Mary Ann Herring was a daughter of John B. and Mariah Hill Herring. John B. Herring was my 3rd great grandfather. Mary Ann Herring Dawson was my 2nd great grandaunt.
Mary Ann was born Oct. 29, 1820 in Albemarle Co., Virginia. Her family came to Callaway Co. about 1831. On November 3, 1842, she married Robert H. Dawson. They were married in Callaway Co., Missouri.
Robert H. Dawson was born in 1810 in Nelson Co. Virginia. He was a son of Elijah Dawson and Patsy Gentry. In 1830, Robert and most of his 7 brothers and sisters came to Callaway County.
Robert Dawson's mother, Pastsy Gentry Dawson, was a daughter of Benajah Gentry and either a Miss Austin or a Miss Jones of Culpepper Co., Virginia. Pastsy Gentry had a sister named Sallie Gentry, who married George Hardin in Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., Virginia. Their son William Hardin married in Albemarle Co., Virginia, Mary Polly Simco, daughter of James Simco and Francis Canada.
Robert Dawson and Mary Ann Herring had 9 children, 3 died as young children and I do not have their names.
- William H. Dawson, b: Aug 3, 1843 Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Apr. 5, 1926, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri. You can see a PDF copy of his death certificate by clicking here.
- married February 25, 1869, Callaway Co., Missouri, Mary Annis Brandon, b: Nov 10, 1842, d: Mar. 12, 1919, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri. (see below for more information about this family) You can see a PDF copy of her death certificate by clicking here.
- Elizabeth Ann Dawson, b: abt. 1847, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- married Nov. 11, 1869, Callaway Co., Missouri, Tarlton L. Basket, b: abt. 1848, Shelby Co., Kentucky. Son of Alfred Baskett.
- Children:
- Emma B. Basket, b: abt. 1871, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- William L. Basket, b: abt. 1873, Callaway Co., Missouri.
Elizabeth Dawson and Tarlton Basket lived at home with Robert and Mary Ann Dawson for a few years after they married. By the 1880 census, they were living in Fulton with two children. Tarlton was a clerk in a dram shop. By 1900, they were living in Sedalia Missouri. Tarltons's name has become Carlton, he is working as a dram salesman. They live in a rented house, Emma is still living with them and working as a saleswoman. She is single and 29 years old. I cannot find William on a 1900 census. After 1900 I am not finding any of this family on a Missouri census. According to her mother's obituary in 1906, they were living in St. Louis.
- Susan J. Mariah Dawson, b: abt. 1849, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: 1883, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Married, Jan. 23, 1867, Callaway Co., Missouri, Jeremiah Nichols, b: May 8, 1839 Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Aug. 26, 1916, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Hillcrest Cemetery, Fulton, Missouri. He was a son of William Nichols and Hanna Jane Muir. He remarried after Susan's death to Laura B. Hall.
- Children:
- William Oden Nichols, b: abt. 1867, Callaway Co., Missouri
- married, Dec. 30, 1891, Mary Emma Baker.
- Robert C. Nichols, b: abt. 1869, possibly died before 1880.
- Collin Nichols, b: abt. 1873
- Ulah Nichols, b: abt 1875
- Martha Gentry Dawson, b: Apr. 20, 1851, Callaway Co. Missouri, d: May 29, 1930, Fulton, Callaway Co. Missouri.
- married, Dec. 17, 1872 in Callaway Co., Missouri, James A. Franklin b: abt.1848, Kentucky, d: before 1900.
- Children:
- Mary L. Franklin, b: abt. 1877, Callaway Co. Missouri.
- Claude D. Franklin, b: Dec. 1878, Callaway Co. Missouri.
- Married, in 1910, Ellen unknown, b: abt. 1880, Missouri
- Children:
- Caldeyline Franklin, b: abt. 1911, Kansas City, Jackson Co., Missouri
- Claude E. Franklin Jr., b: abt. 1915, Kansas City, Jackson Co., Missouri
- John Franklin, b: abt. 1917, Kansas City, Jackson Co., Missouri
- James Allen L. Franklin, b: abt. 1880, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Sept. 2, 1882, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Ray Benjamin Franklin, b: abt. 1883, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- married Dec. 7, 1904, Callaway Co., Missouri, Mary Kuss. He owned a tourist hotel in Osage Beach, Missouri.
Martha is a widow in 1900 census, age 48, living in Fulton and working as a dressmaker. Her children, Mary L. is a seamstress, Claude D. delevery work, and Ray B., a printer setting type, all still live with her. Her mother, Mary Ann Herring Dawson is living with this family in 1900. On the 1880 census, there was another child listed, Allen L., but he is not on any other census. In 1910 and 1920, Martha is living as a boarder in Fulton. I can't connect any of the head of house as being a relative.
- James Allen Dawson, b: May 1, 1854, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Feb. 01, 1925, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Hillcrest cemetery, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- married Dec. 17, 1887, Callaway Co., Missouri, Ida V. Berry, daughter of John G. Berry and Sarah Ann Simco, b: April 1864, Callaway Co., Missouri d: June 1944, Callaway Co. Missouri. Ida Berry was a grandaughter of Reuben Brooks Simco, and was my second cousin twice removed.
- Children:
- Evelyn Hope Dawson b: Oct. 21, 1888 Callaway Co., Missouri, d: July, 19, 1970, buried Hillcrest cemetery, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- 1st married, Jan 22, 1911, Callaway Co., Missouri, Henry Ray Bartley.
- 2nd married, Feb. 26, 1916, Callaway Co., Missouri, Otis Boyd Gooldy, b: Jan. 9, 1892, d: Aug. 2, 1967, buried Hillcrest cemetery, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri. He was a son of Charles Robert Gooldy and Josephine E. Winn.
- Robert H. Dawson b: June 1890 Callaway Co., Missouri.
- married Nella, b: abt. 1906, Illinois.
- Children: Robert E. Dawson, b: abt. 1918, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Barry A. Dawson b: Feb. 23, 1892, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Aug. 26, 1978, Marin Co., Callifornia.
- married June 1919 Callaway Co., Missouri Elizabeth Holmes
- Frank Everett Dawson b: Dec. 23, 1893 Callaway Co., Missouri, d: June 9, 1949, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Hillcrest cemetery, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri. Killed himself with a 22 rifle.
- Married, Merle James unknown, d: after 1949.
- Virginia H. Dawson b: July 1899 Callaway Co., Missouri
- Married Oct. 13, 1919, Callaway Co., Missouri, F.M. Bush Herndon.
- William M. Dawson Callaway Co., Missouri b: 1903. In 1930 he was teaching high school in Fulton, Missouri.
- Benjamin Y. Dawson, b: Aug 22, 1859 Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Oct 10, 1934, Auxvasse township, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Richland Christian church cemetery, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- 1st married Apr 6, 1881, Callaway Co., Missouri, Maria Francis Moore, b: Nov. 14, 1860, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Feb. 7, 1904, Callaway Co. Missouri, buried Richland Christian church cemetery, Callaway Co., Missouri. Her parents were Geroge B. Moore and Frances Wise.
- Children:
- Ethel M. Dawson, b: Nov. 10, 1882, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Oct. 6, 1889, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Richland Baptist Church cemetery, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Roy Dawson, b: Dec. 1886, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- married Nov. 3, 1914, Callaway Co., Missouri, Barbara Winnigear.
- Children: Infant Dawson, b: Mar. 25, 1914, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Apr. 5, 1914, Round Prairie Twp., Callaway Co., Missouri, buried, Carrington Baptist Church cemetery, Carrington, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Yates Dawson, b: Feb. 1891, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- married Dec. 23, 1912, Callaway Co., Missouri, Eunice Kemp.
- Lummie Dawson, b: Aug. 1892, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- married Apr. 28, 1917, Callaway Co., Missouri, Roy E. Shedd.
- 2nd married, Nov. 2, 1909, Callaway Co., Missouri, Minter Davis, b: abt 1883, Missouri.
- Children: Elizabeth Dawson, b: abt. 1919, Callaway Co., Missouri.
Robert and Mary Ann Dawson's children's names came from the 1870 census and 1860 census and the 1850 census records.
| 1850 Missouri Census |
| 221A |
5 |
371 |
371 |
Robert H |
Dawson |
42 |
M |
Farmer |
1000 |
VA |
|
D250 |
|
| 221A |
6 |
371 |
371 |
Mary Ann |
Dawson |
30 |
F |
|
|
VA |
|
D250 |
|
| 221A |
7 |
371 |
371 |
Wm H |
Dawson |
8 |
M |
|
|
MO |
X |
D250 |
|
| 221A |
8 |
371 |
371 |
Elizabeth Ann |
Dawson |
4 |
F |
|
|
MO |
|
D250 |
|
| 221A |
9 |
371 |
371 |
Mariah Susan |
Dawson |
1 |
F |
|
|
MO |
|
D250 |
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The nearest neighbors on the 1850 census were the Willis Hill family on one side and the Nathan Herring family on the other side. Mary Ann was a cousin of both families.
Robert Dawson died 02 April 1872, aged 62 yrs, 4 mos, 26 days and is buried in the Dawson Private Cemetery per the Callaway County, Missouri Journal.
On the 1880 census, Mary Ann is still living on the farm along with 2 of her sons, Benjamin (age 20) and J. Allen (age 26). There is also a 10 year old black child named John White listed as living with them as a servant.
On the 1900 census, Mary Ann is living with her daughter Martha (Mattie) Franklin and her children in Fulton Township.
Mary Ann Herring Dawson died Jun 24, 1906 and is buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri.
Obit - Auxvasse Review
Mrs. M.A. Dawson Dead
Mrs. Mary ann Dawson, born in Albemarle county, Virginia, October 29, 1820, died in Fulton, June 24, 1906.
These words chronicle the passing away of one of the oldest residents of Callaway county, one of the pioneers who passed through the varied experience of frontier life when the six-horse wagon, the log house, the well sweep, the tallow-dip, and the ready rifle were familiar to all, and and lived on into that period marked by the frame or brick house, the electric light, the palace car, the telephone and all the necessities of today which in that older day would have been deemed pure luxuries.
Mrs. Dawson was the daughter of John B. Herring and Maria, his wife. With her parents she made the overland journey from Virginia to this county in 1832, being at that time about twelve years of age. Fulton then extended from Stinson Creek to the court house square. The family made their first home in what is now the old Gerhardt residence, south of the creek. Later they moved to a farm north of the John Maloney farm, a few miles northwest of town.
On October 20, 1842, she married Robert M. Dawson. Their children numbered nine, three of whom died very young. Five children survive: William H. Dawson of this city, Mrs. Elizabeth Baskett of St. Louis, Mrs. Martha G. Franklin, of Fulton, at whose home the aged mother spent her declining years, James Allen Dawson, and Benjamin Y. Dawson, of this county. Mrs. Susan J. Nichols, one of the daughters, died in 1889.
Mrs. Dawson united with the Richland Baptist church under the ministration of Rev. Noah Flood, about sixty years ago, and ever lived a consistent and earnest Christian life.
At the residence of Mrs. M.G. Franklin, on Court street on Monday afternoon at 3:00, funeral services were conducted by Rev. G.H. Swift, pastor of the Baptist church, assisted by Rev. W.W. Stoddard, of the Presbyterian church, and Rev. C.W. Collett, of the Methodist church. The remains were laid to rest in the new cemetery. One by one the pioneers are crossing over to the other side.
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Son, William H. Dawson married Mary Ann Brandon. She was a daughter of Francis Brandon and Ann Bennett. Her father was a mayor of Fulton Mo. On the 1880 census they had a 10 year old niece named Katie living with them, Katie was the daughter of Mary Ann's brother, James Brandon. Kate's mother died when Kate was one year old.
William's bio from the book, "A Hisorty of Callaway County, 1884".
Francis Brandon, Mary Ann Brandon Dawson's father married Georgie Anne Herring (George W. Herring Sr.'s daughter) in 1876.
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