HODGES CEMETERY, Smith County, Texas Made available to the USGenWeb Archives by the East Texas Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711 CEMETERY RECORDS OF SMITH COUNTY TEXAS, Volume IV, Southeast Quarter, p. 236. Submitted 15 May 2000 by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net. ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** Located 1/4 mile past Arp overpass on the right, on land owned by Clifford Driver; 50 yards through trees to open field. *Lone stone under cedar tree is that of Jesse Hodges, great-grandfather of Clifford Driver. All others buried there are in unmarked graves. Jesse Hodges' wife Lucindy Jane asked to be buried on the highest hill on their land with a cedar tree planted over her grave. That tree, which was secured from an area which is now Lake Tyler, has been struck by lightning and broken but is still alive and growing. This information is from Clifford Driver as told to Flo Hallowell in January 1986. *HODGES, Jesse W. - 2 Feb 1826 - 12 June 1909 (Civil War insignia on stone) HODGES, Lucindy Jane (BALLEW) - d. 26 Dec 1871 (m. 1l Mar 1852 to Jesse W.) HODGES, Lucindy Jane - b. 19 Nov 1862 - d. about one year of age. **HODGES, Lullabelle Jane - b. 28 Dec 1881 - d. 1885 **HODGES, Albert S. - b. 11 Oct 1883 - d. 1884 **Children of 2nd marriage of Jesse Hodges in 1874 to Mrs. Rachel Gaston COLLINS - 2 teenage children of Collins family who lived in a rent house onthe farm. Believed related, since Jesse's mother was a Collins.