HOMER VIRGIL HODGES

     Homer Virgil Hodges, b 1817 or 1818 in Georgia, d between 1867 and 1870 in Falls County, Texas, and buried in the Churchill Jones Cemetery at Jones Springs in Falls County - a son of William Elias Hodges and a brother of Pulaski Pinkney Hodges. In l837, Homer Virgil Hodges married Jane Elizabeth Jean, b August 27, 1820 in Virginia, died between l870 and 1880 in Falls County, Texas, and also buried n the Churchill Jones Cemetery. Neither Homer Virgil or his wife, Jane Elizabeth, have tombstones. Jane Elizabeth (Dean) Hodges was a daughter of Aylett Jean and Ann Frances (Jones) Dean, a sister of Churchill Jones. The family of Homer V. Hodges came to Texas between 1866 and 1869 from Conecuh County, Alabama - first to Jones Springs, but soon settled in the Live Oak area of Western Falls County. Homer Virgil and Jane Elizabeth (Dean) Hodges had ten children - all born in Conecuh County, Alabama:

     George Aylett Hodges, b in 1838, d 1909, married Rebecca Senter; Elias Richard Hodges, b 1840, d 1905, married first in October 1869 to Margaret McPherson, and married second to Dora Daffin; Elizabeth Hodges, b 1842, married Frank Feagin; William R. Hodges, b 1844, married Adeline Scott and moved to Ranger, Texas - reported to have six children: Irene, Lula, Homer, Richard, Robert, and Ross Hodges; Mary Jane Hodges, b 1846, married W. N. Vaughn, b February 26, 1848, d August 13, 1888 and buried Live Oak Cemetery; Emily Hodges, b 1847 - believed to have married T. C. Tucker, with sons, Arthur and Quincy Tucker buried in Live Oak Cemetery; James Pulaski Hodges, b 1849 - moved to Orange, Texas; Frances Hodges, b 1854, married A. B. Tucker; Suzanne Hodges, b 1856, married N. B. Jones; Dixie Lula Hodges, b December 2, 1859, d March 28, 1890, married George W. Abernathy - buried in Live Oak Cemetery with four of her children, three infants and one named Robert P. Abernathy; and Henry Clay Hodges, b March 12, 1861, d October 17, 1904, married Mary ("Mollie") Neal or Neely.

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"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 231 column 2 and page 232 column 1.  
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