James Hodgson

HODGSON, PROBASCO, BILLHIMER, SHAW, WALRATH

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Date: 2/24/2002 at 21:19:13

James Hodgson settled on section 15, Butler township, in 1855, and there followed farming until his death, which took place in March, 1868. He was born in the State of Ohio, in 1821, and in 1831 removed with his parents to Tazewell county, Illinois, where, in the year 1842, he married Miss Elizabeth Probasco, a native of Virginia, born in the year 1819, and continued farming in said county until his removal to Iowa in 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson had twelve children, six now living – Caroline, now Mrs. Henry Billhimer; Asa, Sarah J., now Mrs. Z. Shaw; William, Emma C., now Mrs. Fletcher Walrath, and James H. Mr. Hodgson at the time of his death owned 300 acres of land.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 519