"Hardesty’s West Virginia Counties - Gilmer, Ritchie, Lincoln, Wayne"
Volume 7 - Page 18 - Published 1973
by Jim Comstock


Jacob C. Dodson - born August 10, 1854, in Lewis County, (now) West Virginia, was a son of Joseph and Priscilla (Hensley) Dodson. In Columbus, Ohio, March 7, 1880, he was united in marriage with Lucy Cormack, who was born in Lewis County, September 9, 1851. Her parents were Evan and Lizzie Cormack, and her mother is no longer living. Her father has been a great traveler, and has resided in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Maryland. He now makes his home with the subject of this sketch. The maternal grandfather of Jacob C. Dodson was a soldier under Harrison through the war of 1812, and was wounded in the right leg, between the foot and knee, the ball remaining in his flesh until his death. He was too old to join the army in the 1861 war, but rendered the Federal troops important service through Northwestern Virginia, and the Virginia valley. He remained true to the government. At the close of the 1812 war he settled in the Shenandoah valley, where he died in 1876, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. Joseph Dodson, father of Jacob C., was born September 5, 1814, in the Shendoah valley, and died February 17, 1868, in Lewis county, in which county his widow still resides. Charles E. Dodson, brother of Jacob C., was a member of Company D, 15th West Virginia Infantry, from April, 1863, until August, 1865. His home is in Lewis county. Jacob C. Dodson is a druggist at Glenville, having made his home in Gilmer county October 25, 1880.