The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: James
Surname: Hodges

Gender: Male

Birth date: 5 July 1828

Birth place: Llanmartin, Monmouthshire, Wales

Death date: 25 September 1866

Death place: Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States

Burial date: September 1866

Burial place: Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States

Father: James Amos Hodges
Mother: Margaret Phillips

Siblings

Abraham Hodges

Rebecca Pask (1831-1865)

Married 18 July 1850 in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales *Casnewydd, Monmouthshire, Wales

Children

Hodges Jr, James

1851 UK Census	Hamlet of Llandevand, Monmouthshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1861 UK Census	Hamlet Llandevand, Monmouthshire, Wales	Extract	Image

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 06 June 1866 aboard the ship St. Mark.
Arrived in New York, Kings, New York, United States on 24 July 1866.

"Pioneer Database," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org: accessed 12 February 2021), James Hodges entry, Andrew H. Scott Company (1866).

"Saints By Sea," database and images (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu: accessed 12 February 2021), James Hodges entry, age 36, arrived 24 July 1866 on the St. Mark.

Hodges, James 1828 - Biography

James's wife, Rebecca, died on 25 April 1865 in Wales. He then sailed to New York in 1866 and died that same year in Green River, Wyoming. James and Rebecca's son James immigrated to Utah in 1871 and assisted in getting his uncle Abraham Hodges and his family to Utah. See the biography for Abraham Hodges for further information about the Hodges and the Stedders.

Thanks to Kermit L. Hodges, Box 84, Dayton, Idaho 83232, for the biography of James Hodges. Email - kaymhodges@juno.co