From: dcole@tech-line.com (Darlene Cole)
Subject: Re: ZDUTTON – Jarrett, William, and Levi Dutton
Date: 1999-07-27 21:59:28
Suspect I'm slow responding to this, but not sure I received all comments? My Internet Server has been down due to vandalism, they said earlier today. Sorry Joseph, but you'll just have to sleep some other time. [grinning] Because now I'm excited too. What have you found on Levi's 3 youngest children? (Leticia, Calvin and Robert). I had forgotten that I found a Levi/Lewis Dutton on the 1850 census of Cherokee Co TX, in fact I had wondered if he might be the L.W. DUTTON who md. Matilda COX, 7th of April 1854, in Cherokee Co TX. Can anyone identify this L.W? Now that you've mentioned it, I went looking for it, but haven't found it yet. Ah hah! Found it, along with some notes I made on this family's children. I noticed they married in Cherokee Co but all aren't listed in the 1870 census, especially the parents. Does this A.C. and Mary SIDES connect with the Duttons/Browns/Irwins, etc? I see their youngest is 5, and she like the rest were all born in AL. Franklin appears to have md. Martha DOHERTY, 18, Oct 1855; James R. md. Elizabeth DANSBY, 14 Mar 1857; Joseph D.F. md. Susannah STINESIPHER, 23 May 1857; Mary md. Joseph SMITH, b. MS, 19 Apr 1855; Martha md. W.B. MILES, 22 Jul 1878, Catherine M. md. Wm F. McELYEA, 20 Aug 1866; and Lewis R. SIDES md. Nancy BENGE, 19 Sep 1866. All these marriages took place in Cherokee Co TX. I wonder if Sonya Mims and a "Jimmie" Carruth are related. I heard from Mrs Charles A. Carruth, of Knickerbocker, TX in 1991. She was working on her husband's BROOKE line. It seems his James BROOKE was in Lawrence Co AL by 1820, (state census) and on the 1830 federal census of Lwr. Co AL. James had at least 2 full sisters and one half-sister, named Margery who md Mark BENNETT, and moved to Calhoun Co AL. Quoting Jimmie: "Sister MARY is by tradition said to have md. a MR DUTTON, and sister Margaret md. a MR WILSON. James BROOKE and wife, Nancy, had a son James A. BROOKE, b. c1824 Lwr. Co., AL, and some DUTTON family also living in Lwr Co., had a son, THOMAS, b. c1827-30. This THOMAS was a cousin to James A.and nephew to James BROOKE. In 1830 there was an extra male in James Brooke's h/h, b. c1830. If this was a son of James & Nancy, he died and was forgotten by James, when he wrote in 1852 that they had had only 4 children. I now believe that extra child was Thomas Dutton. In 1850 in Itawamba Co MS there was a Thomas Dutton living alone, not near but not too far from James and Nancy BROOKE. In an 1852 letter to his brother, James BROOKE responded to a query about Thomas DUTTON. This Thomas DUTTON married in 1853 and subsquently had 9 children. About 1873-1876 Thomas DUTTON removed his family from MS to McCulloch Co TX and died there in March of 1876. His cousin, James A. BROOKE had moved with the DUTTON family to TX, lived with them assisting Mary C. DUTTON with her farm and children until his own death in 1891, he never married. My theory is that Thomas was born to parents who possibly were not well or were physically unable to care for him, so James and Nancy took over as they already had a son about the same age." This Jimmie Carruth's address in May of 1991 was a P.O. Box 22, Knickerbocker, TX 76939. But this would be the Thomas DUTTON Jr who md. Mary Catherine BATES, right? Material you sent last week. I wonder if she ever worked this out? Darlene