Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hodges, John C. 1932
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 22 Mar 1932

John C. Hodges Died Monday on Prison Cot

Aged Ionia County Farmer who Admitted Slaying Son-in-Law During Tiff Is Victim
of Cancer at Jackson.

A victim of cancer, a malady with which he was afflicted when sentenced in the
fall of 1930 to serve a life term for the murder of his son-in-law Adelbert H.
Brown near their homes on the North Plains-Lyons township lines, northeast of
Muir, John C. Hodges, 68, Ionia county farmer, died in Jackson prison sanitarium
late Monday afternoon.

News of his death was brought to Ionia by Deputy Sheriff William McKendry, who
with Elmer Wood, had gone to Jackson with an assignment of Michigan reformatory
inmates transferred to the larger institution.  McKendry and Wood were
completing transactions in the prison offices when word was passed along the
aged Ionia man had expired.

Hodges was given life by Circuit Judge Royal A. Hawley upon his admission that
he had fatally shot Brown during a quarrel over family matters on June 27, 1930.
 He had become enraged over certain remarks made by his son-in-law and killed
him after obtaining a revolver from his home, which was located across the
highway from that of Brown.  Brown died shortly afterwards.

Besides his daughter, Mrs. Hettie Brown, Hodges leaves his widow, blind for many
years.


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