Copy of a press notice from Brown-Dawson Funeral Home, Hamilton, Ohio:
Services by: Rev. Buckner Bowling, Pastor - 1st United Baptist Church, 11th St of Hamilton, OH
Spouse - John H. Hodge
Sons - Louis Poff - Marshall, OH
John Hodge - Louisville, KY
R, J. Hodge - Hamilton, OH
Earl Garland - Phoenix, AZ
Daughters - Georgia Johnson - Louisville, KY
Minnie Fredricks - Preceeded in Death 1949 (?)
Brothers - Bill Garland - Alabama (This is incorrect,; Bill is actually a son - a full brother to Earl Garland and a half-sibling to the other children. Their father had the last name 'Miller'; but they were given up to be raised by another family and took the name 'Garland'.)
Milt Harbin - Pinevile, KY
Harrison Harbin - Harlan, KY
Sisters - Haley Morgan - Richhill, MO
17 Grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren (and I am one of those 2!)
Burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Hamilton, Butler County, OH - Section CC, North, #566
The Miller/Garland boys were born from a relationship where Rebecca lived with a man - they were never married; all of this was in a time when he was married and his wife was institutionalized - there were no options to divorce her and marry Rebecca.
From my handwritten note dictated to me by Georgia Mae Poff, my grandmother, the following: Rebecca signed over guardianship of her children about 1921; grandma was thereafter in the home of Joe and Zourie (Missouri) Johnson Owens. She called them 'Grand Joe' and 'Ma Zourie. There had been so much friction in the home after Rebecca married John Hodge, that her oldest children left to live with others or struck out on their own, John Hodge was a jealous man and very selfish; he wanted nothing to do with any of Rebecca's other children and didn't want 'his' food to be given to any of them. It was an fortunate meeting with Joe Owens - he needed someone to help his wife with chores in return for a place to live so it was arranged with Rebecca that Georgia would go to live with them. Ma Zourie (Missouri) Johnson Owens was one of 8 sisters; and Georgia would meet one of her nephews - Guy Mack Johnson - the son of her sister Ida Mae (Idomy) Johnson and later they would marry.
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There are harsh words for John Hodge, but recently I heard something new about him - something I never knew.
John Hodge went off to World War 1, and when he came back, he was never the same.
He had not been a drinker (at least not to excess), but upon his return, he was a changed man.
PTSD or exposure to the chemical gasses or just the horrors of war, who can really know, and the John Hodge his family and other people knew never came home.
----------
Excerpts from the Mountain Echo Newspaper by the Laurel County Historical Society 1873 - 1887
April 15, 1881
Born to the wife of Milton Harbin on the 10th inst, a girl, Rebecca Adeline.
Residence at the time of her death - 530 Marshall Avenue, Hamilton, OH; I went to the area and discovered there were no houses there and the entire area was slated for a construction project for the local university. Aunt Jackie said that the 'house' was little more than a hovel, a very tiny and ramshackle place - probably contributing to Rebecca's poor health and decline. She was age 73 at the time of her passing. She died at Mercy Hospital, Hamilton, Butler County, OH, after a five day stay. Ohio Departement of Health Death Certificate #0901, #43.
I was born on 12 November 1954 and this is my great grandmother, She passed away just months later on 22 January 1955 and in her obituary it lists great-grandchildren, presumably I am one of them. While I was working for a company, Michael's Arts and Crafts, I often had to travel for district meetings - and while I was going to a district meeting in Cincinnati, I tried to find my great-grandmother's grave. I called my Aunt Jackie (Jacqueline Johnson), who was her grandchild and asked about where she might be buried. After a few phone calls to cemeteries in Hamilton, Greenwood Cemetery, I got directions and took off after the meeting to get to the cemetery before it closed. I made it, but once I got there discovered there was no exact map to her plot. They told me at the office what section she was in, but it was an older section without an exact map. And I figured I would not find it in time, but I drove over anyhow. I said a quick, silent prayer and slowly drove around the loop that encompassed the entire section. And then I just stopped and got out of the car to begin a search on foot. As I walked between the stones, I just kept looking, but stopped and went back to the car. Then I walked across the lane to the stone facing me where I parked - it said Rebecca Hodge. As I gazed at the stone, suddenly it came to me! I had been looking for Harbin or Poff! But, of course, she had remarried and the name was Hodge! And yes, I had driven around the section's only lane, then stopped and parked exactly ACROSS from her monument, I just hadn't recognized it at first. There were many floral items there; it was just after Mother's Day and members of her family that lived in the area had probably come to pay their respects. By all accounts, Rebecca was a wonderful woman who had a very hard life - left as a widow with young children and then later having more children in a relationship that would go nowhere and finally marriage to John Hodge, an alcoholic. But I was thankful to have found her monument and after a prayer of thanks and cleaning around her stone, I took some photos just before I had to leave.
Services by: Rev. Buckner Bowling, Pastor - 1st United Baptist Church, 11th St of Hamilton, OH
Spouse - John H. Hodge
Sons - Louis Poff - Marshall, OH
John Hodge - Louisville, KY
R, J. Hodge - Hamilton, OH
Earl Garland - Phoenix, AZ
Daughters - Georgia Johnson - Louisville, KY
Minnie Fredricks - Preceeded in Death 1949 (?)
Brothers - Bill Garland - Alabama (This is incorrect,; Bill is actually a son - a full brother to Earl Garland and a half-sibling to the other children. Their father had the last name 'Miller'; but they were given up to be raised by another family and took the name 'Garland'.)
Milt Harbin - Pinevile, KY
Harrison Harbin - Harlan, KY
Sisters - Haley Morgan - Richhill, MO
17 Grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren (and I am one of those 2!)
Burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Hamilton, Butler County, OH - Section CC, North, #566
The Miller/Garland boys were born from a relationship where Rebecca lived with a man - they were never married; all of this was in a time when he was married and his wife was institutionalized - there were no options to divorce her and marry Rebecca.
From my handwritten note dictated to me by Georgia Mae Poff, my grandmother, the following: Rebecca signed over guardianship of her children about 1921; grandma was thereafter in the home of Joe and Zourie (Missouri) Johnson Owens. She called them 'Grand Joe' and 'Ma Zourie. There had been so much friction in the home after Rebecca married John Hodge, that her oldest children left to live with others or struck out on their own, John Hodge was a jealous man and very selfish; he wanted nothing to do with any of Rebecca's other children and didn't want 'his' food to be given to any of them. It was an fortunate meeting with Joe Owens - he needed someone to help his wife with chores in return for a place to live so it was arranged with Rebecca that Georgia would go to live with them. Ma Zourie (Missouri) Johnson Owens was one of 8 sisters; and Georgia would meet one of her nephews - Guy Mack Johnson - the son of her sister Ida Mae (Idomy) Johnson and later they would marry.
----------
There are harsh words for John Hodge, but recently I heard something new about him - something I never knew.
John Hodge went off to World War 1, and when he came back, he was never the same.
He had not been a drinker (at least not to excess), but upon his return, he was a changed man.
PTSD or exposure to the chemical gasses or just the horrors of war, who can really know, and the John Hodge his family and other people knew never came home.
----------
Excerpts from the Mountain Echo Newspaper by the Laurel County Historical Society 1873 - 1887
April 15, 1881
Born to the wife of Milton Harbin on the 10th inst, a girl, Rebecca Adeline.
Residence at the time of her death - 530 Marshall Avenue, Hamilton, OH; I went to the area and discovered there were no houses there and the entire area was slated for a construction project for the local university. Aunt Jackie said that the 'house' was little more than a hovel, a very tiny and ramshackle place - probably contributing to Rebecca's poor health and decline. She was age 73 at the time of her passing. She died at Mercy Hospital, Hamilton, Butler County, OH, after a five day stay. Ohio Departement of Health Death Certificate #0901, #43.
I was born on 12 November 1954 and this is my great grandmother, She passed away just months later on 22 January 1955 and in her obituary it lists great-grandchildren, presumably I am one of them. While I was working for a company, Michael's Arts and Crafts, I often had to travel for district meetings - and while I was going to a district meeting in Cincinnati, I tried to find my great-grandmother's grave. I called my Aunt Jackie (Jacqueline Johnson), who was her grandchild and asked about where she might be buried. After a few phone calls to cemeteries in Hamilton, Greenwood Cemetery, I got directions and took off after the meeting to get to the cemetery before it closed. I made it, but once I got there discovered there was no exact map to her plot. They told me at the office what section she was in, but it was an older section without an exact map. And I figured I would not find it in time, but I drove over anyhow. I said a quick, silent prayer and slowly drove around the loop that encompassed the entire section. And then I just stopped and got out of the car to begin a search on foot. As I walked between the stones, I just kept looking, but stopped and went back to the car. Then I walked across the lane to the stone facing me where I parked - it said Rebecca Hodge. As I gazed at the stone, suddenly it came to me! I had been looking for Harbin or Poff! But, of course, she had remarried and the name was Hodge! And yes, I had driven around the section's only lane, then stopped and parked exactly ACROSS from her monument, I just hadn't recognized it at first. There were many floral items there; it was just after Mother's Day and members of her family that lived in the area had probably come to pay their respects. By all accounts, Rebecca was a wonderful woman who had a very hard life - left as a widow with young children and then later having more children in a relationship that would go nowhere and finally marriage to John Hodge, an alcoholic. But I was thankful to have found her monument and after a prayer of thanks and cleaning around her stone, I took some photos just before I had to leave.
Copy of a press notice from Brown-Dawson Funeral Home, Hamilton, Ohio:
Services by: Rev. Buckner Bowling, Pastor - 1st United Baptist Church, 11th St of Hamilton, OH
Spouse - John H. Hodge
Sons - Louis Poff - Marshall, OH
John Hodge - Louisville, KY
R, J. Hodge - Hamilton, OH
Earl Garland - Phoenix, AZ
Daughters - Georgia Johnson - Louisville, KY
Minnie Fredricks - Preceeded in Death 1949 (?)
Brothers - Bill Garland - Alabama (This is incorrect,; Bill is actually a son - a full brother to Earl Garland and a half-sibling to the other children. Their father had the last name 'Miller'; but they were given up to be raised by another family and took the name 'Garland'.)
Milt Harbin - Pinevile, KY
Harrison Harbin - Harlan, KY
Sisters - Haley Morgan - Richhill, MO
17 Grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren (and I am one of those 2!)
Burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Hamilton, Butler County, OH - Section CC, North, #566
The Miller/Garland boys were born from a relationship where Rebecca lived with a man - they were never married; all of this was in a time when he was married and his wife was institutionalized - there were no options to divorce her and marry Rebecca.
From my handwritten note dictated to me by Georgia Mae Poff, my grandmother, the following: Rebecca signed over guardianship of her children about 1921; grandma was thereafter in the home of Joe and Zourie (Missouri) Johnson Owens. She called them 'Grand Joe' and 'Ma Zourie. There had been so much friction in the home after Rebecca married John Hodge, that her oldest children left to live with others or struck out on their own, John Hodge was a jealous man and very selfish; he wanted nothing to do with any of Rebecca's other children and didn't want 'his' food to be given to any of them. It was an fortunate meeting with Joe Owens - he needed someone to help his wife with chores in return for a place to live so it was arranged with Rebecca that Georgia would go to live with them. Ma Zourie (Missouri) Johnson Owens was one of 8 sisters; and Georgia would meet one of her nephews - Guy Mack Johnson - the son of her sister Ida Mae (Idomy) Johnson and later they would marry.
----------
There are harsh words for John Hodge, but recently I heard something new about him - something I never knew.
John Hodge went off to World War 1, and when he came back, he was never the same.
He had not been a drinker (at least not to excess), but upon his return, he was a changed man.
PTSD or exposure to the chemical gasses or just the horrors of war, who can really know, and the John Hodge his family and other people knew never came home.
----------
Excerpts from the Mountain Echo Newspaper by the Laurel County Historical Society 1873 - 1887
April 15, 1881
Born to the wife of Milton Harbin on the 10th inst, a girl, Rebecca Adeline.
Residence at the time of her death - 530 Marshall Avenue, Hamilton, OH; I went to the area and discovered there were no houses there and the entire area was slated for a construction project for the local university. Aunt Jackie said that the 'house' was little more than a hovel, a very tiny and ramshackle place - probably contributing to Rebecca's poor health and decline. She was age 73 at the time of her passing. She died at Mercy Hospital, Hamilton, Butler County, OH, after a five day stay. Ohio Departement of Health Death Certificate #0901, #43.
I was born on 12 November 1954 and this is my great grandmother, She passed away just months later on 22 January 1955 and in her obituary it lists great-grandchildren, presumably I am one of them. While I was working for a company, Michael's Arts and Crafts, I often had to travel for district meetings - and while I was going to a district meeting in Cincinnati, I tried to find my great-grandmother's grave. I called my Aunt Jackie (Jacqueline Johnson), who was her grandchild and asked about where she might be buried. After a few phone calls to cemeteries in Hamilton, Greenwood Cemetery, I got directions and took off after the meeting to get to the cemetery before it closed. I made it, but once I got there discovered there was no exact map to her plot. They told me at the office what section she was in, but it was an older section without an exact map. And I figured I would not find it in time, but I drove over anyhow. I said a quick, silent prayer and slowly drove around the loop that encompassed the entire section. And then I just stopped and got out of the car to begin a search on foot. As I walked between the stones, I just kept looking, but stopped and went back to the car. Then I walked across the lane to the stone facing me where I parked - it said Rebecca Hodge. As I gazed at the stone, suddenly it came to me! I had been looking for Harbin or Poff! But, of course, she had remarried and the name was Hodge! And yes, I had driven around the section's only lane, then stopped and parked exactly ACROSS from her monument, I just hadn't recognized it at first. There were many floral items there; it was just after Mother's Day and members of her family that lived in the area had probably come to pay their respects. By all accounts, Rebecca was a wonderful woman who had a very hard life - left as a widow with young children and then later having more children in a relationship that would go nowhere and finally marriage to John Hodge, an alcoholic. But I was thankful to have found her monument and after a prayer of thanks and cleaning around her stone, I took some photos just before I had to leave.
Services by: Rev. Buckner Bowling, Pastor - 1st United Baptist Church, 11th St of Hamilton, OH
Spouse - John H. Hodge
Sons - Louis Poff - Marshall, OH
John Hodge - Louisville, KY
R, J. Hodge - Hamilton, OH
Earl Garland - Phoenix, AZ
Daughters - Georgia Johnson - Louisville, KY
Minnie Fredricks - Preceeded in Death 1949 (?)
Brothers - Bill Garland - Alabama (This is incorrect,; Bill is actually a son - a full brother to Earl Garland and a half-sibling to the other children. Their father had the last name 'Miller'; but they were given up to be raised by another family and took the name 'Garland'.)
Milt Harbin - Pinevile, KY
Harrison Harbin - Harlan, KY
Sisters - Haley Morgan - Richhill, MO
17 Grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren (and I am one of those 2!)
Burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Hamilton, Butler County, OH - Section CC, North, #566
The Miller/Garland boys were born from a relationship where Rebecca lived with a man - they were never married; all of this was in a time when he was married and his wife was institutionalized - there were no options to divorce her and marry Rebecca.
From my handwritten note dictated to me by Georgia Mae Poff, my grandmother, the following: Rebecca signed over guardianship of her children about 1921; grandma was thereafter in the home of Joe and Zourie (Missouri) Johnson Owens. She called them 'Grand Joe' and 'Ma Zourie. There had been so much friction in the home after Rebecca married John Hodge, that her oldest children left to live with others or struck out on their own, John Hodge was a jealous man and very selfish; he wanted nothing to do with any of Rebecca's other children and didn't want 'his' food to be given to any of them. It was an fortunate meeting with Joe Owens - he needed someone to help his wife with chores in return for a place to live so it was arranged with Rebecca that Georgia would go to live with them. Ma Zourie (Missouri) Johnson Owens was one of 8 sisters; and Georgia would meet one of her nephews - Guy Mack Johnson - the son of her sister Ida Mae (Idomy) Johnson and later they would marry.
----------
There are harsh words for John Hodge, but recently I heard something new about him - something I never knew.
John Hodge went off to World War 1, and when he came back, he was never the same.
He had not been a drinker (at least not to excess), but upon his return, he was a changed man.
PTSD or exposure to the chemical gasses or just the horrors of war, who can really know, and the John Hodge his family and other people knew never came home.
----------
Excerpts from the Mountain Echo Newspaper by the Laurel County Historical Society 1873 - 1887
April 15, 1881
Born to the wife of Milton Harbin on the 10th inst, a girl, Rebecca Adeline.
Residence at the time of her death - 530 Marshall Avenue, Hamilton, OH; I went to the area and discovered there were no houses there and the entire area was slated for a construction project for the local university. Aunt Jackie said that the 'house' was little more than a hovel, a very tiny and ramshackle place - probably contributing to Rebecca's poor health and decline. She was age 73 at the time of her passing. She died at Mercy Hospital, Hamilton, Butler County, OH, after a five day stay. Ohio Departement of Health Death Certificate #0901, #43.
I was born on 12 November 1954 and this is my great grandmother, She passed away just months later on 22 January 1955 and in her obituary it lists great-grandchildren, presumably I am one of them. While I was working for a company, Michael's Arts and Crafts, I often had to travel for district meetings - and while I was going to a district meeting in Cincinnati, I tried to find my great-grandmother's grave. I called my Aunt Jackie (Jacqueline Johnson), who was her grandchild and asked about where she might be buried. After a few phone calls to cemeteries in Hamilton, Greenwood Cemetery, I got directions and took off after the meeting to get to the cemetery before it closed. I made it, but once I got there discovered there was no exact map to her plot. They told me at the office what section she was in, but it was an older section without an exact map. And I figured I would not find it in time, but I drove over anyhow. I said a quick, silent prayer and slowly drove around the loop that encompassed the entire section. And then I just stopped and got out of the car to begin a search on foot. As I walked between the stones, I just kept looking, but stopped and went back to the car. Then I walked across the lane to the stone facing me where I parked - it said Rebecca Hodge. As I gazed at the stone, suddenly it came to me! I had been looking for Harbin or Poff! But, of course, she had remarried and the name was Hodge! And yes, I had driven around the section's only lane, then stopped and parked exactly ACROSS from her monument, I just hadn't recognized it at first. There were many floral items there; it was just after Mother's Day and members of her family that lived in the area had probably come to pay their respects. By all accounts, Rebecca was a wonderful woman who had a very hard life - left as a widow with young children and then later having more children in a relationship that would go nowhere and finally marriage to John Hodge, an alcoholic. But I was thankful to have found her monument and after a prayer of thanks and cleaning around her stone, I took some photos just before I had to leave.
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