Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-11-01
BaraboO cemetery.

Miss Dodd died last Thursday, Oc-
tober 25, at Caldwell, n. j., whittier
she had gone in the hope that her
health might be improved. She had
been in falling health some months.
! A few days before her death she was
about as usual and after long day OF
exertion did not feel so well. She be-
| came unconscious and passed away
while in that state.
Her sister, Mrs. J. K. Halves, had
been summoned and did not reach
Caldwell until few hours after death
! had arrived The next da- she left
New Jersey, bringing her sister to the
| old home for burial.
Miss Dodd was born at Saugerties,
Ulster county, N. Y, in 1868. The
elder Dodds at one time lived in the
neighborhood of the Oranges, New Jer-
sey, and Caldwell, where she died.
Caldwell is the birthplace of Grover
Cleveland, one of the presidents of the
| United States, a son of a Presbyterian
clergyman. There the old Cleveland
| home and the home where Miss Dodd
| was visiting occupy lots contiguous at
the back, and the Dodd kin resided
| there when the Clevelands did, too.
/ Jared Dodd, the father, figured proml-
nently in local politics before coming
west fifty-fye years ago, and for three
years. during James Buchanan's presi-
dency served as doorkeeper Of the
house Of representatives. at Washing
ton. This was late in the fifties, and
with the incoming of Abraham Lincoln
his position went to a Republican, Mr..
Dodd being loyal Democrat, SO re-
naming to the end Of his days.
Came to Baraboo in 1862
J In 1862 the family, parents and six
children, came to BaraboO They
came to KilbOurn on the train, there
being no railroad here at that time,
and Mr.. Dodd first went to claim
near Reedsburg. He returned at once
to KiIbourn and then the family came
by sleigh to BaraboO, this being on
April II, 1862. The spring was very
! late that year.
Immediately he went to war; that
| is, going to st. Louis with George Ca
! pener to assist in building gunbOats
that the federal forces might gain
control of the Mississippi. Later he
went with Col. D. S. Vittum to Fort
Scott, Kan, and helped construct the
military barracks there as well as at
Lawrence, made famous in war annals
| as the scene Of QuantrellS raid and
massacre,
Builds Covered Bridges
Afterwards Mr.. Dodd, skilled in car
pentering, built the covered wooden
truss bridges spanning the BarabOo
! river-under the hill, Lower NarroWs,
still there, at Ableman two, the linen
mill, long since replaced, and others
: elsewhere. The two at Ableman are
still in service. The one under the
hill" was displaced by an iron struc-
ture many years ago. A bridge Of a
| similar sort built by Mr.. Dodd before
coming west in 1862 is yet in existence
at the old home at Saugerties. Mr.
| Dodd was the biggest bridge builder
| in all the region for many years. He
was born in 1918 and died in 1908
aged CO. His wife, Eliza Dodd, was
born in 1920 and died in 1900, aged So
The daughter now gone was the
youngest of the six sons and daughters
to pass away. The remaining mem
| bers are:
George D. Dodd, Barahoo.
Mrs. Catherine Dodd Hawesy Bara-
boo.
Louis Dodd. Baraboo.
William Dodd, Pipestone, Mimi.
Mrs. Jennie Dodd Powell, Seattle.
Those from out Of town to attend
the funeral were Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Niles, Belvidere; o. D. Brandenburg
Madison.
| Gard of Thanks
We wish to thank the many kind
friends for the love and sympathy ex
tended to us.
George D. DOdd.
| Mrs. j. X. Halves.
Louis D0dd