HAS ANYONE EVER FOUND ISORA HODGES? I have a Isora Hodges who was the brother of George William Hodges [b.1828]. They were the sons of a William Hodges. George Hodges married Elizabeth Guess. They had a son named Drury Lafayette Hodges. A daughter married, Matilda, who married William F. Neel who was born in Chickasaw Co., Ms. They also had a sister, Annie Nancy, who married Hockaday Brister, both born in S.C. This info has not been researched by me but bits of info I have collected along the way. I hope this may give you a lead. Wanda Eakin Lentz Snellville,Ga. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mozelle Chason" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 9:32 PM Subject: [MSATTALA] Hodges > I know there are those researching the Hodges line, a line I have been > working on for twenty five years plus. Until recently I could not get > any further back than my great grandfather Charles H. Hodges who was > born in 1856-7, and there was a reason. Very early in my research I had > been told that his father's name was Isora Hodges, (no name given for > his wife) and I have spent al these years looking for Isora. HAS ANYONE > EVER FOUND ISORA HODGES? > > I had the names of most of Charles H. Hodges's siblings but was not > sure of the order of birth, except for the two youngest. A year or so > ago, I found in one of my boxes of notes a half sheet of paper, now > yellow with age, on which I had written some info I had gleaned from > the 1880 Attala County (Mitchell's Mill) Census, and it read: > > Hodges, Jenette, age 56, b. 1824 in SC, Father b. SC, Mother b. TN > Hodges, Nancy J. age 19, b. 1861, Father b. SC, Mother b. SC > Hodges, Thomas G., age 15, b. 1865, Father b. SC, Mother b. SC > > I had no idea who this Jenette was, but I did know who Nancy and Thomas > were. They were two of the siblings of my great grandfather, Charles H. > Hodges. I knew also who they later married and the names of many of > their ancestors. I figured that if these two children were living in > one household with someone named Jenette, she was their mother!! And > this was the first time I ever had a hint of the first name of my > g-g-grandmother! Though I had had this scrap of paper for several > years, I never could find anywhere to put them. Now if her name was > Jenette, she must have married the one I had always thought was named > "Isora." I had checked EVERYWHERE for him and came up empty every time! > So I decided to try another name, but where do I start? > > I went to the 1870 Choctaw County (Montevista) Census to look for > something for someone else on one of the Lists, and the Hodges family > literally jumped off the page at me. My Hodges family! There she was > with ALL her children in the correct order of birth. (See how it helps > to help someone else??) This is what I found: > > Hodge(s) Jenetta, age 46 b. KY > Hodges, John J., age 23, b. MS > Hodges, James M(adison), age 20 b. MS > Hodges, William D., age 17 b. MS > Hodges, Charles H(enry), b. age 14, b. MS > Hodges, Nancy J., age 9, b. MS > Hodges, Thomas G., age 5, b. MS > > I knew there was one discrepancy - Jennette's place of birth, but I > wasn't through. The remainder of the information I had was a good > match, but I wasn't finished yet because I did not have the father's > name. I knew that if Thomas G. Hodges was born in 1865, his father - > whoever he was - had to be living with the family at least part of > 1865. I went to the 1860 Choctaw County (Belfontaine) Census to look > for the father of these children. I was really getting excited by now! > This is what I found: > > Hodges, Drury, age 36, farmer, b. SC > Hodges, Jennalia, age 37 b. Ky (there is the Ky birthplace again.) > Hodges, John J., age 13, b. MS > Hodges, James M., age 10, b. MS > Hodges, William D., age 8, b. MS > Hodges, Charles H., age 4, b. MS > Hodges, Ira Z, age 1, b. MS > > (Note that Ira Z. is not in the 1870 nor 1880 census. He most likely > died as an infant, since their methods of health were so poor in those > days.) > > Going back ten more years to the 1850 Choctaw County (Western Division) > I found the following: > > Hodges, Drury, age 25, farmer, b. MS (an error since he was b. SC) > Hodges, Jenetty, age 26, b. MS (looks as though the census taker > ASSUMED their places of birth) > Hodges, John, age 4, b. MS > Hodges, James, age 1, b. MS > Cairo (no surname) farm laborer > > So, it looks like the name of my great-great-grandfather was a very > well-used name in the Hodges family, that of DRURY, and not Isora, > unless of course Isora was his middle name. Since he is shown in the > 1850 and the 1860 censuses, and he was around to father his last child > in 1865, he must have died around the end of the Civil War. Could he > have been in the War and did not survive it? Do any of you know? > > If any of you are researching this family, or one which connects to it, > please write to me and we will compare notes. > Thank you so much. > > Mozelle P. Chason > > > > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected]@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. For 'Digest Mode' send the unsubscribe message to [email protected] > >