Comments on: DORSEY, Augustus, of Somerset Co PA, Lancaster Co NE and Sumner Co KS http://alvispat.wordpress.com Ancestors of Kathy Alvis Patterson—Ancestral Lines for Alvis, Armstrong, Pedigo, Light, Eyster, Atwell, Turner, Dorsey and others Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:44:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: alvispat http://alvispat.wordpress.com/dorsey-augustus-of-somerset-co-pa-lancaster-co-ne-and-sumner-co-ks/#comment-1182 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:06:05 +0000 http://alvispat.wordpress.com/?page_id=944#comment-1182 Cousin Katie,
Your grandmother Joan was a (half-)cousin of my grandmother, Ethel Light Armstrong. Both were granddaughters of Augustus Dorsey. When I started collecting family stories in 1966 my grandmother communicated with both her aunt Florine and her cousin Joan. You just filled in a few dates for me. I would love to have a transcript or copies of the notes you took while your grandmother was living.
My Granny, as we always called her, passed away a few weeks before we were able to identify Augustus’s parents. She was very proud of his Civil War service and his life after the war. Since she was one of the oldest grandchildren, she remembered him and his second wife very well. Since his parents were either divorced or never married—both had other spouses by the time Augustus was eight—my mom commented that she is glad her mother wasn’t around to know about that.
Do I have the websites where he is named, that is, his unit and his time in Andersonville Prison, on the blog you found?
Hey! I just realized you are in my personal database. Living people are not usually included in websites because of privacy issues. You are another Bicentennial baby. Our daughter Liberty was born two weeks before you, on June 30, 1976. Your grandmother undoubtedly told my grandmother when you were born, and that is why I have your name and the date, but no more on your family.
Did either Duane or Delwyn leave sons? I know another cousin, Donald, and his brother Charles Augustus, did not. Donald is the only one I ever met. One of the big new things in genealogy is DNA testing, which only works in the male line. Since there is a question about Augustus’s birth, I would love to have DNA testing on one of his grandsons or their male children. I would pay up to half of the cost. That would not actually prove his father is who his second marriage license says, but it might prove he is not. That would be helpful evidence for the ancestry I consider ours.
Kathy

]]> By: Katie Day http://alvispat.wordpress.com/dorsey-augustus-of-somerset-co-pa-lancaster-co-ne-and-sumner-co-ks/#comment-1181 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:48:52 +0000 http://alvispat.wordpress.com/?page_id=944#comment-1181 Hi Kathy! My name is Katie Day (nee Burk). I just found your page when googling Zora Dorsey. Florine Dorsey was my great-grandmother, and Zora was her sister. I have always thought Zora to be a romantic figure. Just to let you know, my grandmother Joan Ersula Teske, married my grandfather Robert MacDonald Yearout in 1938. They had two children, Robert Kimberly, and Jennifer Kay, my mother. My grandmother, Joan passed away May 1, 2007. Her cousins Delwyn and Duwayne both died within a few weeks of eachother this past summer, 2009.
I am thrilled to find your information. A few summers ago, I sat down with my grandmother to get her stories and got carried away tracing the family’s geneology. Today you were able to fill in some blanks. Do you have more information? How are you and I related? Anyway, I would love to hear from you.

Thanks,

katie Day

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