This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hodge, Keller, Green, Stephens Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IhB.2ACI/338.1 Message Board Post: I, too, am interested in the Hodge families of Bedford Co. I am descended from Jacob Keller of Burke Co, NC. Jacob was a neighbor of Francis Hodge, Robert Hodge, William Hodge and others up until his death in 1813. Some people think his wife Jane was a member of the Hodge family. At any rate, some of the Keller family were already in TN when Jacob died and Jane and the rest of the family moved to Bedford County immediately after his death. Jane's son, Francis H. Keller (the H. has never been defined), is my ggg-grandfather. I was born and raised in Bedford Co and live about 35 miles away in Williamson Co now. There is a book called Pioneers of Coffee County, TN by Alice Daniel Pritchard with information on the Hodge family. She believes, with good clues, but no absolute proof, that Robert Hodge, Jr. of Burke Co, NC and Bedford Co, TN is the father of William C. Hodge (b. about 1783, md. Gilla Green) and John Hodge (b. about 1785, md. Sarah Stephens). Patterson Hodge, the son of John and Sally Stephens Hodge, moved to Jefferson Co, Illinois. I do think there was another branch of the Hodge family, whose connection, if any, I don't know, but who lived in the same NE corner of Bedford Co and in Coffee Co. The names I recall include Charles and Edmond Hodge (maybe Phillip). These were connected to Welcome Hodge of Williamson Co, TN. Some of this family were later found in west Tennessee.