-nine years, and his wife also died September 8, 1852, aged sixty-five years. . . .” The children of James Dabbs and Mary Harris purchased land in Jersey County in the 1830s, some while it was still Greene County, most just after Jersey County was formed from Greene County in early 1839. (17) In 1834 (Greene County), John purchased land in what is now Rosedale Township, just west of Otter Creek. In 1835 (Greene County) our Samuel purchased land in what are now Otter Creek and Quarry East Townships, just below Otter Creek; and John purchased land in Piasa Township, located in western edge of Jersey County. In 1836 William purchased land in Greene County. In 1839 Samuel, George and John purchased land in Piasa Township; George and Samuel purchased land in Mississippi Township, just east of Otter Creek; Jesse purchased land in Otter Creek Township. In 1840 James and George purchased land in Otter Creek Township. This last purchase is probably the father James, since his son named James had died by 1830, and this would have been just before our James, Sr. died. A Mary Dabb [sic] purchased land in Piasa Township in 1839, it is not known if this is Mary Harris. These journal entries of a family, probably Mormon, making the trek across the plains on their way to Salt Lake City, mentions our Dabbs family: (18) • Tusday 23 May 1854. Started from Mr. G. Lindsy’s farm Jersey County Ill. for Great Salt Lake City. As soon as we got clear of the fence one of the cows turned the yoke which detained us some, by the help of Bro. & Sister Dabbs we got things right and on till we got opposite Ebe Rowden’s when the cows were again unruley, He and Bro Dabbs went with us a little farther and left us, traveled on about about five miles when we got into a deep gully the horses baulked and would not go any farther, the cows had to stand right in the mud, & sleep in the same place for the night. Rain’d all night from the time we got their, miserable, but rejoiced. Wednesday 24. Wet morning. Cut a large tree in too to open the way better in fact we repaired the road considerable after a while some men came past with an horse teem. I requested them to hitch there horses too with mine, did so, but could not get out. Went to see Mr. Watson to trade with him for cattle and get him to hawle us on the hill which he did, but I could not trade with him because he wanted my new wagon, horses and harness for two Yoke of his cattle and his old wagon, very unreasonable. The Carr place near to us. Thursday 25. About the same. Called on the Lord for help. Traveled over much ground to find a yoke of cattle but could not. Friday 26. Traded my Sorrel pony for one yoke of Young cattle with Polly Dabbs and sold her harness for one horse. [Polly is another name for Mary] James and Mary attended the Baptist services and later the church in Jersey County. Sometime after James died, Mary went to live with her son, Jesse. In the 1850 census she was living with Jesse; and, according to this census, Mary Harris could not read or write. They were said to have had ten children, eight sons, two daughters. We have found nine sons, two daughters. Their children were: (19) • William Dabbs was born between 1805-1806 in North Carolina or Kentucky (see below). • Samuel Dabbs was born in 1808 in Kentucky and died on December 12, 1853 in Jersey County, Illinois (see below). • James Dabbs was born in 1809 in Kentucky and died before 1830. • John Wesley Dabbs was born in 1812 in Kentucky and died on December 26, 1866 in Illinois. This may be the John Dabbs who made a settlement in 1831 on section 24 in Rosedale Township, which he purchased from the government the next year and was a resident there for years. (20) John married Margaret Fuller on July 5, 1833 in Greene County, Illinois. (21) He was buried in the Divernon Township Cemetery, Sangamon County, Illinois. Margaret/Martha was born circa 1819 in Tennessee. The children of John and Margaret were George W. born circa 1836, Elmina born 1840 in Jersey County, and Thomas born 1849, all born in Illinois. (22) Thomas J. is said to have been born in Sangamon County, so the family must have moved there in the 1840s. They were found there in the 1860 census, with their four children: George W., age 24; Almina J. [sic], age 20; Thomas J., age 10; and William H., age 7. John must have been a prosperous farmer, his real estate was valued at $20,000, personal estate $1,500. By 1870, after John died, Martha was still living in Sangamon County with her second husband, Benjamin Fuller and her Dabbs children George W., Thomas J., and William. Martha married a Benjamin A. Fuller on July 12, 1868. (23) In 1880 a Martha Dabbs was the head of household with George W. and William H. William H. was disabled, his condition was unreadable. There is a biography of daughter Elmina’s husband, that gives information on the family: (24) “. . . Mr. Barnes has been married twice. In this county, April 11, 1861, he wedded Elmina Jane Dobbs, who was born and reared in Jersey county, Illinois, a daughter of John Dobbs, one of the pioneers of Illinois. Her death occurred in 1878. There were three sons and three daughters by that marriage. In 1879 Mr. Barnes wedded Mrs. Elizabeth Dayton, nee Brockman, who was born in Jersey county, Illinois, and was a cousin of his first wife. . . . The children of Mr. Barnes’ first marriage are: John; Arthur E., who is married and operates the home farm; George, who is living on the farm; Mrs. Anna Sims; Mrs. Mary Ford; and Mrs. Bertha Hoffman. . . .” • George W. Dabbs was born in 1813 in Kentucky. George married Eliza Jane Burton on November 13, 1851 in Calhoun County, Illinois. (25) George was about thirty-eight and may have married before his marriage to Eliza Burton. In 1850, just before his marriage, George W. Dabbs was listed as a farmer with real estate valued at $200 in the Newel household in Calhoun County. (26) No wife was listed. His first wife could have been a Newel. Listed next in the census record were John and Jane Burton with their daughter Eliza Jane, age 14. In 1836, George, listed as a resident of Greene County at the time (Jersey was part of Green before 1839), purchased forty acres in what was to become Otter Creek Township. (27) However, the records of the Bureau of Land Management has the date of this purchase recorded as January 1, 1840. (28) Regardless, this is the township where George’s father had settled and where George must have grown to adulthood. By December 1849 George had purchased forty acres in Calhoun County, where we seem to have found him in 1850. By 1860 a George and Eliza Dobbs were living in Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri with their son John J. Dobbs. In 1870 they were in Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa with their sons John J., Everett, Ephriam W., and Erastus. They were not found in the 1880 census. They moved to Missouri in the mid-1860s, then to Iowa by about 1868 when Erastus was born. The information in these censuses (birth dates, places) indicate that this Dobbs family is the George W. Dabbs family. Just why they were listed as Dobbs is not known. One researcher has Elizabeth’s death as 1880 and George’s 1888, no children listed. (29) Researcher Ramona Koegler stated that George Washington Dobbs was born in Warren County, Kentucky and died circa 1888 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (30) She also stated that Eliza Jane died in November 1880 in Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah. She listed their children as: John James Dobbs, born September 21, 1853 in Jersey County and died 1900, married Emma Olive Allsop on November 6, 1879; Orson Dobbs; Joseph Dobbs; and Rasmus [Erastmus] Dobbs. • Susannah Dabbs was born in 1815 in Kentucky. Susannah married Jonathan Watson on May 9, 1833 in Jersey County, Illinois. They had two children, Andrew J. and Harriet. Jonathan may have died before 1850. By 1850, Susannah/Susan was living in the home of a probable sister of Jonathan, Mary W., who had just married Samuel Burdie [sic Burdick]. (31) With her were her two children, Andrew J. and Harriet. Living in the same household was Susannah’s brother, Elias Dabbs. • Jesse E. Dabbs was born December 22, 1817 in Barren County, Kentucky and died in 1873. See information on Jesse and his descendants below. • Elias Dabbs was born in 1820 in Illinois. He married Rebecca Sackett on September 18, 1850, Jersey County, Illinois. Since Elias was about thirty when he married Rebecca (about twice her age), who was born circa 1836, he may have married previously. There is a record for an Elias Dabbs who married a Celia Belcher on January 10, 1841 in Calhoun County. (32) Elias (age 40) and Rebecca (age 24) were listed in the 1860 census, with a Lizzie Dabbs, age 20. (33) This Lizzie could be a child of an Elias’ first marriage or a relative. Elias was listed in the Jersey County Delinquent Personal Tax List for 1865. (34) In April 1867 a divorce was granted to Rebecca and Elias Dabbs. (35) Elias may have remarried, since there is a marriage between an Elias Dabbs and Mrs. Elizabeth Applin/Applen on August 30, 1867. (36) Elias served with the 122nd Illinois Infantry, first with Company K, then transferring to Company C during the Civil War. (37) He resided in Fieldon when he first enrolled and in Kane (Greene County) when he transferred to Company C. (38) He was buried in the Dabbs Cemetery, Otter Creek Township, Jersey County, Illinois. He is not found in the 1870 census for Jersey County, and may have died before 1870. In an 1874 probate for the guardianship of Mary E. Dabbs (born April 8, 1859/1861), minor heir of an Elias Dabbs, her guardian and step-father was an A. J. Cannon. An Andrew J. Cannon married (1) Louis Poplin in 1851, (2) Susanah Appler/Hiyilen in 1860, and (3) Rebecca Sackett on August 17, 1867. (39) This Mary E. Dabbs may have been the daughter of Elias and Rebecca Dabbs. One wonders if Elias married the sister of Andrew Cannon’s second wife. In the 1880 Jersey County census, a James Cannon was listed as divorced. • Joshua Dabbs was born circa 1822 in Wood River (Woods Run?), Madison County, Illinois and died on November 1, 1864 in Jersey County, Illinois (see below). • Nathan Dabbs was born in 1825 and died in April 1850 in Jersey County, Illinois. Nathan, a farmer, died of consumption, according to his death record and the 1850 Illinois Mortality Schedule. (40) • Mary Ann Dabbs was born circa 1829. Mary Ann married Reuben Fisher on February 14, 1849 in Greene County. They were found on the 1850 census in Montgomery County, Illinois with their son Thomas, born circa 1849 in Greene County. (41) One researcher states that Reuben’s parents were John Fisher and Mary “Polly” Thompson. (42) This same researcher states that the parents of Mary Ann were probably William and Elzina Dabbs, since they were the only Dabbs in Greene County in 1850. This is a possibility, since there is no documentation for Mary Ann. An undocumented IGI record states that Reuben was born in 1825 in Illinois and died in 1856. There was a George W. Dabbs, residing at Jerseyville, who served in the Civil War, Company I, 144th Infantry. (43) A George Dabbs purchased land in Otter Creek Township in 1854. It is not known if this was the son of John W. Dabbs, or the son of James Dabbs, also named George W, or neither of these. | |
| HIST | Dabbs, Harris, Hancock, Hutchinson, Worthey James Dabbs and Mary Harris Part Two of Joseph Dabbs and Nancy Ann Hoggatt Proposed James Dabbs Lineage Compiled by Judy Griffin, 2007 - email address • Joseph Dabbs 1700 - 1749 + Nancy Ann Hoggatt 1716 - between 1780-1790 • .... 2 Nathaniel Dabbs circa 1737-40 - 1800 + Elizabeth Haney circa 1743 - after 1820 • .…... 3 James Dabbs bet. 1778-82 - 1841 + Mary Harris 1788 - 1852 • ............ 4 William Dabbs between 1805-06 - + Elzina Hicks, (2) Polly (Mary) Lewis • ............ 4 Samuel Dabbs 1808 - 1853 + Mary Link circa 1809 - 1855 • ................ 5 Jane Dabbs circa 1831 - + Thomas McMinis • ................ 5 Mary Dabbs 1833 - + Absolam Davenport • ................ 5 William Washington Dabbs 1836 - 1917 + Leaner Catherine Worthey 1840 - 1929 • .................... 6 William H. Dabbs circa 1859 - 1877 • .................... 6 Elizabeth Dabbs circa 1860 - • .................... 6 John Wesley Dabbs 1862 - 1921 + Mary Reister 1865 - 1956 • .................... 6 George Frank Dabbs circa 1865 - + Barbara Cable • .................... 6 Linly L. Dabbs 1867 - 1947 + Rosetta Johnson 1871 - 1938 • .................... 6 Hettie E. Dabbs circa 1869 - 1893 + William Henry Hancock 1864 - 1928 • ........................ 7 Emma Magadeline Hancock 1889 - 1920 + Linley Otto Hills (not married), + Elvin Charles Hutchinson • .................... 6 Margaret E. Dabbs 1871 - + Fred Frazier • .................... 6 Emma E. Dabbs circa 1873 - + (1) William H. Springman, + (2) William Henry Hancock • .................... 6 Nellie Jane Dabbs 1879 - + Elmer Landon • .................... 6 William Oscar Dabbs 1880 - 1973 + Mary Alice Hutchinson 1882 - 1974 • .................... 6 Mary E. Dabbs + (1) Walter Davenport, + (2) Don M. Beach • ................ 5 Jacob Dabbs circa 1839 - • ................ 5 Emaline Dabbs circa 1843 - • ............ 4 James Dabbs 1809 - bef. 1830 • ............ 4 John Wesley Dabbs 1812 - 1866 + Margaret Fuller • ............ 4 George Dabbs 1813 - + Eliza Jane Burton • ............ 4 Susannah Dabbs 1815 - + Jonathan Watson • ............ 4 Jesse E. Dabbs 1817 - 1873 + Matilda Marsh 1818 - 1865 • ................ 5 Mary Jane Dabbs circa 1839 - 1931 + Charles Henry Houston 1836 - • ................ 5 Joshua Elias Dabbs 1841 - 1928 + (1) Susan Elizabeth Worthey 1843 - 1917, + (2) Leaner Catherine Worthey 1840 - 1929 • .................... 6 Sarah E. Dabbs 1866 - 1874 • .................... 6 Jasen E. Dabbs 1868 - 1868 • .................... 6 Rosa Ellen Dabbs 1869 - 1959 + Ernest Wedding 1869 - 1944 • .................... 6 Louis E. Dabbs 1871 - 1873 • .................... 6 Emma Emmeline Dabbs 1873 - 1963 + James F. Danielson 1855 - 1929 • .................... 6 Andrew Jackson Dabbs 1875 - 1951 + (1) Alice Sager 1879 - bef. 1905, (2) + Anna B. McGrew • .................... 6 Cora May Dabbs 1877 - 1954 + (1) William J. Lewis 1873 - 1905, (2) George Spangle - 1928 • .................... 6 Lydia J. Dabbs 1879 - 1881 • .................... 6 Bertram Leroy Dabbs 1882 - 1965 + Sophia Mae Miller 1883 - 1981 • .................... 6 Pearl Spencer Dabbs 1885 - 1951 + Minnie Carter 1891 - 1982 • ................ 5 Amanda M. Dabbs 1843 - 1905 + Charles McDaniels 1827 - 1887 • ................ 5 Henry Clay Dabbs 1845 - + Letha Jane Martin 1849 - • ................ 5 Sarah E. Dabbs 1847 - 1913 + James Chappee 1845 - 1932 • ................ 5 Charles W. Dabbs 1849 - 1865 • ................ 5 George W. Dabbs 1851 - 1888 + Mattie Mathilda Gilbert • ................ 5 Ephriam Edwin Dabbs 1856 - 1941 + (1) Mary Jane Tucker, (2) Henrietta Bivens 1864 - 1947 • Second wife of Jesse E. Dabbs, Isabel Carson Devlin or Devling • ................ 5 James Dabbs circa 1873 - • ............ 4 Elias Dabbs b. 1820, Illinois + Rebecca Sackett • ............ 4 Joshua Dabbs 1822 - 1864 + (1) Sarah Jane (Brown) White - 1859, (2) Sabrina L. Schaff • ................ 5 Sarah Jane Dabbs circa 1860 - • ................ 5 Martha W. Dabbs circa 1862 - • ............ 4 Nathan Dabbs 1825 - 1850 • ............ 4 Mary Ann Dabbs before 1830 - + Reuben Fisher James Dabbs James Dabbs (Nathaniel2, Joseph1) was born between 1778-1782, probably in North Carolina, and died December 19, 1841 in Jersey County, Illinois. He married the fourteen-year-old Mary Harris 1802 in South Carolina, probably the daughter of James Harris and Elizabeth. Mary was born in 1788 in South Carolina and died on September 8, 1852 in Jersey County, Illinois. There was only one James Harris enumerated in 1800 in Union County, South Carolina, the same county where James’ father, Nathaniel Dabbs, was living by 1795. The Dabbs family migrated to Warren or Barren County, Kentucky, where they remained until circa 1819. Mary’s father, James Harris, also settled there, he was living near James Dabbs in 1810. (1) In the 1810 census for Warren County were James Dabbs, his wife Mary and three sons under age ten (one male 26-45, one female 16-26, three males under 10). The sons were probably William, our Samuel and James, Jr. In the Harris family were James and Elizabeth and nine children or others. A James Harris is said to have married an Elizabeth Gillespie. Many members of the Harris family moved to Kentucky circa 1803 and were in Tennessee by 1825. (2) There was a James Harris mentioned in a land record in or near Anson County, North Carolina (but in South Carolina), in 1754: (3) “James Harris ? a Plantation or tract of Land Cont’g 200 Acres situate as Supposed when run out to be in Anson County in the Province of N. Carolina on the S. Side of the Catawba river on the N. side of fishing Creek, Joining on the N. side of Wm Mills Survey ? Originally granted the 3d day of Feby 1754 to the Memorialist ? by the Hon’ble Matthew Rowan then President of N. Carolina but by a late resurvey of the boundary line between N. & S. Carolina the above tract of Land falls within the Province of S. Carolina in Craven County ? (sworn) the 1st of Decr 1772 Samuel Young, D.S. (signed) James Harris.” Some of the first explorers in the Warren County, Kentucky area were the Long Hunters, so termed due to the long periods of time they spent away from home. (4) It was their explorations that helped open mid-Kentucky for settlers, including the Dabbs and Harris families. There is an 1806 Kentucky land grant for a James Harris in Warren County, two hundred acres on the Hanging Fork Big Buck Creek water course, surveyed March 7, 1806. (5) A survey was done as part of the land grant process. In circa 1819 James Dabbs and his family left Kentucky for Madison County, Illinois, settling in Fosterburg Township. “. . . About the same time, James Dabbs settled on another branch [of the Wood River], a mile northwest of a man named Honeycutt. This branch has since been known as Dabbs’ creek. He left about the same time, and probably with Honeycutt. Honeycutt’s name was also given to streams.” (6) A newspaper clipping before Jersey County was established had an interview with a Rowel Honeycutt: (7) • “This land was a paradise,” says a gentle, kindly old man of 83, known in this region as Uncle Rowell Honeycutt, “When I could stand on the bluff and look down in the river bottom and count fifty deer in sight. . . . You couldn’t get lead for making bullets short of Alton then. They were rather precious. . . .” “We came in 1817. My father moved his family first into a cave in the bluff near a spring. The time of the year was May. It was pretty living. We built our fire against the back of the cave, and the smoke oozed along the roof and went out the cave door without doing any damage. The mark of the smoke’s on the cave roof yet. The country was full of game. Only six white men were here then. “Once they had a mill raising up the river. The mill’s standing yet. It ought to stand. It was built of timbers fifteen inches square. A rope broke at the raising, and one of the timbers fell and killed nearly all the men in one county! Six men. That’s about all there were in that county. “But Seeley’s mill over here; it was the place where everybody used to grind. Folks brought their grist from Jacksonville and Springfield. Jacksonville and Springfield haven’t been where they are very long though. I went over their sites in 1821 and there wasn’t a house. “ . . . But some folks here in ‘23 didn’t enjoy this country. A man’s wife got a sick and wanted a pound of tea, and he walked clear to St. Louis to get it for her. He moved back East. He said it was too hard for him here. The women did have scares. This was when the British gave a bounty on scalps. Some Indians went down [to] Woodriver and killed six children and a woman and brought away their scalps – the guile of the head, you know, where the hair grows round. Major Pruitt and some more whites got on horses and chased them down. They killed an Indian, and the rest ran for twenty-four hours and bled to death at the nose they got so exhausted. Shabbona told me about their bleeding to death. He was the only one that got away. Major Pruitt took back the woman’s scalp to her husband. . . .” There were Illinois land patents for a Rudolph Honeycutt dated April 17, 1818, and one for a James Dabbs, dated January 18, 1819, but both patents were for land in areas much further north, in present-day Fulton and McDonough counties respectively. There was an Arthel Honeycutt in Madison County in 1818. By the 1820 census, James Dabbs was in Wood River Township, Madison, County. (8) By 1821, Greene County was formed from part of Madison County, and in 1839 Jersey County was formed from Greene. By about 1826 the Dabbs were in Greene County, finally ending up in Jersey County by 1834. There were Dabbs/Dobbs in Illinois as early as 1817 to 1819, and others in various counties in the 1830s. Whether these other early Dabbs/Dobbs were related is not known. In this compiler’s files, there is a note by a family member stating “my Grandfather fought in this Battle,” written on a newspaper article on Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans. Unfortunately, I did not record my source for this, though I believe it is the same person who had made handwritten notes on the Dabbs family with some mentions of the Hutchinson family, the source of which I also did not record. I knew it had to be either a Dabbs or, much less likely, a Hutchinson. I now believe it was referring to the James Dabbs, who entered 160 acres in McDonough County in 1819. A soldier who served in the War of 1812, who desired to take advantage of the military land bounty in Illinois, could only obtain land in the Military tract in mid-western part of Illinois, which did not include Madison County. The present McDonough County was part of the Illinois Military Tract. A search of available records did not turn up any other James Dabbs, or name variations, in Illinois up to and including 1820 and 1830. However, it is difficult to determine why James did not decide to settle in McDonough County. This James Dabbs stated that he served as a private in Robinson’s [unreadable word] 7th Regiment of Infantry. This Regiment did serve at the Battle of New Orleans, a battle that has such an interesting history, not to mention the great 1959 song. There is interesting information contained in the 1820 Illinois state (territorial, not federal) census for a James Dabbs in Madison County. The entry lists a James Dabbs as head of household with one free white male over 21, eleven free white individuals and twelve free people of color. I have not been able to verify the accuracy of this information. This census appears to include information from the 1818 state (territorial) and 1820 federal censuses combined. In the 1820 federal census, James was listed, with one male and one female age 26-45 (James and Mary), four males and one female age 10-16 (William, Samuel and James Jr., one female and male unknown), and five males and one female under age 10 (John, George, Jesse, Elias and Susannah, one male unknown). There are no persons of color listed and the total household is 13, in contrast to the 12 individuals listed in the 1820 state census. James Dabbs was not listed in a check of an online 1818 Illinois census, which does agree with the information above that stated he came to Illinois in 1819. By 1824, only eleven Illinois counties were slave, Fayette, Jefferson, Wayne, Randolph, Jackson, Franklin, Hamilton, White, Gallatin, Pope, and Alexander. (9) James Dabs [sic Dabbs] gave testimony in the county’s first murder trial, held in Edwardsville, Illinois in 1823. (10) The murder was committed on Christmas Eve, 1823, between the forks of Wood River and caused great excitement in the county, resulting in the first case of capital punishment in the county. A man by the name of Eliphalet Green, who was working at Abel Moore’s distillery, had a quarrel with another worker that ended in a fistfight. Green was badly beaten. He became enraged, got his gun and shot the other worker. Green then ran away into the forests, but returned on Christmas day and gave himself up. Court was held on January 13, 1824, and James Dabbs, among others, gave testimony. The jury returned an indictment, stating that Eliphat Green “. . . not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil . . . did kill and murder, to the great displeasure of Almighty God, . . .” Green was found guilty and “hanged by the neck until he be dead, dead, dead!” on February 11, 1824. Spectators came from a distance, possibly James and his family were in the crowd. As an aside, crimes at this early time included burglary, kidnapping, theft, larceny, forgery, vagrancy, etc. For some of these, the punishment was a public whipping, from 15 to 40 lashes on bare back, well laid on, the number of lashes determined by the crime, jury, and/or judge. This was graphically described by an observer in nearby Carrollton: (11) By 1826 James was living in Greene County, in the area that would become Otter Creek, Jersey County in 1839. James purchased 30 acres there from the Federal Government for $50.00 on December 30, 1826. (12) According to the county histories: • “James Dabbs settled in Section 9 in Otter Creek Township in the spring of 1826. He was a native of South Carolina and was married in that state in 1802. Several years after that event they emigrated to Barren County, KY. Jesse Dabbs, a son, died in 1875. James Dabbs and his wife Mary were worthy members of the pioneer band. He died in 1841 and his wife in 1852.” (13) “James Dabbs settled on section 9 in this township, in the spring of 1826. He was a native of South Carolina, and was married in that state in 1802. Several years after that event they emigrated to Warren Co., KY, where they resided until 1819, when they removed to the vicinity of Wood River, Madison Co., IL from which place they came here. Jesse Dabbs , a son, was a resident of the county until 1875, when he died. James Dabbs and his wife, Mary, were members of the pioneer band. He died Dec. 19, 1841, his wife living until Sept. 8, 1852.” (14) “James Dabbs, a native of South Carolina, moved thence to Barren county, Ky., several years after his marriage, which occurred in 1802. There he resided until 1819, when he came to Illinois and settled on Wood river, north of Upper Alton. In 1826 he came to Jersey county, and located on what is now the McAdams farm, but in 1829 or 1830 he moved on section 9 of Otter creek township, where he resided until his death, which occurred December 19, 1841. With him came his brother, Samuel Dabbs.” (15) The 1872 biographical entry for James’ son, Jesse, gives similar information on James and Mary: (16) • “Jesse Dabbs was born in Barren county, Kentucky, December 22, 1817. He is the sixth child of James and Mary Dabbs, who were natives of South Carolina where, in 1802, they were married. They emigrated to Kentucky several years after their marriage, and resided in Barren county till the fall of 1819, when they emigrated to Illinois, and settled on Wood river, north of Upper Alton, where they remained till the spring of 1826, when they located on section 9, township 7, range 12, where they resided till their death. Mr. Dabbs had a family of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, all deceased, except Jesse and Elias. He followed farming through life. His wife was a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Dabbs died December 19, 1841, aged fifty-nine years, and his wife also died September 8, 1852, aged sixty-five years. . . .” The children of James Dabbs and Mary Harris purchased land in Jersey County in the 1830s, some while it was still Greene County, most just after Jersey County was formed from Greene County in early 1839. (17) In 1834 (Greene County), John purchased land in what is now Rosedale Township, just west of Otter Creek. In 1835 (Greene County) our Samuel purchased land in what are now Otter Creek and Quarry East Townships, just below Otter Creek; and John purchased land in Piasa Township, located in western edge of Jersey County. In 1836 William purchased land in Greene County. In 1839 Samuel, George and John purchased land in Piasa Township; George and Samuel purchased land in Mississippi Township, just east of Otter Creek; Jesse purchased land in Otter Creek Township. In 1840 James and George purchased land in Otter Creek Township. This last purchase is probably the father James, since his son named James had died by 1830, and this would have been just before our James, Sr. died. A Mary Dabb [sic] purchased land in Piasa Township in 1839, it is not known if this is Mary Harris. These journal entries of a family, probably Mormon, making the trek across the plains on their way to Salt Lake City, mentions our Dabbs family: (18) • Tusday 23 May 1854. Started from Mr. G. Lindsy’s farm Jersey County Ill. for Great Salt Lake City. As soon as we got clear of the fence one of the cows turned the yoke which detained us some, by the help of Bro. & Sister Dabbs we got things right and on till we got opposite Ebe Rowden’s when the cows were again unruley, He and Bro Dabbs went with us a little farther and left us, traveled on about about five miles when we got into a deep gully the horses baulked and would not go any farther, the cows had to stand right in the mud, & sleep in the same place for the night. Rain’d all night from the time we got their, miserable, but rejoiced. Wednesday 24. Wet morning. Cut a large tree in too to open the way better in fact we repaired the road considerable after a while some men came past with an horse teem. I requested them to hitch there horses too with mine, did so, but could not get out. Went to see Mr. Watson to trade with him for cattle and get him to hawle us on the hill which he did, but I could not trade with him because he wanted my new wagon, horses and harness for two Yoke of his cattle and his old wagon, very unreasonable. The Carr place near to us. Thursday 25. About the same. Called on the Lord for help. Traveled over much ground to find a yoke of cattle but could not. Friday 26. Traded my Sorrel pony for one yoke of Young cattle with Polly Dabbs and sold her harness for one horse. [Polly is another name for Mary] James and Mary attended the Baptist services and later the church in Jersey County. Sometime after James died, Mary went to live with her son, Jesse. In the 1850 census she was living with Jesse; and, according to this census, Mary Harris could not read or write. They were said to have had ten children, eight sons, two daughters. We have found nine sons, two daughters. Their children were: (19) • William Dabbs was born between 1805-1806 in North Carolina or Kentucky (see below). • Samuel Dabbs was born in 1808 in Kentucky and died on December 12, 1853 in Jersey County, Illinois (see below). • James Dabbs was born in 1809 in Kentucky and died before 1830. • John Wesley Dabbs was born in 1812 in Kentucky and died on December 26, 1866 in Illinois. This may be the John Dabbs who made a settlement in 1831 on section 24 in Rosedale Township, which he purchased from the government the next year and was a resident there for years. (20) John married Margaret Fuller on July 5, 1833 in Greene County, Illinois. (21) He was buried in the Divernon Township Cemetery, Sangamon County, Illinois. Margaret/Martha was born circa 1819 in Tennessee. The children of John and Margaret were George W. born circa 1836, Elmina born 1840 in Jersey County, and Thomas born 1849, all born in Illinois. (22) Thomas J. is said to have been born in Sangamon County, so the family must have moved there in the 1840s. They were found there in the 1860 census, with their four children: George W., age 24; Almina J. [sic], age 20; Thomas J., age 10; and William H., age 7. John must have been a prosperous farmer, his real estate was valued at $20,000, personal estate $1,500. By 1870, after John died, Martha was still living in Sangamon County with her second husband, Benjamin Fuller and her Dabbs children George W., Thomas J., and William. Martha married a Benjamin A. Fuller on July 12, 1868. (23) In 1880 a Martha Dabbs was the head of household with George W. and William H. William H. was disabled, his condition was unreadable. There is a biography of daughter Elmina’s husband, that gives information on the family: (24) “. . . Mr. Barnes has been married twice. In this county, April 11, 1861, he wedded Elmina Jane Dobbs, who was born and reared in Jersey county, Illinois, a daughter of John Dobbs, one of the pioneers of Illinois. Her death occurred in 1878. There were three sons and three daughters by that marriage. In 1879 Mr. Barnes wedded Mrs. Elizabeth Dayton, nee Brockman, who was born in Jersey county, Illinois, and was a cousin of his first wife. . . . The children of Mr. Barnes’ first marriage are: John; Arthur E., who is married and operates the home farm; George, who is living on the farm; Mrs. Anna Sims; Mrs. Mary Ford; and Mrs. Bertha Hoffman. . . .” • George W. Dabbs was born in 1813 in Kentucky. George married Eliza Jane Burton on November 13, 1851 in Calhoun County, Illinois. (25) George was about thirty-eight and may have married before his marriage to Eliza Burton. In 1850, just before his marriage, George W. Dabbs was listed as a farmer with real estate valued at $200 in the Newel household in Calhoun County. (26) No wife was listed. His first wife could have been a Newel. Listed next in the census record were John and Jane Burton with their daughter Eliza Jane, age 14. In 1836, George, listed as a resident of Greene County at the time (Jersey was part of Green before 1839), purchased forty acres in what was to become Otter Creek Township. (27) However, the records of the Bureau of Land Management has the date of this purchase recorded as January 1, 1840. (28) Regardless, this is the township where George’s father had settled and where George must have grown to adulthood. By December 1849 George had purchased forty acres in Calhoun County, where we seem to have found him in 1850. By 1860 a George and Eliza Dobbs were living in Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri with their son John J. Dobbs. In 1870 they were in Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa with their sons John J., Everett, Ephriam W., and Erastus. They were not found in the 1880 census. They moved to Missouri in the mid-1860s, then to Iowa by about 1868 when Erastus was born. The information in these censuses (birth dates, places) indicate that this Dobbs family is the George W. Dabbs family. Just why they were listed as Dobbs is not known. One researcher has Elizabeth’s death as 1880 and George’s 1888, no children listed. (29) Researcher Ramona Koegler stated that George Washington Dobbs was born in Warren County, Kentucky and died circa 1888 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (30) She also stated that Eliza Jane died in November 1880 in Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah. She listed their children as: John James Dobbs, born September 21, 1853 in Jersey County and died 1900, married Emma Olive Allsop on November 6, 1879; Orson Dobbs; Joseph Dobbs; and Rasmus [Erastmus] Dobbs. • Susannah Dabbs was born in 1815 in Kentucky. Susannah married Jonathan Watson on May 9, 1833 in Jersey County, Illinois. They had two children, Andrew J. and Harriet. Jonathan may have died before 1850. By 1850, Susannah/Susan was living in the home of a probable sister of Jonathan, Mary W., who had just married Samuel Burdie [sic Burdick]. (31) With her were her two children, Andrew J. and Harriet. Living in the same household was Susannah’s brother, Elias Dabbs. • Jesse E. Dabbs was born December 22, 1817 in Barren County, Kentucky and died in 1873. See information on Jesse and his descendants below. • Elias Dabbs was born in 1820 in Illinois. He married Rebecca Sackett on September 18, 1850, Jersey County, Illinois. Since Elias was about thirty when he married Rebecca (about twice her age), who was born circa 1836, he may have married previously. There is a record for an Elias Dabbs who married a Celia Belcher on January 10, 1841 in Calhoun County. (32) Elias (age 40) and Rebecca (age 24) were listed in the 1860 census, with a Lizzie Dabbs, age 20. (33) This Lizzie could be a child of an Elias’ first marriage or a relative. Elias was listed in the Jersey County Delinquent Personal Tax List for 1865. (34) In April 1867 a divorce was granted to Rebecca and Elias Dabbs. (35) Elias may have remarried, since there is a marriage between an Elias Dabbs and Mrs. Elizabeth Applin/Applen on August 30, 1867. (36) Elias served with the 122nd Illinois Infantry, first with Company K, then transferring to Company C during the Civil War. (37) He resided in Fieldon when he first enrolled and in Kane (Greene County) when he transferred to Company C. (38) He was buried in the Dabbs Cemetery, Otter Creek Township, Jersey County, Illinois. He is not found in the 1870 census for Jersey County, and may have died before 1870. In an 1874 probate for the guardianship of Mary E. Dabbs (born April 8, 1859/1861), minor heir of an Elias Dabbs, her guardian and step-father was an A. J. Cannon. An Andrew J. Cannon married (1) Louis Poplin in 1851, (2) Susanah Appler/Hiyilen in 1860, and (3) Rebecca Sackett on August 17, 1867. (39) This Mary E. Dabbs may have been the daughter of Elias and Rebecca Dabbs. One wonders if Elias married the sister of Andrew Cannon’s second wife. In the 1880 Jersey County census, a James Cannon was listed as divorced. • Joshua Dabbs was born circa 1822 in Wood River (Woods Run?), Madison County, Illinois and died on November 1, 1864 in Jersey County, Illinois (see below). • Nathan Dabbs was born in 1825 and died in April 1850 in Jersey County, Illinois. Nathan, a farmer, died of consumption, according to his death record and the 1850 Illinois Mortality Schedule. (40) • Mary Ann Dabbs was born circa 1829. Mary Ann married Reuben Fisher on February 14, 1849 in Greene County. They were found on the 1850 census in Montgomery County, Illinois with their son Thomas, born circa 1849 in Greene County. (41) One researcher states that Reuben’s parents were John Fisher and Mary “Polly” Thompson. (42) This same researcher states that the parents of Mary Ann were probably William and Elzina Dabbs, since they were the only Dabbs in Greene County in 1850. This is a possibility, since there is no documentation for Mary Ann. An undocumented IGI record states that Reuben was born in 1825 in Illinois and died in 1856. There was a George W. Dabbs, residing at Jerseyville, who served in the Civil War, Company I, 144th Infantry. (43) A George Dabbs purchased land in Otter Creek Township in 1854. It is not known if this was the son of John W. Dabbs, or the son of James Dabbs, also named George W, or neither of these. | |
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