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John Winfield Scott Dancy of Fayette County
John Winfield Scott Dancy was born September 3, 1810 in Virginia. He grew up in Alabama and attended college in Tennessee. He married in 1835 but his young wife died the following year.
On November 21, 1836 John Dancy bid farewell to his family in Decatur, Alabama and started for Texas. He traveled overland to New Orleans and then by boat to Texas, arriving at the port of Velasco on December 28,…
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