Today's surname is Dobyns, the name of one of my 3rd great-grandmothers. (I've included Ahnentafel numbers to make the relationships clearer.)
5. Verda Waller Hankins (my paternal grandmother)
10. Thomas Leander "Lee" Hankins
21. Isabella Jane "Janie" Goodloe
43. Eliza Ann Dobyns
Married John Emerson "Jack" Goodloe 5 Oct 1836, Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky
Died between 1846 - 1848, probably in Hopkins County, Kentucky
86. Edward Dobyns
Born 19 Dec 1774, Richmond County, Virginia
Married Sarah "Sally" Mott 26 Dec 1797, Richmond County, Virginia
Died 1817, Hopkins County, Kentucky
172. Edward Dobyns
Born 30 Dec 1743, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia
Married Amony (maiden name unknown, widow of William Forrester)
Died bef. 5 Oct 1789, Farnham, Richmond County, Virginia
344. Charles Dobyns
Born bef. 1703, Essex County, Virginia
Married Sarah Nash abt. 1723
Died 16 Nov 1760, Richmond County, Virginia
688. Daniel Dobyns
Born abt. 1654, England
Married Elizabeth Godson abt. 1688
Died abt. 1713, probably in Virginia
This line goes back several more generations and can be accessed starting here. The earlier information is from Daniel Dobyns of Colonial Virginia; His English Ancestry and American Descendants by Kenneth W. Dobyns and Margaret Strum Thorpe (Arlington, Virginia; 1969, updated 2000).
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