Hodge-Taylor House
Jefferson, Marion County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Berry and Lavenia (Boggs) Hodge moved here from Kentucky and had this house built along the Daingerfield Road in 1852. Among their five children, son Robert Blount, of the 3rd Texas Cavalry, C.S.A., died from wounds in the Battle of Atlanta in 1864. Hodge, a prominent landowner and surveyor, sold the property to D.W.H. Taylor, businessman and publisher of the Jefferson Jimplecute. T.J. Taylor, Jr. restored the residence in the 1950s. The classically proportioned Greek Revival style home features a cypress exterior, a prominent portico, interior chimneys and large rooms flanking a central passageway. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1964
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Berry and Lavenia Hodge moved from Kentucky and had this Greek Revival house built along the Daingerfield Road in 1852. Their son Robert Blount Hodge rode with the 3rd Texas Cavalry, C.S.A., and died of wounds from the Battle of Atlanta in 1864. Hodge, a prominent landowner and surveyor, later sold the cypress-built home to newspaper publisher D.W.H. Taylor of the Jefferson Jimplecute, and it was restored by T.J. Taylor, Jr. in the 1950s.
Why it matters
The house links the prosperity of an antebellum East Texas surveyor to the sacrifice of the Civil War, then to the newspaper family that carried its story into the 20th century.
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Related people
- · Berry Hodge
- · Lavenia Hodge
- · Robert Blount Hodge
- · D.W.H. Taylor
- · T.J. Taylor, Jr.
Related events
- · Battle of Atlanta
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