Mary and Harriet Hodges

This photo is of sisters Mary(left) and Harriet(right) Hodges. Harriet is Georgia's grandmother, she married George Lafayette Hughes in 1874. (Mary's photo was found on the internet.) Mary married John Alexander Tuttle and they lived in Allen County, KY.

Georgia's Grandmother Hughes is remembered by her as a sweet-natured, although set in her ways. woman. She had come to Tennessee by way of covered wagon when she was four years old, and used to tell Mom stories about the trip. Whe she was eleven she was living near where the Civil War battle of Shiloh took place and she and her family fled from the area as the soldiers approached. While fleeing she was seperated from her family and she traveled with a black family in a wagon down creek beds so that the soldiers couldn't follow the wagon tracks. She was never able to reconnect with her family and until she married she worked as a "hired". Taking care of the cooking, cleaning and children, in return for bed, meals and money enough to buy clothes. --recorded by Cyndi