Obediah Dodson (1793 - 1854)

Born 5 Jan 1793 in Halifax county, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Susanna (Shields) Dodson — married Dec 1812 in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, United States

Died 12 Aug 1854 at age 61 in DeSota Parish, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

Obediah Dodson was born about 1792 in Halifax county, Virginia. Obediah was the son of Elias Dodson and Nancy Stamps

Obediah married Susanna Shields in December 1812 in Pittsylvania county, Virginia.^[1]

Obediah married his second wife Mrs. Ann Vince on the 26th June 1850 in Rusk county, Texas. The announcement of Obediah's marriage appeared in the Tennessee Baptist newspaper as follows: "Married - On the 26th inst., by Rev. J.M. Perry, Rev. Obediah Dodson, late of Tennessee, to Mrs. Ann Vince, of Rusk county, Texas. Brother Dodson baptized Mrs. Vince at nine o'clock on Sunday morning, and immediately returned to the house of Dr. S.J. Hendrick's, where the marriage took place in the presence of a respectable company. The company then proceeded one mile to the church, where bro. Dodson preached an interesting sermon. Brother Dodson is well known in the south and west, as being one amongest the most indefatigable laborers among us; and although he is now about fifty-eight years of age, and his lady fifty-three, yet they both present all the appearance of youthful health and vigor, and being unincumbered with the cares of a family, they are fully prepared to enter into the work of evangelizing the churches.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Tennessee Baptist, Nashville, Tennessee, 6 December 1849, Thu. page 3; Obituary Mrs. Susanna Dodson.
2. ↑ Tennessee Baptist (Nashville, Tennessee), 29 June 1850, Sat. page 3.

Acknowledgment

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