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 1767 - Abt 1831 (63 years)
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| Name |
Susannah Hodgen |
| Nickname |
Susan |
| Born |
3 Oct 1767 |
Pennsylvania  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Abt. 1831 |
| Buried |
Nolynn Church Cemetery, Larue County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
| Notes |
- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=thomaswilene&id=I0126
Otis M. Mather, "Six Generations of LaRues and Allied Families," (Louisville, KY: C.T. Dearing Printing Co., 1921), pp. 133-34.
"SUSANNAH HODGEN: Born in Pennsylvania, October 3, 1767. Moved to Virginia about 1775. Married John Thomas, who served in the Revolutionary Army as a Captain and who became a Major General of the Kentucky Militia in the War of 1812. JOHN THOMAS patented the lands on Green River, in Kentucky, as early as the year 1786, and was a resident of this State from that time till his second marriage, 1831, when he moved to Indiana, where he remained until his death, which occurred about 1835. On the fifth day of April, 1831, he conveyed to Charles Middleton the tract of land on which he had lived for many years. This land is described in the deed to Middleton (recorded in Deed Book R, page 349, Hardin County) as being at "the forks of Nolynn." South Fork Creek is also shown as part of the boundary of the land. Hence, it is evident that General Thomas' home was at the mouth of the latter stream, near Nolynn Church. The writer had been informed that it was the farm now known as the Wight place. After the death of Susannah Hodgen Thomas, Gen. Thomas married her widowed half-sister, Rebecca Hodgen Keith (VI. F).
No adequate biography of General John Thomas has been published. He was one of the four Major Generals of the Kentucky Militia in the second War with Great Britain, the other three being Gen. William Henry Harrison, Gen. Joseph Desha, and Gen. William Henry. ("Kentucky in the War of 1812," by A.C. Quisenberry, at page 177). The same author says (at page 134): "On October 20, 1814, Governor Shelby issued a call for men for the New Orleans campaign, and under that call three Regiments of Kentucky Detached Militia were brought into the field and organized for that campaign. * * * These troops were commanded by Major General John Thomas, with Brigadier General John Adair as his Adjutant General." A similar statement is made by McElroy in "Kentucky in the Nation's History."
The Filson Club (Louisville) publication entitled: "The Battle of New Orleans," by Z. F. Smith, states that by reason of General Thomas being prostrated with illness the command fell upon General Adair before the battle.
The controversy between General Adair and Andrew Jackson, the commander-in-chief of the American troops at the battle of New Orleans, arising from the latter's charge of cowardice against the Kentucky soldiers in that battle, which charge was denied by General Adair, and which later was somewhat reluctantly withdrawn by General Jackson, made General Adair the idol of his troops, and probably led to his election as Governor of Kentucky in 1820, and to his election as United States Senator five years later. General Thomas, on his retirement from the army at the close of the war, returned to private life and lived as a quiet farmer until his death, in Vigo County, Indiana, twenty years afterward. Three of his sons were engaged in the historic battle in which but for his untimely illness he would have had a conspicuous part. See the sketch of Rebecca Hodgen Keith (VI. F) for some account of Gen. Thomas after his marriage to her in 1831."
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| Person ID |
I35996 |
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| Last Modified |
17 Sep 2014 |
| Family |
John Franklin Thomas, (Maj. Gen., KY militia), b. 10 Apr 1763, Georges Creek, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania , d. 16 Oct 1838, Terra Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, U.S.A. (Age 75 years) |
| Married |
27 Apr 1786 |
Nelson County, Kentucky |
- Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850: "John Thomas & Susanna [sic] Hodgen, 27 Apr 1786, Nelson County."
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| Children |
| + | 1. Isaac Thomas, b. Abt. 1787, Frederick County, Virginia , d. Bet. 1850-1860, Bond County, Illinois, U.S.A. (Age ~ 73 years) |
| + | 2. Robert Hodgen Thomas, b. 25 Sep 1789, Frederick County, Virginia, U.S.A. , d. 10 Sep 1878, Larue County, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Age 88 years) |
| | 3. Henry Thomas, b. Abt. 1795 |
| + | 4. Owen Thomas, b. Abt. 1796, Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 10 Apr 1878, Larue County, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Age ~ 82 years) |
| | 5. Hardin Thomas, b. Abt. 1797, Hardin County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
| | 6. Joseph Thomas, b. Abt. 1798, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. Illinois, U.S.A. |
| + | 7. Hezekiah Thomas, b. 8 May 1799, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 4 Jan 1875, Pleasant Hill, Cass County, Missouri, U.S.A. (Age 75 years) |
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| Last Modified |
4 Oct 2014 |
| Family ID |
F18041954 |
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 | Born - 3 Oct 1767 - Pennsylvania |
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 | Married - 27 Apr 1786 - Nelson County, Kentucky |
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 | Buried - - Nolynn Church Cemetery, Larue County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
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| Documents |
 | Robert Hodgen (1742- )
Excerpt from Arthur Leslie Keith, "Notes on Larue, Hodgen, Keith . . . and Related Families," William and Mary Quarterly, v. XX (1912), p. 103 |
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