Cotrell by Lazarus Dodson in 1833 and confirmed in 1861. The location of Cotterell is the farm sold to David C. In Claiborne County, Jacob Dobkins, John Campbell and George Campbell settled not terribly far from each other, but Lazarus Dodson settled several miles away, just below the Cumberland Gap at Butcher Springs, shown on the Civil War map, below. That church still exists today, on the banks of Gap Creek, on land owned by Lazarus. Lazarus probably attended school in the same one room building that also functioned as a church on his father’s land. would have been about 5 years old when his parents moved to Claiborne County. These early pioneer families could well have been related before moving to Dodson Creek. There seems to be some connection to the Lea family, both in Virginia and in Tennessee. We also don’t know the surname of Raleigh Dodson’s wife. He could have been otherwise related, by virtue of his wife, Jane, whose surname is unknown. John Campbell would have married Jane “Jenny” Dobkins about 1795 and George’s brother, married Jane’s sister, Elizabeth Dobkins, about the same time – both daughters of Jacob Dobkins. moved to the White Horn branch of Bent Creek, very near Jacob Dobkins.Īround 1800, this entire group of families moved from Hawkins County to what would become Claiborne County in 1801, including Jacob Dobkins, John and George Campbell along with their Dobkins wives and Lazarus Dodson and his wife, Jane. Everyone traveled these main roads, and everyone, including Jacob Dobkins and his daughters would stop at Raleigh Dodson’s house (and probably tavern/store) after crossing the river. It probably looks much the same today as it did then, except for the fields.īull’s Gap was the next major stop and it was about 12 miles on south, just past White Horn. Locals find artifacts and firepits there. The road from Old Prussia Road to where the ferry crossed no longer exists today, but if you extend the line along Dodson Creek from the intersection of Old Tennessee 70 and Old Prussia Road along the west side of Dodson’s Creek, crossing the river near Arnott’s Island, that’s the general path.Īccording to local history, this was also the Great War Path, and the Indians used to camp at the mouth of Dodson’s Creek, in the area not plowed today. manned and owned the ferry crossing the Holston River at Dodson Ford. Raleigh Dodson, the father of Lazarus Dodson Sr. Their lands are directly behind, beneath and beside the power plant. This beautiful scene overlooks both the Campbell and Dodson lands from a vantage point across the Holston River. The land between the homestead and the river was low and prone to flooding. The Dodson homestead would have been on the high ground, approximately at the location of 621 Old Tennessee 70, while the ford itself crossed the river, just above that location. The Campbell and Dodson families lived near Dodson’s Ford, located at the mouth of Dodson Creek near the power plant today. John Campbell, born about 1782, married Jane “Jenny” Dobkins, the daughter of Jacob Dobkins who lived just down the road near White Horn. Dodson Creek was on the south side of the Holston River, so safely in North Carolina.Ĭharles Campbell and his sons, John and George also lived on Dodson Creek. Hawkins County was formed in 1787 in what was then North Carolina from Sullivan and Greene Counties, although the boundary between North Carolina and Virginia, on Hawkins County’s north border, remained in dispute for years. The Dodson family had settled on land on what is now Dodson Creek in Hawkins County by 1787, before Tennessee was even a state. and his wife, Jane, whose name we don’t know. Lazarus Dodson was born in 1795, probably in what is now Hawkins County, Tennessee, to Lazarus Dodson Sr.
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