Karen: Here's one I have been fighting for about 30 years. My wife's
gr-gr-grandfather, Benjamin DOTY was born about 1798 in Minisink, Orange County,
NY. He married Mary SCOFIELD in Big Flats, Tioga County, NY and they had
several children there. They disappeared after the 1830 census. Mary appears as
Mary DOTTY on the 1850 census in Metamora, Franklin County, IN with several
children including Charles Wilson DOTY, my wife's gr-grandfather, who always
claimed to have been born in Rochester, IN. Another mystery - where is
Rochester, IN? With some help from others on this site we discovered that
Rochester is now known as Cedar Grove, a small village just a few miles down Route
52 from Metamora. There is no sign of Benjamin DOTY on the 1840 or 1850
census of Franklin County. Did he head for the gold rush in California, was he
killed during the canal construction, did he just take off from his family?
There was canal construction in Big Flats before the family moved to Franklin
County so there is a possibility he was a canal worker. A family rumor
states that he fell in the canal on the way home from a lodge meeting.
Help!
Ken Pohl
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