Wayne County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Dodge, John Francis 
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Diana Catlin catlindiana@yahoo.com December 27, 2012, 5:24 am

Cemetery:           Woodlawn Cemetery
Name:               John Francis Dodge

Date Of Photograph: September 9, 2012
Photo can be seen at:
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     Monument reads:

       D O D G E

This is the family's Egyptian-style mausoleum guarded by two Sphinx statues.
Names and dates are not noted on the outside of the structure.

    

Additional Comments:
John Francis Dodge, (b. Oct 25,1864 in Niles Michigan ~ d. January 14, 1920), 
was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of the Dodge 
Brothers Company. His brother and partner, Horace Elgin Dodge also died in 
1920, December 10 and is interred in this mausoleum. Both died from 
complications of the Spanish Flu.  They were the sons of machinist Daniel Rugg 
Dodge (1819-1897) and Maria Duval Casto (1823-1906).

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