Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Tombstone Tuesday - Hodge

Zephaniah Hodge
1845 - 1939
photo courtesy Hava Hoyle
Zephaniah was born August 5, 1845, in Pennsylvania to John and Julia A. (Evans/Ivans) Hodge. He was a Private in Company B of the 126th Infantry from the state of Illinois during the Civil War. In 1890, he lived in Umatilla County, Oregon. He filed for his pension from Washington State in 1907. He married twice, once to Phoebe Rynearson in Pennsylvania. He then married Mary Jane Tate in Washington. He had several children. He was a resident (inmate) at the Washington Veterans Home in Retsil, where he died on May 5, 1939.





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