Jesse M Dodd

Brief Life History of Jesse M

When Jesse M Dodd was born on 31 December 1888, in Arkansas, United States, his father, Charles A Dodd, was 31 and his mother, Aradus Jane Harris, was 22. He lived in Coldwell Township, White, Arkansas, United States in 1900. He died on 17 June 1907, in Tomberlin, Prairie, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in England, Lonoke, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles A Dodd
1857–1923
Aradus Jane Harris
1866–1894
Nancy A Dodd
1884–1978
Sarah E Dodd
1886–1918
Jesse M Dodd
1888–1907
Maude Jane Dodd
1891–1979
Cora L. Dodd
1894–1975

Sources (2)

  • Jessie M Dodd in household of Charles A Dodd, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Jesse M Dodd, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

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1890 · Woman's Suffrage

An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

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 .

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

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