Charles Daniel Lucas, Sr. - Origins?

What is the evidence to support Charles Daniel Lucas, Sr. as a son of Thomas Lucas & Ann Lucas

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1. ”The Lucas-Dodson Families. Reminiscences of Two Families Who Have Lived in Fayette and Marion Counties from Their Beginnings to the Present Day.” By Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr. AncestryImage >; (document attached) 1. At the time this article is going to press, research is still being done on the ancestors of Charles Daniel Lucas, and one more generation has been uncovered. Charles Daniel Lucas, who came to Alabama, was the son of Charles Lucas, Senior, and his wife Dorcas, who were living in Bladen County, North Carolina, as early as 1784 ….