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Submitted: 6/22/21 • Approved: 6/22/21 • Last Updated: 6/25/21 • R1380241-G375283-S3
March 3, 1844 - January 15, 1911
Wife of James Dodson
*Obituary
The Springdale News
Friday, January 20, 1911
DODSON, Julia D. HENDERSON - The Springdale News, Jan. 20, 1911 - After a lingering illness of several months Mrs. Julia D. Dodson passed away Sunday afternoon shortly before one o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.A. Graves, on Holcomb Street. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at three o'clock at the Primitive Baptist Church, being conducted by Rev. J.H. O'Bryant, pastor of the M.E. Church, South, at Rogers, assisted by Rev. Womack of the local Methodist Church and Rev. Winters of the Baptist Church. The remains were interred in Bluff Cemetery. The deceased, whose maiden name was Henderson, was born in Warren County, Tennessee March 3, 1844 and at an early age came with her parents to Arkansas, locating in the eastern part of the state. December 13, 1863 in Randolph County, she was united in marriage to James Dodson and they resided in that section many years, coming to Springdale in 1887, which has since been the family home. Her husband, who was one of the leading business men of Springdale and a minister of the Primitive Baptist Church, died April 4, 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Dodson were the parents of four children, three daughters and one son, two of the daughters having died in their youth and another daughter, Mrs. Fannie Davis, having died a little more than a year ago. The two surviving children are Jonathan S. Dodson, whose home is at Harrison, and Mrs. Nettie Graves, wife of W.A. Graves of this place. Deceased is also survived by two brothers, Dr. A.G. Henderson and S.B. Henderson, both of whom reside at Imdoden, Lawrence County and both were prevented by illness from being present at the funeral of their sister. Mrs. Dodson had been a member of the Primitive Baptist Church for eighteen years, but did not wait to begin her good works until she united with the church. Her whole life has been devoted to doing good and if it be true that the good we do lives after us then certainly the deceased has left behind her an enduring monument. The writer has enjoyed an acquaintance with the deceased extending over a period of more than twenty years and she was one of the most livable characters we have ever known -kind, gentle and considerate, and unselfish in her devotion to family and friends.
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