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- Luther Milton DODSON was born 07 May 1886 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, USA. He was the son of Solomon Dodson and his wife Elizabeth Dodson. (Solomon and Elizabeth were likely cousins of some sort, although Solomon was born in White County, Tennessee and Elizabeth was born in Jefferson County, Illinois.)
In 1907, Luther married Irene A. Carney in Jefferson County, Illinois. Irene was the daughter of Joseph Carney and Louise Hoffmann. The marriage did not last. Later, Irene married Benjamin Thomas Thurston. She died in Saint Louis in 1950.
About 1917 Luther married Versa Elizabeth Nelson, probably in Clay City, Clay County, Illinois. They lost several children in infancy (Alberta May was only 3 months old when she died; Roy Harold was just barely over 3 years old; and there was also an unnamed infant boy that was stillborn in 1925). There were two living children in the 1930 census, a daughter, Dorothy, and a son, Ivan.
Sometime in the 1930s, Luther and Versa divorced. Luther next married a Vera (or Verna) Hatfield on 04 October 1936.
Luther was listed as a day laborer in the 1900 census in Jefferson County, before he married his first wife. By 1918 in Clay City (according to his WWI draft card), he worked as a trackman for the B&O Railroad Company. But by the 1920 census in Clay City, he was listed as a laborer again. By 1930, in Mount Vernon, he worked for a car manufacturing company doing "fitting up." When he died on 22 Nov 1937 at the age of 51, his occupation was listed as "riveter."
Luther was buried in Hopewell Cemetery in Mount Vernon on 23 Nov 1937.
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Luther Melton Dodson
Luther Melton Dodson, lifetime resident of this city, died at four o'clock this morning at his home, 1016 Perkins Avenue.
Mr. Dodson was born May 7, 1886 in Mt. Vernon. He was united in marriage with Vera M. Hatfield Oct. 4, 1936, his widow surviving. He was the son of Solomon and Elizabeth Dodson, both of whom preceded him in death.
At the time of his death, he was employed as a riveter in the steel plant of the Mt. Vernon Car Manufacturing Co.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Myers Chapel, conducted
by Rev. Linnie McDonald and interment will be made in Hopewell Cemetery.
The body will remain at Myers Chapel until the funeral hour. Friends may call there at any
time up to the funeral hour.
Besides his widow, he is survived by one son, Ivan of Mt. Vernon; one daughter, Mrs. Dortha Fern May
of Mt. Vernon; and one grandchild.
unknown newspaper, dated 22 Nov 1937
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Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 about Luther Melton Dodson
Name: Luther Melton Dodson
Birth Date: 7 May 1886
Birth Place: MT Vernon, Ill
Death Date: 22 Nov 1937
Death Place: MT Vernon, Jefferson, Ill
Burial Date: 23 Nov 1937
Burial Place: MT.Vernon, Jefferson, Ill
Cemetery Name: Hopewell
Death Age: 51
Occupation: Riveter
Race: White
Marital Status: M
Gender: Male
Street Address: 1016 Perkins
Father Name: Solomon Dodson
Father Birth Place: Tenn
Mother Name: Elizabeth
Mother Birth Place: Tenn
Spouse Name: Verna Hatfield
FHL Film Number: 1787128
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 19161947." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original records.
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1886 - 1937 (51 years)
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