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By Duncan Adams The Roanoke Times
© May 18, 2013 ROANOKE

The aging but apparently vigorous Civil War veteran married a teen bride. The couple had eight children.

Research by members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy shows that Nathaniel “Nat” Hammock was 67 years old and Lessie Gray Myers was 16 when they married Aug. 8, 1908. Nat died at age 84 in 1925, just two weeks after the birth in Pittsylvania County of a daughter whose impressions of her father have relied solely on others’ accounts.

Isabelle Hammock Hodges of Franklin County said cards started flooding in early last year after word spread among UDC chapters that Hodges, 88, is a “real daughter” of a Confederate veteran.

The cards keep coming. Hodges recently received a $5 gift card to Walmart from the Florida-based Bonnie Blue Flag Chapter 2329 of the UDC.

Research by the Franklin County-based Jubal Early Chapter 553 of the UDC had determined that Hodges and her older sister, Mildred Adkins, who lives in Danville, were survivors among 15 known offspring fathered by Nat Hammock during two marriages. Hodges was formally admitted to the UDC on Jan. 28, 2012.

And she says now that her induction and the bushels of cards that followed helped keep her alive early last year when she was suffering a variety of ailments.

“I knew I had to get better,” she said.

On Saturday, Hodges and Adkins will be among the guests of honor during a Veterans Memorial Ceremony presented by the Franklin County Historical Society to recognize county residents who were casualties of the nation’s wars.

The tribute begins at 10:30 a.m. on the lawn of the Franklin County Courthouse in Rocky Mount.

Linda Stanley, the society’s special projects coordinator, said Saturday’s event will emphasize what she described as “antique wars” — the Revolutionary War, Civil War and War of 1812. Memorial Day activities often focus on more contemporary wars, she said.

Hodges and Adkins will receive cotton boll corsages, Stanley said, in honor of their father’s service to the Confederate States of America. She said the two women are the last known surviving daughters of Confederate veterans in Virginia.

Nat Hammock reportedly signed up for the Southern side in Pittsylvania County in August 1863 and joined Company E of the 57th Virginia Infantry.

He apparently spent much of his military career sickened by severe diarrhea, a condition that required his hospitalization in Danville, Farmville and Lynchburg, according to the Jubal Early Chapter’s research.

Hodges was 3 years old when her mother died in August 1928. She and five of her siblings went to live on a farm in the Truvine section of Franklin County with the family of Benjamin Dickerson Hammock, a half brother born during Nat Hammock’s first marriage.

“We just called him ‘Brother Ben,’ ” Hodges recalled. “I didn’t know he was my half brother until much later.”

Hodges was not yet 16 years old when she married Walter Raymond Hodges.

She said that when they first met she knew he was “going out with different girls” and was surprised when he courted her and then proposed.

“He told me he was just messing around with the others waiting for me to grow up,” Hodges said.

The couple had no children but raised three offspring of Isabelle’s youngest brother. One of the three, Delano “Hippie Joe” Hammock, died from an apparent heart attack in 2002 when he was 40 years old.

Walter Raymond Hodges died nearly one year later at 84.

Isabelle Hodges worked in textile manufacturing at the Angle Silk Mill and successor J.P. Stevens for a total of about 33 years before retiring in 1988.

Although she had been told that her father had served in the Confederate army, the reality of that service became more tangible, she said, after her recognition by the Jubal Early Chapter.

Hodges said she had known next to nothing about Nat Hammock. People had told her he was “a good man.”

The Jubal Early Chapter’s research and the attention it drew made her father seem more real, she said.

“I could almost touch him, I’d been with him so much,” Hodges said.

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My wife has recently passed on and I am trying to fill in a few blanks on her family tree. The good people at latter day saints gave me her maiden name which is Stewart, born 1819, married 1838, died 1891. I know it is a long time since your query but I hope this is of some help. Please forgive any spelling as I am 86 years old and limilted vision,

I have been unable to find any connection between the Mt. Enon Hodges and the other in Henry County. There is listed in the 1880 census of Barbour County a William and Emiley Hodge with sons Benjamin and Charles. I believe Benjamin is the Ben W.Hodge(s)married to Berta Lynn in Henry County shown in Edwin with children Floyd, Lester John, and Thelma. Charles is shown also in Henry County with wife, Mollie L. with children Ovie C., Bessie M., Irene, and Myrtle L. Ben W.'s son John is John Ben Hodges who is buried at Mt. Enon. John Ben married Mollie Price who happens to be my first cousin once removed.

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Looking for any info that will help me determine where the Hodges buried in Edwin Cemetery originated. I would like to find out if they are related to the other Hodges of Henry County that are descended from Robert and if so how.
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I have direct Forehand family from North Carolina down into Dooly and Berrien Counties in Georgia. We are trying to gather Forehand (male descendants) to do Y DNA testing with us. I have two cousins and a great uncle so far. Would any of you be interested in participating? My DNA is 95% Scot-Irish and I would love to trace our family back to a time in Ireland if possible.
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HODGES George William 1846-1921

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I am researching my wife's family & believe your father would be her great uncle through his sister Minnie Lou Brooks Phillips. If you would be willing to share any info you have on the Brooks or Hutto families I would appreciate it.

HODGES Edith GOODRICH 1855-1913

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The Hodges-Hodge Society Genealogy Conference is set for August 24 and 25 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The date and location were chosen to give attendees the opportunity to attend the Federation of Genealogical Societies meeting earlier in the week, if they wish. Fort Wayne is home to the Allen County Public Library, whose genealogy collection is second in size only to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. For more details and registration see http://www.hodges-hodge-society.org/.

HODGES Ronald G and Edith M

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I have a record showing a Nancy Taylor marrying my 3X GGF Jordan Holland on January 4, 1855 in Henry County Alabama. I also have a record showing Jordan marrying my 3X GGM Sarah Mary Ann Whitehead on December 4, 1857 at the home of Thomas Holland (according to land records in Abbeville). I cannot find any record of a divorce or annulment for Jordan and Nancy. She must have been underage, because the record said that consent was given by an Ivey Taylor. I can find no record of her after the marriage. Even though she is not a blood relative, I am curious to know what happened to their marriage and why she dropped off of the face of the Earth. Any thoughts on this??

Richard Hodges was English born, Elizabeth was born in Virginia to a family that had been in the colonies for some time. She was illiterate signing with an X on her own will. It is not a sin to be illiterate it is a sin to judge her to be less than she was for it.
On 14 April 1764 Richard and Elizabeth sold property in South Farnham, Essex county, Virginia. The land was described as that land formerly purchased by Richard from Augustine Washington and Ann his wife.
Between the time of this sale and the American Revolution the family moved to District 76 in South Carolina. Later it was Abbeville County. Now the land is just outside Hodges South Carolina. The land was described in Elizabeth's will as; 170 Acres lying on Mulberry Creek the waters of Saluda River.
No other family has had as much scrutiny as this Hodges family. Before the American Depression a book was written that was a great help to most of us. Moraigne's in America had most of Richard's children listed and his wife's name correct. I believe they erred because of the more famous member of the family who stayed in South Carolina, Richard's son Major John Hodges, the father of George Washington Hodges. It was an assumption that put a plug in true directional searching for many years. Colonel Al Metts who is in his nineties now spent a good deal of money researching Richard Hodges in Virginia. He found records on taxes, legal records, land sales records and marriage records but they were all Richard with Elizabeth. He believed the ancestor's name was Richard. Colonel Al Metts retired joined an email list where he found six of us who were intent on finding Richard's true name and back story. It was a gentleman in Florida who found Nathaniel Ware Hodges' personal history naming Richard. For us the evidence Colonel Al Metts retired had found in Virginia and the Nathaniel Ware Hodges personal history was a game changer!
His name was Richard! We now went to the big cities, all the counties up and down the coast looking for a birth, or christening record that would give us his parents names. It didn't take long for all of us to give it up again. There was nothing there at all.
A friend told me he'd found a young Richard Hodges born in England who was a bond servant at a Tobacco farm in Essex County Virginia. The dates were right but I couldn't believe then that our ancestor hadn't come with the Virginia Company in 1511. I wanted too much for the story to be heroic. I was too judgmental on the bond servant idea. However, as time passed and nothing else showed up I allowed myself to believe that Richard must have been a bond servant. In fact I've decided that it is a heroic story. Richard's father John had to find a way to get his children to the land of promise. So he sold them into a soft form of slavery, even Richard who was five years old! I can only imagine the fear and longing for his home and mother Richard must have gone through as that ship left England.
Bond servants were instructed to treat their masters like great ladies and gentlemen. She was "My Lady" and he was "Sir". Every command must be obeyed or you could receive a horrible beating. Everybody was beating their children to teach them to work and obey so a beating of a young bond servant wasn't such a horrible thing really. Richard seems to have turned out just fine. He could read and write and figure his finances.

You are very welcome. The whole story with all the genealogists researching Richard whom everyone thought was John is vast. In 1962 my aunt Pearl paid a professional genealogist who did a marvelous job finding the descendants of Richard, his children, and seven generations of grand-children. My aunt was happy with what she got. She was aware of the dead end with John Hodges. But it was many years after her death in 1970 before we learned his name was Richard. That was wonderful but the records in the United States on Richard Hodges born about 1725 were non-existent. As I learned and thought about the problem I decided he must have come in as a passenger between 1725 and 1744. That was a huge problem because I had no idea where to look for a passenger or bond servant list.
The new ideas with computer sharing have produced a miracle of ease for researching.
Ancestry.com is a large part of that miracle. It was a wonderful surprise finding Richard on that shipping list when Ancestry.com gave me two weeks free checks on ship passenger lists. After that I bought full access and have been finding all kinds of good evidence to support the ideas I have had to carry on.

Thank you so much for your postings and I believe I have read all of them.I have only been researching a short time. My husband is descended from James L Hodges and Nancy Ware, Most of the genealogies I have seen have lead me to think the father of James was named John Hodges, I certainly appreciate the education I am receiving, in particular the Indian attack story.As well as finding out about Richard Hodges.