The Crittenden Press  Illustrated Edition  Part Third  9 August 1894
Dycusburg  A Glance at Her History and the People who Built the Town
[Crittenden Co.]

C. HODGE was born on the banks of the Cumberland near Pinckneyville,
Livingston County, Ky., Oct 3, 1870.  His parents, Octavus and Ella E.
Hodge, both trace an unadulterated Anglo-Saxon lineage.  His father's 
people came from N.C., to what was then Livingston County, and settled
near Levias.  On his mother's side, he boasts of a direct descent from
the first governor of Kentucky - Isaac Shelby.  He was raised on the farm
and attended the public schools until 18 years of age.  When 14, he spent
three months with his father in Florida.  In 1888, he entered the college
at South Carrollton, Ky., and lacked but six weeks of taking the degree
of B.S.  In August 1890 he went to Searcy, Ark., and took a four months
business course, and then traveled over Missouri, Iowa and Kansas for a
St.Louis drug co.  Returning to his native state, he taught three terms
in the public schools of old Livingston with marked success.  During
the interim, he clerked five months for S.D. Hodge at Salem and Marion.
Amid all the changes, the desire to preach, which was implanted in
conversion at South Carrollton never left him, and Jan. 1, 1893, he
was licensed by the Pinckneyville church to preach.  On a call by Dunn
Spring church, Crittenden County, he was ordained to full work of the
ministry, Jan. 8, 1894.  He now has the further care of Dyer's Hill
and Sexton Spring churches.  He will enter Bethel in the fall for a
three years course and from there to the Baptist Theological Seminary.

Hodge Shelby 
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Livingston-KY South_Carrollton-Muhlenberg-KY FL AR MO IA KS 

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