Jacob Christian Dose was born 25 Apr 1882, in Issaquena County, MS, near Harworth, MS, a sawmill town along the Yazoo River. The town no longer exists, a casualty of too frequent flooding, clear cutting and the Depression. He was the son of David Christian and Josephine Bellinger Dose. His siblings included twin, Sophie, sister Carrie and brother Walter Samuel. His father had come from Germany in 1873, jumping ship in New York Harbor. The family life centered around farming, fishing, hunting and trapping. Life was difficult, little opportunity to accumulate any wealth. Loans were necessary survive. Most of the family eventually moved to Vicksburg and left their farm to be confiscated for failure to pay taxes.

Jacob married Moyzelle Tindol on February 13, 1912. It was a second marriage for Moyzelle. She was previously married to William Harrison Plake. Jacob and Moyzelle had six children: Frances Vivian, Walter Samuel, Daisy Carolyn, Mary Ella Josephine, Jacob Christian Jr. and Silas James.

For more details check about life on the river, read: Fred Oakes Memoir

Dose Family (Version from Jesse Rodgers, grandson of Jacob Christian.)
Back: Mary Sophie Dose, Jacob Christian Dose, Carrie Mae Dose.
Front: David Christian, Josephine Bellinger, & Walter Samuel Dose.
A son, Willliam, died at age four in 1898. This picture is from about that time.

Home of Jacob's sister, Sophie. She is woman with tie.

Left to Right, Fredrick Franklin Oakes, Laura Annis Oakes, Charles Franklin Oakes, Sophie Dose Oakes, Robert Grantham Oakes and John Christian Oakes, Home in Harworth, MS ca 1913.

Mosie Dose's Home

Wilford Harrison Plake and Frances Moyzelle Tindol’s marriage certificate, May 1907. Wilford was from Indiana, however, shortly after son, John, was born he disappeared. It was rumored that he was a gambler. This would have been around 1908 or 1909.

Draft Registration Records record a Wilfred Harrison Plake in Knox County, Indiana in 1917. He was born April 30, 1880. Iron worker, Cumland Construction Co, Camp Perry Proving Grounds Ohio. Nearest relative Beulah Dotson, sister, Viscennes, Ind. Description: tall, large build, blue eyes, and light hair.

In 1900, he was living in Washington, Morgan, Indiana. 1910 in Lincoln, Chandler Ward 1, District 0089, OK. He was a salesman, single, born Indiana. in 1883-84. In 1910, there was also a Harrison W. Plake in Marion, Indianapolis Ward 10, district 0189, Indiana. He was single, a boarder working as laborer in Bag Factory. He was 26 (1884), born Indiana. His father was born in Kentucky, his mother in Indiana.

In 1942, there was a W. Harrison Plake living in Indianapolis at 568 Highland Av. N. between Michigan and North Streets.

After Wilford, husband, left, Moyzelle move back home and took a job as a cook at a Chris Dose’s plantation in Harworth. She worked there for several years then married Chris' son, Jacob Christian Dose.

Jacob Christian Dose and Mozelle Tindol Plake's marriage certificate, Frebruary 13, 1912.

Jacob Christian Dose & Frances Moyzelle (Mosie) Tindol Gallery
Casket of Silas James Tindol at their home in Yazoo City, MS. Center. Picture is at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Yazoo City. Picture at right is widow, Jane Miller Tindol. Silas died January 3, 1938. Jane died one month later, February 11, 1938. They had celebrated 63 years of marriage on November 11. They were the parents of daughters, Mary Ella Armstrong, Myrtle Mae Tucker, Moyzelle Dose, Coor Eugenia Grant, Sarah Elizabeth Norwood, Janie, and sons, John Samuel and Walter.