Hodges Cemetery

Hodges Cemetery is located several hundred yards south of  Route 2, 
approximately two miles east of Rose Hill.  It is located in a thicket
of locust trees found in the middle of a field, is on private land, 
and there is no identification.  All gravestones have been overturned 
and were located several inches underground, when the transcriber visited 
the location in 1994.  The transcriber, Robert C. Witham, was furnished a 
list of gravestones previously transcribed by members of the Johnson Co. 
Historical Society.  He found all stones with the exception of one for 
Moses and Isaac Hodges.  These graves would not have been found without 
the help of  Mrs. Katherine Corkran Dale, a neighborhood resident who 
led the transcriber to the exact location.

Submitted to the Johnson County, Missouri USGenWeb site by Bob Witham witham@naples.net

Hall				Julius L. son of A. T. & M.
				B. Sept. 23, 1855 - d. Oct. 4, 1861

Jones				Doctor Thomas J.

				Elizabeth, wife of  Thomas J.
				b. Feb. 13, 1824 - d. Feb. 27, 1842

				Son of Dr. Thomas J. &  Mary J.
				b. Dec. 8, 1852  -  d. Dec. 19, 1852

Hodges			Moses and Isaac			*

				Nancy E. wife of Moses
				born in Amherst County Virginia
				b. Feb. 9, 1803, d. May 11, 1888

				(top of stone broken off)		**
				Daughter of M????
				died Feb. 1, 1865
				aged 28 yrs. 2 mos. 2 days

Wright				Clarinda  wife of John E.
				d. Oct. 13, 1869
				age 69 yr. 9 mo. 13 da.

	*  Stone reported by Johnson Co. Historical Society but not found by
	    R. C. Witham
          **  Stone found by R. C. Witham but not reported by Historical Society




Some genealogy related to the gravestones:

Julius L. Hall was found in the 1860 Madison Township Census, Page 985A, was listed as 5 yrs. old, born in Missouri, the son of Albert J. Hall, aged 39 b. in Mo., and Matilda Hall, aged 36 b. in Ill.  There were four older sisters and brothers, those born before1851 in Ill., and those after in Mo.  One younger brother aged 3 was born in Mo..  From this the conclusion is reached that the Halls came to Madison Twp. around 1851.  There is no known relationship to the Hodges family, probably they were neighbors.

Dr. Thomas J. Jones was the son of  Laban Jones, b. abt. 1791 in Va. and Frances Roundtree, b. abt. 1796 in Ky.  He was b. 7 Aug. 1820 in Clark Co., Ky., and came with his parents to Mo.  aft. 1835.  He m. (1) Elizabeth, buried here and (2) Mary A. Hodges, daughter of Moses and Nancy, b. 28 Jan 1828 in Ky., d. 6 May 1895 on 14 Jun 1847 in Johnson Co.  He was a physician in the Confederate Army and died while on active duty in Texas 2 Oct. 1864.  Both he and Mary are buried in the Holden Cemetery, Holden, Mo.

Moses Hodges was b. abt. 1791 in SC and d. aft. 1850 in Johnson Co.  He married Nancy in Ky. Bef. 1825 and moved to Mo. with his family sometime after 1842.  

No record can be found for Isaac Hodges.

Nancy Hodges birth and death info. is contained on her gravestone.

The daughter who d. 1 Feb 1865 was probably Louisa.  She was 13 yrs. old according to the 1850 census and m. W. T. Campbell 13 Mar 1853.

No record can be found for Clarinda Wright.  (Perhaps a neighbor).