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- Title: Picturesque Clarksville, Past & Present
Author: W.P. Titus
Publication: Published in 1887
Text: (quoting a letter frokm Cave Johnson) Your mother, Elizabeth Dortch, was the daughter of Isaa
c Dortch and his wife Martha, whose maiden name was Martha Norfleet, the sister of Major James Norfleet and Cordial Norfleet, both of whom resided in the same neighborhokod. isaac dortch was born in Halifax county, North Carolina, but spent most of the earlier portions of his life in the county of Edgecomb, where he married and moved to Tennessee in 1795, and settled the place where he lived and died near Turnersville, near eighty years of age, leaving the following children: Nancy Dortch, who married Robert West, and is still living, having outlived most of her cildren. Norfleet Dortch married a Miss Blair, and had several children, and are all dead. Elizabeth Dortch, your mother, who married Archibald (sic) Brunson in 1817, who died leaving Isaac, Elizabeth and Penelope, and afterwards married me on the 20th of February, 1838. Martha Dortch, the third daughter, married Dr. Leavell, had several children, and died sokme years ago. John Baker Dortch, the second son, married the daughter of Governor Willie Blount, and both died, leaving Willie B. and John B., both now living, and Nancy, who married Bailey, and is now dead. William dortch, the third son, married Marina Bryan, daughter of Colonel Henry H. Bryan, and died leaving two sons, George and William, now living in Clarksville. Isaac dortch, the fourth son, died before he came of age. Catherine Dortch, the fourth daughter, married my brother, Willie B. Johnson, who died some years age, and his widow and children now live in Clarksville. Hilliard Dortch, the fifth son, died many years ago, without ever having married.The aove letter of Hon. Cave Johnson, written to his sons, then in the Confederate army, i
s dated January 10th, 1862.Page: Page 296
Quoted by Sandra Ellis Text: In the meantime your mother married Mr. Brunson in the Fall of 1817, and became a widow in 18
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