Twentieth Century. Adam Jr. was no doubt that area's oldest life-long resident.

HINTHORN, Adam Sr. and Cerena Patrick – Adam Senior was born April 17, 1794 and died September 15, 1857. His wife, one of the Patrick girls, was born March 20, 1800 and she died March 4, 1878. She had come into the area south of the Mackinaw in 1827, and her relatives were in Greene Twp. in 1829. They buried a son in a plot on November 9, 1850, and the cemetery has since been called the "Hinthorn Cemetery." Adam Jr. survived; his birth, south of the Mackinaw on January 13, 1828 is the earliest of definite record in that area. Adam may have been a Bowling Green resident for a time around 1840.

HINTHORN, A. and M. – Lived south of the Mackinaw in the early 1850's.

HINTHORN, John and S. A. – Lived south of the Mackinaw in the early 1850's. John had no doubt been a settler at a much earlier date since we find he patented the SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 8 in Kansas Twp. on May 18, 1836.

HINTHORNE, George – Came to Illinois from New Jersey in 1859, and engaged in farming on land purchased in Section 21, El Paso Twp.

HITCH, Isaac and Annie – They bought El Paso lots in the late 1850's.

HITCH, Robert Sr. and Mary Denman – Robert was born in 1805 and died in 1877. Mary was born in 1813 and died in 1891. Robert Hitch, Jr. was a son. Mary was a sister of William Denman, early Bowling Green and Tremont inn-keeper.

HITCH, Robert Jr. and Mary Ellis (1841-1931) – Mary Ellis as a young girl worked in the "Denman House" which stood on the south side of the Peoria road at old Bowling Green. There she waited on tables when the 8th Circuit lawyers stopped, and on two or three occasions served Abraham Lincoln along with the others. Some of those dishes remained in the Hitch family, but are now lost. (See Chapter 3, "Timber Towns That Died"-Bowling Green.) Robert was born in 1840 and died in 1933.

HODGE, Richard and Susan – They were both born in Devonshire, England, Richard, September 8, 1801, and Susan, January 26, 1817. He died April 17, 1870 and she on May 9, 1877. Richard was an 1857 pioneer in Panola Twp. and a brother of Robert Hodge of east Palestine Twp. Richard's daughter Mary married Henry Kingdon.

HODGE, Robert and Catherine – They were both born in Devonshire, England, Robert in Dolton on April 17, 1823 and Catherine at Tawsstock, March 12, 1824. Robert died September 10, 1888 and his wife on July 13, 1874. They were pioneer residents who settled on NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 14 in eastern Palestine Twp. about 1857.

HODGSON, Jesse and (1) F. T., (2) Olevia – Jesse was born April 25, 1829 and died October 6, 1903 and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery. His first wife, F. T. died October 30, 1862 and his second, Olevia, November 22, 1902. He was related to Levi and was a pioneer in the area north of El Paso, in Panola Twp. He purchased the N 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section 28, Panola Twp. from the I. C. R. R. on June 12, 1856.

HODGSON, Levi and Anna Bennett – Levi was born June 22, 1826 and came to Tazewell County from Ohio in 1832, finally settling on the W 1/2 of Section 28 in Panola Twp. in 1856. He had married Anna Bennett in 1847. There were said to be only 16 families in Panola Twp. when they settled there. The "Hodgson School" was on his farm comer, and was named for him.

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