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Ann was first married to Israel Dodge about 1781. They divorced. She married 2nd about 1792 to Asahel Linn, probably a brother of William Linn that married her sister Mary - although many databases suggest Mary married the senior William who was father to Asa. Ann, or Nancy, was the mother of three U. S. senators - Lewis Fields Linn, son of Asa; Henry Dodge, son of Israel; Augustus C. Dodge, grandson and son of Henry. For at least one term they served together in Congress. Here are their bios from the Directory:

DODGE, Henry (half-brother of Lewis Fields Linn, father of Augustus Caesar Dodge), a Delegate and a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Vincennes, Ind., October 12, 1782; received a limited schooling; moved to Missouri in 1796 and settled at Ste. Genevieve; sheriff of Cape Girardeau County in 1808; moved to Galena, Ill., and operated a lead mine; moved to Wisconsin in 1827, then part of Michigan Territory, and settled near the present site of Dodgeville; served in the Black Hawk and other Indian wars; was commissioned major of United States Rangers 1832; left the Army as colonel of the First United States Dragoons 1836; appointed Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin 1836-1841; elected as a Democratic Delegate to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1845); was not a candidate for renomination in 1844, having again accepted the appointment of Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin, and served from 1845 until 1848; upon the admission of Wisconsin as a State into the Union in 1848 was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in 1851 and served from June 8, 1848, to March 3, 1857; chairman, Committee on Commerce (Thirty-fourth Congress); declined the appointment of Governor of Washington Territory by President Franklin Pierce in 1857; retired to private life; died in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, June 19, 1867; interment in Aspen Grove Cemetery.
Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Clark, James I. Henry Dodge, Frontiersman. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1957; Pelzer, Louis. Henry Dodge. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1911.

LINN, Lewis Fields (brother-in-law of James Hugh Relfe, half-brother of Henry Dodge, uncle of Augustus Caesar Dodge), a Senator from Missouri; born near Louisville, Ky., November 5, 1796; received a meager academic education; studied medicine in Louisville; served in the War of 1812 as a surgeon; completed his medical studies at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1816; admitted to practice and located at Saint Genevieve, Territory of Missouri, where he played a significant role in combating two cholera epidemics; member, State senate 1827; appointed to the French Land Claims Commission in Missouri in 1832; appointed and subsequently elected as a Jacksonian (later Democrat) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Buckner; reelected in 1836 and again in 1842 and served from October 25, 1833, until his death in Saint Genevieve, Mo., on October 3, 1843; chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-fourth through Twenty- sixth Congresses), Committee on Agriculture (Twenty-seventh Congress); interment in the Protestant Cemetery.
Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Husband, Michael B. ‘‘Senator Lewis F. Linn and the Oregon Question.’’ Missouri Historical Review 66 (October 1971): 1-19; Linn, Elizabeth and G.B. Sargent. Life and Public Services of Dr. Lewis F. Linn. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857.

DODGE, Augustus Caesar (son of Henry Dodge, nephew of Lewis Fields Linn), a Delegate and a Senator from Iowa; born in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., January 2, 1812; self-educated; moved to Illinois in 1827, settled in Galena, and was employed there in various capacities in his father’s lead mines; served in the Black Hawk and other Indian wars; moved to Burlington, Iowa, in 1837, where he served as register of the land office 1838-1840; elected as a Democratic Delegate to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the act of March 3, 1839; reelected to the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-ninth Congresses and served from October 28, 1840, to December 28, 1846, when the Territory of Iowa was admitted as a State into the Union; was then elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in 1849, and served from December 7, 1848, to February 22, 1855, when he resigned to accept a diplomatic post; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses), Committee on Pensions (Thirty-first Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-second Congress), Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-third Congress); appointed Minister to Spain 1855-1859; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Iowa in 1859; mayor of Burlington 1874-1875; withdrew from political activities and engaged in lecturing at pioneer gatherings; died in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, November 20, 1883; interment in Aspen Grove Cemetery.
Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Harmon, Sandra D.
‘‘Augustus Caesar Dodge and James W. Grimes, Iowa Spokesmen: 1840-1860.’’ Master’s thesis, Illinois State University, 1970; Pelzer, Louis. Augustus Caesar Dodge. Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1908.

Israel Dodge himself was apparently quite a character. Found online:
Israel Dodge 1760 - 1806
Copied from genealogical records complied by Louisa Bradley Watson, granddaughter of Elizabeth Piety Dodge Bequette:
Israel, fourth son of John Dodge, was born September 3, 1760. He left home when fifteen years old and went to sea. He made several voyages to the African coast. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the Revolutionary army. He was wounded by a bayonnet during a charge of the British on September 11, 1777 at the battle of Brandywine. He was then serving as a second lieutenant.
In the year 1782, the state of Virginia was claiming title to the disputed Mississippi valley. Patrick Henry, the Governor of Virginia, appointed Israel's brother, Col. John Dodge, to the command of the Illinois Country after the celebrated expedition of Gen. George Rogers Clark. Israel became a lieutenant under him and was stationed at Kaskaskia. Shortly before this he was married to Nancy Ann Hunter, the daughter of Captain Joseph Hunter, a pioneer settler of Kentucky, formerly of Carlisle, Penna., where Nancy was born.
While on a journey from Missouri to Kentucky, which journey was made in those days on horseback, Israel Dodge and his wife stopped in the old village and post of Vincennes, Indiana, then in the Louisiana Territory. While at this place, on the 12th day of October, 1782, a son was born to them while they were stopping with a friend named Moses Henry, who was a blacksmith at the post. While at Vincennes, Israel Dodge got into some trouble with some of the officers of the fort and was obliged to leave the post, leaving his wife in the charge of Moses Henry and his wife. The child was named Henry after this friend. He was such a small and diminutive infant that it was said that he could be put into an ordinary tin coffee pot and the lid shut down upon him.
Indians who visited and congregated about the fort were hostile to the whites and seeing this infant, wanted to kill him and it is said that at one time, the babe was siezed from its mother's arms by an Indian who was about to dash its brains out but was prevailed upon by Mrs. Henry to give it up to her in exchange for a loaf of bread. The Indians declared that his infant child was destined to be a great white chief and an enemy to the Indians and this was the reason that they wished to do away with him. When their attention was called to his diminutive size they replied that it made no difference, that a "nit would make a louse." Henry, being a blacksmith, had a good deal of influence over the Indians for the reason that he did them many favors in the way of keeping their guns in repair, and he persuaded them to let the infant alone.
Israel and Nancy separated (divorced?), and he went on to be the first high sheriff of St. Genevieve Country, Missouri, having been appointed by Gen. Wilkenson, the military Governor after the Louisiana purchase in 1804. He died at New Bourbon near Ste. Genevieve in 1806.

Another history of Israel:
(He) was born in 1760 at Connecticut. He married Nancy Ann Hunter, daughter of Joseph Hunter and Mollie Homes. He and Nancy Ann Hunter were divorced circa 1790. He married (--?--) Lewis as his 2nd wife, at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He married Catherine Camp, daughter of Rev. Ichabod Camp, as his 3rd wife, her 2nd husband on 18 Jan 1804 at St. Louis, Missouri. He died on 24 Sep 1806 at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
ca. 1775: Israel Dodge had gone on a slaver to the coast of Africa (circa 1775). 22
ca. 1777: Israel Dodge joined the Connecticut troops in the army of the Revolution, served as second lieutenant and was wounded at Brandywine (circa 1777).23
After their marriage, Israel Dodge and Nancy Ann Hunter moved to at Kaskaskia, Randolph Co., Illinois, sometime before 29 Apr 1782. The record book of Col. John Todd, county lieutenant of Illinois (in the possession of the Chicago Historical society), shows Israel Dodge acting on that date under the military authority of his brother John Dodge at Kaskaskia.
KASKASKIA, a handsome post-village of Randolph county, Illinois, is finely situated on the right or W. bank of the Kaskaskia river, about 2 miles E. from the Mississippi river, and 142 miles S. from Springfield. It has the distinction of being the oldest town in Illinois, or perhaps in the whole Western States, having been settled by the French about the year 1673. It was the first capital of the territory, and retained that rank until 1818. The Kaskaskia river is a fine navigable stream.
Israel Dodge and Nancy Ann Hunter moved next to at Spring Station, near Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, in 1782.
At Bardstown, Nelson Co., Kentucky, Israel Dodge built the first stone house, which was used as a tavern circa 1784.
Israel Dodge moved, leaving behind Nancy Ann Hunter and their children, to just below St. Genevieve, New Bourbon, St. Genevieve Co. , Missouri , Upper Louisiana, circa 1790. He was attracted by the liberal policy of Spain in offering lands to settlers and he opened a large farm, built mills, distilleries, and breweries, and carried on a prosperous trade. Lieutenant-Governor Delassus, in the concession of 11 December 1800, called him "one of the most ancient inhabitants of the country" (Am. State Papers, Public Lands, vol. VIII, p. 49).
28 In Feb 1794, Baptist minister Josiah R. Dodge visited his brother Israel Dodge at St. Genevieve, Missouri. Then he went over to the Illinois country and baptized four persons in Fountain Creek, the first instance of the ordinance of baptism being administered by a Protestant in that region.
On 1 Oct 1804, Israel Dodge was appointed sheriff by William Henry Harrison, Governor of Indiana Territory and of the district of Louisiana, for the at District of St. Genevieve, Louisiana Territory.

"François Vallé Jr died on March 6, 1804, just four days before consummation of the Louisiana Purchase... On March 10, 1804, Israel Dodge, father, grandfather, and stepfather of future United States senators, quietly raised the American flag above the mourning town -- mourning the death of its first citizen, the death of an era, the death of an empire. For that was the end of France in North America."
pg 61 in The Story of Old Ste. Genevieve by Gregory M. Franzwa

Birth	1764	Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Death	1807	Kentucky

Father	Joseph Hunter (1730 - 1793)
Mother	Mary Holmes ( - 1784)
Sibling	Mary Hunter ( - )
Sibling	Martha Hunter (1752 - )
Sibling	Jane Hunter (1754 - )
Sibling	James Hunter (1756 - 1777)
Sibling	Joseph Hunter Jr. (1760 - 1823)
Sibling	David Hunter (1766 - )
Sibling	Abraham Hunter (1772 - 1786)