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Walter DOTSON

Walter DOTSON

Male 1858 - 1934  (~ 75 years)

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  • Name Walter DOTSON 
    Born Jul 1858  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    • Birth date on headstone is 1860, and age 10 in the 1870 Census also puts it in about 1860. But the 1900 Census shows it as Mar 1858, while age 28 given in his Jul 1885 marriage record puts it in about 1857.
    Gender Male 
    Census 1870, 1880  Central District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1880  [4] 
    "attending school" 
    Residence 1885  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1900  North Enid, Garfield Co, OK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1916  Enid, Garfield Co, OK Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Died 1934  [6] 
    Buried Enid Cemetery, Garfield Co, OK Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Person ID I105061  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 6 Nov 2016 

    Father William M. DOTSON,   b. 1830, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Mar 1885, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Mother Mary RICHARDS,   b. 26 Aug 1837, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Nov 1916, Greenwood, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Family ID F35792  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Olive L. M. WILSON,   b. Mar 1867, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Oct 1949  (Age ~ 82 years) 
    Married 12 Jul 1885  Greenwood, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Notes 
    • 1900 Census, Garfield Co, Oklahoma (Enid Twp, City of North Enid), enumerated on Jun 18 1900:
      Walter Dotson, 42, b. Mar 1858 in WVa, farmer, married 15 yrs; wife Olive, 34, b. Mar 1866 in Va, married 15 yrs, mother of one child (still living); dau Nellie, 13, b. Jan 1887 in Va.
      (NOTE: The next enumerated household was that of Olive's parents, Joshua and Mary Wilson. The stated birthplaces are reversed from what would be correct. All were born in present-day West Virginia. Since Walter's birth was before the June 1863 statehood, he was technically born in Virginia, while the other two were born in West Virginia.)

      1910 Census, Garfield Co, Oklahoma (City of Enid), enumerated on Apr 30 1910:
      Water Dotson, age (blank), birthplace "unknown," real estate agent; wife Olive, age (blank), b. WVa, mother of one child (still living); dau Nellie, 23, b. WVa, marital status (blank), occupation (blank).
      (NOTE: Olive's father Jacob Wilson had died in West Virginia in Dec 1901. Whereabouts of her mother Mary after that time are not known.)
    Children 
    +1. Nellie Vivian DOTSON,   b. 2 Dec 1887, Greenwood, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Nov 1980, Temple, Bell Co, TX Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years)
    Family ID F43891  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1662] 1900 Census.

    2. [S2193] 1870 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Central Twp).

    3. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV.

    4. [S2147] 1880 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Central District).

    5. [S960] Obituary of mother.

    6. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    7. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    8. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, MR p. 12 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11790415&Type=Marriage.
      Identified as Walter Dotson, 28, b. & res. in Doddridge Co; and Olive L. M. Wilson, 18, b. & res. in Doddridge Co. Married Jul 12 1885 "at Joshua Wilsons near Greenwood W.Va.," officiated by M. A. Summers, a Minister of the Baptist Church. Informants for marriage license: Walter Dotson & J. Wilson.