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Sarah W. Or Sally Willing
Female 1847 - Yes, date unknown

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  • Birth  Abt 1847  , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Female 
    Died  Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID  I2371  Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri
    Last Modified  02 Aug 2008 
     
    Father  William Willing,   b. Nov 1820, , , Maryland, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Jun 1903 
    Mother  Eliza C Parker,   b. Sep 1820, , , Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Feb 1902 
    Married  8 Mar 1838  , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F1506  Group Sheet
     
    Family  James H. Dorsey,   b. Abt 1838, , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Oct 1908 
    Married  20 Mar 1862  , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    >1. Naomi Blumfield "Nevada" Dorsey,   b. Abt 1869, , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between 1895 and 1900
    Last Modified  30 Mar 2006 
    Family ID  F1507  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • Willing, Sarah W - Dorsey, James Mar 20 1862

      From the History of Callaway County Missouri, 1884, page 644-645

      ....he was married to Miss Sarah Willing, daughter of William Willing, of this county, who was also willing. The following year, in 1862, Mr. Dorsey enlisted in the Confederate army, under General Dick Taylor, the "Old Gray Fox" of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the South. Soon after his enlistment he was detailed for hospital service, taking charge of the hospital at Demopolis, Alabama, which he superintended for two years.

      His wife, Mrs. Dorsey, went with him South, and served as his assistant in the hospital during his entire term. No one, so far as we know, has written a book bearing witness to the services and sacrifices and sufferings of the noble women of the South for their "sunny, southern Southland" during the late war, a book which, when properly written, will be one of the proudest testimonials to the patriotism, self-sacrificing devotion and heroic fortitude of womankind, ever contributed to the history of our race. And when such a book is written, as it inevitable one day will be, the name of Mrs. Dorsey will occupy an honorable place on the pages, for her two long years of services she rendered without money and without price to the sick and dying soldiers of the South, --services such as only a tender and gentle-hearted woman could perform.

      ...Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey have no children of their own, but have an adopted daughter, Naomi Blumfield, whom they are rearing and educating. He and his wife are both members of the Christian church, and Mr. D. has held all the stations in the I.O.O.F. at Fulton.
     
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