Marie Dodd

Brief Life History of Marie

Marie Dodd was born on 23 May 1930. She died on 9 November 2007, in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Merit, Simpson, Mississippi, United States.

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Robert Earnest Spencer
1924–1987
Marie Dodd
1930–2007

Sources (2)

  • Marie D Spencer, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Marie Dodd Spencer, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

1939 · First Oil Well in Mississippi Located in Yazoo County

Fredric F. Mellen was a geologist that was surveyed a clay and minerals project. While doing this he instead struck oil and started the oil industry in Mississippi.

1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment

Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.

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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