Sheriff John Hodge

Served as Sheriff of Grant County from 1843 to 1846

Sheriff Hodge's obituary

Sheriff John Hodge was a popular young man and married many people in the county. I am unable to locate his headstone but was able to locate his obituary from the Weekly Chronicle.

​Weekly Chronicle

February 9, 1883

The death of Mr. John Hodge, Tuesday morning, removes from us one of the old settlers of our county. The records of the Clerk’s office show that in 1835 to 1840 Mr. Hodge was a Justice of the Peace, and as such, tied the marriage knot that binds together hundreds of the oldest families in our town and county. He was one of the most popular young men of our county and always stood high as a citizen. He has in a quiet way been identified with our town from its inception. He saw the first stake drove that marked out the town, which was fifty years ago last September. He has always been warm, earnest Christian gentleman, and was one of the founders of the Methodist church in Marion. We do not now remember of ever being at that church for service without seeing Mr. Hodge. He always attended unless sickness interfered, and no one will be so missed by that society. His death takes from us the last of the little band of founders who forty-five years ago met and organized the Methodist church in Marion. Mr. Hodge was near eighty years of age at the time of his death, but so careful had he been with himself that it was only during the last year of his life that he showed age past fifty. He was buried yesterday at 2 o’clock at the cemetery.