Marietta Effie Dodd

Female19 April 1856–17 December 1922

Brief Life History of Marietta Effie

When Marietta Effie Dodd was born on 19 April 1856, in Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States, her father, Josiah Farrand Dodd, was 38 and her mother, Eleanor Carhuff, was 24. She married John Ward Grummond about 1879, in Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in East Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States for about 10 years. She died on 17 December 1922, in New Jersey, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in New Jersey, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Ward Grummond
1851–1930
Marietta Effie Dodd
1856–1922
Marriage: about 1879
Eleanor Grummond
1879–
Josiah Dodd Grummond
1882–
Florence Ward Grummond
1884–
Paul Sydenham Grummond
1889–1957

Sources (9)

  • Mary E Grummon in household of J Ward Grummon, "New Jersey State Census, 1905"
  • Marietta Effie Dodd Grummon, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Mary Dodd in entry for Paul Grummon, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    about 1879Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States
  • Children (4)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (5)

    World Events (8)

    1863

    Age 7

    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

    1863

    Age 7

    Historical Boundaries 1863: Essex, New Jersey, United States

    1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

    Age 19

    In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

    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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