From: <Cybearval@aol.com>
Subject: Re: DUTTON
Date: 1998-07-03 22:17:27
Joseph, On most of the census, they list SC as all of their birthplace. One time, Wiley put down NC as his birthplace. But someone told me that at one time Part of SC was NC so I would guess that it is SC, possibly the Greenville County area. That is where Jeremiah and Daniel Dutton can be found on a 1780, I think, census. We think that Daniel and Jeremiah Dutton, brothers, married Cherokee women. Jeremiah's wife was Sarah O? and don't know Daniels. We also think that Daniel and Jeremiah Dutton were connected to the Maryland or MA Duttons but were possibly disowned when they married Indians. My Duttons father was probably a son of Daniel Dutton. We think that Daniel had James and Thomas and they are on the 1810 and 1820 Elbert County, GA census. Then they moved over in to NW GA, TN, and NE AL. either before or after 1830. My Duttons are on the 1840 Franklin County, TN census in 2 households. But they are listed as Deetons! under the names of Patrick and Wiley J. Father Dutton, who we think was Thomas, is dead by 1840 , as he is not on the census. In 1850, they all have moved to Dade County, GA, in 2 households again, this time Patrick and Thomas, who has mother, Mary, living with him. Wiley J. and his wife, Evaline Rose Dutton, are already living in Conway County, AR by 1850. MY Louise E. Dutton is already dead by 1850. The reason I say that she was in Jackson County, AL is because Brad's grandmother wrote down in notes that Louise E. lived at Crow Creek in Jackson County, AL and that is where her son, Silas Benton Dutton was born. This is also where Louise E. died and is buried in 1846. She was a young maiden when she had Silas and his father was a 40 year old circuit rider minister with a family in Cannon County, TN. He would not leave his family for Louise E. and his son Silas, and grandma said that Louise E. died of a broken heart when Silas was 2. The rest of the Duttons were in Franklin County, TN, at the time. I can tell you that my Duttons were close to the Garners and the Dotsons/ Dodsons. In fact, a researcher told me that a Sis Dutton married a Garner. I was wondering if this Sis is our Elisare. Our Duttons could neither read or write and were very poor. Their name may be mispelled often and this makes it hard to find them, also. There is definitely Cherokee blood somewhere. Grandma said that Louise E. was half Cherokee and half white. I know that at one time there were Cherokee reservations in Jackson County, AL along Crow Creek. Someone sent me a map of this. Grandma mentioned Crow Creek many times so it is important to the Duttons somehow and so is the name Benton. Many of my Duttons have Benton for a middle name. Grandma said that it was the name of a place. Artie