Samuel Eli ( 1857- 1928 ) and Lurania Williams Hodges

Two sons of Samuel & "Luraney" Hodges, Edgar and Brinson c. 1950 
in front of Seaborn Hodges' Log Home
   

Home of Samuel & "Luraney" Hodges

Jean Powell Hodges ( age 19) 
m. G. B. August 24,1944 

G. B. Hodges, Jr. 
1944 (age 21)

Samuel & Lurania Williams Hodges c.1900 

Samuel Eli Hodges (July 1, 1857 - July 25, 1928) was the son of Seaborn R.  Hodges and Elisabeth Anne Hendricks.  Sam married Lurania Williams, the daughter of Altamond Williams.  As Sam prospered he built  a large wooden home (now restored) adjacent to their old log home with wooden floors on Rogers Bridge Road two miles east of Claxton.  The home place had a well with a "sweep".  The sweep was a thirty foot long log that had weights on one end that was used to draw water.  He had mules and buggies and used horse drawn plows and planters for farming the land.


Sam and "Luraney's" children were:  Linton Hendrix (b. 1889 m. Stella Jones: Harold, Marilyn), B. Terrell (b. 1890) S. Roach (b. 1892 m. Louise Mitchell: no), George Brinson (b.1894), Pearl Elizabeth (b. 1896 m. Thomas W. Smith: Watson, Edith, Melba), Daisy  (b. 1898 m. R.Cecil Rogers: Floreine, Alton, Reginald), Edgar (b. 1901 m. Katie Hendley: James, Betty, Ouida), Mattie  (b.1903 m. Leroy Sutton: Marjorie), Doll A.(b.1905 m. Gordon Hendley: Charles, Virgil, Gloria), Sally Kate (b. 1907 m. Homer Clay Jackson: Henry), Ottis Altamond (b. 1909 m. Helen "Bud" Durrence: Neil, Jane, Dan), Samuel Eli "S.E.", Jr. (b. 1911 m. Jewel Branch: John, Sarah, Harry, Jerry), Ida Mae (b. 1916 m. Merrill Devine:Jack, Diane).

Benjamin Terrell Hodges was the second child of Sam and "Luraney.  Children of Terrell and his wife Gussie Dyess were Sadie Bell (b. 1915 m. Edwin T. Presson: no), Fleming Chester (b. 1917 m. 1stHelen Thomason: Larry, Lin 2nd Annie Smith Jennings: Nelson, Tift, Amy), Miriam Elizabeth (b. 1921 m. Thomas Fredrick Kicklighter: Thomas, Jr., Gail Elizabeth), Benjamin Franklin Hodges   (b. 1923 m. Jennie Rae Small:  Mona Rae, Ben Jr.), Thomas Jackson (b. 1927 m. Lavada Jones: Jack, Sandra, Rebecca) and Wade Terrell (b. 1930 m. Mary Frances Sapp:  Kenneth, Robert Joseph (Bobby Joe).

George "Brinson" Hodges, Sr. was the fourth son of Sam and "Luraney". He grew up working on the family farm, joined the forces in World War I at Fort Gordon in 1918, was sent to France where he was injured when he fell off a horse and returned October 25, 1918.  Brinson married Ida Bell, daughter of Levi Holmes Kennedy and Miranda Deloach.  "G. B." was born in 1923 and Holmes W.  in 1926.  Brinson was a farmer until Holmes built a large three story home on Highway 301 South of Claxton in 1946.  Brinson purchased the home for the Traveler's Inn and built Traveler's Inn Restaurant next door in 1946.  Then he added the G. B. Hodges Motel which he ran until his death on March, 23, 1982.  He also owned numerous tracts of farm land, lots and rental properties. He is buried near the Tabernacle at Brewton Cemetery in Hagan, GA. Children of George Brinson Hodges, Sr. and his wife Ida Bell Kennedy were "G. B." Jr. (b. 1923 m. Jean Powell: Nancy Jo, George Ricky) and Holmes W. (b.1926 m. Mary Ann Durrence:  Holmes Edward.,  William Craig).



References:  George "Brinson" Hodges, Sr. , G.B. Hodges, Jr. Interviews. Family Bible of Samuel and Lurania Hodges Bible in possession of Lucille Hodges, correspondence with Sadie Hodges Presson .