She is the daughter of Charles Edleblute and Catherine Seibert. After the death of Zachariah, Eliza remained in West Virginia until after 1870 when she moved to Kansas to live with her adopted daughter, Ellen Moore.
Eliza died in 1899 and is buried in Morrison Cemetery, Concordia, Kansas.
Notes
Her obituary referenced by J. M. Dotson indicates that she was the mother to eleven children. Records exist for 9 children born following her marriage in 1820. However, the couple has marriage records to indicate a previous marriage ceremony when they were younger than 18. There is some indication that Eliza had 2 additional daughters prior to 1820.
Newspaper Article
Life of Eliza Edleblute Dotson
Mrs. Eliza Dotson, a Cloud County woman who lacks only a few months of being a centenarian was born among the historic New England hills of Pennsylvania, but moved, when a child, with her parents to Virginia where 64 years of her life was spent.
She was born March 31 1800, just 117 days after the death of George Washington and while John Adams was president of the young republic, which numbered but sixteen states. More than 99 years or 39,160 days have been recorded in the book of time since her birth and many stirring events have passed into history.
The nation has been involved in eight wars, five of those with foreign powers; twenty-three presidents have held office, and twenty men who have filled this important office have passed to the unseen realm. During this period of time thirty three states and territories have been added to the union and more than sixty million souls to our population.
Mrs. Dotson's maiden name was Eddleblue. She was married at the age of 16 years to Zacharia Dotson, who died in 1862(?) leaving her a widow for 37 years. During this time she has lived with an adopted daughter, whose life of sacrifice and devotion can never be weighed this side of eternity.
Mrs. Dotson has been a consistent member of the church for 60 years. In 1871 she moved from Virginia to Cloud County, Kansas, returned to Virginia and remained six months in 1874, but from then until the present has resided near this locality.
She is the mother of eleven children, forty-seven grandchildren and seventy-six great grandchildren. Three of her sons were in the civil war and remained with the old flag until its close. Three of her daughters married union soldiers. Through these six children thirteen sons of veterans sprang from the parent stock.
In 1864 she went to the hospital at Cumberland, Maryland at which place two of her sons were confined with disease contracted in the service and ministered to their wants with her own hand. She relates how it was customary to lower the flag at half mast when any of the boys died, and how eagerly she gazed at the cherished emblem when emerging from her sleeping apartments in the morning. If the old flag was high in the air she knew her boys were yet among the living.
There is no doubt but she has shared more sleep, prun more yarn and knit more stockings than any woman in Kansas. The spinning wheel is yet among her possessions, and it is only about five years since we saw her spinning to entertain her company. More than once she has wove the cloth during the day, cut and sewed the garment during the same night to clothe one of her children. Thus in twenty-four hours turning the raw material into a ready made garment.[1]
Sources
↑An Interesting Character in Cloud County Who Has Had a Remarkable Life, Newspaper article written by A. E. Moore about 1899
Richard Dotson (1752-1847) and his Descendants by James Milburn Dotson (1923-2006) and Barr Wilson (1905 - 2000), Published in 1992 p. 245
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