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DORSEY
CENSUS
1850
1850 - Fulton twp, Lancaster co in home of ? Samuel Ward
- DORSEY, Oliver 26 Md laborer
- Fulton twp, Lancaster co in home of David Wilmer??
- 1850 Fulton martha Reynolds future wife
- DORSEY, Samuel 26 Md carpenter
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- REYNOLDS, Elisha 42 Md shoemaker
- Sophia 41 England
- Martha 19 Lanc co
- Rachel 16? Lanc co
- Joshua 17 ditto
- Bohnery?? Female 14 penna
- Sarah 12 penna
- Mary 11 penna
- Susanna 9 penna
- Edward 7 penna
- Milton 5 penna
- Gilbert 3 penna
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- 1850 Cecil county Md 2nd subdivision
- DORSEY, Nathaniel 54 Md farmer land value 1200
- KEAS, Elizabeth 24 Pa
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1860
1860 - Cecil co 8th district
- FULTON, John 68 Pa carpenter
- DORSEY, William 38 Md farmer
- Ellen 27 Md
- Gilbert 10 Md
- Pheby 7 Md
- Milton 5 Md
- Rebecca 2 Md
- Margaret 3mo Md
- Gillespie, Mary 48 Md
- 1860
- Cecil co 8th district
- FULTON, John 68 Pa carpenter
- DORSEY, William 38 Md farmer
- Ellen 27 Md
- Gilbert 10 Md
- Pheby 7 Md
- Milton 5 Md
- Rebecca 2 Md
- Margaret 3mo Md
- Gillespie, Mary 48 Md
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1870
1870 cecil county md - DORSEY,William 48
- wife Mary 45
- Milton 15
- Rebecca 12
- Margaret 11
- Sarah 9
- Robert 7
- SIMONS, Gilbert 10
- Joseph 11
- DORSEY, Franklin 11mo
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1880
1880 Cecil County - DORSEY, William 57 Md
- Mary 55 Md
- Robert 15 Md son
- LERK, Francis 9 Md can't read relationship
- McFANN, Harry 7 Md can't read relationship
- DORSEY, Frank 10 Md son
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- 1880
- DORSEY, Oliver 55 Md father Md Mother Pa
- Sophia 24 Md father Md mother Germany
- Henry H 20 Pa father Md mother Germany
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1900
.. - 1900 Columbia County Johnstown Pa
- Dorsey, Frank 30 Md
- Rose 28 ohio Germany NewYork
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- 1900 Cecil county maryland elc dist 6
- Dorsey, William 74 Mar 1826 married 32yr md md pa
- Mary 74 Dec 1825 married 32yr Pa Pa Pa 1 child born 1 living
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- 1900 California, SanFrancisco
- Dorsey, Gilbert 49 Feb 1851 m13y California Md Md
- Sarah 48 Nov 1851 m13y Ireland Ireland Ireland 0 children
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1920
.. 1920 Pittsburgh - Dorsey, Frank 50 Md Md Pa
- Rosa 50 wife Ohio German NY
- Sweeny, Ned 34 head Pa Pa Pa
- Mary 36 sister Pa Pa Pa
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OBITUARIES
- John Hammond Dorsey died May 19, 1903 at P.B. Shanks house age 72 years 6 months 12 days
- Text I am now ready to be offered the time and departure is at hand . Timothy 4 &6 minister Mr. Belle, buried at Mt Zion Church. Hymns, nearer my god to thee, Asleep in Jesus.
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- This is a copy of anewspaper obituary(hand dated Jan. 27, 1941, buried Jan.30)
- Lavina Dorsey
- FULTON TOWNSHIP
- Miss Lavinia Dorsey Dies
- Miss Sophia Lavinia Dorsey, aged 85 years, died Monday evening at her home near Pleasant Grove. She had been Ill a week. Miss Dorsey was born in the same house in which she died, and lived there all her life except for four years spent in Baltimore. For the last twenty-six years she resided alone. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Dorsey, and was the last of her family. She was a member of the Little Britian Presbyterian Church, the Little Britian W.C.T.U., and a charter member of the Quiet Workers' Circle of Kings Daughters, Fulton Township, which latter organized 50 years next September. Newspaper Obituary
- DORSEY- at Peters Creek Lancaster County July 29th M Estella, eldest daughter of Samuel and Martha W. Dorsey, in the 23rd year of age
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- The following is a copy of a news paper article (no date ) Lancaster intel. under Drumore Doings
- Last Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mr. Samuel Dorsey, the brides's father, Miss Allie Dorsey, by the assistance of Rev. John Galbreath, changed her name for that of Mrs. Anson B. Ambler. A large number of guest were present at the ceremony, and testify to the new piece of workmanship done in the same old way, calculated to give general satisfaction - - warranted to wear a lifetime, with all repairs - - and, of course, none will ever be needed - - to be at the expense of the bridesmaid and her honored assistant. The happy pair have already received sufficient congatulations to last them a lifetime, and numberless counties yet to hear from. There were beautiful presents in abundance, and what presents should be they were, all useful. The high regard for the young couple wherever they are known called forth the sincerest, expressions of good will toward them, and hopes for their future success and happiness, to which this branch of the INTELLIGENCER household, if not too insignificant, desires to add its tribute of friendship. A reception was given the bride and groom by the latter's father, Mr. Edward Ambler, where all was merriment and feasting.
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- This is a second article from the Intel (no date ) DRUMORE news from the lower end.
- In Fulton township, on the 23 inst, there was a death that caused the profoundest sorrow wherever the deceased, or the recent circumstances of her life, were known. It was that of Mrs. Allie Ambler, wife of Anson B. Ambler of this township; and daughter of Mrs. Samuel Dorsey. Mrs. Ambler was in her twenty-fifth year, and was married in December last. She had been in very delicate health previous to her marriage, but at that time it was thought she was recovering. She grew worse, however, a short time ago, and died last week in the very opening of a beautiful womanhood. She and her husband had just completed their preparations to begin housekeeping and farming on the first of April, up to which time she was to remain at her father's home, where she died. Everything was so full of promise before her, bright prospects and kind friends on every side, her young husband a most congenial companion, their lives have been rich in anticipation. "But oh! fell death's untimely frost." The young wife's was one of those happy natures that makes every acquaintance a friend, and her death has touched more chords than those of kindred . Sympathy for the bereaved family is universal, and for the young husband's great sorrow, come so early, there is enough pity to soothe if pity ever could.
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- Newspaper Obituary 1872
- Dorsey at Peters creek, September 16th of Diphtheria Harriett Eliza, daughter of Samuel and Martha W. Dorsey, age 1 year 10 month and 17 days
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NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
- This is a copy of a newspaper article (no date)
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- HELD FOR MURDER
- Young Charles Moore Charged With Shooting Henry H. Dorsey, Given Hearing
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- Given a hearing on Wednesday, by Justice Ash, at Elkton Maryland, Samuel Moore, the seven year old son of Charles Moore, Pilottown, Who killed Henry Herbert Dorsey, last Friday afternoon, apparently was undisturbed. During the progress of the hearing he paid little attention to what was being said, but was much interested in watching the newspaper men who were sitting near him.
- The only witness the state examined was Charles Moore, the ten-year-old brother of the accused, who stated that he noticed Dorsey driving up the road, and a few seconds later saw Samuel come out of the kitchen carrying his gun, which had been given to him for a Christmas present. A couple of minutes later he heard the eplosion of the gun, and noticed his brother running back into the kitchen. Upon inquiry Samuel told him that he shot Dorsey. Justice Ash held the lad for the grand jury, but it is probable that the court will be asked to commit him to reform school until he is 21 years of age.
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- Note: I was told by Mrs. Grace Shaub that Henry Herbert Dorsey was shot because of an argument with these boys about a dog.
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- Henry Herbert Dorsey died January 11, 1913 and is laid to rest in the Mount Zion Cemetery in Fairfield, Pa.
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- Harris Newmark, Sixty Years in California
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- Rebecca Lee Dorsey, another of the early women practitioners of medicine, came to Los Angeles in January, 1886, a graduate both of Eastern colleges and of a leading Vienna hospital. Peddling vegetables as a child, later working as a servant and hiring out as a nurse while finishing her course in Europe, Dr. Dorsey was of a type frequently found among the early builders of the Southwest.
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