 1915 - 1981 (66 years)
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| Name |
William Elgin HODGE |
| Nickname |
Hip |
| Birth |
3 Jul 1915 |
Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
8 Dec 1981 |
Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA |
| Burial |
Burnet City Cemetery, Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA |
| Person ID |
I29034 |
von Rosenberg Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
30 Jun 2022 |
| Father |
George Warren HODGE, b. 14 Apr 1886, Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA d. 6 Jul 1966, Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA (Age 80 years) |
| Mother |
Lula Belle ADAMS, b. 26 Jan 1889, Carmine, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 18 Sep 1972, Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA (Age 83 years) |
| Marriage |
14 Jun 1908 |
Lake Victor, Burnet, Texas, USA |
| Family ID |
F7191 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Daphne Maureen WOLF, b. 28 Sep 1916, Snyder, Scurry, Texas, USA d. 14 Sep 2005, New Braunfels, Comal, Texas, USA (Age 88 years) |
| Marriage |
15 Jan 1937 |
Crane, Crane, Texas, USA |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F19869 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
19 May 2017 |
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| Notes |
- The flooded headwaters of the North San Gabriel prevented Lula Adams Hodge from traveling to see a medicine show that featured "Chief Hippa Kay Yo." The next morning the local doctor swam his horse across the swollen stream to the Hodge home nine miles north of Burnet, where he delivered to Lula and George Warren Hodge their first son, William Elgin Hodge. Uncle Jim Shelby jokingly consoled Lula for having missed the show by remarking, "You have your own little Hippa Kay Yo," and the appellation stuck, for Elgin was known thereafter as "Hip" Hodge. As he grew up on the family farm, he developed into a baseball pitcher of some renown, and long before the advent of the UIL, pitched for country ball teams all over central Texas. Featuring a wicked screwball, he once pitched twenty-six scoreless innings for a Fredericksburg team. Sports took a backseat after he began a family that eventually grew to include six sons. He farmed, raised livestock in Burnet County, and worked as a ranch manager until the drought of the early 1950s drove him to the city and employment at Diamond Alkali in Deer Park. The country life he was forced to abandon remained in his heart, but the labored as a chemical worker for 22 years without absence or tardiness. Retiring in 1976 he returned to Burnet County and built a retirement home on the banks of the San Gabriel within sight of his birthplace. During his retirement he enjoyed tending his livestock and garden, listening to radio broadcasts of baseball games, and attending Masonic Lodge meetings in the company of his boyhood friends.
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