Dobbins, John S., 1800-1886.

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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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associatedWith Dobbins, Joseph, 1844-1879. person
associatedWith Dobbins, William Henry, 1841-1862. person
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associatedWith Felton, William H. (William Harrell), 1823-1909. person
associatedWith Kollock, George Jones, 1810-1894. person
associatedWith Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.) corporateBody
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associatedWith Wofford College (Spartanburg, S.C.) corporateBody
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South Carolina
Habersham County (Ga.)
Georgia
Gordon County (Ga.)
Southern states
Clarkesville (Ga.)
Alabama
Virginia
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Slavery
Education
Agriculture
Atlanta Campaign, 1864
Military camps
Communication and culture
Freedmen
Plantations
Reconstruction
Slaveholders
Slave records
Soldiers
South Mountain, Battle of, Md., 1862
Transportation
Occupation
Businessmen
Planter
Soldiers
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Birth 1800

Death 1886

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