Dear Linda,

Thank you for your reply. I too am certain that we are referring to the same Arter or Arthur Dacus. I am sure that you have discovered discrepencies in the spelling of names. Oftentimes names were spelled phonetically by census takers. The only other conflict that I have with your information is your 1850 Census data. Arthur Dacus and Elizabeth Cogburn are listed on the Forsyth County, Georgia 1850 Census. You say that you find them on the 1850 SC Census. My records indicate that Elizabeth and Arter died about a week apart during a flu epidemic. From the Cogburn Family bible records Elizabeth Cogburn Dacus died November 19, 1867. I do not know if Arter died a week before or a week after Elizabeth as I do not have his deathdate. Their son, Thomas Anthony, was about 8 years old at the time. He was taken into the home of William and Amelia Mauldin. William and Amelia Mauldin later moved to South Carolina.

I have a new lead on the burial site of Elizabeth and Arter which is here in Forsyth County and hopefully if the graves are marked and dated I will be able to further establish that they indeed remain in or near Forsyth County. According to your records, Thomas Anthony Dacus could have migrated as an adult to Texas.

In my research I am still unable to find a marriage record for Arter and Ida Chapman. I am still satisfied that Arter was 1st married in 1838 to my ancestor, Peggy Tatum. The names of Arter's first four sons are names that are common in Peggy Tatum's family.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Warm regards,
Deborah Tatum Storey