The Strickland family emigrated from England in the 1600′s.
First settling and colonizing Virginia, some of its members
emigrated from the swampy eastern land into what was to become
Wake and Franklin Counties, North Carolina by the mid-1700′s.
Though there is some dispute as to exactly how my branch is
descended from Matthew Strickland, the Immigrant, the last few
generations can be quite accurately accounted for. Experimenting
with yet another family tree format I describe these connections
from the 20th century back. This is a work in progress. My
grandfather, George Ricks Strickland, was orphaned at the age of
five. He was raised as the son of Edward, Molly and Dora Dodson,
three single children of James H. Dodson and Sarah Jane Rowlett
Dodson, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and would have been
legally adopted by them were it not for his desire to remain
George Strickland. He would grow up and marry their niece, Anna
Florette Sayles, daughter of Rebecca Eulalia “Lilly” Dodson and
Clifton Duvall Sayles.