Sarah Brown
Born: 9 Mar 1787, VA
Died: 23 Dec 1872, Macon County, TN buried in Fagg Cemetery, Macon Co, TN
Father:
Mother: Edith Brown
Married: Hardy Caldwell (1785 - 1864)
Our Child: Martha Rebecca Caldwell

Dance Brown was the brother of Hardy Caldwell's future wife, Sarah. There are several documents that verify that Sarah and Dance Brown were brother and sister. For example, in Sarah's 1872 widow's pension application (for Hardy's service in the War of 1812), one of the affidavits states that Dance Brown was Sarah's brother. John's first wife was Lydia (or Violet), as stated on the deed for a piece of land that he sold in Bedford County, in 1792. Personal property tax rolls from Bedford County in the early 1790's seem to indicate that John Grant lived in the same area as Edith Brown. In 1794, John Grant married Edy Brown, in Bedford County. The information that we now have suggests that Edy or Edith Brown, was the mother of Dance and Sarah Brown. In 1796, John and Edith Grant sold their land in Bedford County and John Grant disappears from the property tax rolls and personal property tax rolls of Bedford County after that year. We don't know if John and Edith Grant moved to Montgomery County, Virginia directly after leaving Bedford, or bought land elsewhere first.

On November 2, 1799, Dance Brown married Keziah Grant. On the marriage license it states that Keziah is the daughter of John Grant. On November 15, 1803, Hardy Caldwell and Sarah Brown, Dance Brown's sister were married, very probably in Montgomery County.

In 1807, Seth and Elizabeth Caldwell sold their land in Russell County to George Johnson. This same year Daniel and Sarah Kirk also sold their land in Russell County to Archelus Jessee. It is most probable that in the winter of 1807-1808, Seth Caldwell, his wife Elizabeth and the families of Hardy and Sarah Caldwell and Daniel and Sarah Kirk, crossed over the Cumberland Gap and eventually settled in Warren County, Kentucky. Hardy and Sarah Caldwell would have crossed over the mountains with two small children, Elizabeth about two years old and William, born just that October. Settlers, such as Hardy Caldwell and his family, needed to bring in a crop before they could leave their old homes and arrive in their new home in time to plant their crops for the coming year or they would starve.

This shows 4 generations of Decendants of Hardy Caldwell and Sarah Brown.
The other ancestors of Ammie Holmes listed here are with Ammie Ancestor to the right.
Martha Rebecca CALDWELL (1813-1869) married John William DOSS (1816-1857)
Leona Alice DOSS (1858-1932) married William SIMPSON (1844-1909)
Janetta B. SIMPSON (1884) (Nettie) married Harry Cleveland HOLMES

4 Generation Descendancy Chart of Sarah BROWN

1-- SARAH BROWN (1787-1872) married HARDY CALDWELL SR. (1785-1864) Ammie Ancestor (Great Great Grandparents)

2-- Elizabeth CALDWELL (1805-1880) married Samuel P. MORRIS (1802-1855)

3-- William H. MORRIS (1829-1884) married Nancy J. BROWN (1831-1875)

4-- Elizabeth A. MORRIS (1849)

4-- Mary MORRIS (1852)

4-- Martha MORRIS (1855)

4-- James MORRIS (1860)

4-- Elmira MORRIS (1866)

3-- ( _____ ) female MORRIS

3-- Alfred Green MORRIS (1832-1903) 1st married Surlina A. ANDERSON

4-- David F. MORRIS (1855)

Alfred Green MORRIS 2nd married Eliza Jane SMITH

3-- John W. MORRIS (1833)

3-- Samuel W. MORRIS (1835-1914) married Elizabeth FAGG (1836-1909)

4-- Mary E. MORRIS (1855-1930) married Giles Timothy H. DUFFER (1856-1915)

4-- Alfred Zachariah MORRIS (1857-1942) married Eliza Jane "Jennie" HAWKINS (1865-1942)

4-- Bartlett Young MORRIS (1859) married Anna (1863)

4-- James Henry MORRIS (1864-1938) 1st married Coatney E. HEATH (1869-1900)

James Henry MORRIS 2nd married Toy DENNIS (1884-1971)

4-- Erasmus MORRIS (1867)

4-- Nola E. MORRIS (1869)

4-- Lillie Mae MORRIS (1876)

3-- David C. MORRIS (1839-1858) married Mary Jane BENNETT (1839)

4-- Samuel MORRIS (1858)

4-- William David MORRIS (1860)

3-- Susan Elizabeth MORRIS (1841) married ( _____ ) TURNER

3-- George Henry MORRIS (1844-1862)

3-- Lucinda R. MORRIS (1850)

2-- William CALDWELL (1807-1885) 1st married Mary BUTLER (1813-1850)

3-- Julia Ann CALDWELL (1831-1893) married Cullen RHOADS (1826-1875)

4-- William Henry RHOADS (1852) married Fannie Jane HUNT (1855)

4-- David C. RHOADS (1854-1928) 1st married Anna Ferris HAWKINS (1855-1881)

David C. RHOADS 2nd married Margie Camilla "Camilly" SIMMONS (1867-1930)

4-- Arthela S. "Arrie" RHOADS (1860-1910) married John B. MAGGART (1857-1920)

4-- Annie E. RHOADS (1869-1939) married John W. DAVIS (1858-1916)

3-- Henry CALDWELL (1833-1855)

3-- "Little" Hardy CALDWELL (1835-1912) married Frances Elizabeth CALDWELL (1843-1914)

4-- Robert Wesley CALDWELL (1867-1930) married Willie BARNES (1879-1959)

4-- Joseph H. CALDWELL (1868-1946) married Lillie DYE (1882-1947)

4-- Allen Bell CALDWELL (1870-1916)

4-- Albert Sidney CALDWELL (1874-1919) married Romelia SADLER

4-- Charles William Y. CALDWELL (1880-1956) married Lillie Maude BRACKIN (1887-1980)

4-- O. Edy A. CALDWELL (1883-1884)

3-- David Young CALDWELL (1837-1864)

3-- Sarah Catherine "Sallie" CALDWELL (1840-1906) married John E. MORRIS (1841-1903)

4-- Otie E. MORRIS (1865-1918) married Charles H. GILLIAM (1865-1941)

4-- Gennettie E. "Cis" MORRIS (1867-1932) married John Davis WILLIAMS (1861-1934)

4-- Luella F. "Lue" MORRIS (1869-1927) married Ambrose Newton DUFFER (1870-1963)

4-- William Thomas MORRIS (1871-1948) married Sarah Emma Loutisia CARTER (1883-1964)

4-- Ollie Chester MORRIS (1873-1936) married Caldonia Elizabeth BROWN (1883-1959)

4-- Randolph Morse MORRIS (1875-1925) married Mary Elizabeth RICHARDSON (1865-1919)

4-- Hattie Bell MORRIS (1877-1932) married Robert Lee BROWN (1872-1947)

4-- James R. MORRIS (1878-1937) married Vernie TUTTLE (1888)

4-- Cora Pearl MORRIS (1881-1917) married Alfred TURNER (1880-1914)

4-- Rev. Edd A. MORRIS (1884-1957) married Dona Lee CARPENTER (1894)

3-- Mary Elizabeth "Betty" CALDWELL (1842-1880) married William Yancy "Wick" DOSS (1835)

4-- Henry Martin DOSS (1869-1940) married Hattie Ester GILLIAM (1883-1972)

4-- Noah Wilson "Bud" DOSS (1870-1947) 1st married Leona Stella SIMMONS (1880-1902)

Noah Wilson "Bud" DOSS 2nd married Hattie CLIBURN (1879-1923)

4-- Carrie Belle DOSS (1871-1952) married William Thomas "Willie" HARRIS (1871-1896)

4-- George A. DOSS (1874-1944) married Morda Jane WEEMS (1879-1944)

4-- William B. DOSS (1876-1877)

4-- Thomas Yancy "T.Y." DOSS (1879-1957) married Edna Earl KEEN (1881-1958)

3-- Martha Jane CALDWELL (1844-1921) 1st married Henry Staley AUSTIN (1838-1882)

4-- Robert E. AUSTIN ( -1901)

4-- Jessie AUSTIN (1872-1907)

4-- Thomas AUSTIN

4-- Lonie AUSTIN

4-- K. P. "Pat" AUSTIN (1874-1930)

4-- William Justin AUSTIN

4-- James William AUSTIN (1877)

Martha Jane CALDWELL 2nd married Thomas Jefferson CAVETT (1839-1913)

4-- Zilpha Mae CAVETT (1885-1968) married Zalmon HARRISON (1883-1962)

3-- Lucinda Frances CALDWELL (1846-1892) married Thomas Samuel McWHIRTER (1844-1926)

3-- Rabia Isabella CALDWELL (1848-1929) married Granville Wilson NIMMO (1840-1917)

4-- William Addison NIMMO (1871-1938)

4-- Nellie NIMMO (1874-1925) married Giles Bledsoe HARRIS (1872-1951)

4-- Hattie NIMMO (1875-1897)

4-- Laura NIMMO (1878) married ( ______ ) ALEXANDER

4-- Adrian R. NIMMO (1884-1972) 1st married (unknown)

Adrian R. NIMMO 2nd married Virginia Mae "Virgie" WOODARD (1899-1968)

4-- Lucian NIMMO (1884-1964) married Fannie Sue GILLIAM (1892)

William CALDWELL 2nd married Sarah HUNT (1813-1881)

2-- Mary Edy CALDWELL (1811-1884) married James R. WOLF (1815-1895)

3-- John WOLF (1835)

3-- Sarah A. WOLF (1837)

3-- Hardy C. WOLF (1846)

3-- James D. WOLF (1850)

2-- MARTHA REBECCA CALDWELL (1813-1869) married JOHN WILLIAM DOSS (1816-1857) Ammie Ancestor (Great Grandparents)

3-- Elizabeth DOSS (1842) married William "Billy" HUNTSMAN (1822-1894)

4-- William Peter HUNTSMAN (1878-1940) married Julia Elizabeth WILSON (1881-1953)

4-- Allie HUNTSMAN married Mike PUCKETT

3-- William Green "Billy" DOSS (1844-1924) 1st married Phoebe Catherine HODGES (1845-1892)

4-- Lumiza Lillian DOSS (1864-1941) married L. R. "Jack" THOMAS (1865-1936)

4-- Weldon Marshall DOSS (1867-1940) married Adelia Ann GREGORY (1874-1953)

4-- Martha Magnolia DOSS (1871-1935) married Charles Jefferson BURNLEY (1872-1961)

4-- William Elbridge DOSS (1872-1958) married Frances "Fannie" HOLMES (1875-1960)

4-- Andrew Clay DOSS (1875-1958) married Lennie Viola FULLER

4-- John Rather DOSS (1876-1938) married Vivie FYKES (1883-1975)

4-- Rebecca Leona "Hattie" DOSS (1879-1901) married William Robert BROWN (1873-1962)

4-- Ollie Sampson DOSS (1880-1934)married Zellie Erma TROUTT (1891-1971)

4-- Solly Samuel DOSS (1880-1959) married Ida E. WAGNER (1886-1935)

4-- Catherine Gertrude DOSS (1883-1928) married John Edward BROWN (1881-1927)

4-- Mary Dony DOSS (1886-1897)

William Green "Billy" DOSS 2nd married Elizabeth Jane "Betty" BANDY (1846-1935)

3-- Martha J. DOSS (1847-1890) married Jacob Anthony "Jake" WOODWARD (1849-1880)

4-- Minnie A. WOODWARD (1870-1942) married Erasmus WILLIAMS

4-- John William A. WOODWARD (1872-1893)

4-- Sarah Rebecca WOODWARD (1875-1955) married James Wesley KEEN (1872-1935)

4-- Molly WOODWARD (1878)

4-- James Thomas WOODWARD (1881-1933) married Bertha NAPIER (1885-1925)

3-- John Franklin DOSS (1850-1913) 1st married Frances Elizabeth GRAVES (1859-1897)

4-- John Willie E. DOSS (1876-1922) married Mary Magdaline "Maggie" MEADOR (1884-1940)

4-- Bailey M. DOSS (1878-1920) married Opha Stella MEADOR (1886)

John Frankliln DOSS 2nd married Pearl G.( ____ )

4-- Charles Fate "Charlie" DOSS (1881-1955) married Mary Ella WILLIAMS (1889-1957)

4-- Ernest Robert DOSS (1885-1945) married Mollie Lois HARPER (1892-1974)

4-- Martha Annie Elizabeth DOSS (1888-1960) 1st married Virgil Anthony KEEN (1883-1959)

2nd married Martha E. ESCUE (1875)

4-- Hester M. DOSS (1898-1957) married Herschel N. SPEARS (1894-1965)

4-- Andrew A. "Andy" DOSS (1902-1956) married Tiny C. CONYER (1899-1976)

4-- Woodrow Wilson DOSS (1912-1975) married Mary Pearl DICKENS (1914)

3-- Andrew Jackson DOSS (1854-1932) 1st married Sarah F. MEADOR (1861)

Andrew Jackson DOSS 2nd married L. Jane ) (______ )(1854)

4-- William Charles F. DOSS (1879-1920) married Maude Catherine PERDUE

Andrew Jackson DOSS 3rd married Sally TALLY

4-- John Madison DOSS (1885) married Lena PERDUE

Andrew Jackson DOSS 4th married Fannie ( ______ ) (1852)

3-- LEONA ALICE DOSS (1858-1932) married WILLIAM SIMPSON (1844-1909) Ammie Ancestor (Grand parents)

4-- James Calvin SIMPSON (1882)

4-- JANETTA B. SIMPSON (1884) <-----Ammie Ancestor (mother)

4-- Noah S. SIMPSON (1890)

4-- Martha SIMPSON (1892)

4-- Elsie B. SIMPSON (1896)

2-- David Y. CALDWELL (1816-1881) married Malinda DAVIS (1818-1909)

3-- Jonathan Hardy CALDWELL (1838) 1st married Lucinda MOORE ( -1866)

4-- Sidney A. CALDWELL ( -1886)

4-- Clifford B. CALDWELL

4-- Charlie M. CALDWELL

Jonathan Hardy CALDWELL 2nd married Nancy JUSTICE (1847)

4-- Mary M. CALDWELL

4-- Hettie E. CALDWELL

4-- Fanny A. CALDWELL (1872-1947) 1st married Lute GOODRUM (1866-1908)

Fanny A. CALDWELL 2nd married Grant ACKERMAN

4-- David A. CALDWELL

4-- Jonathon CALDWELL

4-- Mertie C. CALDWELL

4-- Willis M. CALDWELL

4-- Virgil C. CALDWELL

3-- Sarah Catherine CALDWELL (1840-1922) married Joel R. GOODRUM (1838)

4-- Anjalene Goldsmith GOODRUM (1864-1866)

4-- David Lee GOODRUM (1866-1940) married Eliza Ellen LIGHTFOOT (1872-1913)

4-- Martha Malinda GOODRUM (1870-1870)

4-- Eliza Read GOODRUM (1870-1927)

4-- Herb GOODRUM married Minnie SMITH

4-- Virgil GOODRUM married Naomi ( ______ )

4-- George GOODRUM 1st married Emma STUBBLEFIELD

George GOODRUM 2nd married Georgianna COOKSEY

George GOODRUM 3rd married Bessie TURNER

2-- Sarah CALDWELL (1818) married James THOMPSON (1821)

3-- Hardy THOMPSON (1840-1919) married Matilda Ann KEEN (1842-1923)

4-- Sarah Lou THOMPSON (1859) married William David O’NEAL (1858-1923)

4-- David Crockett THOMPSON (1861) married Mary Elizabeth O’NEAL (1862)

4-- Harriett Ellen L. THOMPSON (1863-1949) 1st married William H. MORGAN (1857-1900)

Harriett Ellen L. THOMPSON 2nd married Charles Marion SLOAN (1851-1946)

4-- James Marion THOMPSON (1866-1938) married Monica L. "Niker" FLEMING (1865-1931)

4-- Dona Elizabeth THOMPSON (1868-1946) married Robert R. SPEARS (1868-1944)

4-- Suemer A. THOMPSON (1870-1889) married James WITHAM Jr. (1852-1928)

4--Rev. William Hardy "Will" THOMPSON (1873) married Martha D. STINSON (1873-1939)

4-- Romas M. "Sobe" THOMPSON (1876-1953) 1st married E. Alice FLEMING (1866-1923)

Romas M. "Sobe" THOMPSON 2nd married Lillie Mae COLLINS (1901-1993)

4-- Rena "CRICKET" THOMPSON (1876-1964) married James M. BIVINS (1874-1927)

4-- Ellis Newton "Ed" THOMPSON (1878-1966) married Katie Florence WILLIAMS (1879-1943)

4-- Julia Bertha "Julie" THOMPSON (1883-1953) married Rassie Johnson STINSON (1881-1966)

3-- William Young THOMPSON (1842)

3-- John THOMPSON (1844)

3-- Sarah THOMPSON (1846)

3-- Coleman THOMPSON (1850)

3-- Martha THOMPSON (1852)

3-- Jane THOMPSON (1855)

3-- Ellen THOMPSON (1859)

2-- "One Armed" Hardy CALDWELL Jr. (1824-1899) 1st married Rebecca MARCUM (1823-1859)

3-- Frances Elizabeth CALDWELL (1843-1914) married "Little" Hardy CALDWELL (1835-1912)

*** SEE EARLIER PAGE FOR CHILDREN ***

3-- Emily J. CALDWELL (1847) married Alexander Mastin KEEN (1844-1900)

4-- Rebecca A. "Minter" KEEN (1865) married ( ______ ) GILL

4-- Laura E. KEEN (1867-1948) married William Hall GREGORY (1866-1939)

4-- Charles A. KEEN (1869-1942)

4-- Sarah "Burie" KEEN (1870-1960) married John Henry WILLIAMS (1864-1958)

4-- Antoinette "Nettie" KEEN (1873-1955) married Sidney T. WEATHERFORD (1875-1954)

4-- Mollie P. KEEN (1875-1964) married William John BEASLEY (1875-1963)

4-- Maggie KEEN (1878-1909) married Isaac Coleman "COLEY" DORRIS (1874-1932)

4-- Mallie KEEN (1880-1928) married Lon DURHAM

4-- Bertie D. KEEN (1882-1920) married Sylvester DENNIS (1882-1962)

4-- Roy KEEN (1886-1970) married Delia C. WILLIAMS (1896-1947)

4-- Azzie KEEN (1888-1917) married ( ___ ) DYE

"One Armed" Hardy CALDWELL, Jr. 2nd married Nancy TROUTT (1833-1920)

3-- Sarah A. S. CALDWELL (1852-1941) married James O’MEARA

4-- Hardy Wilburn O’MEARA (1871-1945) married Cora Ida WAKEFIELD (1873-1948)

3-- Belinda CALDWELL (1853)

3-- Ellen CALDWELL (1856) married Thomas PERRY (1854)

4-- Katie PERRY (1877-1964) married John H. KEY (1873-1941)

4-- Lonnie H. PERRY (1879)

3-- Camilla CALDWELL (1859)

3-- Lucinda CALDWELL (1864-1939) married John Rice STINSON (1858-1895)

4-- Nellie Lee STINSON (1882-1969) married Dee PEARSON

4-- Henry Wade STINSON (1884-1969) married Ethel Thera BRADLEY (1896-1979)

4-- Jesse Marvin STINSON (1888) married Pearl MAYHEW

4-- Dennis Weaver STINSON (1892) 1st married Esma F. GALBRETH (1903-1919)

Dennis Weaver STINSON 2nd married Cammie Martha HAWKINS (1904)

4-- John Rice STINSON Jr. (1895-1976) married Clydie Mae TROUTT (1903)

3-- E. Isabell CALDWELL (1868) married John WOODSON (1861)

4-- Alpha WOODSON (1889)

4-- Ernest WOODSON (1890)

4-- Louis WOODSON (1892)

4-- Wheeler WOODSON (1898)

SECOND GENERATION

5. Martha Rebecca CALDWELL was born on 9 Mar 1813 in Sumner Co, Tn. She died on 22 Apr 1869 in Sumner Co, Tennessee.

She was married to John William DOSS (son of William DOSS and Nancy) on 28 Jan 1841 in Sumner Co, Tn. John William DOSS was born on 25 May 1816. He died on 25 Dec 1857. Martha Rebecca CALDWELL and John William DOSS had the following children:

+31 i. Elizabeth Frances DOSS.
+32 ii. William Green "Billy" DOSS.
+33 iii. Martha J. DOSS.
+34 iv. John Franklin DOSS.
+35 v. Andrew Jackson DOSS.
+36 vi. Leona Alice DOSS.