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1870 CENSUS: # 45, Buena Vista, Benton Co, OR:
HODGES, Monroe 36, farmer, OH;
Rhoda E 32, MO
Lewis M. 13, OR;
Sarah 10, OR;
Samuel A. 8, OR;
Arthur 6, OR;
Caroloine 2, OR;
Monroe Sr. 81, S.C.,
Harrison 38, IN
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letter and family sheet (Jesse Monroe Hodges) form Elsie Browning, Lebanon, Ore 1/77
"Monroe Hodges, son of Jesse, and Barney Prine of Linn co, went to eastern Ore right after 1870. They founded the town of Prineville. About half of Prineville is built on Monroe Hodges homestead claim."
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1880 United States Federal Census > Oregon > Wasco > Prineville > District 125
12/14 HODGES, Monroe, 46 Raiser of Cattle & Horses OH TN TN
Rhoda E. 42 wife MP KY KY
L.W. 23 son Stock raiser OR OH MO
Samuel 18 son Stock raiser OR OH MO
Arthur 15 son Teacher OR OH MO
Carrie 12 dau OR OH MO
Eddie 5 son OR OH MO
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History of Central Oregon 1905 p 778 Monroe Hodges (biog) A farmer and stockman of Crook county... he
resides at present time in Prineville. His birth occured in Allen Co, Ohio on Dec 18, 1833, his parents being Monroe and Catherine (Stanley) Hodges....Our subject drove an ox-team across the plains from Missouri, Platte county, to Benton Co, Oregon, being then but fourteen years of age... went to the mines at Jacksonville, for a year continued farming on home place until 1871... in 1873 built the first Hotel and livery stable in Prineville...platted town of Prineville in 1876....On January 13, 1855 Mr Hodges married Rhoda Wilson, who was born in Missouri on March 6, 1837...crossed plains with her father in 1853... Mrs
Hodges died July 12, 1898.
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WPA Historical Records Survey
Benton Co, Oregon
Mark Phinney
Andrew Jackson HODGES
"Monroe Hodges Jr., another uncle, went to Eastern Oregon and laid out the town of Prineville"
"The children of my uncle, Monroe HODGES, were Sally, Lewis, Samuel, Carrie, Arthur and Frederick."
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Name: Hodges, Monroe
County: Crook
Death Date: 04 Jun 1905
Certificate: 448
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• Married: 20 FEB 1856 in Benton Co., OR ⁴

1. Lewis Marion HODGES b: DEC 1855 in Benton Co., OR
2. Frederick HODGES b: AFT 1856 in Benton Co., OR
3. Sarah K. HODGES b: 12 JUL 1859 in Benton Co., OR
4. Samuel A. HODGES b: 1862 in Benton Co., OR
5. Arthur HODGES b: 14 MAR 1865 in Benton Co., OR
6. Caroline HODGES b: ABT 1868 in Benton Co., OR

1. Title: 1850 Census Benton Co, OR
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   Source Medium: Book
   
2. Title: Email
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   Text: Ken Robinson <krobinson6@earthlink.net>
3. Title: Oregon Death Records
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   Source Medium: Book
   
4. Footnote: Benton County, OR Marriage Records