There is another Dixon connection between Cane Creek and the Hoosier cousins. Phebe Dixon, the daughter of George and the granddaughter of the immigrant William and Anne, married Thomas Roubottom and was thus the mother of Simon, one of ther earliest settlers on the White River. She was the 1st cousin to Joseph Dixon of the foregoing paragraph. She gave the Quaker community nine Roubottom children -- and we are still trying to learn who seven of them are!

Moral: There is a moral in all this; a family historian must look -- for beyond his nose!

In 1934, when I discovered the graves of Joseph Dixon and Mary Pussey, my great-gr-gr-grandparents, I could have obtained the names of all of Phebe (Dixon) Rubottom's children merely by joting them down on a note pad. I was interested only in two; the gunsmith and the girl who married the estate runner. Now I am desolate because of my uter lack of foresight three decades ago.

From the above it appears that one of the three, Harvey Newlin, E. P. Dixon, or R. H. Hutchison knew the names of all the children. The two mentioned were, Simon Rubottom and Hannah Rubottom, who married Samuel Dowd. Samuel Dowd was an administrator of estates.

It may be there are some grave markers in the Napton Cemetery. If there is I would like to know how the name is spelled. Is it Rubottom or Roubottom or some other way?

The land entry in Chatham County dated 1790 for Thomas Rubottom. The name is spelled Rubottom in roll of Chatham Militia in 1772. Land entried for Simon Rubottom in Chatham County and in Moore County is spelled Rubottom.

I am mailing you a picture of a fire plug in Katy, Texas. The school children of Katy painted the fire plugs red, white, and blue, with a name of a Revolutionary war soldier on it. This is for the bicentennial year of 1776. A decendant of Thomas Rubottom, Charolette Reuwer, painted this plug.

Respectfully yours,

T. W. Rubottom
Houston, TX

P. S. -- The person I correspond with concerning the Napton Cemetery is Mark W. Lindley, Snow Camp, NC. T.W.R.