Jesse M. Hodges
April 23, 1877; Oregonian, p 1

   Jesse m. Hodges, of Benton county, who died recently, was born in South Carolina in 1788; married in North Carolina in 1811, served as a soldier in the war of 1812; fought under Gen. Jackson at Horse Shoe Bend; moved to Indiana and thence to Missouri in (1689?) and came to Oregon in 1847.  Few indeed have so long and so varied a life.