• James Andrew Dawson was born in Bybee Co Tn on the 16 of September 1853 To the parents of Drury Dawson and Elizabeth Ellis.
  He married [1] Laura A. Darby, ca. 1871, a native of S C., a daughter of Henry P. Darby and Juila Ann Frances Hughson also natives of SC.
  
  James A. attended the common schools in the acquirment of an education and remained under the parental roof until 18 years of age when he was married and established a home of his own. He then followed general argicultural pursuits in Tennessee until 1887 when he came to Oregon. Having lived in Yamhill Co for fiev years, he then moved to Washington Co for four years, then took up his abode in Tillamook Co within the borders of which he has made his home continuously. He took up and remained for seven years on a homestead in the southern part of the county and then came to the city of Tillamook, where he has since been engaged in business as the proprietor of a libery stable, enjoying an extensive and gratifying patronage
  
  
  Story told by James, that while courting his first wife Laura, they had to pass a cemetery and heard strange noise's coming from there. The next time they came that way, he had his gun and shot a few times in that direction and the ghosts disappearded forever - he sortof thought that maybe it was one of his brothers playing tricks on him.
  
  
• James A. and Laura A. Darby are the parents of:
• James Henry b: 1872, Cocke Co Tn. d: 11 Sept 1940 Salem Marion Co Oregon. Never Married
• Mary Elizabeth (Molly) b: 08 Aug 1875, Cocke Co Tn. d: 13 Oct 1838 McMinnville Yamhill Co Oregon. m: 03 Jan 1890 Banks Washington Co Oregon to Sigel F. Morgan
• Julia Ann, b: 26 Sept 1877, Bybee Cocke Co Tn., d: 27 Feb 1973 Ashland Jackson Co Oregon, m: Randall Seitters 1874-1904
• Fulton Jay, b: 10 Nov 1879, Bybee Cocke Co Tn., d: 25 Jan 1958, Elma Grays Harbor Co WA, m: Cora Belle, b: 02 Nov 1886 Deadwood, South Dakota., d: 27 Apr 1961, Elma Grays Harbor Co WA. No Issue
  
• Drury Edward, b:18 Nov 1882 Cocke Co Tn., d: 09 Nov 1959, Aberdeen Grays Harbor Co WA., m: 13 Aug 1900, Oregon
  
  
  
  
• James A married 02 Jun 1887 Mossy Creek Jefferson Co Tn. Nannie Magdalene Fleming b: 16 Aug 1863, d: 10 Jun 1912 Tillamook Tillamook Co OR.
  Children of James A. and Nannie M Fleming are:
  
• Carl Macheaux, b: 22 Arp 1889, Bellview Yamhill Co OR. d: 09 Dec 1963 Tacoma Pierce Co WA. m: 30 Oct 1914 Tillamook Co OR Pearl M Foland 1892-1957 OR.
  
• Eliza Virgina, b: 09 Jul 1891 Bellview Yamhill Co OR. d: 02 Jan 1978 Reedsport Douglass Co OR. m: 15 Sept 1913 McMinnville Yamhill Co OR. Wilbur Burdick 1892 NY-1968 OR.
  
• Cloyd Oliver, b: 16 Mar 1993, Banks Washington Co OR. m: Tillamook Tillamook Co OR Mable Goyne 1893 OR-
  
  
  This story is from Nannie(Nanny) Fleming, Dawson.
  
  "Fed the menfolk the Ax for lunch"
  
  
  It was the bigger boys job to keep the woodbox filled and Nanny would not let the girls do it. So one day when the men came in from the fields for lunch the ax filled the center of the table - the vegetables were ready and everything was on the stove but since there was no wood nothing was cooked. She didn't have any more trouble about the woodbox being empty. She was a little bit of a woman and the boys were all strapping big men and so was her husband but she had lots of fire and spirit.