Dorcas Cox Treadaway
BIRTH 5 Feb 1789
South Carolina, USA
DEATH 1862 (aged 72–73)
USA
Buried in unmarked grave in unknown location either Alabama or Georgia. Probably buried with her husband William in an unmarked grave near Alpharetta, GA which at the time of her death was in Cherokee Co, GA. This site was listed in John Frank Treadaway's manuscript of "Daniel Treadaway and His Descendants in the South." Under his section of the manuscript listing the descendants of William, his daughter Ary has a grandson listed who is named Arthur who remembers visiting his grandfather William's unmarked grave near Alpharetta,Ga when he was about 14 years old. That would have been 1900. After Arthur was grown and married with a family of his own who were also grown, all he remembers is approximate location of the grave but doesn't remember the names of his ancestors beyond his grandmother Ary. Arthur was looking for his Treadaway ancestors and had his children drive him to visit some Treadaways in Tallapoosa Ga. They were the sons and descendants of his grandmother's brother Jacob Treadaway. They didn't tell him so he never knew that he was visiting his 1st cousins once removed.
Dorcas was head of household in the 1850 census of Cherokee Co GA. I believe that a woman listed in the 1840 Census of Cherokee Co,GA as head of household Darkey Treadaway to be Dorcas. That would mean she was a widow before 1840 and that her husband William Treadaway was already deceased. William was listed as head of household in Rabun Co, GA in the 1830 Census of Rabun Co,GA. Their last child Jacob was born in 1834. I assume William died between 1834 and 1840. He could have died in Rabun Co,GA or in Cherokee Co,GA. The part of Cherokee Co,GA that the city of Alpharetta was when Dorcas and William lived there later became a part of Fulton Co,GA. The Cherokee Land lottery was in 1832. It is possible that William acquired his land in Cherokee Co, Ga as a result of the land lottery. There is a Mary Treadaway a widow of a soldier who was a winner in the land lottery. It could be William's mother Mary Buffington Treadaway was that Mary. Her husband Daniel fought in the Revolutionary war as a soldier from SC.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109616092/dorcas-treadaway
