NAME: James Whitten Dobson SEX:Male BIRTH: February 16, 1828 PLACE: GA MARRIAGE: Mary Elizabeth Cantrell DATE: January 31, 1856 PLACE: Pickens Co. GA DEATH: 1924 PLACE: Pawhuska, OK FATHER: Moses M. Cantrell MOTHER: Elizabeth A. "Lizzie" Woolley DEATH: November, 1861 PLACE: Pickens CO, GA CHILDREN NAME: Margaret "Missouri" Ovelyn dobson SEX: Female BIRTH: 1856-7 DEATH: 1936 PLACE: Bixby, Tulsa CO, OK NAME: William Frank Dobson SEX: Male BIRTH: March 09, 1859 PLACE: Checotah, OK DEATH: March 02, 1934 PLACE: Checotah, OK NOTES AND INFORMATION NOTES: James Whitten Dobson was named for the family preacher. He went to the California gold rush and made a good stake. He came back and built a home and went halves on a grist mill. He fought in the Civil War, contracted pneumonia, and was allowed to come home and died shortly after. Mary Elizabeth moved to Arkansas with her children in 1871.