Mary Jane Boyd

The Springdale News

Springdale, AR

13 Apr 1939

Mrs. Mary Jane Dodson was born April 24, 1865 and died Friday, April 7, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. D. C. Ledbetter at Huntsville. Funeral services were conducted at the Baptist church in Huntsville at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. Norman Drake, local pastor, officiating. Burial was at Huntsville cemetery with the Simpson Funeral home in charge.

Mrs. Dodson had been bedfast for the past nine months suffering a fractured hip, which she sustained in a fall, but the immediate cause of her death was pneumonia.

She is survived by two sons, Minyard Parker of California, Jim Parker of Huntsville and five daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Richardson, Mrs. Josephine Auslam, Mrs. Nora Withrow, Mrs. Nina Reed and Mrs. D. C. Ledbetter all of Huntsville.

DODSON, Joseph Meadows - MADISON COUNTY RECORD Th 6 May 1926 -- of Whitener

78 y b 8 July 1847 Tenn d 30 Apr 1926 Whitener Mad Ark of pneumonia; s/o Willis Goodwin &

Martha Jane (Sharp) Dodson; Martha md 2) Thomas Wagnon; Joseph wid/o 1) Cynthia L.

(Templeton) Dodson b 1848 d 1914; Joseph h/o 2) Mary J. (Boyd) Parker Dodson who d Apr

1939; he came Ark when youn~ and reared in Wesley; Baptist, farmer and orchardist.

Confederate veteran, Co. I, 161 Ark Gav 1862-1865 Buried in Wesley Gem w 151 wife; NOTE;

paper lists surviving children: W.G. of Locust Grove, Oklahoma; M.E. of Tulare, Calif.; Mrs.

Josie Clark of Hindsville; Mrs. Nan Clark of Goshen; Mrs. Lizzie Sharp of Mayfield & J.A. of

Whitener; a bro Wm of Modesto, Calif; half bro John Wannon of Locust Grove; 2 half sisters

Mrs. Amanda Johnson of Hindsville & Mrs. Lou Ingraham of Texas. [MCHS Annotated

Obituaries 1920-1929]