Mary Elizabeth (West) Dotson (abt. 1842 - 1877)

Born about 1842 in Tyler Co., Virginia

Wife of Solomon L Dotson — married 15 Sep 1864 (to 22 Oct 1877) in Ritchie, West Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 22 Oct 1877 at about age 35 in Clearfork Twp, Kansas

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Biography

Elizabeth is the daughter of Henry and Margaret West.

Solomon"contracted a second marriage in Ritchie County, W. Va., with Miss Elizabeth West, who was born in Tyler County, that State, and died in Clear Fork Township, this county, in 1876. The four children born of this union were; Jerusha, who married J. J. Tilley ; Vietta, the wife of James A. Barrett; Eveline. Mrs. W. Long, of Rock Township, this county, and Porter, who remains at home with his father." (Chapman Bros.)

Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Frankfort, Marshall Co., Kansas

Sources

• *RICHARD DOTSON (1752-1847) and his Descendants by James Milburn Dotson (1923-2006) and Barr Wilson (1905 - 2000), Published in 1992 p. 52

• "Some Descendents of Richard Dotson" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvpioneers/dotsondescendants.html

• Find a Grave http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30956323

• West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F1HL-BW1 : accessed 27 August 2015), Solomon S Dotson and Elizabeth West, 1864; citing Ritchie, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 839,540.

• Portrait and Biographical Album of Marshall County, Kansas: Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States by Chapman Bros., 1889 - Marshall County (Kan.) https://books.google.com/books?id=hXcUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Portrait%20Biography%20Marshall%20County%20Kansas&lr=&as_brr=1&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=Solomon%20L.%20Dotson&f=false