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
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
1851–1930 Male
1856–1922 Female
Children (4)
1879– Female
1882– Male
1884– Female
1889–1957 Male
Parents and Siblings
1818–1891 Male
1831–1897 Female
Siblings (5)
1854–1855 Female
1856–1922 Female
1859–1863 Female
1861–1863 Female
1865–1865 Male
World Events (8)
1863
Age 7
1863
Age 7
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
Age 19
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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