The following information was copied from The History of Watauga County, North Carolina, Vol. II, 1987 Thomas Hodges b. Virginia 1750 m. Betsy Cottrell d. Ashe Co., NC Gilbert Hodges, son of Thomas Hodges & Betsy Cottrell b. 25 Jul 1845 Boone Ashe Co, North Carolina m. Sarah (Sallie) Shearer children: 1. Thomas T. Hodges - killed while felling a tree. He was a teacher @ Appalacian Training School and a farmer 2. Robert - died 1914 3. Elizabeth 4. Holland Francis Hodges - died Parris, Lamar Co., Texas 5 Oct 1924 5. Richard Riley Hodges - book The Foster Family of Flanders, England & America by Dr. Billy Glen Foster at Texas State Library in Austin, Texas 6. Sarah Hodges 7. Louisa Hodges 8. Larkin Hodges later moves to Buncombe Co., NC 9. Thomas Jefferson Hodges (also believe moved to area of Paris, Lamar Co., Texas) 10. Hannah Martishia Hodges buried Paris, Lamar, Texas One submitter of a lot of Hodges information in the library at ASU (Appalacian State U. library) in Boone, Watauga, NC in 1995 was Peggy McGee Maness of 13331 Veronica road, Dallas, TX 75234-4916 phone 214/247-0326 - - - - - - - - - - William Hodges b. 1782 Wilkes Co., NC d. 1855 (about) Stoney Fork, Watauga Co., NC m. 29 Dec 1800, Wilkes Co., NC father: Thomas Hodges mother: Betsy Cottrell children: 1. "Sally" Sarah Hodges - 1803 Ashe Co., NC spouse: John Cook 2. Larkin Hodges 3. Delphia Hodges 4. William "Billy" Hodges, Jr. b. 1811 KILLED in Civil War spouse: Jane Morris 5. Thomas Hodges 1812 6. Nancy Hodges m. Soloman Greene 7. John "Jack" Hodges m. Fannie Morris 8. Jesse Hodges 9. Dillard Burton Hodges 10. Adam Hodges 1822 m. Judy Calloway 11. Demarcus Hodges b. 1826 Ashe Co., NC m. Mary Calloway