Rufus
Dodd
Born in New Jersey
Ancestors 
Son of Daniel Dod
and Charity (Freeman) Dod
Brother of
Silas Dodd, Ithiel Dodd, Chloe (Dodd) Stright, Jeduthun Dodd, Rhoda (Dodd) Johnson, Daniel Freeman Dodd and Phoebe (Dodd) Johnson
Husband of
Hannah (Riggs) Dodd
— married
1 Nov 1797 (to 28 Dec 1806) in Amity, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Husband of
Jemima (Hathaway) Dodd
— married
1 Oct 1807 (to 1809) in Washington County, Pennsylvania
Husband of
Hannah (Axtell) Dodd
— married
28 Jun 1810 (to 10 Aug 1861) in Washington County, Pennsylvania
Descendants 
Father of
Eunice (Dodd) McKnight, Charity (Dodd) Pollock, Joseph Dodd, Jemima Dodd, Luther Dodd and Bethany (Dodd) Morse
Died
at age 85
in Marion, Linn County, Iowa
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Dec 2010
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Biography
Rufus Dodd was born in 1776 in New jersey to Daniel Dod (b. 1745) and Charity Freeman (b. abt 1748) before the family moved to Pennsylvania before 1779.
After his first wife Hannah Riggs died in 1806 (leaving him three young children), Rufus Dodd m2) to Jemima Hathawy in Oct. 1807. She died in 1809 (leaving no children), and Rufus Dodd then m3) to Hannah Axtel (Daughter of Luther Axtell and Hannah Condit) on June 28, 1810.
The family soon moved from Washington County, Pennsylvania to Knox County, Ohio, then to Linn County, Iowa. Along the way, Rufus and Hannah (Axtell) Dodd had nine more children of their own for a total of 12 children in the family. The oldest, daughter Eunice (Dodd) McKnight was 28 years old when the youngest, Rhoda Jane Dodd, was born in February, 1829 in Ohio.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rufus by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rufus:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rufus by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rufus:
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~1.56%
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