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Author: manelsonjr
Surnames: Calhoun Dozier
Classification: queries
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Hi! I am seeking information about Theodore A. Calhoun and Elvira Dozier. Theodore and
Elvira married in Crockett, Texas in the 1860's. My paternal grandfather was Rufus
Dozier, the 2nd born of their ten children. We (acutally my dad and his siblings) knew
very little about their Calhoun heritage - we suspect because of the trouble that caused
Theodore to take the Dozier name and flee to "No Man's Land" of what is now
western Louisiana after the Civil War. My oldest paternal uncle, A.J. Dozier - born in
1905 - traveled to East Texas once as a young teenager with Theodore and Elvira- but would
never talk about it with family in later years.
I have a photograph from about 1929 that shows my great grandparents with a group of
people on a front porch - we / I (my father's generation has all passed now)
don't know who they are - my dad (the youngest of five) always thought that they were
Theodore's family. I would also love to know any more info that anyone has on them -
my dad said that Theodore was quite a character! He remembers, as a very young boy, that
Theodore let him hammer nails into the fireplace to keep him occupied. Needless to say,
my grandfather was furious. "Daddy", as Theodore was referred to by my father
and siblings, ran the family hotel in Singer, LA until it was blown away in the
"August Storm of 1918". After that, he and another son moved to the Beaumont
area. After Theodore and Elvira's deaths in '32 and '33, my grandfather
traveled to Austin by train to retrieve their meager belongings from the Texas Confederate
Home in Austin.
I look forward to hearing from anyone.
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