Buried in division 11 of Fulton Cemetery is Daniel C. Dodge. Born in Indiana around 1844 the son of Stephen and Rhoda, Daniel was living in Clinton County in 1862 when he enlisted in Company D of the 26th Michigan Infantry during the Civil War. After the war he returned to his home in Michigan. He was married to Hannah and eventually they settled in Gratiot County. Daniel eventually moved to Grand Rapids where he died in March of 1895 and was buried in Fulton Street Cemetery.
During their efforts to transcribe the tombstones in Grand Rapids cemeteries in the 1920s, the D.A.R. somehow confused Daniel's last name with that of the D'Ooge family from the Netherlands. Unfortunately that initial error has been reproduced in subsequent reproductions of those early transcriptions.
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