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Another patent, Liber CD, folio 76.

NB Said fellow was taken up in Charles county, near Port Tobacco on the 5th instant, and made his escape in Bladensburg, and it is ecpected he will go the same course, as he has a great many acquaintance in both Carles and St Mary's counties.
August 10, 1784.

Letter from E W Morgan, Acting Commissioner,Rev.a1812 Ware Section - from Proquest. com
"...He volunteered in 1778 and was a private in the Flying Camp. He was commissioned April 17, 1777, Lieutenant in Captain Samuel Godman's Company, Colonel Howard's Fourth Maryland Regiment, he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth and resigned November 10, 1778....".

MARYLAND JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS
We learn that Wm F Frick, Esq., has been appointed, by the Governor, Chief Judge of the district composed of Baltimore city and county and Harford county, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Archer. He has also appointed Judge Thomas B. Dorsey, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Judge Dorsey, who has so long and so acceptably discharged the responsible duties of a Judge f the High Court of Appeals, and presiding Judge of the Anne Arundel county district, is advanced to the honorable position of Chief Justice of the Court, as his service, learning and ability required he should be...

Application for bounty land warrant, presented before the Probate Court, Bowling Green, Pike, MO and certified by the Judge of the Probate Court, Judge Thomas J C Fagg, 16 Jan 1851. Warrant #31644 issued 3 Dec 1851 for 40 acres.

THOMAS B. DORSEY
JOHN T W DORSEY

NB The subscribers would sell this property (if desired) at private sale at any time before the 15th of June next.

Know all men by these presents that we, James O Broadhead and Caleb Dorsey as principal and ------as [clearly word or words concerning a bond] securities are held and firmly bound unto the State of Missouri in the sum seventy five thousand dollars for the true payment of which we hereby bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, witness of hand and seals this 19th day of July AD 1858. The condition of this bond is that if James O Broadhead and Caleb Dorsey, administrators of the Estate of Edward W Dorsey, deceased shall faithfully administer said Estate, account for, pay and deliver all money, property of said estate and perform all other things touching said administration required by law or the order of any court having jurisdiction then the above bond to be void, otherwise to remain in full force. Jas. O Broadhead, Caleb Dorsey, Aaron McPike, Joseph Roants, William Bankhead.

James O Braodhead and Caleb Dorsey on their oaths state that Edward W Dorsey, late of Pike County, Missouri has died leaving the following named heirs and representatives to wit: Eleanor E Dorsey, his widow and the following children to wit: Comfort W Porter of Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri and wife of Gilchrist Porter, John W Dorsey and Thomas B Dorsey of the state of California, Mary L Broadhead, wife of Jas O Broadhead, Caleb Dorsey, Annie Dorsey, Susan Dorsey and Edna(sic) Dorsey of Pike County, Missouri, the last three of whom are minors under the age of twenty one years, that the deceased died without a will and that they will make a perfect inventory of and faithfully administer all the estate of the deceased and pay the debts as far as the assets will extend and the same direct and account for and pay all assets which shall come to their possession or knowledge belonging to said estate. Jas. O. Broadhead, Caleb Dorsey. Filed for record July the 19th, 1858.

Know all men by these Presents:
That we, Esther M Dorsey as principal, and, J W Dorsey and Caleb Dorsey both of the County of Stanislaus and State of California as sureties, are held and firmly bound to the state of California in the sum of fifteen Thousand dollars - 21st day of Oct 1885
Administratrix of the Estate of Caleb Dorsey...died 28 Mar 1885 without a will...heirs at law Elizabeth M Dorsey Anita E Dorsey Kate W Dorsey all over 21, and Caleb, 17 years of age.

Notice of Location of Mill Site & Water Right: Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern, That we the undersigned citizens of the United States of America, over the age of Twenty one, have this day located under the laws of the United States Fifteen hundred (1500) inches of water flowing in Knights Creek in the County of Tuolumne State of California to be taken out on the north side of said creek at a certain ditch constructed to take the same. Also three (3) acres of ground at the terminus of said ditch to be used as a Mill Site to have and to hold the same Dated this 22nd day of October 1891. Signed John Dorsey, Adam Elliot, J W Foster. Recorded at the Request of J W Foster Nov 14th 1891 at 10 min past 9 oclock AM. L P Cannon, County Recorder.

Hon Champ Clark Apl 26th/94
House of Representatives
Dr Sir

Can you furnish
Me with the full name of
Col -------- Dorsey
Of the Missouri State Guard, & afterwards with Genl S. Price
In Confederate Service

& Oblige
Yours truly
Jos Darr

Caleb W. Dorsey is the name you want.

Your, Champ Clark.

Caleb Dorsey appears to have been in command at various times of service different bodies of men who were raised in Mo. for the Confed. service.
He was paid for services as Capt of Cav. Mo. ?? from June 27/61 to Dec 27, 1861 as Col. Of Inf. From the latter date.
He was captured while rectg [recruiting] near the Osage River Feb 15, 1862 & was imprisoned at Alton, Ill. Camp ??? Ohio & Ft Warren Mass. And was delivered to the confed August at ??? ??? Va. Aug 5, 1862 exchange at which time his age was stated as 28 yrs. Height 6 feet.
Subsequently he is mentioned as Capt. As Maj. & as Col. In Command of Troops and on Aug 20, 1864 he was authorized to recruit a regt. of Cav. For Shelby a Brig. CSA.
He appears in Nov 1864 to have been in command of a body of Confed. Troops in Mo.
No later rec. found.

32, 66. Blue, gray Blackwater Johnson Co., Miss. Accounting Officer.

Maj Gen E Halleck

D Sir
Learning that you have extended the parol of Genl Price and other officers of the Rebel Army lately taken prisoners - I am induced to ask that you will extend the parol of Col. Caleb Dorsey who is a brother of my wife - so as to enable him to go to Pike County Missouri where his mother resides and where his home is - I am not authorized to say that he is disposed to abandon the position which he has heretofore affirmed - but I think that the influences that would surround him on his return home would most probably induce him to change - but this I can pledge myself to that he would do nothing whilst on parol inconsistent with strict propriety of conduct as a prisoner of war parolee upon his honor -
Respectfully your
Jas. O Broadhead
P.S. - He is not at Alton

Comment on cover of letter "Make that the parole of Col. Caleb Dorsey may extended to allow him to go to Pike Co. Mo.".

Appears on a record of PRISONERS OF WAR at Fort Warren, Mass.

Age 28 ; height 6 feet inches
Eyes Gray ; hair Dark
When received April 9 186 2
Where taken Fort Donalson
Remarks: Released July 31, 1862 to be exchanged.

February 2d, Maj. Caleb Dorsey, with his squadron of Confederate cavalry, was escorting the steamboat Julia Roane down the Arkansas river, when at White Oak, seven miles west of Ozark, he was attacked by a band of Arkansas Federal, under Captain Galloway. Dorsey, with his confederates, charged and routed them, killing horses and wounding several of the enemy, who retreated to Frog bayou. On February 3d, Capt Peter Mankins, with a portion of his company, was surrounded in a house on Mulberry by a scouting party under Captain Travis, which Mankins repulsed, killing two men of the Tenth Illinois and wounding others.

Full article in Caleb Dorsey Book - several references to Dorsey's involvement around the massacre of the Calloway County boys at Brown's farm.

HDQRS. DETACH. FOURTH CAV. MO. STATE MILITIA.
Fulton, Mo., November 8, 1864
General: On the night of the 5th instant Dorsey, with 200 men, camped ten miles southwest of this place. At 12 midnight he took up the line of march for some point on the Missouri River. I received information that he was in camp at the place above mentioned. at noon of the 6th. I immediately went in pursuit with sixty-five of my command. I struck the trail late in the evening at a point ten miles west of south of this place, and found that he was bearing east. I followed the trail through by-roads and plantations until near midnight, when I lost his trail and came to a halt. I learned that there were two Union families within a mile of me. I sent a sergeant to one place for information of the whereabouts of the enemy. I also sent for and procured a Union man for a guide. I learned that the enemy were crossing the river two miles and a half below Cote Sans Dessein, at the farm of one Swan Ferguson. I delayed no time after receiving information, but moved at once. At about 1 o'clock I arrived at the farm of Ferguson. Not seeing any camp-fires of the enemy, I sent two men, dismounted, to reconnoiter for his camp. In about one hour his camp was found, or rather his point of crossing, with a few men and horses still remaining on this side. I dismounted all of my men, leaving ten men to guard the horses. I went into the brush with my men and moved cautiously, and surrounded the point at which the enemy were crossing the river, and arriving at their fires found that I was too late. The last load had crossed intervening the time that the camp was discovered and the report could reach me and I could move to the place of the crossing. It was pitch darkness, thick brush and heavy timber to pass through. My information up to this time had been that the enemy were crossing in skiffs. I remained on the ground till daylight, and ascertained that Dorsey had captured a steam-boat at dusk, but I did not learn the name of the steam-boat.
On my return to this place a detachment of one sergeant and five men of my command pursued two of Dorsey' men from the river a distance of fifteen miles, following them by their tracks, overhauled them, killed 1, mortally wounded the other, and slightly wounded a third, who had fallen in company with the two. A short time before my men came upon them, captured their arms and equipments, consisting of blankets, saddle-bags, and a regular outfit for the brush confederacy. One pair of the saddle-bags had a new pair of Federal cavalry pants in them. Conscripts are coming in slowly. I think this country is quiet for the present, but I cannot tell how long it will remain so. It is with much difficulty that we can obtain information from citizens as to where an enemy is in this country.
General, I am, with much respect, your obedient servant, D. Dale, Major Fourth Cav., Missouri State Mil., Comdg. at Fulton, Mo. (Brig. Gen. E B Brown).

Dearest Loudie

I crossed the "Grand River of the North" (Rio Grande Del Norte) this morning and have determined to write you a few lines, without the slightest prospect of getting an answer for a long, long time. As I leave here, for some "other" Place, in a day or two - As to where I shall go 'tis scarcely yet known to myself - Perhaps when I write again 'twill be from some foreign port - I am no Citizen of the United States as you are aware of, therefore can promise myself nothing but eternal trouble by coming to Mo. where there has been so much trouble among the contending parties -
Write to John & Tom & say that they will hear from me soon - I have been in unusual good health all winter & spring - have not had a line or heard a word from any of you since November last -
I shall try and find a country where you can join me if you wish it -
W H E & "Sallie G's" "George" are with me - Both in moderate health - Crocket is also with me & well - I cannot yet write you a letter that is at all satisfactory & will therefore make this as short as possible - I do not design joining either party in this country unless some unlooked for change takes place in the present status of affairs --
Presently kindest regards & sympathy to my old friends --
The Boys wish to be kindly remembered to their friends - and send much love to you --
With much love to all I am as ever Devotedly
Caleb.

After the War between the States it was difficult for southern people to get established for farming in a new country. The Dorsey brothers had but two teams of mules for use in sowing wheat; one plowed in the daytime and one at night using a lantern hung on the plowbeam. Impressed with the new land, Philip C Barbour Ewing returned to Kentucky and from his plantations brought out to the ranch mules, cattle and some of his blooded horses, shipping via the new overland railroad.

In June, 1868, the Stanislaus Steam Navigation Company was incorporated under an act of legislature passed the previous April. The company was to clear the Stanislaus River of all obstructions in the way of trees, snags, and so forth. This they did, from Burneyville (ed: now Riverbank) west to the mouth of the river. The first steamer to make the trip was the Clara Crow. A small sternwheeler then twenty years of age and already a veteran in river transportation. The steamboat company invited the board of supervisors to make this trip, but on one, Caleb Dorsey, made the maiden voyage. The Clara Crow left Stockton on May 1, 1869, and that night they tied up at E E Taylor's ferry near the present Caswell Park. The next day they steamed into Burneyville to be greeted by a large crowd of citizens. The steamer loaded forty tons of grain and the next day it departed downstream.

At the annual meeting of the San Joaquin Agricultural Society held Saturday, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, L U Shippee...Vice Presidents, Stanislaus county, S H Rogers and Caleb Dorsey...

HON. CALEB DORSEY, Stanislaus County; Is a representative in the Assembly of Stanislaus County, and resides at Oakdale. He is a native of Maryland, 43 years old, single, and came to California from Missouri in 1865. He is a confirmed Democrat, and a farmer by occupation. Mr. Dorsey served on the Confederate army, with the rank of Colonel, during the rebellion. Since becoming a resident of his present County he has been one of the Supervisors for three years. He has also been President of the Bank of Modesto, and President of the San Joaquin Agricultural Society, and is now one of the Directors of the State Insane Asylum at Stockton. This is Mr. Dorsey's first trial as a legislator. He is a tall, good-looking bachelor, courteous and gentlemanly in his deportment, and is liberally endowed with that most necessary element of success - go-ahead. Mr. Dorsey is Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs.

---- F H Darling of Napa; N L Bancroft of New York; Caleb Dorsey of Sonora, and AI Elkins of Sacramento are at the Cosmopolitan.

Caleb Dorsey
Snell Qtz Mine
Tuolumne Mg D.
Tuolumne Co.
20.66 acres $105.00
Patent written April 8, 1891 LMW
Patent No 17839
Date May 6/91
Recorded Vol 198 p 49
To R & R May 28, 1891 SB

Land Entry file contains Affadavit of Citizenship; it states he is a citizen b. County of Baltimore, State of Maryland in the year 1833 and is now a resident of Oakdale Stanislaus Co. Cala. Signature of Caleb Dorsey - dated 31 Dec 1886. The Mining claim hereby located is situated in Tuolumne Mining District, Tuolumne County, State of California and is in T3N R15E S7 in a Southwesterly direction from the Wilson Ranch. This location is distinctly marked on the ground so that its boundaries can be readily traced by a monument set at a discovery shaft where this Notice and Statement is posted this 15th day of May 1880 and by substantial posts or monuments of stone at each corner of the claim, and the exterior boundaries of the claim as marked by said posts or monuments are as follows: Beginning at this monument and notice and extending 750 feet in a Westerly direction to a stone monument thence 300 feet in a Northerly direction to a stake, thence 1500 feet in a Easterly direction to a stake thence 300 feet, Southerly to a stone monument, thence 300 feet Southerly to a stake thence 1500 feet to a stake which is the South west corner thence 300 feet to the stone monument to the place of beginning. The undersigned intends to hold this claim under and according to the Laws of the United States and of the State of California and to record this notice and statement under oath in the County Recorders Office of said County as provided by law Dated this 15th day of May 1880 and signed Robert Ross, Locator and claimant, Recorded at request of R Ross, January 10th 1881 at 39 M P o'clock AM in volume 2 Page 309 of Records of Mining Claims of Tuolumne County.
On the 31st day of May AD 1881 Robert Ross conveyed by Deed to Caleb Dorsey all his right title and interest in that certain Quartz Claim known as the Snell Quartz Lode Mining Claim, above described Said Deed being of Record in book A Vol 20 Page 455 of Deeds Tuolumne County Records and Recorded in June 1st 1881 at 9 H A M.

Claim abandoned and repatented to E L Pearcy and S Plenningham 9, Dec 1886.

Claim abandoned and repatented to H A Reading 9 Dec 1886, Dec 1886.

Modesto, July 21st - Yester day morning news was brought to this place over the telephone that the whole country was on fire north of Oakdale or just across the Stanislaus river, near Burnett's station...The fire broke out on the northwest corner of Col. Caleb Dorsey's ranch, about five miles from the river. It is supposed that two men were smoking, and that the fire from their pipes caught the grain and before they noticed it, it got under such headway that no one could go near enough to put it out...The fire started about 10 o'clock and it was not under control until 3:30. During this time it had run about five miles and covered a country three miles wide, destroying some of the finest grain in the valley. It was reported that several farm houses had been destroyed. Col. Dorsey lost one of his tenant houses and the barn, valued at $900. He also lost a thrashing machine and one of Shippee's combined headers and thrashers, valued at about $3,000...
PROBABLE LOSSES.
As everybody was excited it is impossible at this time to tell exactly what the losses will amount to. As near as could be learned from the insurance men it is as follows: Col. Dorsey, 1,040 acres; loss $30,00; no insurance; also one house and barn, $900; one of Shippee's combined header and thrasher and one steam thrashing machine, $3,600; partly insured. R Robinson, or Robinson and Carey, 1,200 acres: loss, $20,000; insurance, $7 per acre. L. Grainger, 120 acres; loss, $4,000; insurance, $10 per acre. Isaac Watson, 900 acres; loss, $16,000; insurance, $7 per acre. Paulsel & Muncy, 200 acres; loss, $16,000; insurance, $7 per acre. Total loss, $90,100; total insurance, $23,200.

Know all men by these Presents:
That we, Esther M Dorsey as principal, and, J W Dorsey and Caleb Dorsey both of the County of Stanislaus and State of California as sureties, are held and firmly bound to the state of California in the sum of fifteen Thousand dollars - 21st day of Oct 1885
Administratrix of the Estate of Caleb Dorsey...died 28 Mar 1885 without a will...heirs at law Elizabeth M Dorsey Anita E Dorsey Kate W Dorsey all over 21, and Caleb, 17 years of age.

...It is not so easy to tell the delegates to the National Convention. TO GO TO ST. LOUIS ...
...J J White of Alameda and E G Blessing of Sacramento, it is understood, will go form the Third District. From the Second C P Berry will probably be one of the delegates, and Caleb Dorsey of Stanislaus would not refuse to go too.

Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday: ...Caleb Dorsey, Stanislaus Co.

Notice Is hereby given that we the undersigned claim (5) acres of this land including the Springs of water for a Mill Site to be hedl in accordance with the United States Mining Laws Situated in Tuolumne County Cal and described as follows: North of Knights Creek about 1 mile and about 1/2 a mile from the Snell Mine and known as the Old Wilson Ranch. Caleb Dorsey, Adam Elliot, Located this 10 day of October AD 1890. Recorded at the Request of Wells Fargo & Co Oct 27, 1890 at 9 o'clock AM. R. Inch County Recorder.

1. Colonel Caleb Dorsey of Pike County Missouri was on recruiting service under General Price both in the State Guard and Confederate service. He now resides in California on a Ranch.
2. Captain Celsus Price Son of Major General Sterling Price was aide de camp on his father's Staff till the end of the War, now resides in Saint Louis
3. The other son was named Edwin W. Price and was a Recruiter General of the third Division Missouri State Guard, was taken prisoner in the War in the Winter of 1861, on the Osage River near Warsaw while on recruiting service, was exchanged for a Federal officer of equal rank, reported to his father in Mississippi and --?-- he returned to Missouri and remained till the end of the War.
Respectfully
Your obt servt
R H Musser.

J C Newcomer was held to answer without bonds for the killing of Col. Dorsey. Newcomer did not testify.

Many inquiries have recently been made by his friends concerning the death of Colonel Caleb Dorsey, who was shot and killed in Tuolumne County, California, by a man named Newcomber, who was interested with him in a gold mine and mill in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, some distance from Sonora, Colo. Dorsey was raised in Pike County, Misouri(sic), and had numerous friends throughout the State. He served in the Confederate Army as Lieutenant Colonel of a regiment in Shelby's Brigade, throughout the War of the Rebellion. He was universally respected and beloved wherever he was known, both here and in California, where he has resided on a rancho in Stanislaus County since the close of the war. From the best and most recent information obtained, it appears that no other persons were present at the time of the shooting - it was done in a cabin near the mill, and after the shooting Newcomber locked the door and went over to the mine, which was about a mile off, and delivered the key to the cook - said he had shot Dorsey in self-defense - then went on.
In a recent number of a Stockton paper just received appears the following "The prevailing opinion seems to be that the killing of Colonel Dorsey, who was shot on Tuesday, April 21, was unprovoked and not in self-defense, as his slayer alleges Colonel Dorsey had no weapon upon him, and no one can be found who does not say that he was never known to provoke a man to anger in private life. Mr. Rutherford of Stockton, who knew Colonel Dorsey during the civil war, gave some interesting particulars of his life during the war, which stamp him as one of the bravest, coolest men who fought with General Price in the West. He said 'After the war General Price told me that he considered Colonel Dorsey one of the most discreet, cool and brave men in his command, and that he would rather trust him with any delicate mission, or one that required unquestioned courage, than any other man in his army.'
Mr. Rutherford knew Colonel Dorsey from boyhood, and never before knew him to have a personal difficulty with anyone. He ended the interview by saying, "During all my acquaintance with Colonel Dorsey I never knew him to have an enemy; he never sought trouble and was too much respected for anyone ever to offer him an insult.".

Sonora, Cal., April 22. - The Coroner's inquest throws no new light on the killing of Colonel Caleb T. Dorsey, and J. T. Newcomer, the homicide, still positively refuses to make a statement of kind regarding the cause of the killing. W. H. Bailey gave the most important testimony at the inquest. Newcomer having given him, briefly, the reasons for his act.
"The first I knew of any trouble was Tuesday morning between 8 and 9 o'clock," said Bailey. "Mr. Newcomer came to the house and turned over the keys to his cabin to me, saying he had shot Colonel Dorsey. He wanted me to go down and take charge of the place. I asked him how it happened and he said he asked the colonel to appoint a receiver for their mine, and the colonel said he would have gold enough to pay everything. Hot words followed and Dorsey reached for his pistol, but Newcomer drew his first and fired. He said he did not know if he had killed Dorsey or not, but thought that he had. He then rode away and said that he was going to Sonora to give himself up."
Newcomer is reported as having said in Columbia on yesterday that Dorsey accused him of stealing amalgam from the mills. He called Dorsey a liar. Dorsey reached for his pistol, but Newcomer got in the first shot. Dorsey's nephew, as well as others who were at the mine at the time of the shooting, knew of no trouble between the partners. Dorsey's pistol could not be found, although it was his custom to carry one always. The searchers did find cartridges on his person.
Dorsey's friends attempted to bring his body out from the mine on a mule to-day. The mule became fretful and unmanageable and after hard work they succeeded in getting the body from its back, and enfolding it in a blanket, strapped it to a buckboard. They are bringing the corpse by the wagon road via Sugar Pine, a distance of thirty-five miles. It will reach Sonora before morning.
Colonel Dorsey was a cousin of the late Caleb Dorsey, for many years District Attorney of this county and a prominent mining lawyer. The Colonel was a Mason of high rank.

Sonora, Cal., Aug. 11 -- The trial of John To Newcomer for the murder of Caleb Dorsey began in earnest to-day, the twelfth juror being sworn during the morning hours. The District Attorney made a short opening address, reciting the main facts of the killing and then called Thomas B Dorsey, a brother of the murdered man, to the stand.
Dorsey testified to the general correctness of a map showing the Dorsey mine and surrounding buildings and topographical features. William Bailey, a cook at the mine, testified that on the morning of the shooting he was in the kitchen when Newcomer drove up to the cabin and asked him to come out. Newcomer told him that he had shot Dorsey, but did not know whether he had killed him or not. He was going into Sonora to give himself up. He handed to Bailey a key to the cabin where he and Dorsey lived and told him to go down and look after the wounded man. Bailey gave the key to Samuel Bateman, who went down to the place to look after the colonel.
Samuel Bateman stated that on the day of the shooting he noticed in the mine -?- a pistol which belong to Dorsey: of the neck on the right and below the ribs near the abdomen. Bateman state that Edward Dorsey, a son of the murdered man, had gone down to the cabin where his father's body lay, but did not go in, and at no time did he see him with his father's pistol.
Charles Owens was the last witness of the day and merely testified to the fact that on the day of the murder, while he was at the mine, Newcomer had told him that Colonel Dorsey was up in the woods cutting timber for firewood. This is important so far as Newcomer's veracity is concerned, as all that the colonel lay cold in death.

However, 18 Mar 1903, JT Newcomer committed suicide in a remote cabin in Tuolumne County. After being acquitted of the murder of Dorsey, he was never able to recover his life, was ostracized by the community. "Feared by his neighbors and without friends, he finally turned on himself the weapon which wrecked his life and his fortune." (SF Call Newspaper, 20 Mar 1903).

Mary S. Broadhead, Anna B. Dorsey, L. E. D. Ewing (individually), Samuel W R Langdon, Eleanor M Levering, Millie Porter as Executrix and Trustee under the Will of Edward D. Porter, deceased, Annie D Porter, J D Porter, William C Porter, G Porter Roberts, Nellie L Young and Annie R Hodgdon having filed herein their petition for a partial distribution, and the same coming on regularly to be heard this day, and it appearing to the Court from the proofs adduced, that personal notice of the hearing of said petition had been given to the administratrix of the estate of the deceased, and by the Clerk by posting for the time and in the manner required by law and the order of this Court, the Court proceeded to the hearing of said petition.
And it appearing to the Court from the proofs adduced, that more than fifteen years has elapsed since the issuance of letters of administration; That the time for filing and presenting claims has expired; that all claims that have been allowed against said estate have been paid, and said estate is not indebted except for the commissions of the administratrix and the attorney's fees to be allowed on final settlement; That a final distribution of the estate of said deceased cannot now be made, for the reason that an action for an accounting is pending in the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Tuolumne, as to certain mining property belonging to the estate of said deceased; That said deceased left certain real property in the State of Texas, some of which has been sold, and, by agreement of some of the heirs, the proceeds thereof turned over to the administratrix of the estate of said deceased to be by her distributed; That the petitioners above named are all heirs at law of said deceased and entitled to share in the proceeds of the Texas property; That petitioners G Porter Roberts, Nellie L Young and Annie R Hodgdon are a grand-nephew and grand-nieces, respectively of said deceased, and are not entitled to share in the property of said deceased situated in the State of California; That after leaving in the hands of said administratrix the sum of $697.49 (the proceeds from California property) and the sum of $573.13 from the proceeds of Texas property to meet the payment of her commissions and attorney's fees on final settlement, the shares of those of the above-named petitioners that may be entitled thereto, in the proportions hereinafter set out, in eight (8) shares of the capital stock of The San Joaquin Valley Bank and five (5) shares of the capital stock of Modesto Grange Company, and in moneys received from the proceeds of Texas property can be allowed to said petitioners, as such heirs, without loss to the creditors of said estate, and that no injury can result to the estate by reason of such partial distribution; It is by the Court here ordered, adjudged and decreed that the eight(8) shares of the capital stock of The San Joaquin Valley Bank and five (5) shares of the capital stock of Modesto Grange Company be and the same are hereby distributed to the following name petitioners, in the following proportions, to wit:
To petitioners Mary S. Broadhead, Anna B. Dorsey, LED Ewing, (individually) and Samuel W R Langdon, an undivided one-sixth (1/6) each;
To petitioners Eleanor M Levering, Annie D Porter, J D Porter, William C Porter and Millie Porter as the surviving wife of and trustee under the will of Edward D Porter, deceased, and undivided one-forty-second (1/42) each;
And that there be distributed to the following named petitioners, out of the proceeds of the Texas property, the sums set opposite to their names respectively, to wit:
Mary S Broadhead, Anna B Dorsey, LED Ewing (individually)and Samuel WR Langdon each the sum of $481.60;
Eleanor M Levering, Annie D Porter, J D Porter, William C Porter each the sum of $60.20;
G. Porter Roberts, Nellie L Young, Annie R Hodgdon each the sum of $20.06
It is further ordered that no bond be required of any of said petitioners on this distribution. Dated June 30, 1911.
L W Fulkerth, Judge.

Record #1
The undersigned acknowledge that they are members of Harvard College and subject to its laws, August 1843:

Caleb Dorsey, age 18; dob: 26 March 1825; Residence: near Ellicott Mills, Md.; By whom offered: Rockville, Md.; Parent or Guardian: Mary Ann Dorsey, Thomas D. Dorsey.

Detail comments:
This is in error - see Harvard Records - he progressed from Rockville, Md. to Harvard College in 1843.

Caleb Dorsey, age 18; dob: 26 March 1825; Residence: near Ellicott Mills, Md.; By whom offered: Rockville, Md.; Parent or Guardian: Mary Ann Dorsey, Thomas D. Dorsey.

[His father John Worthington Dorsey died in 1841, so his older brother who would have of age at 23 in 1843 served as his guardian with his mother]

Record #2
Library Bureau card: Dorsey, Caleb; College: 1843-44, 1844-45, 1845-46; Law: 1846-47
This man must be dead but there is no means of verifying the fact. Card placed in dead file Dec 1922.

Detail comments:
It has now (Aug 2009) been established that he did NOT graduate from Harvard - although it seems clear that he attended the school - and the law school for one year, 1846-47 - see Harvard Records
Judge Story died in 1845, so it is doubtful that he studied under him;
Simon Greenleaf was a professor from 1833-1848;
William Kent arrived at the Law School in 1848 - and was in Europe prior to his arrival.

Caleb Dorsey, age 18; dob: 26 March 1825; Residence: near Ellicott Mills, Md.; By whom offered: Rockville, Md.; Parent or Guardian: Mary Ann Dorsey, Thomas D. Dorsey.

[His father John Worthington Dorsey died in 1841, so his older brother who would have of age at 23 in 1843 served as his guardian with his mother]

Record #2
Library Bureau card: Dorsey, Caleb; College: 1843-44, 1844-45, 1845-46; Law: 1846-47
This man must be dead but there is no means of verifying the fact. Card placed in dead file Dec 1922.

According to research 19 Oct 2009: The Harvard Law School states that their information is: Caleb Dorsey entered Harvard Law School 9 Sept 1846 and left in 1847.
No record has been located at Harvard that suggests that he was awarded any degree - undergraduate or graduate.

Passengers: Caleb Dorsey.

Arrived in Calif. 15 or 20 Jan 1850 via the Isthmus - lived in San Francisco for 1 year, then the next spring came up to Sonora & entered practice of profession - mining law his specialty.

One the 21st day of June, '51, a meeting of the miners of Tuttletown was called for the purpose of taking measures to survey a route for a ditch, to convey the waters of the South Fork of the Stanislaus into Columbia, and the adjacent Camps. Joseph Dance, of Alabama, was Chairman, and J D Patterson, Secretary. A Committee consisting of General Benard, Civil Engineer, J D Patterson and Judge W H Carlton was appointed to make a preliminary survey of the route, and report in two Weeks. --- at the expiration of the time the Committee made a report favorable to the enterprise. The company was then organized at Tuttletown. --- Joseph Dance was chosen President, and J D Patterson, Secretary, and Gen. Benard, Engineer. The company then consisted of twenty-one members. An assessment of five dollars on each member was then made. Another meeting a few days after was called at Shaw's Flat, to induce the people of that Camp to co-operate in the enterprise; and Caleb Dorsey, our present District Attorney, took an active part in favor of the scheme. Another meeting was called, at Columbia, in which P Mc. D. Collins was active in urging the importance of the work. At this meeting the Company was fully organized, and the work was commenced at Summit Pass. The Company persevered under great difficulties on account of the want of means, but were prevented from being obliged to suspend operations by the pecuniary assistance afforded by D O Mills & Co., Bankers, of Sacramento, and who afterwards established a House in Columbia.

Front of document: Caleb Dorsey; filed Nov 8th 1857; WH Wrd C P.

...Mr. Charboniell, of Sonora, built the first mill in the county, it was located in Sonora. Heslep and manning soon after erected one on Wood's Creek, on the site now occupied by Heslep & Bell, as a Flouring mill. Caleb Dorsey, our present District Attorney, built a mill below Springfield. It was designed both as a Saw mill and to hoist water from Mormon creek to supply the miners on Shaw's Flat. The enterprise failed, and Mr. Dorsey removed his machinery to Saw Mill Flat, where he done (sic) a fair business in manufacturing lumber.

1864-1868
District Attorney: C Dorsey, E R Galvin, Caleb Dorsey

1865 - 1873
District Attorney: R Galvin, Caleb Dorsey, EA Rodgers, EA Rodgers.

The three lots upon which St. James' Church now stands were donated by Mr. Dorsey.

[This 'fable' about Caleb Dorsey donating the land has persisted to the present, is repeated constantly, and is proven to be untrue. Pitts, Salter and Dorsey all sold the land for varying amounts and with different stipulations to the Episcopal Church.]].

Frederick Salter to St James Church. Deed.

This Indenture, Made the first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, Between Frederick Salter of the County of Tuolumne & State of California the party of the first part & Protestant Episcopal Church known as St James Church of the same County and State of the second part. Witnesseth, That the said party of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar, lawful money of the Untied States of America, to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of the sense presents, the receipt wherof is hereby acknowledged, Has remised, released and quit-claimed and by these presents Does remise release and quit claim unto the said party of the second part and to their successors and assigns forever, All that certain piece or parcel of Land, situated in the City of Sonora, County aforesaid on the East side of Washington Street and bounded on the South by the lot formerly occupied by Street Brothers as a store, fronting on Washington Street 111 feet 4 inches said lot is bounded on the North by the property of Col. Morse and the United States Hotel Stable, and on the east by Salter and Dorsey as a Carpenter shop, and more particularly described in two certain deeds one from Gustavus Y Dorsey to Frederick Salter, Recorded Sept 21 AD 1859 inn Book A Vol 8 page 606, the other from Daniel & Lucinda Knapp to Fred Salter, Recorded Feb 22, 1853, in Book A, Vol 1, page 100. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging in any wise appertaining and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof; And also all the Estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, so well in law as in equity of the said party of the first part, of in or to the above described premises, and every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances To Have and to Hold all and singular the above mentioned and described premises together with the appurtenances unto the said party of the second part and their successors and assigns forever. But on this limitation, that if said parties of the second part ever cease to use said lot for a Church, it is hereby donated to the trustees of the public Schools of Tuolumne County State of California for School purposes for Sonora District. In Witness Whereof, said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written. Frederick Salter (Seal) Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of State of California¸ County of SS
On this fourth day of April AD one thousand Eight hundred and sixty, before me, Charles F Galan a Notary Public in and for said Tuolumne County, personally appeared Frederick Salter to me personally known to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing Instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same freely and voluntarily and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year first above written.
(Seal) Charles F Galan, Notary Public
Recorded April 13, 1860 at 10h 30m AM by request of Gasman.

Supreme Court affirms 15 Jan 1869
see relief bill for Caleb Dorsey in 1870.

EBELER VS. HUTCHINGS (3,783)
Imperfect Transcript.---Query as to whether a transcript which does not contain the records, but refers to a transcript in another case before the court as containing the records of the case, can be considered.
Default --- Hutchings vs Ebeler (3,609), decided November 5th 8173, affirmed.
Appeal from the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, Tuolumne county. The appeal was taken from an order granting a writ of assistance in a foreclosure suit. The transcript contains a copy of the order appealed from, the notice of appeal, and as a bill of exceptions a request by counsel that the court consider the transcript in Hutchings vs Ebeler (3,699), recently pending as a part of the transcript on this appeal.
J D Redmond and E A Rodgers for appellant.
Caleb Dorsey for respondent.
BY THE COURT: (Ebeler vs Hutchings, No. 3,783 - Filed November 11th 1873.) If we concede that the imperfect transcript presented could be considered at all, the decision in the case of Hutchings vs Ebeler, No 3,699 lately rendered, effectually disposes of all points attempted to be made upon this appeal.
Order affirmed.

THE GILSON QUARTZ MINING COMPANY VS. GILSON (3,970)
PRACTICE - NONSUIT - EQUITY. Findings after judgement of nonsuit, part payment of judgment, equity, interest of stranger to suit - considered.
Appeal from the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, Tuolumne County. The action was brought against L. Gilson and E M Hampton to cancel as fraudulent the satisfaction of a judgment obtained against them in a former action. The judgment had been rendered in September, 1866, for the conveyance of a quartz mill and other mining property, and for $7,249.59. The plaintiff, desiring to sell the mining property, agreed with the defendant Gilson, in June 1871, that if he would pay $2,000 cash on the judgment and procure a purchaser for the mining property at $5,000, the judgment should be cancelled.(sic) One Kenfield, who is not a party to this action, claimed to hold eleven shares of the capital stock of plaintiff, each share representing $10. The plaintiff also claimed the stock under a sheriff's sale. June 16th, 1871, Gilson represented to the plaintiff that he had procured a purchaser for the property. He then paid the $2,000 in money, and promised that on the next day, as soon as the deed for the mining property should be drawn and delivered to Kenfield, the latter would pay the $5,000 purchase money by check on Jesse Holliday of San Francisco, having previously exhibited a letter from Holliday, authorizing the transaction. Thereupon, at the request of the defendants, the judgment was cancelled, but before cancelling it the plaintiff induced Kenfield to surrender his claim to the stock. The deed was duly prepared and delivered y the plaintiff, but Kenfield refused to draw the check. The complaint alleges that the proposition as tot he sale of the mining property was not made in good faith, but with a design to fraudulently procure a full satisfaction of the judgment.
The defendants answered that the consideration for the satisfaction of the judgment was the payment of the $2,000 and the surrender of the stock, and that the matter of the sale of the mining property was a separate transaction entirely. At the trial, afer the plaintiff had introduced his evidence, the court granted a nonsuit on the ground that the plaintiff, before bringing the suit, should have returned the $2,000 to defendants, and retransferred the eleven shares of stock to Kenfield. Subsequently the court filed the findings referred to in the opinion. The plaintiff moved for a new trial, which was denied, and this appeal was then taken from the judgment and from the order refusing new trial.
Caleb Dorsey for appellant, argued that the findings should be disregarded because not authorized by the code in such a case. He also argued that as the action was not brought for the rescission of a contract, but for fraud and for money due on a judgment, the defendants were not entitled to have the money paid on the judgment return, citing Pierce vs Wood, 3 Foster, 519; Frost vs. Lowery, 15 Ohio, 200.
ER Colvin and WL Dudley argued that the action was brought for the rescission of a contract for the cancellation of the judgment on the ground of fraud; and that the action could not be maintained until the defendants had first been placed in statu quo. They cited Bohall vs Diller et al
BY THE COURT [The Gilson Quartz Mining Company vs Gilson, No. 3,970 - Filed Feb 11 1874] 1. The plaintiff having been nonsuited at the trial on July 11th, the "findings of fact and conclusions of law" filed on the 26th of July, are without precedent in point of practice.
2. The court manifestly erred in nonsuiting the plaintiff, who was not bound to return to the defendants the moneys received of them in part satisfaction of the judgment, for the plaintiff is entitled to retain these moneys in any aspect of the case.
Nor does it concern the defendants what disposition has been made of the Kenfield stock. If it had been returned to Kenfield it would not have benefited the defendants in anywise.
Judgment reversed and cause remanded for a new trial. Remittitur forthwith.

...A few months ago he was appointed by Governor Stoneman, a Director of the State Insane Asylum at Stockton and on the 10th ult. he attended a meeting of the Directors in that city.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
Caleb Dorsey (NC).......................20,888

Out of a field of 20 candidates, he came in 14th.

The element of which this gentleman [David Terry] is a representative is large enough to give character to the whole HB [Honorable Bilk] movement. The sudden appearance of these fossils served for a time to whet the popular sense of humor, but there is a serious side to it. These men have seized upon every point where real power is located. Hugh J. Glenn, a native of Virginia, and whose farm is a reproduction, so far as the different surroundings permit, of a Southern plantation on a large scale, is the candidate of the Honorable Bilks for Governor. David S Terry, though at first declining all preferment, has since stepped into the candidacy for the important office of Attorney-General, who has charge of the legal conscience not only of the Governor but of the State Government. Calhoun Benham, who held a position on the staff, we believe of Stonewall Jackson, is one of the nominees for the Supreme Bench. Another is John C Burch, who, as a member of Congress from this State in 1860 openly advocated the formation of a Pacific Republic. A third is Caleb Dorsey, who was also a pro-slavery Democrat, and is the same manner of man....

Sonora, January 10. -- Frank G. Gilkey, one of the parties arrested on suspicion of having killed William Bargel some time ago, was held by Justice Miller yesterday to appear in the Superior Court on a charge of murder. Tobe Richards is on examination to-day for the same offense. While James Burns, one of the witnesses, was being examined by Caleb Dorsey, Assistant District Attorney, hot words passed, which resulted in Dorsey's drawing a six-shooter, which was followed by Burns drawing his pistol. Parties in the Court-room got between them and prevented any further demonstrations.
It rained this morning, but it is clear and cold to-night.

A few months ago he was appointed by Governor Stoneman, a Director of the State Insane Asylum at Stockton and on the 10th ult. he attended a meeting of the Directors in that city. About three weeks ago he was again honored by the Governor, receiving an appointment as Regent of the State University, but did not qualify on account of ill health.

Know all men by these Presents:
That we, Esther M Dorsey as principal, and, J W Dorsey and Caleb Dorsey both of the County of Stanislaus and State of California as sureties, are held and firmly bound to the state of California in the sum of fifteen Thousand dollars - 21st day of Oct 1885
Administratrix of the Estate of Caleb Dorsey...died 28 Mar 1885 without a will...heirs at law Elizabeth M Dorsey Anita E Dorsey Kate W Dorsey all over 21, and Caleb, 17 years of age.

Know all men by these Presents that we the undersigned Elizabeth M. Dorsey, Anita E Dorsey and Kate W Dorsey daughters of Caleb Dorsey deceased, being all over the age of eighteen years and unmarried, in consideration of the sum of One Dollar lawful money of the United States to each of us in hand paid by Esther M Dorsey, widow of the said Caleb Dorsey the receipt where of is hereby severally acknowledged do hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Esther M Dorsey her heirs and assigns for ever, all the interest, estate and claim of us and each of us in and to the property, real and personal, and estate of every kind coming or to come to us or to either of us from the Estate of our Father, the said Caleb Dorsey by inheritance or any other way, and we hereby appoint the said Esther M Dorsey to receive from the Superior Court of the County of Tuolumne State of California in the matter of the Estate of the said Caleb Dorsey deceased, final distribution to her of all shares of us and each of us in the said Estate. In Witness Whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 24th day of August, AD 1888. Elizabeth M Dorsey, Anita E Dorsey, Kate W Dorsey. Signed and delivered in Presence of F W Street, State of California, County of Tuolumne ss. On this 24th day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty eight before me F W Street a Notary Public in and for the said County of Tuolumne residing therein duly commissioned and sworn personally appeared Elizabeth M Dorsey, Anita E Dorsey and Kate W Dorsey known to me to be the same persons described in whose names are subscribed to and who executed the within instrument and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal at my office in the County of Tuolumne the day and yare in this Certificate first above written. F W Street, Notary Public (Seal) Recorded at request of J T Johnson Aug 31st 1888 at 5 mp 9 AM R Inch County Recorder.

Know all men by these Presents that we the undersigned Elizabeth M. Dorsey, Anita E Dorsey and Kate W Dorsey daughters of Caleb Dorsey deceased, being all over the age of eighteen years and unmarried, in consideration of the sum of One Dollar lawful money of the United States to each of us in hand paid by Esther M Dorsey, widow of the said Caleb Dorsey the receipt where of is hereby severally acknowledged do hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Esther M Dorsey her heirs and assigns for ever, all the interest, estate and claim of us and each of us in and to the property, real and personal, and estate of every kind coming or to come to us or to either of us from the Estate of our Father, the said Caleb Dorsey by inheritance or any other way, and we hereby appoint the said Esther M Dorsey to receive from the Superior Court of the County of Tuolumne State of California in the matter of the Estate of the said Caleb Dorsey deceased, final distribution to her of all shares of us and each of us in the said Estate. In Witness Whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 24th day of August, AD 1888. Elizabeth M Dorsey, Anita E Dorsey, Kate W Dorsey. Signed and delivered in Presence of F W Street, State of California, County of Tuolumne ss. On this 24th day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty eight before me F W Street a Notary Public in and for the said County of Tuolumne residing therein duly commissioned and sworn personally appeared Elizabeth M Dorsey, Anita E Dorsey and Kate W Dorsey known to me to be the same persons described in whose names are subscribed to and who executed the within instrument and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal at my office in the County of Tuolumne the day and yare in this Certificate first above written. F W Street, Notary Public (Seal) Recorded at request of J T Johnson Aug 31st 1888 at 5 mp 9 AM R Inch County Recorder.

Death of Mrs. Gilchrist Porter, August 9, 1892
At 9 o'clock yesterday morning, at her home on South Sixth street, occurred the death of Mrs. Comfort Worthington Porter, wife of Judge Gilchrist Porter, at the age of 69 years 5 months and three days, and when the news went out in this city words of regret were expressed on every hand.
Miss Comfort Worthington Dorsey was born in Howard county, Maryland and after having grown to womanhood, with the advantages of a good education in native state, she removed to Missouri with the family of her father, Col. Edward W. Dorsey, who settled in Pike county. This was in the year 1838, and it was in Pike county that Judge Porter, who was then circuit attorney for that circuit met, wooed and won her. They were married at the home of the bride's father on the 25th day of February, 1840, and went to housekeeping at Bowling Green. In 1853 they removed to Hannibal and have resided here continuously since, with the exception of the fourteen years that Judge Porter was on the circuit bench, during which time they resided in Clarksville. When Judge Porter retired from that office they moved back to Hannibal, in 1881.
To Judge Porter and his good wife twelve children were born, seven of whom are now living, as follows: Ed. D. and W. C. Porter, of Joplin; J. D. Porter, of Lower California, and Charles U. Porter, also of California; Mrs. A. R. Levering, of this city, Mrs. W. H. Smith of Golden Gate, California, and Miss Annie Porter, of Hannibal. Ed. D. and W. C. were at the bed of their mother when dissolution took place, and Mr. R. H. Roberts, who married one of Judge Porter's daughters (now dead) will arrive today. Owing to the great distance that separates the children in California from the mourning household in Hannibal it will be impossible for them to attend the funeral.
To say that the death of this good woman has cast a gloom over the entire city is to speak truthfully. Her's was a character of great nobility and of untiring devotion to everything that was good and true. She was loved for her true worth and during the long and successful political career of the husband she now leaves heartbroken, she was a solace in the hour of trial, a devoted wife and a safe adviser. It is he, in his declining years, who will miss her more than all else - he who will realize that the dearest tie that bound him to earth has been broken. While his children are left to comfort him, yet the rude severance of the a married life of so many happy years is bound to leave a sore heart and a sad mein(sic) even unto the time when he too shall be called upon to answer the summon to go hence. While friends now say to him, "I sympathize with you," and while these kindly expressions have a tendency to sooth(sic) the heart that bleeds, yet remains the knowledge that death has come and his wife is no more. How hollow and idle are words of sympathy under such conditions, and yet how cold the world would be but for their presence.
Mrs. Porter was an active, earnest member of the Episcopal church, having become a communicant with that church 40 years ago. Since she first enlisted in the work of Christ her many good deeds have made her Christian career an especially bright one and they will live long after she has gone to make the world better and the hope of eternal life of those left behind more pronounced and cheering.
The funeral services will be conducted this afternoon by Rev. John Davis, rector of Trinity church, at the family residence, following which the interment will take place at Riverside Cemetery, Hannibal, Mo.
May her soul rest in peace.

On the 9th of November (1840), Mr. John Mackey aged 74 years, died. He was one of the earliest settlers, coming to the county in 1810 and improving the farm on which he died.

Census - In 1840 the number of inhabitants of the county was 10,766.

For Congress
1st District - Samuel Caruthers (Whig)

2nd District - Gilchrist Porter.

GILCHRIST PORTER
Attorney at Law.
HANNIBAL, MO.
Office in Collins' new building, corner of Main and Bird street.

Sacred to the memory of Emma Rebecca, daughter of Gilchrist and Comfort W. Porter, born Dec 7th 1844, died Jan 1st, 1845, age: 11 months and 24 days. (footstone: ERP died 1845.

Sacred to the memory of Emma Rebecca, daughter of Gilchrist and Comfort W. Porter, born Dec 7th 1844, died Jan 1st, 1845, age: 11 months and 24 days. (footstone: ERP died 1845.

Also on file - probate documents, appraisals etc.

. Family living next door to Richard Morris and Julia Roberts and Edward Dorsey Porter.

Know all men by these Presents:
That we, Esther M Dorsey as principal, and, J W Dorsey and Caleb Dorsey both of the County of Stanislaus and State of California as sureties, are held and firmly bound to the state of California in the sum of fifteen Thousand dollars - 21st day of Oct 1885
Administratrix of the Estate of Caleb Dorsey...died 28 Mar 1885 without a will...heirs at law Elizabeth M Dorsey Anita E Dorsey Kate W Dorsey all over 21, and Caleb, 17 years of age.

The New York Times; Published May 26, 1905.

Cousins of the deceased surviving are as follow: Mrs. H P Badgley, San Francisco; E W Dorsey, Oakdale; E S Dorsey, Alberta, Canada; Mrs. Harry C Marsh, Mrs. Frank Boggs and Dr S W R Langdon, Stockton; besides relatives residing in Maryland.

Mrs. Lou Eleanor Dorsey Ewing, esteemed Stockton woman of many years' residence, founder and first president of Sterling Price chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, and long an active worker in St. John's Episcopal Church, died yesterday afternoon at the family home, 1125 N. El Dorado street. Her passing came after an illness of over two weeks' duration, although she had been in poor health for a longer period. She lacked two months of being 80 years of age.
Mrs. Ewing, widow of Philip C. Barbour Ewing, a pioneer resident of a San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, who died many years ago, was the mother of Miss Edwa W. D. Ewing and J. Dorsey Ewing of Stockton and Mrs. Harry Marsh of San Francisco, formerly Miss Barbour Ewing. There is a grandson, Dorsey Ewing Marsh of San Francisco. A Sister, Miss Anna B. Dorsey, who has made her home at the Ewing residence, survives.
Mrs. Ewing was born in Missouri of parents who had recently moved there from their home in Maryland. Her girlhood was spent in her natal state and she was there during the trying period of the Civil war. Her parents being southerners, their sympathy was naturally with the Confederacy and Miss Dorsey was active in the war relief work which is always the lot of women to perform.
A number of years ago in Stockton Mrs. Ewing interested a group of Southern women in the formation of a chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She was chosen the first president when Sterling Price chapter was organized, and continued in that office for seven years or as long as her health permitted. Her daughter, Miss Ewing, is president at the present time. Mrs. Ewing was present at the chapter a month ago, but her illness prevented her attendance at the meeting earlier this week.
All during her long residence in Stockton, Mrs. Ewing has been actively identified with the Episcopal church. She was treasurer of the Sunday school and a teacher there for many years. In times past the Christmas tree, with its decorations and gifts, was one of the things in which she took a special interest.
Mrs. Ewing was a fine type of southern gentlewoman with a wholesome personality and quiet charm which won her many friends. Her untiring efforts in church, charity and other work to which she devoted herself, made her many more admirers.
Of distinguished lineage, she had many prominent family connections in Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky, as well as in this state. She was a great-aunt of Mrs. J. D. Young of Stockton and Dr. Samuel Langdon, formerly of this city, but more recently of Livingston, Merced County.

Mrs. Lou Eleanor Dorsey Ewing, esteemed Stockton woman of many years' residence, founder and first president of Sterling Price chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, and long an active worker in St. John's Episcopal Church, died yesterday afternoon at the family home, 1125 N. El Dorado street. Her passing came after an illness of over two weeks' duration, although she had been in poor health for a longer period. She lacked two months of being 80 years of age.
Mrs. Ewing, widow of Philip C. Barbour Ewing, a pioneer resident of a San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, who died many years ago, was the mother of Miss Edwa W. D. Ewing and J. Dorsey Ewing of Stockton and Mrs. Harry Marsh of San Francisco, formerly Miss Barbour Ewing. There is a grandson, Dorsey Ewing Marsh of San Francisco. A Sister, Miss Anna B. Dorsey, who has made her home at the Ewing residence, survives.
Mrs. Ewing was born in Missouri of parents who had recently moved there from their home in Maryland. Her girlhood was spent in her natal state and she was there during the trying period of the Civil war. Her parents being southerners, their sympathy was naturally with the Confederacy and Miss Dorsey was active in the war relief work which is always the lot of women to perform.
A number of years ago in Stockton Mrs. Ewing interested a group of Southern women in the formation of a chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She was chosen the first president when Sterling Price chapter was organized, and continued in that office for seven years or as long as her health permitted. Her daughter, Miss Ewing, is president at the present time. Mrs. Ewing was present at the chapter a month ago, but her illness prevented her attendance at the meeting earlier this week.
All during her long residence in Stockton, Mrs. Ewing has been actively identified with the Episcopal church. She was treasurer of the Sunday school and a teacher there for many years. In times past the Christmas tree, with its decorations and gifts, was one of the things in which she took a special interest.
Mrs. Ewing was a fine type of southern gentlewoman with a wholesome personality and quiet charm which won her many friends. Her untiring efforts in church, charity and other work to which she devoted herself, made her many more admirers.
Of distinguished lineage, she had many prominent family connections in Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky, as well as in this state. She was a great-aunt of Mrs. J. D. Young of Stockton and Dr. Samuel Langdon, formerly of this city, but more recently of Livingston, Merced County.

Ninety 2-year-old steers, 20 cows & heifers, 3 saddle horses, 1 mower and reaper combined, 1 corn planter, nine plows, four harrows, two hay rakes, two scrapers, one roller, one cider mill, one oat cutter, one hand sheller, two wagons and harness, 1500 lbs. bacon & lard. 70 acres corn in the field. Terms of sale. All sums of $10 and under, cash; on all sums over $10 a credit of six months will be given, the purchaser required to give bond with approved security. P B EWING.

Although I have nothing to substantiate this right now, it seems much more logical. If this is true, he should be buried in Cooper County, Missouri.

Dr. Walter R Langdon, brother to Dr. Samuel Langdon, of this city, and Assistant Physician of the State Insane Asylum, was joined in matrimony yester, with an estimable young lady, sister of Colonel Dorsey of Stanislaus county. The nuptioal ceremony was performed at the dwelling of the bride's mother and brother, and the knot was duly tied by Rev. Mr. Foote, Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church of this city. The worthy couple took their departure last evening on a wedding tour for a few days.

JD Young, his nephew, and JD Ewing, also a nephew, and Frank W Goodrum were appointed appraisers of the estate 16 Dec 1906. They reported 11 Jun 1907 an estate valued at $9,550. Son, SWR Langdon is sole benificiary and only heir at law.

Probate file in book and file box. Includes, petition for letters of administration plus award, notice to creditors, assignment of appraisers, report of appraisers, final accounting and petition for distribution of the estate.

Living near Mary F Gillum, John Gillum, Keeling Gillum and Teresa Lawrence.

by this marriage there have been eight children, four of whom died in childhood. Those living are: Willie, Nannie, wife of N. W. Yelton, freight agent at Crittenden Station, on the Cincinnati Southern RR; the youngest are Mattie and Eddie. The family are members of the M. E. Church. He was formerly an old live Whig, now a member of the Democratic party, and a member of the Masonic order.

William Nash, 22, laborer, b. MO, both parents b. Ireland
Nancy Lewis, 14, black, servant, nurse, b. KY, both parents b. KY;
Osborne Lewis, 19, black, laborer, b. KY, both parents b. KY.

Fifty years ago today in the parlors of the home of Judge Gilchrist Porter, on the northwest corner of Fifth and Lyon streets, the Rev. Mr. Dunn, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, united the destinies of Miss Ella M. Porter and Aaron Righter Levering...

Richard wasn't born in 1830 - so I'm assuming that this was a typo and have shifted it to 1860 - will leave it there until I can correct it with an accurate date.

Resolutions.: The Old Settler associations of Jasper county at a recent meeting adopted appropriate resolutions on the death of R M Roberts who died suddenly at Joplin and was laid to rest in Riverside cemetery. The resolutions are as follows:
Resolved, 1st. That in the death of R. M. Roberts our city has lost a most estimable and worthy citizen, society one of it brightest lights, the poor a warm friend who gladly extended to them a helping hand and words of sympathy in their need and distress.
2. That this organization deeply deplores the sudden death of our late associate and friend and that to his children and relatives we extend our deepest sympathy in this, their sad hour of affliction.
3. That his noble deeds of love his words of kindness spoken his virtues and true nobleness of manhood will ever remain green and fresh in our memories; and while he sleeps the sleep that knows no wakening may we cherish the fond hope that we may meet again and draw consolation to our souls in the thought that the world is better for his having lived.

THE DEATH ANGEL

Richard M. Roberts Called Home After a Life of Activity and Usefulness

The community was shocked yesterday to learn that Ex-Sheriff Richard M. Roberts had been suddenly called to a higher life. Just before 7 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Roberts, in his usual good health, left his home at the northeast corner of Second street and Virginia avenue and started to the Marquis chop house on Main street to get his breakfast. Before going to Marquis' he took a bundle of linen to the laundry on Second street between Main and Joplin streets and was returning when just as he stepped upon the curb at the southwest corner of the streets he threw up his hands and fell backward dead. Some men who were standing near, among whom was Col. J. V. Pierce, ran to lend him assistance, but when they raised him up he was quite dead. Death had come instantaneously. He gasped once but never breathed or moved after he fell. Death had come swiftly in the form of apoplexy or heart failure. He was tenderly lifted and carried to his home where Dr. Wolff attended him, but medical aid could avail nothing. Rapidly the sad news spread about the city and on every hand were expressed deep sorrow and regret at the sudden taking away of one of Joplin's oldest and best citizens. The body was at once prepared for burial by Undertaker Fletcher and a telegram was sent to E. D. Porter who had gone on a expedition to the Cowskin. Mr. Roberts was a brother-in-law of Mr. Porter, having married Mr. Porter's sister Miss Julia Porter, in Hannibal in 1866. Mr. Porter arrived home on the Splitlog last evening and at once determined to take the remains to Mr. Roberts' old home in Hannibal where the family burying ground is situated. Mr. Roberts had for many years been a Mason and Fellowship Lodge A. F. and A. M. took charge of the remains. Many old citizens called at the residence during the day to view the remains, which rested in their burial casket wrapped in their last eternal slumber with a peaceful smile upon the features which look as natural as though in the sleep of life. At 11 o'clock last night the remains, escorted by Fellowship Lodge, were taken to the Memphis depot for transportation to Hannibal. A large number of citizens accompanied the remains to the station. Mr. Porter has charge of the body en route. The funeral will take place in Hannibal, Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

Biographical

Richard M. Roberts was born in Ohio in 1837. In 1865 he went to Hannibal, Missouri, where he met and loved Julia Porter, a beautiful and charming girl, daughter of Judge Porter. They were shortly afterward married and in 1872 they removed to Joplin, where, at the corner of Main and First streets, Mr. Roberts and his brother-in-law, E. D. Porter, engaged in the grocery business. The young firm prospered. The young men became widely known as active, enterprising, bright business men. In 1878 Mr. Roberts was elected mayor of Joplin as a popular candidate and served two years. In 1880 he was elected sheriff of Jasper County. He then retired from business and gave up his time to the arduous duties of his office. In 1883 he was re-elected sheriff, and after serving his term of office with the honor he again re-entered business as a merchandise broker. In 1881 his beloved wife passed away and this was a terrible blow to him. She left three children. Nettie, who is now Mrs. Young, of Stockton, California, Miss Dot, aged sixteen, and Master Porter, thirteen years of age. The latter two have been living with their grandparents in Hannibal since the death of their mother. His wife was the idol of his heart and he held her memory sacred. After her death he permitted no one to touch an article in the house and today the furniture in the house stands as she left it before her fatal illness and during all these years he has lived there alone. Richard Roberts was an honest, conscientious generous hearted man, unswayed by prejudices and governed by noble impulses. A man of the people, he was familiarly known throughout Jasper county, and everyone called him "Dick." In his death Joplin loses a valuable public spirited citizen, his family a loving and indulgent father, his friends a true and lasting friendship and the world a good man, for whose life it is made better.
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Services held at residence 801 Empire Avenue, Joplin, MO; Cleryman Rev. Alfred L. Du Domaine; interment Fairview Cemetery, Joplin, MO.

State of Missouri, County of Jasper. This is certify that the undersinged, a clergyman of the Prot. Episcopal Church did at Carthage in said County, on the 25th day of April A. D. united in marrige the above named persons. H A Duboc Rector, St. Phillips Church.

Mrs. Porter, a resident of Joplin since 1895, following her marriage to Will C Porter was widely known for her writings and her work in women's democratic circles. She was a member of the Tri-State Writers' Club a contributor to several magazines, and while society editor on the newspaper, wrote many feature stories.

OAKDALE RANCHER CALLED BY DEATH
Oakdale, June 22 - Edward Worthington Dorsey, 75, prominent Oakdale rancher, died yesterday in Oakdale Hospital after an illness of four days.
Funeral services at Pascoe-Faber Mortuary are pending the arrival of his daughter, Mrs. Wallace (Edwa) Weber of Arabia.
Other survivors are his widow Daisye, and a grandson, William. He also leaves a cousin, Barbour Ewing Marsh of San Francisco, and the following cousins in Stockton: John W. Dorsey Ewing, Edwa Langdon McDonald, Eleanor L. Young, Gilchrist Roberts and June Y. Roberts.
A native of Joplin, Missouri, Dorsey lived in Oakdale the major portion of his life. He was the son of the late Thomas Beale Dorsey and a nephew of Joh W. Dorsey and Col. Caleb Dorsey, Stanislaus County pioneers.
The original Dorseys were natives of Maryland and came to California in the Gold Rush days. Soon after a try at mining, they purchased a 5,000 acre ranch north of Oakdale.
Dorsey was a member of the Oakdale Lodge, F&AM and Oakdale Dinner Club.

J. Dorsey Ewing, 76, a Stockton resident most of his life, died yesterday in his home, 628 Bristol.
Mr. Ewing is survived by his wife, he former Tutt List; a daughter and a son, Mrs. Barbour Ewing Scott of Stockton, S. John W. D. Ewing Jr. of McClellan Field, and two grandchildren, Susan Ann and John Crandall Scott of Stockton.
His affiliations included St. John's Episcopal Church, Scottish Rite Bodies, San Joaquin Lodge of Masons, Ben Ali Shrine, and the Anteros Club.
Born in Texas, Mr. Ewing moved to Stockton as an infant with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Philip Stanhope Barbour Ewing, and lived most of his life in the family home on North El Dorado Street.
For many years Mr. Ewing was employed by the Frist National Bank and by Boggs Real Estate here. He later was affiliated with an investment firm in Sacramento, retiring 15 years ago.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in St. John's Episcopal Church. Inurnment will be in Casa Bonita Crematorium. B. C. Wallace & Son is in charge of arrangements.
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