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David Dobson's exact date of birth and the names of David's parents and siblings are unknown to his descendents. The year of David's birth can be estimated, by the 1840 U.S. Census report for LaFayette, Medina County, Ohio, as 20 years thru 29 years of age (born in the years 1811 thru 1820), with his wife's age listed in that same age bracket. David was born in Medina County or Wayne County, Ohio, based on his two sons' death certificates, although David could have been born in Pennsylvania, where a particular branch of the Dobson family was prevalent, according to a Y-DNA Dobson surname match at the 111-Marker level with a genetic distance of only 6 markers. His Y-DNA Haplogroup is R-FGC53879, confirmed by a Big-Y test. [This Dobson branch had originally came from England, before the American Revolution.] On the both the 1900 US Census and the 1920 US Census reports, David Dobson's oldest son, William Dobson, answered that "Pennsylvania" was the birthplace of his father. For the other U.S. Census years, William answered Ohio, so he was probably unsure of his father's birthplace, because he was only four years old, when he lost his father, David Dobson.

David Dobson's father might have been Christian Dobson (# 185667382), who had moved to Wayne County, Ohio in October of 1832, from Pennsylvania. Christian Dobson's father was William Dobson, Sr. (#195594625).
There have been many autosomal DNA matches with a current descendant of David Dobson (David's GG-Grandson) to William Dobson Sr.'s current descendents, through each of William Dobson Sr.'s sons: Christian Dobson, William Dobson, Jr. (# 126848233) and John Dobson (# 195604019 ).
Also matching David Dobson's GG-Grandson, there are three very distant (9, 10 and 11 cM across one segment) DNA matches to three current descendents of Christian Dobson's uncle, Thomas Dobson, Sr. (#195606588). In fact, the Y-DNA Dobson surname match is a GGGG-Grandson of this same Thomas Dobson, Sr.

[Note: Y-DNA is passed intact directly from father to son, but sometimes one or two marker(s) might mutate causing a one or two genetic distance from the original Y-DNA from hundreds of years ago; thus, the genetic distance of 6, for the Dobson surname Y-DNA match at the 111 marker level of testing.]
[Also Note: Concerning autosomal DNA, keep in mind that the total number of cMs or Centimorgans that every human has is 6800 cM, sharing about 3400 cMs with each parent.]

The numerous matches from William Dobson, Sr.'s sons' current descendents to a current descendent of David Dobson, range from 13 cMs on 1 segment up to 118 cM across 3 segments. (For some reason, the match with the highest cMs was a descendent of William Dobson, Sr.'s son John Dobson. Perhaps they are related through another ancestor as well or it just happened that way, by chance.)
All these autosomal DNA matches could indicate that David Dobson's grandfather was William Dobson, Sr..

David Dobson married Elizabeth Lance on September 26, 1839, in Wayne County, Ohio and David was on the 1840 Census with her, in Lafayette Township, Medina County, Ohio. David was probably born between 1815 to 1818 (or even earlier), because husbands had to be at least 21 years of age to be married
David had two sons by Elizabeth, before he died:
William Dobson (b. 1840, d. 1922) and
Abraham Dobson (b. 1842, d. 1914).

David was a member of the United Brethren (U.B.) Church and is listed as a member in the first entry of the Class Book for the Lafayette Society of the United Brethren in Christ, formed December 23, 1844. Next to his name, "Daved Dobson," is written "Departed" and above his name is written, "this life." His wife's name, Elizabeth Dobson, is listed as a member, under his name. David's burial was most likely one of the first burials at that church's cemetery. As David's grave is now unmarked, the exact location his grave at Waltz Cemetery is unknown. His widow, Elizabeth Lance Dobson, married the widower, Jacob Miller, in April of 1846.

The following founding Church members' information about "Daniel Dobson" is most likely about "David Dobson" who would have died soon after the organization of their new U.B. Church. No other Dobsons are listed in the listings of the UBC members (December 1844) and "Daniel" is probably misread calligraphy.:
"La Fayette Township has the reputation of having a greater number of churches, compared with the population, than any other township in the county [Medina County] . . . Some thirty-six years ago [1844-1845] the United Brethren organized a society in the northwest part, and among the first members were the following: Henry Waltz, George Waltz [the brother of Jacob Miller's first wife], Robert Eakin [who was married to Mary "Polly" Lance, the sister of David Dobson's wife/widow and who Abraham Dobson, David's son, was living with in the 1860 US Census], Jacob Miller [who later married David Dobson's widow], Daniel Dobson [David Dobson], W. A. Carlton, C. P. Lance [Christopher Peter Lance, who was a first cousin of David Dobson's wife], and their wives, besides several others. They gathered in the schoolhouses until 1854, when their church was built at a cost of $1,000. Rev. Edwin Wood became the first Minister, and Henry was elected Class-leader. The first Deacons were George Waltz, C. P. Lance and W. A. Carlton. The society has a present membership of eighty."
"History of Medina County and Ohio"; pp. 678-9; by William Henry Perrin, J H Battle, Weston Arthur Goodspeed; Chicago: Baskin & Battey, Historical Publishers, Chicago [March] 1881.

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