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Francis Ulysses Dodds (Calloway County, Kentucky, farmer, politician, justice of the peace, member of the Russellville Convention, and soldier.)

b. 1809-02-13 d. 1880-06-16

Calloway County, Kentucky, farmer, politician, justice of the peace, member of the Russellville Convention, and soldier. Caldwell County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Craig Dodds and Jane Perkins Dodds. Married to Abigail Davis Caldwell Dodds on February 25, 1836. Father of Sarah Jane Dodds, Rufus Leonidas Dodds, John DeKalb Dodds, Mary Margaret Dodds, James Caldwell Dodds, Issarah Elizabeth Dodds, Joseph Lycurgus Dodds, Agnes Blanton Dodds, Robert Oscar Dodds, Adeline Imogene Dodds, Francis Ulysses Dods, Jr., and Martha Emily Dodds. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Calloway County in 1848, 1849, and from 1851 to 1853. Farmer in Calloway County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Calloway County in 1850. Farmer in Calloway County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Calloway County in 1860. Member of the Russellville Convention in November 1861. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private and sergeant from December 10, 1861, to July 21, 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Calloway County, District 1, p. 471A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Calloway County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Calloway County, p. 264.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Calloway County, Swann Precinct, p. 94A.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0121.

Lydia Colby, The Genealogy of History of the Families of Francis Dodds and Margaret Craig Dodds of Spartanburg, South Carolina and of the Dodds Families of Baltimore, Maryland, Bloomington, Indiana, Coles County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Journal Printing Company), 16.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. II (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 773.

KYR-0001-025-0012.

Citation

Dodds, Francis Ulysses. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203504 (November 12, 2026).

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