When Greenham Dodson was born on 1 October 1783, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Greenham Dodson, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Dodson, was 25. He married Mary Brooks on 9 January 1808, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Maury, Tennessee, United States in 1830 and Giles, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years. He died on 3 October 1866, in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Dodson Cemetery, Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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.
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