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Isaac Jefferson Dotson

26 Feb 1825 – 22 Aug 1903

Birth26 Feb 1825
Death22 Aug 1903
CemeteryGrounds Cemetery
Blue Ridge , Collin County , Texas , USA
Added bychristie githens on 08 Jan 2004
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son of Thomas Jefferson Dotson and Sally Ann Isaac came with his parents to now blue Ridge, Collin County, Texas, sometime in the 1840's. In 1856 he married his distant cousin, Mary Jane Hanson, daughter of James and Jerushia Hanson. The young couple were happily making themselves a home on their land (Isaac traded his horse and saddle for his land where the present Blue Ridge High School stands) near her grandfather's when the Civil War broke out. Taking his horse and gun, Ike enlisted at once. Young Mary with two baby daughters and expecting a third child, carried on the clearing and planting with the help of a slave couple, Wylie and Becky. In Aug of 1861, Ike was badly wounded at the Battle of Wilson Creek near Springfield, Missouri. With other wounded, both Union and Confederate, he was carried from the field and became a prisoner patient at an old Catholic institute being used as a Union hospital. Here he was given medical attention and his wound dressed but the minnie ball was too near his heart to be removed and he carried it the rest of his life. The Union doctors and staff treated him better than he expected. When Christmas came that year all the Northern patients were receiving gifts and packages. Ike, of course, received none, but a young Union patient near him spoke up: "Say, this dam Rebel here hasn't got a thing. I'm going to give him part of mine." Isaac had been raised by hardworking Baptist parents who frowned upong card playing, but in spite of this, he had learned to play a pretty good game of poker. As soon as he was able to sit up, he was indulging in this pastime with the other patients at the hospital. So it was when he was exchanged, this young Texian came riding home with quite a few "Yankee" dollars in his saddle pockets. These went to buy some black waxy acres near his own small place. It was not the Yankee money that caused a commotion in the Ridge neighborhood - it was the wounded Confederate's sincere statement that actually some Yankees were good people. After a short convalescense, Isaac went back into service. After the war, Isaac came home hoping to work his land and live in peace as before. Of the twelve children born to them, nine lived to have families of their own. Daughters; Parlee Worden, Nancy Jones, Elzora Eakle, Alice McCoy, Annie Wyrick, Nettie Simmons, Edna Parker and Mollie Dowland. Son: James Pinckney Dotson married Leanna Helen McKinney. Later they moved to the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory.

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