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In the St. Petersburg Times (Florida), today was an article about Stephen Collins Foster who wrote many songs. Among his songs, of course, was "Old Folks At Home", which was sometimes called "Sewannee River". The paper showed a copy of the original song, which is kept in Pennsylvania. Since the author had made a photocopy of the original song, it showed where the Peedee River had been originally the name of the river used in the song. However, PeeDee River was struck through the original song, and Sewanee River had been inserted. The PeeDee River divides Anson County, N.C., and Richmond County, N.C., it made me wonder if that Stephen Collins Foster was related to the ones who married into the Dabbs family. There are also Collins that lived in the area where I grew up, and are distantly related to me through the Hasty/Hastey and my Liles families.
As most of the *Dabbs/Dobbs know, our family had lived around the Great PeeDee River when they first moved to Anson Co. in 1749.
This is just something that I thought was interesting. Since I am finding more and more Quakers in my family, I was curious if this Foster family was related to our Fosters. If all of the Fosters were Quakers, and knowing the Quakers moved around quite a bit, this may be how Stephen came in contact with the Great PeeDee River. Just a thought!
Our new governor, Charlie Crist, does not want to use this song as the state song, due to there being racial overtones in it. This was the reason the article concerning the song and Stephen Collins Foster was in the paper.
Hope all are doing well with their research. I am still stuck with no documentation that Josiah Dabbs could be David Sidney Dabbs father.
Bobbie Williamson-Dabbs Ledbetter
blsl@ij.net
*NOTE: I have found our name spelled Dobbs/Dobs/Dabbs in the early Anson Co., N.C., records.
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