I am interested in "talking" with anyone who is researching the Dabbs name. Salina(Selina)Dabbs died November 29, 1914 in Bell Co, Temple, Texas. The informant on her death certificate was Wm Taylor, who was the undertaker. Salina never married and was enumerated on several Bell Co Census records with Hunt surname families. Salina's mother was S.S. Hunt who married Christopher H Dabbs in Hardeman Co, Tennessee.

Can anyone help me in finding where Salina was buried? The death certificate states she was buried in Temple. I don't know if this means the city of Temple or Temple Cemetery. Is there a Temple cemetery in anywhere in Bell Co?

And what of other Dabbs surnames? Has anyone encountered the name Dabbs in Bell Co?

Thanks,
Dale

Salina is buried in Temple, Texas at Hillcrest Cemetery. She was a cousin to T. G. Hunt and is buried in the Hunt plot.

"Notes on Bell County, Texas Volume 3-Hillcrest Cemetery"

Hello Nancy,

Today you have made two ladies very happy. Julia of Louisiana has been researching her family, one of them being Salina, for a long time! I found out about Dr. Christopher Dabbs in 2007. We wanted to find out about where Salina lived out her last years. We had her in TX Census records and her death certificate. We knew from it, that her father was "Dr Kit Dabbs" and therefore this Salina was our Salina!!!

Julia has in her posession an excerpt from a young girl's diary dated Jan 6, 1864 about Dr. Dabbs telling them of his trip to Washington Co, Texas. Her description of Dr. Dabbs and "Washington Co is quite thickly settled with substantial and cultivated people, and it is a very pleasant country, his account of San antonio was most interesting to me..." made Julia and I believe that the people in TX was his daughter's relatives through her mother S.S. (Hunt) Dabbs, his first wife.

The census records in TX shows Salina enumerated with Hunts. Do you know anything of these Hunt families? Can you tell us the name of Salina's mother. Maybe Salina Sarah or Sarah Salina??? Salina's name from a Louisiana Census is M. Salina Dabbs. We do not know what the 'M' stands for either!!

Thank you again for helping us fill-in more of our family history. Do you know any of the descendants of these Hunt families who took in a unmarried lady and helped maker her later years more bearable and not so lonely. She was left with no family to speak of. Her parents gone, her two brothers gone, a sister who died so young in life gone, so she was without close family. The Hunts of Texas took her in and gave her an extended family. We are so glad!

If you would pass along (if at all possible) to some of her relatives in Texas that we would like to "talk" to them, we would be most appreciative.

God Bless,
Dale

Hello again Nancy,

I read all the notes about Hillcrest. It was awesome to read about how the people of Temple have taken care of their loved ones like they have. We could all take a lesson in this!

I did find Selina Dabby in Section F. I guess the 's' written looked like a 'y' because her name is Dabbs. I got her death certificate yesterday at Clayton Library and it also gives her name as Dabbs. That is of little concern at the time!! We have found her with your great help and the help of the citizens of Temple!!!

If I am allowed by the nearest family, and I think that would be Julia, I will see about getting the stone repaired or a new one!

Thank you again. I will be coming to Temple soon to see Selina and her Hunt relatives to pay my respects.

Dale

I used our book on Hillcrest Cemetery to find where she is buried. We have Dabbs, not Dabby.

From "Volume 2 Hillcrest Cemetery."
Nannie Hunt Sayner was wife of R. O. Sayner and daughter of T. G. Hunt and F. (sic)A. Hunt.
Sina Hunt was born in Pontotoc, MS. She was mother of Nannie Hunt Sayner. Nannie Cox of Temple and Mrs. Jeff Sturdivant of Rogers were her sisters.
Nancy Ann Cox was the mother of Mrs. T. G. Hunt.
On the 1900 Temple City Directory is Miss M. S. Dabbs 703 South 3rd. Street. I do not find a Hunt at the same address.