Dodds / Cook Connection

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From Foreword, p. 5 The Doddses were weavers in Scotland. As Ireland began to grow flax there was a large influx of Scotch into Ulster and other North Ireland proviinces, ibn 1709. Most of the Dodds emigrants to America came from North Ireland, usually stirred into emigrating because of religious troubles in Ireland.

James Francis Dodds, b. America  between 1740 and 1750, SC  m.  (2)      Margaret Craig Watson Kirkpatrick Dodds, b. Aug 3, 1749, Chester Co., Pa ; d. Jan 27, 1847.  Children:

• John Craig Dodds b. Oct 28, 1783;  Spartanburg Dist., SC m. Jane Perkins in Caldwell Co.,KY.  Jane, daughter of Adam Perkins of VA & Caldwell Co., KY., d. Jun 4, 1862 Boydsville, Graves Co., KY.  Captain Commanding Dodds' Company, Kentucky Detached Militia (Volunteers) Mitcheussons Regiment.  Thomas Division, New Orleans campaign, second war with England 1812-1815.  Participated in Battle of New Orleans Jan 8, 1815.
• son, Francis Ulysses b. Feb 13, 1809, Caldwell Co., KY; m. Abigail Davis, Feb 25, 1836 Caldwell Co., KY
• son, Rufus Perkins, b. Jul 23, 1811 Caldwell Co., KY; d. Aug 18, 1851
• son, John Craig Jr., b. Oct 27, 1814 Caldwell Co., KY; d. Jul 15, 1849
• son, Joseph Irvine, b. Aug 16, 1817 Caldwell Co., KY; d. Sep 17, 1842
• daughter, Pernicia, b. July 23, 1819 Caldwell Co., KY; m. Wm. Ditterline Cook
• son, Virgil Young; b. November 14, 1848, Boydville, Ky. At 15 he enlisted in the Confederate army. He was paroled at Gainsville, Alabama, in May 1865. During the Spanish American war, Gov. Dan Jones appointed Cook as Colonel of the 2nd Arkansas regiment. In 1866 he located at Grand Glaze, Jackson county, Arkansas. In 1874 he moved to Oliphant, also in Jackson county and was in the mercantile business. In 1884 he moved to Elmo in the Oil Trough Bottom and became a holder of large farming lands. In 1908, he built his home in Batesville and lived there until his death. He was reputed to be the wealthiest man in Independence county. He was twice married. On June 29, 1871 he married at Jacksonport, Arkansas, to Mildred Ophelia Lamb. Mildred O. Lamb Cook died in Batesville, Arkansas, July, 1916. Cook’s second wife was Mrs. Sarah Wise of Forrest City, Arkansas. They were married at New Orleans, April 28, 1920.He was commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department Confederate Veterans.. he died at the home in Batesville, Arkansas, March 12, 1922.

V.Y. and Mildred O. Cook had 6 children in Jackson County, Arkansas:

• Neva Cook; b. June 28, 1872; m. Paul Butler.
• Virgil Whitfield Cook; b. June 26, 1874; d. Feb. 7, 1892
• May Cook; b. Feb. 3, 1876; m. John Morrow.
• Jennie Cook; b. Nov. 1, 1878; m. M.M. Rutherford.
• A son who died in infancy.
• Varina Davis Cook; m. Rev. Robert Dwight Ware, Sept. 14, 1924

Neva Cook and Paul Butler married April 24, 1895. She died Oct. 14, 1903. They had four childreen:

• Virgil James Butler; b. May 10, 1896; m. Pauline Wright, Feb. 14, 1925
• Mildred Eugenia Butler; b. July 5, 1897
• William Lawrence Butler; b. July 15, 1899; m. Geneva Gutpill July 15, 1922, in Bridgeport, Conn.
• Katherine Butler; b. May 5, 1902; m W. C. Grammen, May 1923. They have a son, W. C. Grammer, Jr. b. Sept, 1924

May Cook m. John P. Morrow, January 3, 1906. Lived in Batersville, Ark. Had one child:

• John P. Morrow, Jr.; b. June 1, 1907

Jennie Cook m. M. M. Rutherford, June 29, 1905. They had three children and lived in Batesville, Ark:

• Medford Cook Rutherford; b. August 1, 1906
• Mary Varina Rutherford b. Nov. 22, 1907
• Blythe Rutherford; b. Aug. 10, 1909

Source: Nina Barber
   Genealogy & History of the Families of Francis Dodds & Margaret Craig Dodds
   Historical Tidbits - The Dodds' ancestry
   History of Independence County Arkansas
   Independence County Historical Society - Baitesville, Arkansas
   Confederate Veteran Publication - Nashville Apr 1922.

Researcher: Carla Dixon-Wolcoff [email protected]