Descendants of Dodge County Settlers

Current Methodology

Therefore certain actions have been taken with the data.

1.  They are labeled in the Dodge Field as "Yes" indicating that some time in their life they lived in Dodge County.  This became necessary as it was discovered that some people came to Dodge and lived in Dodge all of heir lives, other moved in and out of Dodge.

 2.  Descendants of family that moved from County that were not associated with the County are not included in the family without any notice

3.  People born/lived and/or married in Dodge County, but then moved before their children were born, There children ae indicated as non-Dodge Children

4.  When a Dodge Man marries a non-Dodge wife, she is indicated as a non-Dodge Wife.

5.  When a Dodge Woman marries a non-Dodge husband and their children do not return to Dodge County, the husband is labeled as non-Dodge Husband (last name).  This was done to allow for married name of wife to be included in the data.

Stages of Settlers

Settlers into Dodge County can be divided up into the below three stages.

Pioneers (Before 1880):  The genealogical data is setup to identify the first settlers of a surname to enter Dodge County.  One normally thinks all people with the same surname being related.  Obviously, if you go far enough back in history, this would be true.  But, when one looks at a county that was created in 1870, this is not true.  Data included herein, addresses the date that each family head came to Dodge County.

The History of Dodge County identifies many pioneers and their families.  Some of these came into Pulaski, Laurens and other surrounding counties and then spread into the Dodge County as it was created.

White

Bishop     Bowen     Brown     Burch     Burnham     Campbell     Clark     Coffee     Coleman     Cooper     Cravey     Daniel     Delancey     Dowdy     Edwards     Evans     Giddens     Hamilton     Harrell     Hargrove     Hendley     Humphreys     Jessup     Jones     Law     Livingston     Lowery     Maloy     Mizell     Moore     McCranie     Mullis     Parkerson     Peacock     Phillips     Rawlins     Reaves     Rogers     Rozar     Ryals     Walker     Williams     Willcox     Williamson   Wynne

Black

Ball     Burney     Burch    Baltimore     Bray     Battle     Crocker     Coats     Coffee     Coney     Coffee     Chancey     Carroll     Cobb     Denis     Dixon     Davis     Goodwin     Hall     Hamilton     Harrell     Horne     Hodge     Irby     Jiles     Jackson     Jones     Jenkins     Lester     Lamkin     Lockett     Larkin   Lanier     Lightfoot     McGriff     Nash     Payne     Peterson     Pitts     Phillips     Russell     Roland     Rosch     Spivey     Tharpe     Whitehead     Yopp

* From History of  Dodge County (1932)

**Some other names were identified during the search for this website!

Early Settlers (1880 to 1930):  This period forms the main growth of Dodge County with many people coming into the County due the great tracks of timber and the growing turpentine enterprise.

Continuing Settlers (After 1930):  Even after this period people are still coming into Dodge County for various reasons.

Population of Settlers

While it is very apparent that the early settlers as well as their descendant were very mobile.  Many did remain in Dodge County, many others left the County for their own reasons.

Population Statistics

*Note:  Counts taken from various locations. 

As the numbers above indicates, the population of Dodge County has varied between 14k and 23k from about 5K when it was formed in 1870.  But what if all of those descendants had stayed in Dodge County?  I propose, the population would be greater than the county could contain. 

Below is an indication of the racial mix of the County.  While this is just one year, I suspect that the ratio has remained very similar thru the years.

Dodge County racial composition as of 2020

Race	Number	Percentage
White	12,865	64.57%
Black	5,847	29.35%