Some information about Jodie as related by Randall Harley on August 7, 2001:

Jodie Dotson, our Nashville cousin was 97  today. She gave me a bit of her family tree when I was visiting her recently.
Her mother was our grandmother's  younger sister. Dora was her name.  Dora mamrred Joseph Mann and later on his death W. R. House. Jodie May and Sophia Eugenia were her children. Jodie married Odie Dotson in 1921. They adopted a child who was killed as a young boy when he touched some machinery that had a live electric cable on it during a severe storm. This was in Cowan, Tennessee.  Odie worked for the railroad.  He got a nice pension from the railroad when his arm was smashed between two railroad cars while he was working. Sophie married a Wesley Neal and they had four children: Jerry, Marie, Albert, and Billy. I didn't get all the names of their children and grandchildren.  Most are here in Nashville.  Between Lena and Dora , there was Kate Treiber. Kate married a John Lauper who lived in Nashville and worked on the railroad. I remember visiting his wine cellar which was through a trap door in one of their rooms. Their children were Myra, Walter and Fred. Myra married  Buster and had two children Minnie Marie and John.   Walter had no children, and Fred had three children. I can't remember Myra's husband's last name.  But I remember that he was a really outspoken person. Mother and our family laughed a lot at his remarks. 

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