Catherine "Kate" (..) Magill-Dorman

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas; friend Sarah Vosburg
• Property: Catfish Hotel, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 1860, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 1880, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

Other-Begin:
Article about Kate Dorman mentions her friend Sarah Vosburg.

Oblivious to the Federal shells bursting around them, Kate and her friend, Sarah Vosburg, labored over a hot stove in the Catfish Hotel, cooking meat, doughnuts, and hot coffee. In the heat of the battle, Kate Dorman went outside, hitched up the same horse and cart, and carried a hot meal to the grimy gunners in the fort.

When the hotel tenants and the town's populace fled, Kate turned the Catfish Hotel into a temporary hospital, for there was then no Confederate medical facility in the city. Mrs. Dorman and two friends, Sarah Vosburg and Sarah Ann King, were among the Sabine women who remained to nurse the victims, and all three were fortunate to escape death. Actually, Vosburg, who was the first person to recognize the symtoms of the disease, had survived yellow fever at New Orleans, and as a result was immune to it.8

source: 8 Dr. George Holland, "Epidemic at Sabine Pass," Houston TELEGRAPH, Sept. 10, 1862; Keith, "Memoirs," pp. 57-58; Confederate Veterans Column, Galveston DAILY NEWS, March 11, 1900.


Sarah is not listed in this file, but she is found in the 1870 census with her husband and son.

1870 Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
W.H. Vosburg 55 cabinet maker New York
Sarah Vosburg 52 keeping house White Haven
William Vosburg 26 boatman Louisiana

Census:
1860 Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
John W. Dorman 35 hotel keeper
Catherine G. 32 housekeeper
Laurah MaGill 15 student
hotel patrons


Census:
1880 Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
J.W. Dorman 55 pilot
C.E. Dorman 51 wife

Catherine married Arthur Magill, chief engineer in 1844 in Columbus, Georgia. Arthur was born about 1825; died on 2 Nov 1859 in Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. (daughter) Magill, (questioned)
2. Laura Magill was born in 1845 in Georgia; died on 16 Feb 1932; was buried in Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas.

Catherine married John W. Dorman in 1859 in Galveston, Galveston Co, Texas. John was born on 4 Oct 1824 in Delaware; died on 3 Jul 1886 in Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas; was buried in Sabine Pass Cem, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1860 the young widow, mother of two young daughters, married a widowed friend of her deceased husband, Capt. John Dorman, who was master of the Neches River cotton steamer Doctor Massie.
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