Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas: Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families Page: 254

                                
254                      SOUVENIR OF TEXAS.

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ON. ROBERT H. DONALD is a native
of Ray county, Tennessee, and was born
August 7, 1821. He lost his father at
an early age, and was taken to Monroe county,
Tennessee, where he lived five years, thence
went to McMinn county, then went to Alabama
in 1836, and in 1852 came to Texas. The
father of the Hon. Robert H. Donald was Rev.
Matthew Donald, who was born in Ireland,
came to America when young, settled in Ten-
nessee, became a minister of the Old School
Presbyterian church, and married the widow
Nancy Walker, whose maiden name was Coch-
ran. Nine children blessed this union, of
whom R ibert H. is the youngest. In 1842
this gentleman married Miss Sarah F. Rowe,
daughter of Rev. Daniel Rowe, of Georgia. To
this union have been born ten children, named
James I., Mary A., Benjamin F., Martha L.,
Nancy, Fanny D., Emma C., Daniel S., Betsey
A. and Robert L. Daniel Rowe was a minister
in the Primitive Baptist church, and came to
Texas in 1852. He settled in Texas, but died
at Shreveport, Louisiana.
Hon. Robert H. Donald started life in Texas
with no means worth mentioning, and has
hewed out his own path to fortune. He has
undergone all the hardships of pioneer life, and
gone through many a fight with the Indians,
who, in the early days, were a torture to the
frontiersman. He now, however, owns twelve
hundred acres of fine land, and has five hun-
dred under cultivation. Twice he has been
elected to the State legislature, and is in the
enjoyment of the full confidence and respect of
his fellow-citizens. He is a Free Mason and an
Odd Fellow, and one of the most enterprising
residents of his section.
The military service of Mr. Donald during
the late war was as orderly sergeant of Com-
pany C, in Bourland's Confederate regiment, in
which he served from the beginning until the
close of hostilities.
T,,IRAM   C. F. DODD, SR., was born in
South Carolina, February 25, 1828, and
came to Georgia with his father in 1<35;
his father, William Dodd, was also a native of
South Carolina, was a farmer, and married
Mss Nancy Griswell, daughter of Jesse Gris-
well, of the same State. Fifteen children were
born to this union, in the following order-
Elizab-th T., Jesse, John, Rosanah, Mary,
Chrisropher, Nancy, Johns, Angelina, William
H., Hiram C. F., Lucinda, Jane. James H., and
one dled an infant. Nancy. the v, ife of Will-
iam, died in Georgia in 1838. He was mar-

ried, the second time, to Miss Judea Rhoads, of
Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1840. - Three
children were born to them by this union-
Thomas J., Tolivar and Alexander.
Hiram C. F. Dodd has been three times mar-
ried-first in Georgia, April 18, 1851, to Miss
Martha J. Stone, daughter of Chaney Stone,
of South Carolina; and to this union were
born these children-Herschel V., Sarah J., I.
C. F., Jr., Texana, Mary, Jennie L. and Mattie,
His second marriage was to Susan Craft, a
widow, whose maiden name was Oate, of North
Carolina; and to this marriage were born Will-
iam and Bonnie. His third wife was also a
widow, named Kennedy, who bore the maiden
name of Betty H. McAtee, of Arkansas, and is of
Scotch-Irish descent. Before coming to Texas
Mr. Dodd was engaged in several things; first,
in getting railroad timber, next in selling gro-
ceries, then in farming.  He came to Texas in
1857, and landed in Hunt county November 15th
of that year.  Being dissatisfied, he left there
the last day of January, 1858, and stopped in
Red River county. Not being satisfied with
this new country, he became somewhat reck-
less, and spent what means he brought with
him, and after the late war he commenced life
anew. He now had an even start, with the
exception of a wife and seven children, but was
determined to make a rise; he went to work,
made some money, bought land and sold at a
good profit, bought again, and now owns one
of the best little farms of 250 acres in Red
River county. He lives at Rosalie, a small vil-
lage thirteen and one-half miles southwest of
Clarksville; has a house and lot in that place,
and is selling family groceries and attending to
his farming interest, his farm being rented out
Mr. Dodd served in the late war in the Twenty-
third Texas cavalry, and was chiefly on duty in
Southern Texas and Louisiana.
AMES A. DONALDSON was born inNorth
Carolina February 5, 1813. Hisfatherwas
William Donaldson, who was also born in
the "Old North State," his birth having taken
place in the latter part of the eighteenth cent-
ury.  His occupation was that of a farmer, and
he moved to Tennessee shortly after the birthof
James A., and died about 1820. The motherof
James A. bore the maiden name of Margaret
Barclay, was also a native of North Carolina, and
died in 1834.
James A. Donaldson was reared chiefly it
Tennessee, and came to Texas in 1850. IniSf8
he entered the Confederate army as captain of
Company E, Alexander's Texas regiment, and

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