Hodge's Bend Cemetery
A veteran of "Swamp Fox" Francis Marion's South Carolina brigade during the American Revolution,
Alexander Hodge (b. 1760) brought his family to Texas in 1825. Hodge was prominent among
the "Old Three Hundred" settlers; his sons fought in the Texas Revolution. His 1828 land grant
from Stephen F. Austin, named Hodge's Bend, included the site for this cemetery.
First grave here was that of his wife Ruth, who died in 1831. Hodge was buried here in 1836.
The cemetery contains about 75 graves, including those of Hodge's descendants and other
early settlers in the area. The last burial here was in 1942.
Marker is at the intersection of Old Richmond Road and Pheasant Creek Drive, on the right when traveling north on Old Richmond Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
