Name: gedean10 -- Dean Family

Updated: 06-16-2020 10:06:07. Owner: Gerald E. Dean


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Robert Hodgen Jr.: Birth: 23 APR 1765.

  2. Suzannah Hodgen: Birth: 3 OCT 1767.

  3. Joseph Hodgen: Birth: 8 JAN 1770.

  4. William Hodgen: Birth: 14 MAY 1772.


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Margaret Hodgen: Birth: 1776.

  2. Phebe Hodgen: Birth: 10 OCT 1777.

  3. Isaac Hodgen: Birth: 8 AUG 1779.

  4. Sarah Hodgen: Birth: 7 APR 1781.

  5. JOHN H. HODGEN: Birth: 27 APR 1783 in Virginia. Death: 4 JUN 1859 in Middletown, IA Des Moines Co

  6. Rebecca Hodgen: Birth: 4 NOV 1784.

  7. Elizabeth Hodgen: Birth: 26 JAN 1787.

  8. Samuel LaRue Hodgen: Birth: 30 APR 1791.

  9. Jacob Hodgen: Birth: 1793.

  10. James Hodgen: Birth: 1795.

  11. Jabez Hodgen: Birth: 1800.


Notes
a. Note:   ROBERT HODGEN WAS A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER, HIS FATHER WAS AN ENGLISH SEA CAPTAIN AND HIS MOTHER WAS A DUTCH WOMAN. IN 1784, ROBERT HODGEN AND HIS FAMILY (AND OTHERS INCLUDING LaRUES AND KEITHS) TRAVELED BY FLATBOAT TO KENTUCKY AND LOCATED IN PHILLIP'S FORT. ABOUT A YEAR LATER IN 1785, HE MOVED OUTSIDE THE FORT AND ONTO A FARM LOCATED ON NOLIN CREEK, WHERE HODGENVILLE NOW STANDS, IT BEING LAID OFF ON THE OLD HODGEN FARM.
  HE OWNED A MILL WHICH WAS KNOWN AS HODGEN'S MILL. THE TOWN OF HODGENVILLE, KENTUCKY WAS FOUNDED ON 9 FEB 1818 AND NAMED AFTER ROBERT HODGEN. THE TOWN WAS FOUNDED BY HIS WIFE, SARAH LARUE HODGEN AND HIS SON JOHN HODGEN. (WHEN MY WIFE EVA MAE ORR WENT THERE) WE FOUND A PLAQUE ON THE BUILDING OF THE MODERN WATER WORKS WHICH WAS THE SITE OF THE MILL AND HODGEN'S TAVERN. ON 29 APRIL 1797, LOUIS PHILLIPPE, FUTURE KING OF FRANCE WAS ENTERTAINED IN THE ROBERT HODGEN INN, WHILE HE WAS IN EXILE FROM HIS OWN COUNTRY. (TAKEN FROM THE MATHERS PAPERS OF HODGENVILLE]. ROBERT HODGEN IS BURIED IN THE NOLYNN CHURCH YARD IN HODGENVILLE, KENTUCKY.
  ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BORN ABOUT 3 MILES FROM HODGENVILLE, KENTUCKY ON 12 FEB 1809. WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ASKED WHERE HE WAS BORN, HE WOULD REPLY "HODGENVILLE KENTUCKY".
  ROBERT HODGEN WAS THE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER OF GERALD E. DEAN ON HIS FATHERS SIDE.
  ROBERT HODGEN HAD 12 CHILDREN, ONE OF WHICH, JOHN H. HODGEN, JOHN WAS THE GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER OF GERALD E. DEAN, LORETTA FRANCES AND BARBARA MAE DEAN.
 REFERENCE BOOK: SIX GENERATIONS OF LARUES AND ALLIED FAMILIES, BY OTIS M. MATHERS. COPYRIGHT 1921. SECOND FACSIMILE PRINTING WAS IN AUGUST 1977.
 SOME OF ROBERT HODGEN DECENDANTS ARE: JOHN HODGEN, ISAAC HORATIO HODGEN, LUCY DIEDAMIA HODGEN, CLARINDA VERNA WAYMIRE, HORACE ALBERT DEAN, VERNES FRANKLIN DEAN, GERALD E. DEAN, BARBARA MAE DEAN, LORETTA FRANCIS DEAN AND THEIR DESCENDENTS.
  IN THE YEAR 1784, ROBERT HODGEN WITH HIS FAMILY CAME TO KENTUCKY AND LOCATED IN PHILLIPS' FORT, "NEAR THE KNOLL FROM WHICH NOLIN TOOK THE NAME, AND IN 1785 MOVED ON A FARM ON NOLIN CREEK, WHERE HODGENVILLE NOW STANDS, IT BEING LAID OFF ON THE OLD HODGEN FARM."

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