Elias DODSON, Jr.

1807 - 1882  (75 years)

• Name	Elias DODSON
  Suffix	Jr.
  Born	27 Oct 1807
  Gender	Male
  Education	Between 1831 and 1832	Academy, Halifax County, Virginia
  Education	Between 1834 and 1835	Baptist Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
  Education	Between 1836 and 1838	William & Mary College
  Reference Number	2114
  Died	13 Dec 1882	Wilmington, North Carolina
  Person ID	I2114	Bennetts of Pittsylvania County
  Last Modified	9 Mar 2013

  
  

  Father	Elias DODSON,   b. Abt 1760,   d. 1812  (Age ~ 52 years)
  Mother	Nancy STAMPS,   b. 1767,   d. Feb 1837  (Age 70 years)
  Married	23 Nov 1785  [1, 2, 3]
  Children	4 children
  1. Mary DODSON
  2. Matthew DODSON
  3. Obadiah DODSON,   b. 1792, Halifax County, Virginia ,   d. 12 Aug 1854, Louisiana
  4. Elias DODSON, Jr.,   b. 27 Oct 1807,   d. 13 Dec 1882, Wilmington, North Carolina
  Family ID	F715	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Never married. Rev. Elias Dodson, Jr. was baptized into fellowship of Mill Creek Chruch May 1832, attended the Academy Halifax Co. Va. 1831-32, the Baptist Seminary at Richmond 1834-35, and William and Mary College 1836-38. Jan. 1844 to Aug. 1855 he rode as Missionary Colporter for Beulah Association of North Carolina for Foreign Missions, came to east Tennessee Dec., 1860. From 1869 to 1873 he was in West Tennessee as agent for Bristol Female College, later returning to North Carolina, dying at Willington Dec. 13, 1882, greatly loved and full of honors. He hadwide acquaintance throughout the South, was a great advocate of missions, temperance and education. In his may travels he kept in active touch with his kin in Virginia, Tennessee and the Carolinas and about 1860 prepared for one of the Tennessee Dodsons a manuscript genealogy of the Dodson families of southwest Virginia.

  
  

• Sources

  [S730] Rev. Elias Dodson Manuscript, Dodson, Elias, Editor: Lucas, Silas Emmet, (Southern Historical Press, Easley, South Carolina, 1989), p. 9. [S64] Marriage Bonds and Ministers Returns of Pittsylvania Co., Va., Catherine Lindsay Knorr, (Southern Historical Press, Greenville, South Carolina, 2002, Original Date, 1956), p. 25, Elias Dodson and Nancy Stamps, 1785. [S730] Rev. Elias Dodson Manuscript, Dodson, Elias, Editor: Lucas, Silas Emmet, (Southern Historical Press, Easley, South Carolina, 1989), p. 22.