JAMES JOSIAH HODGES

 

     James Josiah Hodges, b August 11, 1844 in Alabama, d February 16, 1918 in Falls County, Texas-a son of Pulaski Pinkney and Margaret Jane (Bradley) Hodges, served with the Confederate States Army in Alabama. He married Anna McCain, b March 6, 1861, d July 11, 1939. James Josiah and Anna are both buried in Live Oak Cemetery, near his parents. James J. and Anna (McCain) Hodges had nine children - seven sons and two daughters:

     James Pulaski Hodges, married Sarah Moore, and had five children: James Pulaski, Jr., Walter Lee, Frank Moore, Theodore Arthur, and William Ulmer, and moved away from Falls County.

     Arthur Hodges died young.

     William Bradley Hodges, b May 27, 1888, d in January 1961, married first to Nellie Lee Binford, b in November 1892, d December 13, 1918, and had five children; married second to Johnnie Hazel McDaniel, and had one child.

     Walter Allen Hodges, married Wanda Moore, and had no children.

     James Frederick Hodges, married Ethel Quinn, and had Jane Hodges who married a Mr. Schreiber and had James Ralph Schreiber and Kathryn Quinn Schreiber.

     Guy Forbus Hodges, b April 16, 1896, d in 1980, served in the military during World War I; married Alice Deane Martin, b October 4, 1901, d June 28, 1973, and both buried in Phillips Cemetery in Falls

County, Texas. They had five children: James Everett, Lelia, Robert Glenn, Edwin Pulaski, and Donald Arthur Hodges.

     Robert Elias Hodges died as an infant.

     Mazie W. Hodges married Newton Watkins and had three children: William L., Newton R., and Freddie B. Watkins who married A. D. Hayslip of Temple.

     Addie Hodges, died at age 75, married John Bloxom, and had one daughter, Freddie Sue Bloxom, who married Otis L. Baggett.

     Anna (McCain) Hodges had a brother, Forbus McCain who had a steam plow and a water wagon which produced the steam in 1910, for use in farm work, and he travelled from Falls County to other areas of Texas with this new-fangled farm equipment. : Her sister, Mary Hamilton McCain, married John W. Allen - a Marlin druggist. Anna, Forbus, and Mary: McCain where the children of Dr. A. F. McCain (1812- 1868).

 

 

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 232 column 1 and 2.  
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.