Bio: F. Crawford Hodges, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source:Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
**********************************************
 


===


===F. Crawford Hodges, in addition to being an excellent farmer of 
Webster Par., Louisiana., is also a successful merchant.  He was born 
in Randolph County, Ga., on June 1, 1847, to Hon. Edmond W. Hodges, 
a native of South Carolina, who removed to Georgia with his father, 
Matthew Hodges, in an early day, and in that State grew to mature 
years, and married Miss Mary McGowan, a Georgian by birth.  Mr. Hodges 
became will known in Georgia, and for several terms represented his
 county in the State Legislature.  He removed to Louisiana in 1858, 
and settled in Cotton Valley, in what is now Webster Par., Louisianawhere 
he opened up a large plantation, being the owner of some sixty slaves 
before the war.  On this plantation he passed from life in July, 1867, 
his wife having passed from life some two years earlier.  For about 
one year prior to his death Mr. Hodges had engaged in the mercantile 
business in Cotton Valley.  Their family of four sons and three 
daughters grew to mature years, but one daughter is now deceased.  
F. C. Hodges grew to manhood in this parish, and when only sixteen 
years of age, or in 1864, entered the Confederate Army and served 
until the close of the war, in the reserve corps, being a lieutenant.  
After the termination of the war Mr. Hodges returned home and spent
 some three years in school, then was in his father's mercantile 
establishment until the death of the latter, when he spent another 
year in school.  In 1870 he and a brother formed a partnership and 
engaged in merchandising at Cotton Valley, but at the end of one year 
the brother withdrew and F. Crawford continued alone up to 1875.  
The then closed out the business and engaged in farming exclusively 
for five years.  In 1880 he again engaged in mercantile pursuits, 
and this has received much of his attention up to the present time, 
his stock of goods being large and his patronage quite large.  He was 
married at Minden, La., on December 17, 1873, to Miss Addie Reynolds, 
a daughter of A. J. Reynolds, now the proprietor of the City Hotel at 
Shreveport.  Mrs. Hodges was born and reared in Minden, and was 
educated in the Minden Female College.  Five children have been born 
to their union: Floyd R., Mary L., George E., Maggie D. and Andrew J.  
Mr. and Mrs. Hodges are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South, and he is a Royal Arch Mason.