GREENWOOD
CEMETERY-COLUMBIA TENNESSEE
HODGE, John, 14 May
1789 - 10 Oct 1825. (s/o Joseph & Euphemia Hodge.) Inscription that can be read:
"JOHN HODGE was born the . . . . . . departed this life on . . . . . October
1825"
His birth year needs to
be changed to 1793. The family Bibe page says it is 1793. In addition, the year
you have of 1789 does not work with his younger brother, Robert, being born in
February 1790...that is just 9
months after John's birth...possible, but highly unlikely.
Per Diane Gravlee via E-mail to Mary Bob McClain Richardson 1 Jan 2014
Diane as a rule we on this site use the dates according to the tombstone
because those
can survive long after any paper records are gone. We do that unless we get
overwhelming evidence to the contrary. There are two problems in applying this
procedure in this case, (1) we don't have a (double checked) proven record of the
tombstone (dates unreadable above and on findagrave.com) inscription nor (2) do we
have that for the family Bible even though your presentation evidence is strong. In light
of
that contradiction I am staying with the original information which can be
verified against a book as noted on this site. Also I can see a faint
1789 in the graphic above. So the reader can make up their own mind, but I
suppose if your doing genealogy you will use 1793. C.
Wayne Austin 2 Jan 2014
Per Diane Gravlee via E-mail to Mary Bob McClain Richardson
Photo & commentary posted by C.Wayne Austin 2 Jan 2014.
