Troup County GaArchives News.....Sherrard HODGES celebrates his 100th Birthday August 1908
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The Roanoke Leader (13 Jan 1909) Via The Dallas, Texas Semi-Weekly News August 1908
Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, January 13, 1909

A HUNDRED YEARS OLD;  MR. SHERRARD HODGES, FORMERLY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, 
CELEBRATED HIS ONE HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY IN TEXAS LAST YEAR

Mr. R.T. Hodges handed us some days ago a copy of the Dallas, Texas Semi-
Weekly News, published some months ago, containing an account of the 
celebration of the one hundredth annivesary of the birth of his father, Mr. 
Sherrard Hodges.  The senior Mr. Hodges formerly lived in Randolph County but 
now resides near Cooledge, Texas.  We reproduce the article as a matter of 
interest to the Randolph friends of the venerable old gentleman:

Colledge, Texas,  Aug. 5th - - - Quite a number of Masons with their families 
yesterday repaired to the home of G.W. Hodges near this place and partook of 
an excellent dinner.  The occasion was the celebration of the 100th 
anniversary of the birth of the host's father, "Uncle" Sherrard Hodges, whose 
picture is given here.  He was born in Troup County, Georgia on August 4, 1808 
and was married to Miss Mary Armour in 1835; he moved to Randolph County, 
Alabama in 1837, where he resided until 1892, when he came to Texas.  His wife 
died in 1896 since which time he has lived with his son, G.W. Hodges.

He was made a Mason in 1866 by Putman Lodge No. 212 at Louina, Ala., and is a 
charter member of the Armour Lodge No. 780 of this place and is perhaps the 
oldest living Mason in Texas.

He is remarkably active for one of his years and takes pleasure in relating 
the adventures of his early life.  He has good health and bids fair to be 
present at a few more annual celebrations of the kind yet."

(Transcribed by Candace Teal Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 October 3, 2005)

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