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Raleigh Clark Dodson (1806 - 1884)

Raleigh Clark (Rolly) "Rollo" Dodson
Born in Wayne County, Kentucky, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at age 77 in Sinking Creek, Wayne County, Kentucky, United States.map
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Biography

Raleigh Clark Dodson, born the 10th of December, 1806, in Wayne county, Kentucky. Raleigh was the son of Thomas Leonard Dodson and Jemima Randall.

Raleigh married Elizabeth Burnett.

Raleigh was living in Wayne County, Kentucky, In 1850 with 10 of their children:

  1. Leonard Dodson 18
  2. George Dodson 16
  3. Jesse Dodson 12
  4. Rutha Dodson 10
  5. Sarah A Dodson 8
  6. Elizabeth Dodson 6
  7. James Dodson 4
  8. Winnifred Dodson 2
  9. Joseph Dodson 7 months
  10. Thomas Dodson 24 [1]
His brother Jesse and his family were just two doors away.
Raleigh passed away in 1884. Burial was in the Thomas Dodson Cemetery in Wayne County, Kentucky.[2]

Some Progeny of Raleigh Clark Dodson

Rollo C., who died in 1884, spent his life in Wayne County. He settled on what is known as Rolly Fork of Sinking Creek. He married Miss Burnett, sister of Rev. Isom Burnett, a Baptist minister. He reared five sons and four daughters, the sons being Isom, George, Leonard, Jesse and James. Of the daughters the oldest was Mrs. Carl Gholson, who settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ruth, the second daughter, married Nimrod Morrow, and her oldest child was Joseph Morrow, who graduated from the Kentucky State University in 1809, later attended the Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville and became a Baptist minister. The third of the daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Denney, is the mother of Jerry Denney, a Baptist preacher. Mrs. Mary Simpson, the fourth daughter, had four children, the youngest, Rhoda, being now in the Baptist Bible Institute at New Orleans training for missionary work.
Isom Dodson, oldest of the sons of Rollo C., settled on the Dry Fork of Sinking Creek, and reared three sons, Floyd, James and William.
Leonard Dodson, the third son, settled on Sinking Creek, married Elizabeth Tuttle, sister of Ivan Tuttle, and reared a son George, who in turn had three sons, Elmer, Emory and Leonard, Elmer graduating from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary at Fort Worth, Texas, in 1918, and is now a Baptist minister. Jesse Dodson, the fourth son, settled at Frazer, Kentucky and reared a family of three sons and two daughters. James Dodson, the youngest son, settled in what is known as Wright Valley, near Steubenville, married Harriet Simpson, reared a large family there and later moved to Foss, Oklahoma. His second son, George, became a Baptist minister, graduating from the Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville in 1915.
The second son of Rollo C. Dodson was George Dodson, who was born in Wayne County in 1834, settled in Beach Valley near Monticello and spent his active life on that farm, where he died in 1910. He married Dorcas Young, who was born in Wayne County in 1835 and died at Monticello in 1919. They reared a family of two boys and three girls, John and William being the sons. William died in early manhood unmarried. The daughters were: Mary, who married Floyd Dodson, son of Isom Dodson, and moved to Texas; Ann, who married Bascom Ballou and later moved to Texas with her family; and Emma, who married Frank Smith and settled in Beach Valley.
John M. Dodson, oldest of the sons of George, and a grandson of Rollo C., was born at Monticello in 1859, settled in Beach Valley and lived in that one community during his youth and mature years. He is noted as one of the largest land owners and most successful farmers and stock raisers in Wayne County. He has 1700 acres and has done an extensive business with cattle and hogs. He served a term of five years as assessor of Wayne County, is a democrat, one of the leading members of the Baptist Church and is a Mason.
John M. Dodson married Nettie Dodson, daughter of James Dodson of Fall Creek, above referred to. She was born near Monticello in 1859. Of the five children born to their marriage two, Martin and James T., died in infancy. The three living are: Marcus Alvin, cashier of the People's Bank of Science Hill; Walter Cleveland, cashier of the First State Bank of Eubank; and Flora Elizabeth Jane, a graduate of the Training School of the Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville and who went as a Baptist missionary to Canton, China, in August, 1917.
Marcus Alvin Dodson was born at Monticello October 5, 1882, and passed most of his youthful years on his father's farm, attended rural schools, graduated from the Monticello High School in 1900, and in 1904 received the A. B. degree from the Kentucky State College at Lexington. For one year he was a teacher in the graded schools of Bell County, and during part of the year 1905 was a surveyor in the oil fields of Wayne County. Beginning in 1906 he was for a year principal of the graded school of Science Hill, during 1907 was grade school principal at Greenwood, and was principal of the high school at Princeton, Kentucky, in 1908. During 1909 he was head of the department of mathematics at Dixon College at Dixon, Tennessee, and during 1910-11 was professor of mathematics and Latin in the Elk Creek Training School at Elk Creek, Virginia.
In the fall of 1911 Mr. Dodson entered the Peoples Bank of Science Hill as cashier, and has been steadily with that institution, serving it faithfully and promoting to the best of his ability its advancement and success for ten years. The Peoples Bank was established with a state charter in 1906, and has capital of ,000, surplus and profits of ,000, and deposits of 0,000. Silas G. Adams is president, Dr. G. W. Plimell is vice president, with Mr. Dodson as cashier and in executive management.
Mr. Dodson is a democrat, a deacon in the Baptist Church, is a past master of Mount Gilead Lodge No. 255, F. and A. M., at Science Hill, a member of Somerset Chapter No. 25, R. A. M., Somerset Commandery No. 31, K. T., Pulaski Lodge No. 75, I. O. O. F., at Somerset and of Crescent Lodge No. 60, K. P. During the World War he was chairman of all local committees for sale of Liberty Bonds and raising of funds for Red Cross purposes, and he deserves not a little personal credit for the successful issue of the later Liberty Loan drives in the Science Hill precinct. Mr. Dodson owns a modern home on Sandford Street. He married in Science Hill in 1907 Miss Lucy Denton, daughter of Alexander and Mary E. (Young) Denton, the latter a resident of Science Hill, where the father died in 1919. He was a retired farmer. Mrs. Dodson attended the State College at Lexington and also Georgetown College. They have one daughter, Flora Lucille Dodson, born August 4, 1918. [3]

Sources

  1. "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65P-R6R : 9 November 2014), Rally C Dodson, Wayne county, Wayne, Kentucky, United States; citing family 515, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  2. "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVT-P7YS : 13 December 2015), Raleigh Clark Dodson, 1884; Burial, Wayne, Kentucky, USA, Thomas Dodson Cemetery; citing record ID 28730405, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
  3. Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=23117675&pid=837


Acknowledgment

  • WikiTree profile Dodson-1401 created through the import of Dodsons Only.GED on Nov 22, 2011 by Betty Dotson. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Betty and others.
  • Dodson-3202 was created by Buddy Toups through the import of Toups Family Tree (1).ged on Jun 16, 2014.

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In 1870, a Jemima Dodson (24), likely a widow, and Sigel Dodson (2, b. KY) were in the household of Issac Newton Powell Sr. (1790-1871). Isaac had at least grandchildren who married Dodsons. Is Sigel a descendant of Rollo or otherwise closely related?
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Dodson-1401 and Dodson-3202 appear to represent the same person because: Same person
posted by Arik Russell

Rejected matches › James Dodson (abt.1802-abt.1884)

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