CRANSTON T. DODD GUTHRIE TOWNSHIP, LAWRENCE COUNTY, INDIANA Page 347 CRANSTON T. DODD is a native of Fayette County, Ky., and was born March 23, 1817, being the eighth of nine children born to Thomas and Elizabeth (Myers) Dodd. The father was a native of Scotland, and came to Indiana in 1827. Our subject received limited schooling in boyhood, passing his time mostly at hard work on his father's farm. After reaching man's estate he began doing for himself, and so continued alone until December 17, 1850, when he was united in marriage with Jane E. (Litton) Morrow, and to them have been born seven children, of whom the following six are now living; Thomas, who married Mary Guthrie; Nancy, who married John Litton; George M., who married Fannie Messick; James M., Charlie M. and Henry E. January 3, 1875, Mrs. Dodd died, and January 31, 1877, he married Jane Eldridge. Mr. Dodd has made the occupation of farming very lucrative, as he now owns 760 acres of good land. He deals somewhat in stock. He is a Republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is County Commissioner and will serve at least another term. He and wife are members of the Methodist Church at Tunnelton. "HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA" GOODSPEED BROS. 1884 Submitted by: Diana Flynn (ivie@tima.com) ----------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genelaogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent.