Dobbins, John S., 1800-1886.
John S. Dobbins, planter and merchant, was born 29 December 1800, in South Carolina, and died 22 April 1886, in Gordon County, Georgia. He married Caroline Moss (1840; d. 1849), with whom he had four children (William, Joseph, Mary Emma, and Cornelia). The family lived near Clarkesville, in Habersham County, Georgia where Dobbins was in a mercantile business, began farming, and was county treasurer (resigned 1858). He, his sons, and some slaves, moved to Gordon County, Georgia (ca. 1859), leaving his wife, Sarah Williams Dobbins (m. 1851), his daughters, and some slaves, in Habersham County. His son William, a student at Emory and Henry College, served in the Confederate Army in Phillips' Legion and was mortally wounded in the Battle of South Mountain (Maryland, 1862). The family refugeed from Gordon County to Terrell County in 1864 and returned in 1867; Joseph became a businessman, Cornelia married Henry B. Herington, and Mary Emma married Henry Hunt.
From the description of John S. Dobbins papers, 1834-1916 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173862950
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creatorOf | Dobbins, John S., 1800-1886. John S. Dobbins papers, 1834-1916 [microform]. | Emory University. Special Collections and Archives |
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associatedWith | Caldwell, I.M.M. | family |
associatedWith | Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862. | person |
associatedWith | Confederate States of America. Army. Phillips' Legion. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Dobbins family. | person |
associatedWith | Dobbins, Joseph, 1844-1879. | person |
associatedWith | Dobbins, William Henry, 1841-1862. | person |
associatedWith | Emory and Henry College. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Erwin, A.S. | person |
associatedWith | Felton, William H. (William Harrell), 1823-1909. | person |
associatedWith | Kollock, George Jones, 1810-1894. | person |
associatedWith | Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Ray, John. | person |
associatedWith | Rossignol, Paul. | person |
associatedWith | Stiles, William Henry, Jr. 1834-1878. | person |
associatedWith | Wofford College (Spartanburg, S.C.) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Young family. | family |
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Birth 1800
Death 1886