U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hodges, Baxter Coleman (b. 1874) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Page 480 BAXTER COLEMAN HODGES, a retail hardware merchant of Buckhannon, was born December 1, 1874, on Three Lick, a branch of Turkey Run, the son of James F. Hodges and Elizabeth C. Ireland, the daughter of John Ireland and Olive Loudin and the granddaughter of Alexander Ireland and Sarah Jackson, who was a daughter of John Jackson, Jr., the son of John Jackson of England, who married Elizabeth Cummins of Londonberry. Elizabeth Cummins was the first owner of the land on which Buckhannon now stands. John Jackson, the younger, married Mary Hadden, the sister of the grandmother of Stonewall Jackson. In the Alexander Ireland family, were six sons and five daughters, John, David, Elizabeth, Rebecca, wife of Jacob Lorentz; Jonathan, William, Perry, Mary J., and Marietta, wife of Daniel Carper. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was John Ryan Hodges, his wife was Elizabeth Warren Brown, the daughter of Edward Brown of Louisa County, Va. He settled in Upshur County, October 31, 1846, near Lorentz, and his father was Thomas Hodges and his mother was a Miss Ryan of Ireland. In the John R. Hodges family were thirteen children: Thomas, Edward, John Henry, Sarah Jane, Charles Kelley, Lucy Catherine, Elizabeth, James F., Oscar F., Mildred Simpson, George M., and Theophilus E., Milanda Ann and B. B. James F. Hodges was a school teacher for ten years in Upshur County before his removal to Calhoun County, in 1878. He was a merchant, farmer and stock dealer in Calhoun County, and moved from that county to Wirt County, and from thence to Richie County and thence to Monongalia County, where he died, leaving a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters: Bernie Alice, Olive Ireland, Warren Hampton, Eliza Pearl, Alexander Templeton, Mabel Claire and the subject of this sketch, who was educated in the public schools of Calhoun County, taught three years in Richie County, was a student in the West Virginia University, was engaged in the dairy business in Pennsylvania and Buckhannon until he purchased the hardware stores of Guy M. Gribble and Hall Hardware company, which he is now running. ------------------------------------------------------------------- MARRIAGE LICENSE, Marshall County, WV (Page 530) Baxter Coleman Hodges (age 33, born in Upshur County, WV) Place of Residence: Buckhannon, W.Va. Dora B. Davis (age 35, born in Marshall County, WV) Place of Residence: Glendale, W.Va. were married on June 25, 1908 at Glendale by Darren H. Hodges, Morgantown, W.Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------