of Cooper County, Missouri · documented from the public record
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Thomas Jefferson Dobyns 1801 – 1865
Thomas Jefferson Dobyns
childrenJennie Dobyns
Source: History of Cooper County, Missouri (1919)
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What the record says
Col. Thomas Jefferson Dobyns.
Confederate colonel of the Second Louisiana Regiment ('Tiger Rifles'), Second Polish Brigade of Louisiana.
Fought at Gettysburg.
Born 1801, died 1865 of chills and fever contracted in service.
Father of Jennie (Dobyns) Andrews.
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