| Thomas Mefford and Eleanor Hodgkins Back to Contents Back to Descendants Thomas Mefford and Eleanor Hodgkins were married 28 Jul 1825 in Brown Co, Ohio and apparently lived there until their deaths in 1890. As far as we have been able to determine, they had no children. Eleanor was the daughter of James and Hannah Hodgkins, as shown by her father's will dated 7 Dec 1828, and recorded in the Brown County, Ohio Willbook Vol. 1, p. 111: "I also will that all my personal property...be equally divided between my five herein after named daughters Elizabeth Hall, Susannah Mefford, Nancy McConnell, Ellen Mefford and Hannah McConnell..." Eleanor's sister Susannah Hodgkins was married to Thomas' brother Joshua Mefford, and they also resided in Brown Co, Ohio. |
| From Beer's History of Brown County, Ohio, p603: "Thomas Mefford was born in Mason County, KY in 1803. He came to Ohio in 1825, and, in July of the same year, married Ellen Hodkins, and settled on a farm in Union Township. Three years later, they came to Russellville, purchasing a forty-acre farm and Town Lot No. 12, on which was a small log house, the second one built in Russellville. They lived in it until 1840, when they erected a two-story brick. Mr Mefford engaged sometimes in blacksmithing, and occasionally manufactured a rifle, for which there was always a ready sale. He filled various township offices, and was Postmaster for sixteen years. His salary as such was at first $15 per annum. He was in early life interested in horses, and introduced the Morgan stock in this community. Of late years he has been an invalid, but has written a work on the horse and its diseases." 1850 Federal Census: Ellen Mefford died 5/3/1890 aged 84 years 26 days, Old Russellville Cemetery, Jefferson Twp, p241, Tombstone Inscriptions of Brown County, Ohio. |
| --------------------------------------------- Information on Thomas Mefford and Eleanor Hodgkins has been compiled by Terry Bodkin, a descendant of Joshua Mefford and Susannah Hodgkins. |
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