I just had a wonderful surprise. I have met a couple of cousins in this family. Please check: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/l/a/t/Constance-M-Latta/ This may be of help to others. Thanks to Constance M. Latta and Carole Muncy, you are angels. "Cuz" Frank At 08:40 AM 4/3/99 -0500, you wrote: >Bob and Frank, > >I haven't been able to locate any more on this Major Hodge. Smyth Co., Va. >was formed in 1832 from Washington Co. and I couldn't even locate any Hodge >families there in the 1800's. I didn't see any Major's in Moses' line but >my file on him is incomplete. > >The following is the closest that I could find: >ix Major Hodges B. c 1808 > md. 6/12/1829 Surry Co., NC > sp. Elizabeth Sexton Bdm. Matthew Hodges > >If your Major was born in 1840, the odds are that he was in the CW and >maybe the "Major" was a military title. Have you checked the rosters for >him in SW Va. (he may have enlisted in Washington Co.)? Do you have a >listing of siblings or issue of Robert Huffman Hodge? Maybe that will >offer clues. Could be that his mother's maiden name was Huffman. > >Ken in Orlando > > >At 10:40 PM 04/02/1999 -0500, you wrote: >>Frank: >> >>If you go back to the archives of the list and look at my posts on Moses >>Hodges, son of Isham Hodges, I think it may be this family. If you can't >>find it I will post it again. >> >>Bob Hodges >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Frank Thomas GrayHawk Davis <grayhawk@swva.net> >>To: HODGES-L@rootsweb.com <HODGES-L@rootsweb.com> >>Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 11:03 PM >>Subject: [HODGES-L] Major Hodge >> >> >>>Ken, Thanks for your offer to help. this is what I have at this point. >>>Frank >>> >>>Descendants of Major Hodge >>> >>> 1 Major Hodge >>>.. +(Mary) Elizabeth (Wife-Hodge) m: Abt. 1860 b: Abt. 1840 >>>..... 2 [8] Robert Huffman (Captain) Hodge b: May 23, 1868 in Smythe Co, >>> VA d: Feb 20, 1955 >> >> >> >>==== HODGES Mailing List ==== >>Please remember that it is okay to post any information on any >Hodge/Hodges/Hedge to the list. The more info we post, the more likely >that we will find connections. >> >> >> >> > > >==== HODGES Mailing List ==== >Have you considered joining the Rootsweb Genealogical Data > Cooperative? http://www.rootsweb.com/ > > > >