Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Rufus Monroe DOTSON
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 12 Mar 1858 in Pickaway Co, Ohio b
  • Death: Lima, Ohio d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Samuel DOTSON Birth: May 1833 in Ohio Death: Hume, Shawnee Twp, Allen Co, Ohio
    • Mother:
  • Hester Ann BOWSHER Birth: 27 Jun 1831 in Adelphi, Colrain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio Death: 17 Aug 1913 in Hume, Shawnee Twp, Allen Co, Ohio

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Alice DOTSON Birth: Lima, Ohio Death: Lima, Allen Co, Ohio
  2. Samuel Otis DOTSON Birth: 30 Sep 1883 in Lima, Ohio Death: Lima, Allen Co, Ohio
  3. Lester DOTSON Birth: 12 Apr 1886 in Lima, Ohio Death: Lima, Allen Co, Ohio
  4. Maud Opal DOTSON Birth: Oct 1888 in Lima, Ohio

Bibliography
  1. Census 1870, Ohio, Allen Co, Shawnee, p28. M593-1168. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/004277663 image 556. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: 1870 OH Allen Shawnee 28].
  2. Burkhardt, Franklin A, The BOUCHER Family, Francis E Burkhardt Press, New York, 1917. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005712838 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p[0-9f]*].
  3. Bowsher, Kay, BOWSHER Family, private email, 9/10/2001. Author address qddusa at yahoo dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p358]
age 12 in 1870 [Ref: 1870 OH Allen Shawnee 28],
place:
[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p358]
Ohio [Ref: 1870 OH Allen Shawnee 28],
parents:
[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p358]
Samuel DOTSON & Hester ___ [Ref: 1870 OH Allen Shawnee 28]
Sources for death Information
place:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001]
Sources with Information about marriage to Anna JONES
date:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001],
place:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001],
child:
[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p358, Burkhardt BOUCHER p360]
Research Notes:
carpenter and contractor [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p358]



Pedigree of Rufus Monroe DOTSON
                   /-----Thomas DODSON
          /-----Charles DOTSON
         |         \-----Catherine BRONCHER
 /-----Samuel DOTSON
|        |                           /-----Johan Adam DEFENBAUGH
|        |                  /-----George DEFENBAUGH
|        |                 |         \-----Maria Sybilla KOBEL
|        |         /-----Daniel DEFENBAUGH
|        |        |         \-----Eva Mary Magdalena KAPP
|         \-----Mary Magdalena DEFENBAUGH
|                 |         /-----Peter CULP
|                  \-----Hannah CULP
|                           \-----Mary HEINLY
Rufus Monroe DOTSON
|                           /-----Johan Daniel BOUCHER
|                  /-----William BOWSHER
|                 |         \-----Anna Maria (BOUCHER)
|         /-----Jeremiah BOWSHER
|        |         \-----Sabina SMITH
 \-----Hester Ann BOWSHER
          \-----Margaret NUNGESTER



Descendants of Rufus Monroe DOTSON
1. Rufus Monroe DOTSON m. Anna JONES
m. Anna JONES

2nd generation

2. Alice DOTSON m. Frank LAUX
m. Frank LAUX
3. Samuel Otis DOTSON m. Nettie DUNCAN
m. Nettie DUNCAN

3rd generation

6. Sarah Hester LAUX m. Living THORBURN
m. Living THORBURN
9. Byron Ursinus DOTSON m. Frances L DASHER
m. Frances L DASHER

4th generation

12. Living DOTSON m. Living CRIST
m. Living CRIST