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Mary W. Dodson
b.24 Nov 1807
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Mary W. Dodson |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth[2] |
24 Nov 1807 |
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| Marriage |
27 Nov 1831 |
Boone County, Missourito William Donoho |
| Other |
1838 (?) |
Red River County, TexasMigration (Based on statement in Mary's 1880 Mortality Schedule record)
with William Donoho |
| Census[3] |
1850 |
Clarksville, Red River County, Texas |
| Census[4] |
1860 |
Clarksville, Red River County, Texas |
| Census[6] |
1880 |
Red River County, Texas |
| Death[2] |
12 Jan 1880 |
Clarksville, Red River County, Texas |
| Burial[2] |
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Clarksville Cemetery, Clarksville, Red River County, Texas |
Even though 19-year-old Susan Magoffin was long called the "First Lady of the Santa Fe Trail" because she accompanied her new husband there in 1846 (and kept a diary which was rediscovered and published in 1926), she was a latecomer. Fourteen years before that, in 1832, Mary Dodson Donoho accompanied her husband, William, down the Trail to Santa Fe, where they operated a hotel on the Plaza for five years before heading back to Missouri. Their son, James, was born there and returned as an infant; he appears in the 1850 census as born in Mexico.
She successfully ran the hotel for many years after her husband's death in 1845.
Red River County, Texas, 1850 Census:
- Danaha, Mary 41 yrs Landlady (real estate = $3,000) b. Texas
- James 13 yrs b. Mexico
- Penelope 18 yrs b. Texas
- Susan 16 yrs b. Texas
- Ragan, Gebbert 36 yrs Grocer (real estate = $1,500) b. North Carolina
- Mary 18 yrs b. Missouri
- Eliza 2 yrs b. Texas
- [+ 4 guests]
Red River County, Texas, 1860 Census:
- Donoho, M. W. 52 yrs Hotel Keeper (real estate = $25,000; personal estate = $16,000) b. Tennessee
- James 22 yrs (real estate = $5,000; personal estate = $1,500) b. Texas [ERROR]
- Ragin, Mary A. 27 yrs (real estate = $7,000; personal estate = $25,000) b. Maine [!]
- Iseriah 12 yrs b. Texas
- Gilbert 7 yrs b. Texas
- Charles 3 yrs b. Texas
- [+ 8 staff & guests]
Successfully ran the hotel for many years after her husband's death.
References
- ↑ Missouri, United States. Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002. (Online database: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Grave marker, Clarksville Cemetery, Clarksville, Red River County, Texas.
- ↑ Red River, Texas, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 222A, house/family 375/375.
- ↑ Red River, Texas, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 118, house/family 795/795.
- Red River, Texas, United States. Tax Lists
1866.
Donoho, Mary W.
Hotel-Keeper
Rate = $25.00
Total = $8.33
- ↑ Red River, Texas, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
Mortality Schedule.
Donoho, M. W.
Died January, age 72, of heart disease.
Born Tennessee, parents b. Virginia.
Resident of the county for 41 years (i.e., arrived 1838?).
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