Susie was born in 1853 in Alabama. For the details of her married life, see the memorial for her husband, John Wesley Cornelius.
A family member said that she was a very beautiful girl with a fair complexion, blue eyes, and blond hair. She was petite and wore lovely dresses with ruffles and hoops. One time during the Civil War, the ladies of the family were cooking the evening meal when some Yankee soldiers came in and demanded the food to be cooked for them. They ate their meal and then took the best horses from the barn.
Before she married, Susie helped her older brother, Tom, to teach in a country school.
The Methodist Church always played a big part in the Dodson and Cornelius families. On Saturday afternoons, Susie would lay out all the clothes and get them ready for Sunday School and church the next day. Everyone would have their bath, and Susie would do the baking for Sunday dinner. On Sunday morning, chores had to be done before time to get ready. John would get up the horses or mules so the team would be ready to hitch to the wagon. There was much hubub among the women and girls getting ready, and it wasn't long until John began calling from the porch "Let's go, let's go".
Susie's health took a bad turn about 1915. When Susie became worse, she was taken to the hospital in Stamford, Texas for that was the best in the area. The doctors at that time could not make an accurate diagnosis, but they thought she had cancer of the kidney. The medicines they prescribed helped her for awhile, but she soon became worse. She was taken to the Baptist hospital in Dallas where she had a cancerous kidney removed. She returned home, but in the Fall of 1918, she became very ill. She lingered in a coma for three months and finally passed away on February 18, 1919.
John and Susie's daughter, Zela, had this to say about her mother: "She was the best Christian that one could ever know. It seemed she could always come up with the right decisions, could calm Papa down in his impetuousness and knew the right answers when the children needed advice and guidance. She read good books if she had access to them, consumed everything in the church paper and was a wonderful Bible student. She read her Bible until her hands were too weak to hold it, then we sat near her bed and read as long as she was able to listen. Her doctor did not believe very much in religion, but he was convinced that he knew a real Christian. She did not complain of her illness, but always apologized for bothering people about waiting on her. There was a sweet smile and a friendly word for each one who came in. As far back as I can remember, Mama always had a secret place to pray and I would see her going there so often and could hear her whispering to God. Her face was so bright and happy when she came out from this talk with her Lord. In the back pantry there was a large clean barrel where we kept old clothing and it was by this barrel that she knelt to pray where she would not be disturbed. At night, she always knelt by her bed just before retiring."
Susie is buried in the Neinda Cemetery of Jones Co., TX.
Contributor: Don 49680169
A family member said that she was a very beautiful girl with a fair complexion, blue eyes, and blond hair. She was petite and wore lovely dresses with ruffles and hoops. One time during the Civil War, the ladies of the family were cooking the evening meal when some Yankee soldiers came in and demanded the food to be cooked for them. They ate their meal and then took the best horses from the barn.
Before she married, Susie helped her older brother, Tom, to teach in a country school.
The Methodist Church always played a big part in the Dodson and Cornelius families. On Saturday afternoons, Susie would lay out all the clothes and get them ready for Sunday School and church the next day. Everyone would have their bath, and Susie would do the baking for Sunday dinner. On Sunday morning, chores had to be done before time to get ready. John would get up the horses or mules so the team would be ready to hitch to the wagon. There was much hubub among the women and girls getting ready, and it wasn't long until John began calling from the porch "Let's go, let's go".
Susie's health took a bad turn about 1915. When Susie became worse, she was taken to the hospital in Stamford, Texas for that was the best in the area. The doctors at that time could not make an accurate diagnosis, but they thought she had cancer of the kidney. The medicines they prescribed helped her for awhile, but she soon became worse. She was taken to the Baptist hospital in Dallas where she had a cancerous kidney removed. She returned home, but in the Fall of 1918, she became very ill. She lingered in a coma for three months and finally passed away on February 18, 1919.
John and Susie's daughter, Zela, had this to say about her mother: "She was the best Christian that one could ever know. It seemed she could always come up with the right decisions, could calm Papa down in his impetuousness and knew the right answers when the children needed advice and guidance. She read good books if she had access to them, consumed everything in the church paper and was a wonderful Bible student. She read her Bible until her hands were too weak to hold it, then we sat near her bed and read as long as she was able to listen. Her doctor did not believe very much in religion, but he was convinced that he knew a real Christian. She did not complain of her illness, but always apologized for bothering people about waiting on her. There was a sweet smile and a friendly word for each one who came in. As far back as I can remember, Mama always had a secret place to pray and I would see her going there so often and could hear her whispering to God. Her face was so bright and happy when she came out from this talk with her Lord. In the back pantry there was a large clean barrel where we kept old clothing and it was by this barrel that she knelt to pray where she would not be disturbed. At night, she always knelt by her bed just before retiring."
Susie is buried in the Neinda Cemetery of Jones Co., TX.
Contributor: Don 49680169
Susie was born in 1853 in Alabama. For the details of her married life, see the memorial for her husband, John Wesley Cornelius.
A family member said that she was a very beautiful girl with a fair complexion, blue eyes, and blond hair. She was petite and wore lovely dresses with ruffles and hoops. One time during the Civil War, the ladies of the family were cooking the evening meal when some Yankee soldiers came in and demanded the food to be cooked for them. They ate their meal and then took the best horses from the barn.
Before she married, Susie helped her older brother, Tom, to teach in a country school.
The Methodist Church always played a big part in the Dodson and Cornelius families. On Saturday afternoons, Susie would lay out all the clothes and get them ready for Sunday School and church the next day. Everyone would have their bath, and Susie would do the baking for Sunday dinner. On Sunday morning, chores had to be done before time to get ready. John would get up the horses or mules so the team would be ready to hitch to the wagon. There was much hubub among the women and girls getting ready, and it wasn't long until John began calling from the porch "Let's go, let's go".
Susie's health took a bad turn about 1915. When Susie became worse, she was taken to the hospital in Stamford, Texas for that was the best in the area. The doctors at that time could not make an accurate diagnosis, but they thought she had cancer of the kidney. The medicines they prescribed helped her for awhile, but she soon became worse. She was taken to the Baptist hospital in Dallas where she had a cancerous kidney removed. She returned home, but in the Fall of 1918, she became very ill. She lingered in a coma for three months and finally passed away on February 18, 1919.
John and Susie's daughter, Zela, had this to say about her mother: "She was the best Christian that one could ever know. It seemed she could always come up with the right decisions, could calm Papa down in his impetuousness and knew the right answers when the children needed advice and guidance. She read good books if she had access to them, consumed everything in the church paper and was a wonderful Bible student. She read her Bible until her hands were too weak to hold it, then we sat near her bed and read as long as she was able to listen. Her doctor did not believe very much in religion, but he was convinced that he knew a real Christian. She did not complain of her illness, but always apologized for bothering people about waiting on her. There was a sweet smile and a friendly word for each one who came in. As far back as I can remember, Mama always had a secret place to pray and I would see her going there so often and could hear her whispering to God. Her face was so bright and happy when she came out from this talk with her Lord. In the back pantry there was a large clean barrel where we kept old clothing and it was by this barrel that she knelt to pray where she would not be disturbed. At night, she always knelt by her bed just before retiring."
Susie is buried in the Neinda Cemetery of Jones Co., TX.
Contributor: Don 49680169
A family member said that she was a very beautiful girl with a fair complexion, blue eyes, and blond hair. She was petite and wore lovely dresses with ruffles and hoops. One time during the Civil War, the ladies of the family were cooking the evening meal when some Yankee soldiers came in and demanded the food to be cooked for them. They ate their meal and then took the best horses from the barn.
Before she married, Susie helped her older brother, Tom, to teach in a country school.
The Methodist Church always played a big part in the Dodson and Cornelius families. On Saturday afternoons, Susie would lay out all the clothes and get them ready for Sunday School and church the next day. Everyone would have their bath, and Susie would do the baking for Sunday dinner. On Sunday morning, chores had to be done before time to get ready. John would get up the horses or mules so the team would be ready to hitch to the wagon. There was much hubub among the women and girls getting ready, and it wasn't long until John began calling from the porch "Let's go, let's go".
Susie's health took a bad turn about 1915. When Susie became worse, she was taken to the hospital in Stamford, Texas for that was the best in the area. The doctors at that time could not make an accurate diagnosis, but they thought she had cancer of the kidney. The medicines they prescribed helped her for awhile, but she soon became worse. She was taken to the Baptist hospital in Dallas where she had a cancerous kidney removed. She returned home, but in the Fall of 1918, she became very ill. She lingered in a coma for three months and finally passed away on February 18, 1919.
John and Susie's daughter, Zela, had this to say about her mother: "She was the best Christian that one could ever know. It seemed she could always come up with the right decisions, could calm Papa down in his impetuousness and knew the right answers when the children needed advice and guidance. She read good books if she had access to them, consumed everything in the church paper and was a wonderful Bible student. She read her Bible until her hands were too weak to hold it, then we sat near her bed and read as long as she was able to listen. Her doctor did not believe very much in religion, but he was convinced that he knew a real Christian. She did not complain of her illness, but always apologized for bothering people about waiting on her. There was a sweet smile and a friendly word for each one who came in. As far back as I can remember, Mama always had a secret place to pray and I would see her going there so often and could hear her whispering to God. Her face was so bright and happy when she came out from this talk with her Lord. In the back pantry there was a large clean barrel where we kept old clothing and it was by this barrel that she knelt to pray where she would not be disturbed. At night, she always knelt by her bed just before retiring."
Susie is buried in the Neinda Cemetery of Jones Co., TX.
Contributor: Don 49680169
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