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DODSON CEMETERY, JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA
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Contributed by Jane Nichols July 1999
THIS CEMETERY IS LOCATED ON CO. RD. 80 OFF OF CO. RD. 30 IN THE LIMROCK COMMUNITY
TRANSCRIBED BY JANE & RANDY NICHOLS JULY 11, 1999.
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Additions and corrections contributed by tom kunesh march 2002
Dodson cemetery is located in Jackson County in northeast Alabama in the Limrock community,
due west of Scottsboro, east of Huntsville, northeast of Woodville.
It is incorrectly listed by the USGS as "Dotson Cemetery".
Directions:
From Scottsboro, take Highway 35 west.
Turn right at "Gentle Store - General Merchandise, Limrock AL, est. 1881" onto County Road 119.
Turn left at the Limrock United Methodist Church onto County Road 30. Turn right onto County Road 80.
From Woodville, take Highway 35 east.
Turn left onto County Road 30. Turn right at the "T". Turn left onto County Road 80.
A large horizontally-angled memorial inscribed in grey granite, set in concrete and stone, reads:
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DODSON CEMETERY
LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY
ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS
BOYD SWITCH (? - 1882),
NOW KNOWN AS LIM ROCK
(1882 - PRESENT)
IN JACKSON COUNTY
(DECEMBER 18, 1819 - PRESENT)
SITE OF THE OLDEST KNOWN GRAVE IN
LIM ROCK, ALABAMA
WILLIAM DODSON
BORN JUNE 10, 1793
DIED MAY 11, 1872
MARY DODSON
BORN FEBRUARY 21, 1792
DIED OCTOBER 7,1872
ERECTED MAY 1995
BY THE LIM ROCK - ASPEL
COMMUNITIES
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Following are transcriptions of the gravestones' texts using the same capitalization, abbreviations and line breaks as found on the gravestones.
Three inscriptions at the bottom of the list -- noted with an asterisk before their text [*] -- are taken from the earlier transcriptions of Jane and Randy Nichols in july 1999, on the web at ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/jackson/cemetery/dodson.txt
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IN
Memory of
George W. Consort
of Caroline Williams
born Aug the 25th 1808
died March the 24th 1861
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IN
memory of
Manerva Jane,
Wife of
E. Cotton
born April 8th, 1829
died July 16th, 1849
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IN
memory of
Margaret, Wife of
Samuel Williams,
born May 1792,
died July 3rd 1849.
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IN
Memory of
Samuel Consort of
Margaret Williams
born July the 12th 1788
Died Feb the 7th 1859
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IN
MEMORY
of
MAHALA E.,
daughter of JAMES P. 5-16-1837
and MARTHA J. DOTSON who
departed this life
4 YEARS 5 MOS 26 DAYS
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IN
memory of
LUCINDA, daughter
of Wm. & Mary Dodson
born Dec. 20th 1826
died Aug. 5th 184?9
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IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM DODSON
BORN
JUNE 10, 1793
DIED
MAY 11, 1872
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* MARY, WIFE OF WILLIAM 2-21-1747 10-7-1872
DODSON
*MARGARET WILLIAMS
*MRS. MARTHA J. HUNT & 4-8-1819 5-5-1883
WIFE OF MR. W.H. HUNT
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