Here is the information I have about the Milner Echols History of the family of James and Jesse Hodges: About 1982, Laurent Hodges of Ames, Iowa was in possession of a typescript version. The original was apprently brought to Texas after the War Between the States, probably by the grandson of the author. The history was written by Milner Echols June 14, 1850. The part I have is as follows: A Short History of our family - from the first that landed in America till the present time, as far as I can assertain - John Echols an Englishman came to America about the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th Century and settled in Carolina County, Virginia and married a tall red-headed woman named Mary Cave - an d by her had 5 sons and 3 daughters. I shall begin with the sons first and carry out their family as far as my knowledge extends- John was his forst son who left Virginia as a young man and settled in the lower part of No. Carolina and raised his family - of whom I know nothing - Abraham was (old John's) second son, married Sarah Tamer and by her had two sons and several daughters. His sons were Joseph and Joshua. Joseph married a mIss King, had by here two sons and 5 or 6 daughters -- his sons Abraham and Jeremiah who left Virginia in the mtime of the Revolutionary War and went to Pennsylvania. Of their offspring I know nothing. Joshua married Hannah Brown and had a number of children, of whom I know but little; he had one son named Dorius, a conspicuous man in Habersham County, Georgia; the rest of the family lives chiefly in the upper part of Georgia. Old Abraham had one daughter married James Hodges, a very worthy man, his family moved to Tennessee. He had one son named Jesse and he [Jesse] had a son named James who was a commonding officer in Tennessee and got drowned int he Cumberland River near Cairo. Jesse had one daughter named Tabitha - that is all I know of the family. Bob Hodges