Biography of John G Dodd, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 662

John G. Dodd is one of the successful small farmers of the county, and although
his property only comprises eighty-seven acres of land, it is exceedingly
fertile and well tilled. and consequently yields a larger annual income than
many larger farms. He, like his father, John Dodd, was born and reared in
April, 1801, and his on the 16th of June, 1841. John Dodd was reared and
educated in his native State, and was there married to Miss Catharine Girdner,
who was also a Tennesseean, and to them a family of four sons and four
daughters was given. The living members are: Martha M, William W., John G.,
Mary L., Catharine L. and Samuel R. Mr. Dodd was a successful farmer, and
continued to follow that occupation until he was called to his long home, on
the 12th of March, 1860, followed by his wife on the 18th of January, 1878. The
elementary schooling of John G. Dodd, our subject, was received in Greene
County, Tenn., and he was there also initiateal into the mysteries of farming
on his father's plantation. Concluding that he could do better at that
occupation in some other locality, he moved to Independence County, Ark., in
1870, and here he has continued to make his home, his land, which is not under
cultivation, being devoted to propagating the usual farm stock. He was married
in Baxter County. Ark., August 16, 1875, to Miss Juliette S. Horton, also a
native of Greene County, Tenn., and the two children which have been given them
are William E, and Orpha C., both of whom reside with and assist their parents.
Mr. Dodd has manifested his social spirit by joining the Masons, and has served
as secretary of his lodge for about six years. He was president of the
Agricultural Wheel one year. and has held the office of justice of the peace
six years. He and wife are connected with the Baptist Church, and he has been a
liberal contributor to all worthy enterprises, and is especially interested in
the cause of education. In 1862 he joined the Confederate army, and served
under Gens. Wheeler, Pegram, Vaughn, Morgan. Breckinridge and Early until he
was honcrably discharged, on the 27th of April, 1865.