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Dodson & McWhorter Families Papers
These papers tell the family histories of Edward Bradley’s daughter, Sarah Bradley who married Archelous B. Dodson. Sarah was known as Bessie Dodson who created the first flag of Texas in 1835. They had six children in Grimes County. One of their daughters, Harriet Houston Dodson, married Samuel S. McWhorter. To this union was born ten children. Samuel served in the Civil War and died young of tuberculosis. The family history is continued to 1967 in this small collection.