~NOTE: BOOK: Kentucky: a pioneer commonwealth, publ. by Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1885, 452 pages
Look at Chapter VIII, page 116, 117, etc. for information as to the lives of the Kentucky pioneers up to the time of Kentucky separation from Virginia.

~NOTE: July 1, 2009 - Cannot find any date of death for Elijah Hodge in either Kentucky or Ohio

~NOTE: http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/southeastconnections/page81.html
KNOX COUNTY KENTUCKY MARRIAGES
1824
Elijah Hodge & Patsy Nicholson January 9, 1824
THE ABOVE SITE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.................

~NOTE: ancestry.com
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=eamky&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&msT=0&gss=ms_r_db-2089&gsfn=Elijah&gsln=Hodge&ne=2
KENTUCKY MARRIAGES 1802-1850
Elijah Hodge married Patsy Nicholson Jan 9, 1824 in Knox Co., KY.
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Shadrack Hodge married Rebecca Furgerson Dec 10, 1811 in Clay Co., KY (Have found other information in Ancestry Family Trees that Shadrack married Rebecca Tugman - same marriage date.)
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~NOTE: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kygrant/granthistory100years.htm
Information here on GRANT COUNTY, KY.
The main portion of the territory that now constitutes Grant county was prior to the war of the Revolution, a part of Fincastle County, Virginia. At that early date all of what now constitutes the proud Commonwealth of Kentucky was embraced within the confines of a single county, as well as contiguous territory which was later incorporated into the boundaries of other states. About the close of the War of Independence, or to be historically accurate, in 1776, Fincastle county was subdivided into three counties-Washington, Montgomery and Kentucky, Grant County being a part of the latter. In 1780, Kentucky County was divided into three counties-Jefferson, Lincoln and Fayette, and Grant became part of Fayette. Nine years later the county of Woodford was formed and Grant County was embraced within her territory.
BEFORE ANOTHER CHANGE WAS MADE KENTUCKY WAS ADMITTED INTO THE UNION AS A STATE, AND IN SEPTEMBER, 1792, GRANT COUNTY BECAME A VOTING PRECINCT IN THE NEW COUNTY OF SCOTT, WHICH HAD JUST BEEN CREATED. In 1794 Bracken County was created and Grant County was made a part of her territory, but not for long, as Campbell County was organized two years later and Grant County changed hands again and at the next secession of the Legislature the county of Pendleton was created and Grant was joined to her. Thus matters rested for twenty-two years. All of the time the county was slowly increasing in population and wealth, and as the inconvenience of her people attending courts and transacting their business at the far away county-seat on the banks of the Licking became more and more apparent, the necessity for a new county was evident to her people, and they went to work with a will to get it. The establishment of a new county became a vital issue in the election of a Representative in 1819. The mother county, Pendleton, was reluctant to give up so much of her virgin territory. Those favoring the new county brought forth their candidate, William Littell, an uncle of James A. Littell, who lives north of town at the present time. The opposing candidates were Elijah McClanahan and Dr. John Bennett. After a heated and bitter campaign Mr. Littell was successful over his two opponents, winning by a bare plurality of forty votes. He had promised his people if elected that he would secure for them a new county, and never did a faithful servant set to work with more zeal and determination to accomplish this end than did this farming, school-teacher Representative. He introduced his bill to create a new county on the first day of the Legislative session in 1820 and daily and hourly he hammered it into his fellow members that he had come to the Legislature as the Representative of his people for the sole and exclusive purpose of having the new county created. His rough eloquence and persistence won in the end, and on the 12th day of February, 1820, he had the pleasure of witnessing the Governor as he signed his bill creating the new county of Grant.
Grant County was the sixty-seventh county formed in the state, and contained then all of the territory now embraced within its limits excepting a small strip added from Campbell County in 1830, a larger strip secured from the county of Harrison in 1833, and a small cut-off from Boone County in 1868, and a very considerable territory cut off from Owen in 1876.


~NOTE: ancestry.com
Townships reported on the 1850 US Federal Census:
Please choose a township in Grant:
Crittenden
District 2
Not Stated
Williamstown
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1850 United States Federal Census Enumerated Sept 21, 1850
No Township Listed
Dwelling #870, Family #871
Name: Elizah Hodge (The original copy could have been misinterpreted. I see Elijah??Shirley)
Age: 54
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1796
Birth Place: Kentucky
Gender: Male
Home in 1850: Grant, Kentucky
Household Members: Name Age
Elizah Hodge 54, farmer, cannot read/write
Martha Hodge 58, b. KY, cannot read/write
Garrett Hodge 20, b. KY, cannot read/write
Margarett Hodge 18, KY
George Hodge 11, b. KY
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1860 United States Federal Census Enumerated Aug 23, 1860
This census does not give relationship indications..............Shirley
I have learned that Benjamin F. Hodge was a son of Elijan and Martha...........Shirley
Name: Elijah Hodge
Age in 1860: 67
Birth Year: abt 1793
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1860: Grant, Kentucky
Gender: Male
Post Office: Williamstown
Household Members: Name Age
Benjamin F Hodge 24, head, mail carrier, personal $475, b. KY
Serrilda Hodge 20, probably wife, b. KY
Ellen Hodge 4, b. KY
Delia Hodge 2, 2, b. KY
Elijah Hodge 67, occupation looks like 'horse jockey', personal $100, b. KY
Martha Hodge 73, probably wife of Elijah
Problem here............Elijah was, as reported in the 1850 census, 54 and Martha 58. In this census (just 10 years later), Elijah is 67 and Martha 73. This Benjamin is 24 and would have been only 14 in the 1850 census and yet he is not listed as a child of Elijah and Martha in 1850.. But then maybe Benjamin is not their child but some other relation...................
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This seems to be the same family as above. When did they migrate to Greene Co? He is now known as Frank instead of Benjamin F. Hodge................Shirley
1870 United States Federal Census Enumerated June 7, 1870
Dwelling #202
Name: Frank Hodge
Birth Year: abt 1835
Age in 1870: 35
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1870: Silver Creek, Greene, Ohio
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: $250
Post Office: Jamestown
Household Members:
Name Age
Frank Hodge 35
Sarelda Hodge 28, keeping house, b. KY
The following all b. OH
Ellen Hodge 13, attending school
Delia Hodge 11, ditto
Willie Hodge 9, ditto
Isabel Hodge 7, ditto
Edgar Hodge 1

• Married: 9 Jan 1824 in Knox Co., KY

1. Lucinda HODGE b: 10 Jun 1824 in Kentucky
2. Garrett HODGE b: 1830 in Kentucky
3. Margarett HODGE b: 1832 in Kentucky
4. Benjamin F. HODGE b: 1836 in Kentucky
5. George HODGE b: 1839 in Kentucky

1. Title: CENSUS - 1860
   Note: Grant Co., KY - Age 67
2. Title: INTERNET - Ancestry.com
   Note: HODGE-MCHARGUE-NEWMAN-KING - Owner: sbrock187
3. Title: CENSUS - 1860
   Note: Filed 1860 Census in Grant Co., KY - age 67