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Falling
in Love in Colonial Virginia:
the tale of William Martin and Sarah Dodd
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Martin and his wife Sarah Dodd Martin lived in Henry County, Virginia. The romantic
love story handed down in the Martin family, is that the young and pretty Sarah
Dodd, of Rockingham County, North Carolina, was traveling along the North Carolina
road, by stage coach with her father, to White Sulphur Springs. Mr. Dodd who had
lost his health, while in service in the Revolutionary War, was on his way to
the medicinal springs, known even in those early colonial days. As evening came
on, the Dodd family stopped for the night with the Martins. Young William Martin
of this household, and Miss Sarah, became so interested in each other, that Miss
Sarah was not in as big a hurry to continue the journey, the next day, as was
the sick old soldier father. On their return trip, after some weeks at White Sulphur
Springs, the Dodds again enjoyed the hospitality of the Martin home. The second
visit was prolonged, as Miss Sarah persuaded her father that he needed, not a
few hours rest, but several days. This well known North Carolina road was the
mail route in those days, and infrequent letters passed between the young people,
after Miss Sarah returned to her North Carolina home. William Martin, Sr. gave
William Martin, Jr., permission a year later to go to North Carolina and bring
home a bride. She brought withe her china, books and furnishings that were luxuries
in those days. (info from "Early Virginia Families") |
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