Thomas DOTSON

- Abt 1863

• Name	Thomas DOTSON  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1863  [1]
  Person ID	I3739	Rootballs
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2015

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth CAUDILL,   b. 22 Aug 1842, Letcher Co., KY d. Abt 1934, OK (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1863  [1]
  Children	1. ? DOTSON  [Natural]   2. Jesse DOTSON,   b. Abt 1863  [Natural]
  Family ID	F1582	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2015

  
  

• Notes

  1.Tom died during the Civil War while a prisoner at Camp Douglas, IL. Based on a letter written by his wife, Betty, Tom was taken prisoner and while a prisoner he contracted the measles. During the time of his illness, some of the prisoners tried a break. The guards, in trying to make the other prisoners inform on the ones who attempted the break, forced the prisoners who wouldn't cooperate outdoors into the rain. Tom was one them and they took him outside and paraded him down the street in his night clothes, but he still refused to talk. Betty said they invited the folks in to see him. She said she got close enough to wave her handkerchief at him and the crowd hollered at him to die with it in him, them measles would kill him, and he did. _____________________________________________________

  
  

• Sources

  [S143] Caudill, B.K.