When Robert Boaz Dallas was born on 5 January 1819, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, his father, Terry H Dallas, was 29 and his mother, Mary Anthony Boaz, was 18. He married Elizabeth F. Richardson on 25 July 1843, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. He lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Cuba, Graves, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 24 May 1895, in Graves, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Graves, Kentucky, United States.
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Scottish: habitational name from the barony of Dallas, a place near Forres in Morayshire, probably named from British dol ‘meadow’ (Gaelic dail) + gwas ‘dwelling’ (Gaelic fas). The surname is also established in County Derry in Ireland.
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