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Sources consulted for the biography of:Charles E. Hodges (1819–after 1910)
Biographical Information
- Birth date in Charles E. Hodges's April 1866 deposition about loss of property in Julia Hodges v. James Bonney, enclosed in Thomas P. Jackson to A. S. Flagg Apr. 10, 1866, Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia (1865–1872), Norfolk Subdivision, Letters Received, March–June 1866, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1913, Roll 141, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Wives and children documented in U.S. Census Schedules, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.:
- Princess Anne Co., Virginia, 1850, 1900 (with May 1819 birth date), 1910 (last known mention on April 29).
- Kings Co., New York, 1860.
- Norfolk Co., Virginia, 1870, 1880.
- Third marriage in Marriage Register, Norfolk Co., Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia, and reported in Norfolk Virginian, Sept. 30, 1888.
- Charles Hodges v. Willis Hodges, Princess Anne Co. Chancery Causes, 1851-033, Library of Virginia.
- Lawsuit against Hodges in R. J. Neely, William Neely, and John R. Neely v. Charles E. Hodges and Lydia A. Williams, Norfolk Co. Chancery Causes, 1888-044, Library of Virginia.
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 21, portrait on 31.
- Willard B. Gatewood Jr., ed., Free Man of Color: The Autobiography of Willis Augustus Hodges (1982).
Political Career
- 1869 election return in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the result of the election for members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, held on the 6th day of July, 1869," 24.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 7, 1869; July 10, 1869.
- Norfolk Journal, July 7, 1869; July 8, 1869.
Religious Career
- License to perform marriages in Norfolk Co. Minute Book 36:167.
- Private Laws of the State of North Carolina…1869–'70 (1870), 2:152–153.
- Proceedings of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina…1875 (1875), 22.
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