Hodges Family History

This page was created on 2024-04-04.

This page was last updated on 2024-04-16.

Sources used:

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L4NT-DTJ/edmond-hodges-1766-1864

BACKGROUND:

I am descended from Edmond Hodges, my 4th great grandfather, who lived in Surry County NC., Lawrence County IN, and in Nodaway County MO.  The Hodges family history is a bit of a challenge and in my future updates to this page I may end up raising more questions than answers.  Right now one mystery I have is, what was the real surname of his wife Elizabeth?  For many years I have believed that it was Robinson but I have evidence that it was Summers.  It's possible that her birth name was Summers and she married a Robinson before marrying Edmond Hodges.

There is also some ambiguity regarding his daughter, Martha (Patsy) Hodges.  There may have been more than one person with this name, who are related.  What we do know is that she married William Riley Parker, and moved with him to Lawrence County IN, and later Doniphan County KS.

What I also know is that the Hodges family was one of the pioneering families of Surry County NC and also lived in Virginia.  

It is presently presumed that anyone with the surname of Hodges who is now living in/near Mt Airy NC, and Morgan County MO, are distant relatives.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:

Edmond Hodges was born on 1766-11-10 according to one source listed above, in what was then the North Carolina colony of British North America.  This source has his father as being Welcome William Hodges and his mother as being Mary Anne Turner.  This has not been verified.  This source also has conflicting information as to who he married.  One wife is listed as Rachel Lennon and another as Elizabeth Summers, and some of us who have looked into this have him as marrying Elizabeth Robinson.  He is known to have had a grandson named John Robinson Hodges, which lends credence to his mother's surname being Robinson. 

Edmond Hodges was known to have been living in Surry County, NC, in 1802 and in 1806.  The 1810 census of Surry County, according to one transcript, has listed "Edmon Hodges".    

My research does have Edmond Hodges moving to Lawrence County, IN, along with his son in law William Riley Parker and other members of the Parker family (some other members of the Hodges family may have moved with him).  He is known to have lived there in 1841.  He later on moved to Morgan County, MO, where he died at the age of 98.  I have established that other members of the Hodges family were in that part of Missouri at that time.