Johnson-Miami County KS Archives Biographies.....Hogue, S. R. 1837 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 March 19, 2009, 5:19 am Author: Ed Blair (1915) S. R. Hogue, a Civil war veteran and Kansas pioneer, now living retired at Spring Hill, is a native of Illinois. He was born in Warren county, April 21, 1837, and is a son of S. L. and Mary (Hamilton) Hogue, natives of Indiana, who removed to Illinois at a very early date and spent the remainder of their lives in Warren county. The father was a soldier in the Black Hawk war and prominent in early-day politics. He was the first sheriff of Warren county, Illinois, and died in 1841 and his wife passed away while visiting at the home of her son, S. R. Hogue, in Kansas, in 1886. S. R. Hogue was next to the youngest of a family of six children and was only four years old when his father died. He grew to manhood on the little Illinois farm and when thirteen years old his elder brother was married and the chief responsibility of supporting the mother and sisters fell on S. R. He remained at home and continued to manage the farm for his mother and his sister who still remained at home until he was twenty-one years old when he came to Kansas with a party of five others for the purpose of looking the country over with a view of settling here. They drove through from Illinois, the journey requiring six weeks. Mr. Hogue was favorably impressed with the soil and climate and after returning to his Illinois home came back to Kansas the following year and took a claim in Miami county, near the Johnson county line, and lived on this place until 1883 when he sold it. He was here during the stirring days of the border war and on August 1, 1862, he enlisted in Company I, Twelfth regiment, Kansas infantry. During the summer of 1863 his regiment was quartered at Ft. Leavenworth, having spent the winter of that year at Wyandotte. In November, 1863, the regiment was ordered to Ft. Smith, Ark., where they remained until March, 1864, when they were ordered out on what is known as the Camden raid. They had some fighting on the way there where they were supposed to be joined by the Red River expedition. The Red River expedition proved unsuccessful and the juncture with those troops was not made and in the battle of Saline river, which followed, Mr. Hogue was taken prisoner. At that time he ranked as sergeant and was captured while commanding a detail who were carrying the wounded from the field. On account of the heavy timber his detail got too far in advance and were cut off and captured by the Confederates. After his capture Sergeant Hogue learned that the prisoners were to be removed to a Confederate prison in Texas, and he and a comrade named Haight began to lay plans for their escape but when they first planned to do so, Haight was too ill to make the attempt when the time came, but they successfully effected their escape a few days later. They walked twenty miles the first night and forded the Saline river. Mr. Hogue was unable to swim and his comrade pushed him across the river on a log. After many hazardous experiences and narrow escapes they reached the Union lines at Little Rock after three days. They endured many hardships and privations on this trip and to make a successful escape under the conditions was nothing less than miraculous. The ordeal proved too much for Haight's physical constitution and he died a few days after reaching Ft. Smith, where they were transferrred after reaching Little Rock. Mr. Hogue remained with his regiment in Arkansas until after the close of the war and was discharged June 30, 1865, at Little Rock, Ark., and was mustered out at Lawrence, Kan., in July following. He then returned to his wife and girl baby in Miami county, the child having been born while he was in the army and was about a year old. Mr. Rogue walked thirty miles the night he reached home. He was a good soldier and made a brilliant military record and like many others he never fully recovered from the withering effect of disease contracted in southern camps and on the battlefelds. He contracted scurvy while in the service and for eighteen years after the war was a sufferer from that malady. After resuming farming in Miami county he met with many discouraging conditions that confronted the Kansas pioneer. Droughts, grasshoppers and crop failures came in regular routine but he had faith in the country and stuck to it and finally won. In 1877, he was elected manager of the Spring Hill Grange store and capably conducted that business until 1881. He then bought a hardware store in Spring Hill and conducted that business for twenty-four years, during which time he did an extensive business and met with well merited success. In 1904 he sold this business and has since been living retired with the exception of supervising his various interests and investments. He is a large landowner and has 250 acres in Miami county, five miles southeast of Spring Hill, and also owns considerable land in Texas. He is a stockholder and director in the Spring Hill Banking Company, and was president of that institution during the years of 1910 and 1911. Mr. Hogue has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Emily Hogan, to whom he was married in 1860. She was a daughter of David and Elizabeth Hogan, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Indiana, and were early settlers in Illinois, where the father died in 1847 and the mother came to Kansas with her family in 1859. Mrs. Hogue died in 1885, leaving one child, Edith May, married H. R. Sibley, and is now a widow, residing in Kansas City. About a year after his first wife's death, Mr. Hogue married Catherine, daughter of Godfrey and Catherine (Schul) Godfrey, natives of Virginia. To this union have been born three children: Lillah married R. G. Hemenway, Haven, Kan.; Norris S., a druggist, Spring Hill; Rowena L. resides at home. Mr. Hogue is one of the substantial citizens of Johnson county and has a wide acquaintance and many friends. He is a Knights Templar Mason and Mrs. Hogue is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas BY ED BLAIR AUTHOR OF Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches IN ONE VOLUME ILLUSTRATED STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY LAWRENCE, KANSAS 1915 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/johnson/bios/hogue295nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ksfiles/ File size: 6.7 Kb