John Ryan Hodges *
Birth: 4 Nov 1811, Fluvanna or Goochland Co., Virginia, USA
Death: 17 Mar 1872, Hodgesville (Peck's Run), Upshur Co., West Virginia, USA
Father: Thomas Edward Hodges *
Mother: Melinda Ryan *
- Married Elizabeth Warren Brown * on 26 Oct 1833 at Goochland Co., Virginia, USA
- Child 1: Thomas Edward Hodges Nov 1834 - 1849
- Child 2: John Henry Hodges <1837> - m. Margaret Melissa Humphreys
- Child 3: Sarah Jane Hodges * 13 Sep 1838 - 1 Jun 1919 m. Matthew J. Kidd *
- Child 4: Charles Kelley Hodges Jul 1840 - 1 Aug 1863
- Child 5: Lucy Catherine Hodges Jul 1840 - 16 Jul 1911 m. Robert Carter Shackelford
- Child 6: Martha Elizabeth Hodges 7 Apr 1844 - Apr 1920 m. Elam T. Corder
- Child 7: James Fife Hodges Feb 1846 - Aug 1903
- Child 8: Oscar Fitzallen Hodges 16 Dec 1848 - 13 Jul 1925 m. Florence E. Casto
- Child 9: Mildred Simpson Hodges Jan 1851 - Dec 1911
- Child 10: George Noble Hodges 21 Mar 1853 - 1 Nov 1892 m. Ella Loudin
- Child 11: Theophilus Edgar Hodges 2 Mar 1856 - 8 Dec 1935
- Child 12: Melinda Ann Hodges 21 Dec 1858 - 26 Jul 1936 m. David Chesterfield Casto
- Child 13: Bushrod Brown Hodges Oct 1860 - 22 Apr 1938
Notes: Sources: Ozland@erols.com
Both John Ryan Hodges and his wife, Elizabeth Brown Hodges, were of English, Scotch, Irish de scent. Although their parents lived in Virginia, they undoubtedly came from England. (Ref: W . Edgar Martin of the Moorhead State Teachers College Faculty, Moorhead, Minnesota, in 1947 , was of English descent with numerous Hodges relatives in the area of London.) The Hodges li ved mainly in the area of Goochland County and near Richmond. John Ryan and Elizabeth Hodge s spent their early lives in Orange, Louisa , Albermarle, and Fluvanna counties. About 1835 t hey began to migrate westward. On October 31, 1846, they settled permanently in what is now U pshur County, West Virginia. The village in which they last lived was named in John R.'s hono r called Hodgesville. That village is approximately 6 miles north of Buckhannon and is the co unty seat of Upshur. The members of the J. R. Hodges family proved themselves substantial cit izens of their community. Operated general store. Charter members of the Methodist Protestan t denomination class in 1836 in the home of Jacob Lorentz, Lorentz, West Virginia. Descendant s of the John Ryan Hodges family who have continued to live in the Hodgesville area are in th e main still ardent supporters at "Low Gap", now the Methodist Episcopal denomination.
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