52 Ancestors: #37, Jacob Hodsdon (1787-1879)

Jacob Hodsdon, my great-great-great-grandfather, was born 29 October 1787 in Hollis, York County, Maine, the second child of Samuel Hodsdon and Betsy Hooper.¹

On 17 July 1808, Jacob married Sally Huston in Hollis, Maine.² They had six children:

1. John Hodsdon (1809-1882), married Adeline Greene
2. Jane Hodsdon (1810-????)
3. Isaac Hodsdon (1812-1890), married Abigail Greene (sister of Adeline)
4. Betsy Hodsdon (ca 1814-aft 1880), married Matthew Tobin
5. Nancy Hodsdon (1819-1905), married James Severance
6. Sally Hodsdon (1825-1894), married Hiram Gilcreas

After the last of their children was born, sometime between 1830³ and 1840⁴ they moved from Hollis to Byron, Oxford County, Maine, where Jacob was a farmer.

Jacob Hodsdon died in March 1879. He is supposed to be buried in the Pressey Cemetery in Byron, but I was unable to locate a gravestone for him there in 2013.⁵

My descent from Jacob Hodsdon:

• Jacob Hodsdon and Sally Huston
• Isaac Hodsdon and Abigail Greene
• Silas Marchant Hillman Hodsdon and Kate Maria Rand
• Mary Milliken Hodsdon and Chester Frank Kirk (my paternal grandparents)

(Note: This post is in response to Amy Johnson Crow's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" challenge at No Story Too Small.)

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SOURCES

1. “Maine, Birth Records, 1621-1922,” database and digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 Apr 2012), Jacob Hodsdon, 1787. 
2. "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 16 Sep 2014), Jacob Hodsdon and Sally "Whoson", 17 Jul 1808; citing FHL
   microfilm 11028. 
3. 1830 U.S. census, York County, Maine, Hollis, p. 173 (penned), first unnumbered line, Jacob Hodsdon; database and digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 Sep 2014).
4. 1840 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, Byron, unpaginated, twenty-fifth unnumbered line, Jacob Hodsdon; database and digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 April 2012).
5. Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 20 Sep 2014), database and digital images, memorial # 89094319 for Jacob Hodsdon (unknown-Mar 1879), created by Robert Hodsdon (25 Apr 2012); citing Pressey Cemetery (Oxford County, Maine). The photo added by Tammy Nosek actually shows the gravestone of Jacob's grandson and namesake, Jacob Hodsdon (1836-1921).