Excerpts from The Dorris Family: Pioneers of Milton County, by Caroline Dillman from The Alpharetta Revue

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"James Dorris owned hundreds of acres of land in the Crabapple area and ran a store there. The customers who patronized his store included Indians as well as whites. A list of persons who bought from and traded with James Dorris from 1835 to 1844 is included here. James Dorris was born in 1801 and died in 1877. He married Nancy Cook, an Indian, who was born in 1799 and died in 1887. James Dorris was born in Abbeyville, South Carolina; later resided in Augusta, Georgia and in Jefferson Jackson County, Georgia; and eventually moved to what was originally Cherokee County but became a part of Milton County and is now part of Fulton County. His father, also James Dorris (probably Sr.) was originally from Holland and had two brothers, William and John. There seems to be no record of William's descendants, and most of John's decendants settled in Douglas County, Georgia. The younger James Dorris, who had the store, was the father of eight children, four of whom died young and four lived to have children of their own. These latter four were W.C. Dorris, who married Mary Galehaugh; Permelia Dorris, who married W.D. Rucker; Elizabeth Dorris who married N.W.H. Cook; and J. Newton Dorris, who married Fannie Gillespie."

The Ledger Accounts of The James Dorris Store 1835-1844

(I’ve no idea where the “came from Holland” originated, but it certainly has been passed down. My research indicates the, family roots are in Ireland. jmy/September 2012)