Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Dodds, Joseph O. 1845 - 
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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

   JOSEPH O. DODDS, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Union County, Ohio, July
7, 1845; his father, John Dodds, was born in Erie County, Penn., February 3,
1806; his mother, Nancy Gary, was a native of Champaign County, Ohio, born April
17, 1820. James Dodd, the grandfather of our subject, moved with his family in
1818, to Delaware County, Ohio, where he died. John Dodd subsequently went to
Union County and married Nancy Gary at North Lewisburg. Her father, James Gary,
was the founder of Lewisburg, the name of which town had been formerly
Garysville. Our subject's parents were married, December 3, 1840, and resided in
Union County till 1847, when they removed to within three and a half miles south
of Kenton. Mr. John Dodds owned a small farm, now belonging to George P. Frame,
and died in McDonald Township, Hardin County, in October, 1872; his wife died
November 4, 1868. They had eleven children, of whom our subject is the third
son. He enlisted, October 16, 1861, in Company K, Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and served in the Cumberland Army. He fought in the battles of
Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain. He
received a slight flesh wound at Mission Ridge, which disabled him for six
months; he veteranized February 3, 1864; came home on a furlough, and then
rejoined his regiment at Camp Dennison, and returned to the South; he was
disabled from duty and was detailed to guard the baggage. On July 8, 1865, he
was honorably discharged at Camp Dennison, Ohio. On his return home, he resumed
farming, which he has since followed. In 1870, he settled on his present farm,
which, at the time, was in the woods, and has cleared and improved the land.
Under his farm he has 360 rods of tiling. On March 17, 1870, he married Amelia,
a daughter of Henry and Anna E. Battles, and a native of Germany, born January
1, 1851. The four children that resulted from this union are as follows: George
H., James O., William O. and Anna M. Mr. Dodds and his wife are members of the
United Presbyterian Church of Kenton. He is politically a Republican. His father
was Treasurer and Clerk of Buck Township two years and one year respectively.

Additional Comments:
Bucks Township

Excerpt from

"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

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