When James Kye Dorsett Jr. was born on 15 November 1916, in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, his father, James Kye "Jim" Dorsett, was 34 and his mother, Florence Z Terrell Dorsett, was 29. He married Anna Lee Smith on 29 September 1950, in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States. He lived in Rowan, North Carolina, United States in 1920. He died on 30 October 2001, in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States.
English: habitational name from the county of Dorset, named from Old English Dorn, an early name of Dorchester (of British origin, from durn ‘fist’, probably referring to fist-sized pebbles) + sǣte ‘dwellers’.
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