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Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Jane (Jennie) DOBBS: Birth: 1 MAR 1855 in Bartow, Jefferson, GA. Death: 13 DEC 1908 in Norcross, Gwinnett, GA

  2. Lucy Frances (Fannie) DOBBS: Birth: NOV 1856 in Bartow, Jefferson, GA. Death: 1896 in Oakdale, FL

  3. William Jackson DOBBS: Birth: 9 NOV 1858 in Bartow, Jefferson, GA. Death: 29 MAR 1917 in Dallas, Dallas, TX

  4. Stonewall Newton DOBBS: Birth: 1861 in Bartow, Jefferson, GA. Death: 1885 in Bartow, Jefferson, GA

  5. Anne Elizabeth (Lizzie) DOBBS: Birth: 8 AUG 1863 in Bartow, Jefferson, GA. Death: 4 DEC 1942 in Carroll, GA

  6. Benjamin Marion DOBBS: Birth: 1866 in Bartow, Jefferson, GA. Death: 11 MAY 1930 in Dallas, Dallas, TX

  7. David Johnson DOBBS: Birth: 6 MAY 1868 in Bartow, Jefferson, GA. Death: 12 SEP 1930 in Longview, Gregg, TX

  8. Theodore Brooks DOBBS: Birth: 3 JUL 1870 in Cartersville, Bartow, GA. Death: 6 DEC 1926 in Atlanta, Fulton, GA

  9. Joseph Eugene DOBBS: Birth: 9 SEP 1872 in Bartow, Jefferson, GA. Death: 10 MAY 1942 in Atlanta, Fulton, GA


Notes
a. Note:   N795 Peter Ouzts I and His Descendants by Hortense Woodson, 1949, pp. 73,77
  Cass, Bartow GA US Census 1850
 Cass GA US Census 1860
 Bartow GA US Census 1880
  Joined the Confederate Army in 1862. He was commanding officer of Co. B., Howard Guards, 40th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee. He participated in the Battle of Vicksburg and the seige of that city, which lasted from May 18 to July 4, 1863. The Confederates surrendered to prevent the city's civilian population from starving to death. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant pardoned all the soldiers, and they later rejoined their units. Dobbs fought until the end of the war.
  http://www.gabartow.org/cemOakHill.d.shtml
  Captain John N. Dobbs, CSA John Newton Dobbs was born in DeKalb County Georgia April 29, 1826 he was the secondnd son of John Dobbs and Jane Haines. John married Minerva Elvira Ouzts in 1854 in Bartow County Georgia and they had nine children, three boys and six girls. John was commissioned in Company B, 40th Georgia Infantry on March 4, 1862. John fought in battles at Cumberland Gap in Tennessee June 17-18, 1862, Chickasaw Bayou December 27-29, 1862, Champion Hill May 16, 1863,Vicksburg May 18 - July 4, 1863 and was captured at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863 and was paroled there July 6, 1863. John and the 40th Georgia went on and fought at Chattanooga, Tennessee on November 23-25, 1863, Rocky Face Ridge and Resaca in Georgia May 5-11, 1864, New Hope Church in Georgia May 25 - June 4, 1864, Dallas, Georgia and Kennesaw Mountain June 25-27, 1864, Peachtree Creek July 20, 1864, Battle of Atlanta July 22, 1864, Ezra Church July 28, 1864, Battle of Jonesboro August 31 - September 1, 1864. After The Battle of Jonesboro the 40th Georgia moved back into Tennessee, and they fought at The Battle of Franklin November 30, 1864, Nashville on December 15-16, 1864, on into South Carolina to the Battle of Edisto Railroad Bridge February 2, 1865, Binnaker's Bridge February 9, 1865, and Orangeburg, South Carolina February 12, 1865, into North Carolina in early March of 1865, they fought at Bentonville, North Carolina March 19-21, 1865. Captain John Newton Dobbs and the 40th Georgia surrendered in Greenburg, North Carolina on April 26, 1865. After the war John return back home to Cartersville, Bartow County Georgia where he lived with his family until his death on August 29, 1898. John is buried along side his wife in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Cartersville GA.
  Find A Grave Memorial# 36188145


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