Joshua
Polk
Dodson
Born about in Talladega, Alabama, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Constant Dodson
and Nancy (Small) Dodson
Brother of
Sarah Letitia (Dodson) Tarrant, Jasper N Dodson, Margaret Mary (Dodson) Evans, Jonathan Land Dodson, Joel J Dodson, Jerome Constant Dodson, Arizona Dodson [half] and Irene Virginia (Dodson) Mitchell [half]
Died
at about age 18
in Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Nov 2011
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Biography
Joshua Polk Dodson was born about 1844, possibly in Talladega county, Alabama. Joshua was the son of Constant Dodson and Nancy Small.
Joshua, age 6, appears in the 1850 Federal census in Cherokee County, Texas in the household of his father, Constant Dodson.[1]
Joshua served in Company A, 9th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. Joshua died in 1862 while serving in the Civil War. Joshua is buried in the Okolona Confederate Cemetery, Chickasaw County, Mississippi.[2]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXLV-FF1 : 23 December 2020), Joshua P Dodson in household of C Dodson, Cherokee, Texas, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, with photo of Tombstone, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVD-XQ7R : 6 August 2020), Joshua Polk Dodson, ; Burial, Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States of America, Okolona Confederate Cemetery
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- Berwyn Dodson
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~3.12%
Diane (Purcell) Dean :
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Denese O'Pry :
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