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KIRKSVILLE DAILY EXPRESS, Kirksville, Missouri

June 1918

DIED

MRS. ISOM B. DODSON

---Mrs. Isom B. Dodson, widow of the late Major Dodson, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. R. Blunt at Palisades, Colo., Friday night, June 7, and the body will be brought to Kirksville Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock for burial. Funeral services were held at the home of her granddaughter, Miss Georgia M. Smith, 305 West Normal Avenue, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and burial took place in Forest Park Cemetery. Rev. R. W. Lilley of the Christian church, conducted the services.

---Mrs. Dodson was 91 years old. She came to Adair county when she was a young woman and was well and favorably known. She left here several years ago to make her home with Mrs. Blunt. She leaves the following children: Mrs. J. R. Blunt, Palisade, Colo., D. R. Dodson, east of Kirksville, Attorney J. B. Dodson, of Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Fanny Tufts of Okenah, Okla., S. A. D. Murphy of this city is a half brother.

Nancy Jane Murphy married Isham B. Dodson on August 21, 1843 in Adair County, Missouri and they had the following children:

1) John Wood Dodson

---b. 1845, Adair County, MO.

---sp. Louisa Cook

2) Benjamin Commodore Dodson

---b. 1847, Adair County, MO.

3) Mary Jane "Mollie" Dodson Smith

---b. 1849, Adair County, MO.

4) Sarah Marguerite "Sallie" Dodson Tufts

---b. 1853/57, Adair County, MO.

---m. May 17, 1874, Adair Co., MO.

---sp. Amasu Dorman Tufts

5) Frances Josephine "Fannie" Dodson Tufts

---b. 1856/1866, Adair County, MO.

---m. May 17, 1874, Adair Co., MO.

---sp. Thomas Winfield Tufts

6) Donald R. Dodson

---b. April 3, 1859, Adair County, MO.

7) James Butler Dodson

---b. April 12, 1861, Adair County, MO.

8) William Sherman Dodson

---b. Sept. 29, 1864, Adair County, MO.

---d. Feb. 23, 1902

9) Bently Sheridan Dodson

---b. May 19, 1867, Adair County, MO.

10) Effie Altora Corraine Dodson Blunt

---b. Aug. 19, 1869

---d. 1955

---sp. John R. Blunt

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NOTE CORRECTION ON SEPT. 3, 2013: Nancy was born in Morgan County, Illinois not in Macon County, Ill.

I have multiple sources that provide additional information about this family including: marriage records; the 1850, 1860 & 1870 Adair County, MO. federal census records; Isham's pension records; a list of residence for Adair Co., Mo. done in 1889 (Nancy J. Dodson is listed as being born Sept. 15, 1824 in Morgan Co., Ill. & settled in Adair Co., MO. in June of 1831) and the History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri published in 1888 (Nancy's husband is mention several times in the History book but only their son, James B. Dodson has a biography on page 969). In his bio. it states that Nancy's parents came to Missouri in 1841 and settled in Adair County.