I am saving the clip below for historical reference. In his 1846 travels, Z. N. Morrell mentions two brothers named Dorsey who had a church near Springfield in Anderson County. Morrell is probably spelling their surname as it sounded to him, and through my research I have concluded that these men were “Dossey” rather than “Dorsey” – Thomas Franklin Dossey and William Pinkney Dossey, possibly sons of William Greenberry (or Greenberry William) and Mary Dossey (but possibly relatives, misunderstood by Morrell to be brothers). Except for the slight difference in surname spelling, the Dosseys fit the statement provided by Morrell. Though the Dosseys were in Limestone County, Springfield in Anderson County was well within an area a Baptist preacher would travel to preach in that day. Thomas Franklin Dossey (Sr) was born about 1810 in Franklin County, Tennessee, and died in Texas in August of 1871. He is buried in the Faulkenberry Cemetery near Groesbeck in Limestone County, Texas. William Pinkney Dossey was born about 1815 in Tennessee (probably Franklin County) and died probably in Texas (unless he died in Civil War service away from home), at least before 1870. He married Ellen H. Acock in Morgan County, Alabama in 1832. Thomas married Lavinia Curry in 1835 in Morgan County, Alabama.
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