Biography of Jesse Hodges, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 22 Jan 2009
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Jesse B. Hodges, one of the prominent tillers of the soil in this section, was
born in Beaufort County, N. Carolina, in 1837, being the son of John L. and
Cynthia (Rodgers) Hodges, natives of N. Carolina. Jesse B. came to Arkansas with
his parents on 1859, settling on a farm not far from his present residence. His
educational advantages were limited, his help needed on his father's farm, but
notwithstanding this fact, he is a well informed man, having given considerable
attention to reading, which added to keen observation, has enable him to be
conversant on all the important topics of the past and present. When twenty-two
years of age he accepted a position as manager of a farm, so continuing until
the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in 1861, in the Confederate
service, in Company G, Thirteenth Arkansas Regiment, participating in the
battles of Shiloh, Richmond, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge, New Hope, Resaca, also Peach Tree Creek, Decatur, Jonesboro,
Spring Hill, Franklin and Bentonville. Subsequently, or at the close of the war,
his regiment surrendered to Sherman at Greensboro, N. Carolina, on April 26,
1865. As this sketch will show, Mr. Hodges participated in all of the principal
engagements of the war, in which the Tennessee Army took part. After peace was
declared he returned home, resuming the occupation of farming, and in 1868 was
united in marriage to Miss Mary F, Matthews, a daughter of Lawrence and Lydia A.
(Crawford) Matthews.

Goodspeed Memoirs and Biograhies-1890