Johnnie Charlotte Dodson

Brief Life History of Johnnie Charlotte

When Johnnie Charlotte Dodson was born on 6 September 1920, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, her father, Joseph Ellis Dodson, was 39 and her mother, Odie Elizabeth Bryant, was 35. She married Ervin Grant Porter on 6 January 1945, in Walker, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Civil District 1, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1930 and Civil District 9, Maury, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 29 March 1993, in Columbia, Maury, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Columbia, Maury, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ervin Grant Porter
1918–1999
Johnnie Charlotte Dodson
1920–1993
Marriage: 6 January 1945
Porter
1959–1959

Sources (8)

  • Charlotte Dodson in household of Bessie Pillon, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Miss Charlotte Dodson in the U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current
  • Charlotte D Porter, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1931 · The Parthenon is Built

In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

patronymic from Dodd ; ‘son of Dod(d) or Dud(d)’ from Middle English Dodd(e), Dudd(e), Old English Dodd(a), Dudd(a), + -son. Alternatively, the name may arise from a Middle English form of Old English Dodesunu, a compound personal name formed from the same elements as above and impossible to tell apart from the Middle English patronymic.

post-medieval variant of Dodgson with simplification of the medial dgs.

English:

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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