When Richard "Robert" Armstrong Dodd was born on 18 January 1825, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, his father, Josiah Dodd Jr, was 39 and his mother, Mary Finney, was 36. He married Eliza Louisa Nichoalds on 12 December 1845, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Rolla Township, Phelps, Missouri, United States in 1860. He died on 31 January 1901, in Lamar, Texas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Forest Chapel Cemetery, Chicota, Lamar, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1840: Lamar, Republic of Texas 1845: Lamar, Texas, United States
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English: from the Middle English personal name Dodd(e), Dudd(e), Old English Dodd(a), Dudd(a), a name of uncertain origin which remained in fairly widespread and frequent use from Lincolnshire to Devon and from Essex to Lancashire in England until the 14th century.
English: nickname from Middle English dod, a word of uncertain meaning, possibly a ‘lumpish, thickset person’ (compare modern English dialect dod ‘bunch or heap’), or by extension a ‘foolish person’ (compare Middle English dode-mused ‘stupid’), or perhaps a derivative of dodden ‘to shave (the head), to trim (hair)’, hence ‘the hairless or close-cropped one’.
English: possibly a modern variant of Daud or Dowd, the former arising from the Middle English personal name Daud(e), an extended form of Daw , and the latter from the Middle English personal name Doude, perhaps a side-form of either Dodde or of Daude, a pet form of Ralph .
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