Rev
Silas
Dobbs
Born in Pendleton, South Carolina, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Lodowick Adams Dobbs
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
William C. Dobbs [half], Charles Dobbs, Lodowick Adams Dobbs Jr. [half], Lodowick Dobbs [half], Theodocia (Dobbs) Bennett [half] and James Gibson Dobbs
Husband of
Mary (Cockerham) Dobbs
— married
3 May 1817 in Pendleton Dist. South Carolina, USA
Descendants 
Father of
Kitty (Dobbs) Bowles, David H. Dobbs, William Adams Dobbs, Silas Mercer Dobbs, Sarah Jane (Dobbs) Commander, Frances Ann (Dobbs) Rayborn, Jesse Jarvis Dobbs, Elisha Dobbs, James Dobbs and Nancy Dobbs
Died
at age 69
in Bywy, Choctaw, Mississippi, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Oct 2015
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Silas Dobbs is one of twins.
Biography
Silas was born in 1794, twin of Charles Dobbs. Of note, he was a twin , as was his grandfather, Fortune Dobbs .
Silas married Mary Cockerham (1803-1866) about 1817, (Mary was the daughter of William Winn & Nancy "Estes" Cockerham)[1]
Silas passed away in 1864.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Family History of Rev Silas Dobbs, "Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogical Records Committee," FamilySearch, non-indexed records, ( https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C34W-B3MH-W?i=311&cat=358554 : 28 july 2022) Image 312 of 1542; pages 150-168; Film # 008611754
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #22990817 with a photo of his headstone
- Leavell and Bailey's "Complete History of Mississippi Baptists," (1845), https://archive.org/details/completehistoryo01leav/page/514/mode/2up
- Boyd, Col. E. B. 1838-12-01, "Briefs from the History of the First Baptist Church of Macon, Miss.". Mississippi Baptist Convention, https://archive.org/details/19381201/mode/2up (listed as a previous pastor of the church)
- Silas Dobbs, in Foster, L. S. , "Mississippi Baptist Preachers," (St Louis, National Baptist Publishing Co, 1895), https://archive.org/details/mississippibapti00fost/page/198/mode/2up, pages 199-201
- Grandson C. C. Dobbs information re: his grandfather Elder Silas Dobbs, "The Baptist Record" May. 16. 1935, Mississippi Baptist Convention, https://archive.org/details/19350516/page/n1/mode/2up
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:936D-6J1 : accessed 2015-10-18), entry for Lodowick Adams Dobbs
- Information gathered from a personal "Monks Family book" at the Monks reunion in 2016. The book was photographed by Cindy Damm. The facts are not verified but seem accurate
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Silas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Silas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Jeff Dobbs
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 500 markers, haplogroup R-BY127848, FTDNA kit #332934 - Chester Dobbs :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 67 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #10208
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~0.39%
Rodney Williams :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A553611 [compare], Ancestry member gmom7
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~0.39%
Mike Whitworth :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member mikewhitworth123
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Lauren Millerd
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I added a bunch of sources I came across while doing other research. Hope it helps!
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