James H. Dorsey b. Abt 1838 , Callaway, Missouri, USA d. 27 Oct 1908 : Albemarle to Callaway, a Herring Family Journey

1838 - 1908

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Birth Abt 1838 , Callaway, Missouri, USA

Gender Male

Died 27 Oct 1908

Person ID I2382 Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri

Last Modified 02 Aug 2008

Family Sarah W. Or Sally Willing, b. Abt 1847, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. Yes, date unknown

Married 20 Mar 1862 , Callaway, Missouri, USA

Children

>	1. Naomi Blumfield "Nevada" Dorsey, b. Abt 1869, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. Between 1895 and 1900

Last Modified 30 Mar 2006

Family ID F1507 Group Sheet

Notes	1860, boarder at the Missouri Hotel, Fulton, harness maker. Sally Fletcher, 18, living with this family in 1870, in Fulton. Sally was the 1st cousin of Sarah Willing Dorsey. Working as a tailoress. James H. Dorsey Abt 70 27 Oct 1908 29 Oct 1908 Fulton Telegraph (Callaway Co.) James H. Dorsey Abt 70 3 Nov 1908 Auxvasse Review (Callaway Co.) From the History of Callaway County Missouri, 1884, page 644-645 DORSEY, J. H., farmer. Mr. Dorsey, formerly a prominent business man of Fulton, but now the owner and proprietor of the "Thomas farm" near this city, to the conduct of which he is giving his entire attention, is a native of Callaway county, though he was not reared here. He was born on the 16th of September, 1837, and when he was still quite young his parents, William and Elizabeth (Nevens) Dorsey, removed to Iowa. Eight years afterwards they went to Kentucky, where J. H. grew to manhood. In 1858, then twenty years of age, he came back to Callaway county and worked at the saddler's trade at St. Aubert some four years. During this time, on the 20th of March, 1861, 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. After the war, Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey returned to Callaway county, and here Mr. Dorsey opened a saddlery shop and carried on the saddle and harness business with success for two years. He and his brother-in-law, William Willing, then engaged in the dry goods and grocery business, under the firm name of J. H. Dorsey & Co., which they continued until September, 1882, when Mr. Dorsey retired from it and settled on his present farm, which is situated three and a half miles northeast of Fulton. He has an excellent place, and is proving a successful and prosperous farmer. 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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Birth - Abt 1838 - , Callaway, Missouri, USA

Married - 20 Mar 1862 - , Callaway, Missouri, USA

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