The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Marion Township, page 677
Benjamin R. Dodson, deceased, one of the early settlers of Marion Township, was born and reared in Wayne County, Ky. He came to Hendricks County when a young man, but subsequently returned to Kentucky and married Lethena Thompson, a native of Madison County, that State. He then came again to Indiana and settled on section 25, Marion Township, on an eighty-acre tract entered from the Government. A few years later he moved to section 31, Center Township, where he lived till his death, Aug. 20, 1880, aged eighty-one years. His first wife died in 1840. Their children were three in number--Jesse T., John R. (deceased), and Thomas M. He subsequently married Lucinda Lockhart, who at her death left four children--Larkin G., Stockton and Mrs. Mary Wise. His third wife as Catherine Lockhart, and to them were born five children--William, Mrs. Helena Beason, Mrs. Alice Conn, Catherine and Nora. Mrs. Dodson is living in Montgomery County, this State.