JOSEPH ANTHONY HODGE, M. D.

Joseph Anthony HODGE, M. D. was born in Salem, Livingston County, Kentucky, 02 Feb 1829. His father, Edwin HODGE, a farmer, born in the same locality in the year 1805, was a son of Robert HODGE, who, some years previous, had emigrated from North Carolina to that county. The grandfather of Robert HODGE, with two brothers, Henry and Anthony, came from England to this country in colonial times, one of them settling in Virginia, one in Maryland, and the other in North Carolina. The family name was originally HODGES, and one of these brothers, Anthony, for whom the subject was named, always bore the name of HODGES, as do his descendants to this day.

The maiden name of his mother was Nancy Selissa HUGHES, a daughter of Joseph HUGHES. It may be remarked, that the County of Livingston was divided in the year 1842 into two counties, Livingston and Crittenden. The HUGHES family lived in the latter section of the old county, and it was in the latter also that Joseph was reared. After the death of his father, when he was but eight years old, his mother married Dr. John S. GILLIAM, a Virginian by birth, but at that time a resident of the same neighborhood with herself. In many respects he was quite a remarkable man, and proved to be a most kind and indulgent step father. It was through his instrumentality that his step-son began the study of medicine in his eighteenth year, graduating from the medical department of the Louisville University in 1850, when he was just twenty-one years old. From the time of graduation until the spring of 1863, he was engaged in practice in Marion, Crittenden County, KY, removing from there to Henderson in April of that year. He arrived in the latter place on the twenty-eighth of the month.

On 04 Dec 1851, he married Miss Susan A., daughter of Dr. Rufus LINTHICUM, of the County of Mulenberg, KY, having made her acquaintance four years previous, when she was a school girl at St. Vincent Academy, in Union County, KY. This transaction has never caused a moment’s regret, and has ever been regarded as the chief event of his life.

Dr. HODGE is a member of the Henderson Medical Club, McDowell Medical Society, Kentucky State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the Board of Medical Examiners of the Third Judicial District of Kentucky, and has been such from its establishment, over eight years ago. He was President of the Kentucky State Society from 1875 to 1876, and has acted in the same capacity for the Medical Club. He is a man of very strong character and eminently fitted for the arduous duties of his chosen profession.

Dr. and Mrs. HODGE, in their marital union, have been blessed by a family of seven children, two boys and five daughters, all of whom are yet living, and of whom it can be said, seven more promising children were never born. Of the five daughters it has frequently been asserted, by competent judges, that they possess a charm of personal beauty and brightness of life unsurpassed by any similar number reared in Kentucky.

Starling’s History of Henderson County, Kentucky, 1887.

JOSEPH ANTHONY HODGE REFERENCES

1870 CENSUS OF HENDERSON COUNTY

Joseph Hodge age 41, Page 194, House No. 54; Susan A. age 39; Edwin age 16; Mary L. age 14; Eliza age 12; Emma age 10; Antonia age 8; William A. age 6; Ellen age 2.

1880 CENSUS OF HENDERSON COUNTY

Joseph Hodge age 51, Page 43 – 44, House No. 31; Gladys age 49 (wife); Ed age 25; Mollie age 23; Emma age 20; Tony age 17; Willie age 15; Nellie age 6; Charles Lisethicum age 6 (nephew); Jane Dixon (B) age 19 (servant).

1900 CENSUS OF HENDERSON COUNTY

Joseph Hodge age 71, Page 553, House No. 123; Emma age 31 (dau); Louise Berry age 10 (gr-dau maybe instead of F-Dau)

Ed Hodge age 45, Page 624, House No. 472; Frances age 38; Thomas age 15; Edwin J. age 9.

MARRIAGES IN HENDERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, 1858 – 1900

Charles Hodge – Ann Belle Sheffer, 29 Jun 1876, Book 014, Page 497
Granville Henry Hodge – Emma Belle Jones, 22 Nov 1896, Book 026, Page 292
Andrew Hodges – Annie Billings, 05 Aug 1887, Book 020, Page 339
W. M. Hodges – Lucy Barnes, 11 Apr 1885, Book 019, Page 141
Antonia M. Hodge – William Soaper, 13 Oct 1887, Book 020, Page 457
Eliza A. Hodge – Henry Berry, 01 Jan 1880, Book 016, Page 154
Freidericke Hodge – John Fred Ossenbrink, 11 Apr 1898, Book 027, Page 597
Jennie Hodge – William F. Williams, 03 Nov 1870, Book 010, Page 318
Margaret Hodge – Wm. G. Mitchupon, 21 Oct 1861, Book 005, Page 245
Maria Emma Hodge – S. Johnston Alves, 16 Jan 1873, Book 012, Page 125
Mary S. Hodge – L. Worsham, 16 Dec 1884, Book 018, Page 633
Nellie D. Hodge – Charles H. Dishman, 06 Nov 1889, Book 022, Page 023
E. S. Hodges – Wm. H. Foulds, 29 Dec 1862, Book 005, Page 411
May Hodges – William Sprinkles, 26 Dec 1892, Book 024, Page 171

INTERMENT RECORDS

Susie Hodge, 1866, Fernwood, Age unknown, 547, 7
Susan A. Hodge, 01 May 1891, Age unknown, 547, 5
Dr. J. A. Hodge, 31 Aug 1908, Fernwood, Age unknown, R 547, 6