What's New (past 60 days)

A day or so ago I noticed the links weren't working inside the pop-up boxes on my cover pages: Who's Who, In War, Sources, and Changes. It was a 'typographical' error and has been fixed. Those links now work. I have no idea how long ago that function got broken. I hope it wasn't too long ago.

Generally I publish revisions on the 4th of July, and the New Year, but this past year I've spent little (if any) time on the genealogy.

I probably have several hundred emails offering corrections and additions that I've been collecting for a year or longer, and done nothing about. I hope to get to them some day. Hopefully, some day soon.

I received a photo of Belle Hampton (The Hoge family seat) from the current owner, along with a photograph of James Hoge Tyler with William Jennings Bryan. I have yet to upload the latter photo.

Sons and Daughters of American The Revolution

In my researches I've run across numerous claims that this Hoge or that Hoge served in the Revolution, but my searches for "hoge" in the Heritage Quest records turned up only 1 result, a John Hoge in Pennsylvania.

However, I took another look at the DAR online database the other day, and this time I discovered that most of the "hogg"s they have listed are actually "hoge"s.

It seems the DAR uses only one spelling of a surname, and decided to use Hogg for all the Hoge/Hogue/Hoggs.

I've been going over the listings for Joseph Howe, James Hoge, and James Hoge Jr.

It appears all of my mother's family are eligible for membership in the Sons or Daughters of The American Revolution based on them all having those three as grandfathers.

However, I have yet to find Lemuel proved. I have found his father, Joseph Johnson Hoge, proved in the DAR data, but not his son Lemuel.

One of the problems with using the DAR data as a source is that 20 or more dates and places are cited for the same individual. On the one hand, this makes the individual's page messy, but on the other it provides an index for which date and place belongs to which source(s).

As I go through the data I've been marking the DARs and a listing of them can be found in the reports.

McClellan

While searching for the ancestry of Lillian McClellan I found The McClellans of Alabama and Arkansas. HeritageQuest online has the full book available for viewing.

While I have yet to find any connection to Lillian, who married my cousin 3 times removed John D. Patterson, I did find a connection to George Paris Plowman, who my Uncle Pat tells me fathered several children by my 2nd great-grandmother, Sarah Caroline Cotton.

In several years of searching for something about Mr. Plowman and his family, this is the first I've found.

By the way, Sarah's mother, Mary Ford, was the ggrandaunt of my father's best friend Jerry Ford.

Anyway, Elizabeth Idora McClellan's 1st husband Albert was the son of George Paris Plowman by his wife Tennessee Scales. Elizabeth's father was William Blount McClellan.

Elizabeth had no children by either of her husbands.

Elizabeth's sister Magnolia married Albert's brother Thomas, and her sister Laura married his brother George.

I've also upgraded the software. One of the nifty new features is that the relationship calculator can now be set to display multiple relationships.