Alexander Hodge, American Revolutionary War Veteran

While my friend Don and I were lost in Sugar Land's Cullinan Park (remember we had become accidental BMX riders) we stumbled (almost literally) apon a rustic old cemetery on the Northwest edge of the park.   We stayed on the edge of the cemetery as I do like to respect the dead.   As we caught our breath, I could see a street sign for Old Richmond Road on the other side of the plot of land.   I resolved to do a little research.    Many of the markers are wooden crosses close to six foot tall.    There are a couple of tombstones, but the place does not look real well kept.  Was this another prison cemetery? 

That afternoon, I did a little research, and then drove back to the cemetery.

Hodge's Bend Cemetery is on land settled by Alexander Hodge, one of Austin's Old 300 settlers.  He brought his family to Texas in 1825 when he was about 65 years old.   His sons fought in the Texas Revolution.    Alexander, his wife and many of his descendants are buried here in Hodge's Bend Cemetery, on Old Richmond Road, just outside Sugar Land city Limits.  These were some of the earliest Anglo settlers of this area, and of Texas.

What really makes him interesting is that Alexander Hodge, while still in his teens in the late 1770s, fought in the American Revolutionary War with Francis Marion, known to all of us 1950s Disney fans as - The Swamp Fox.  Their exploits and successes are legendary, and Fort Bend County, Texas is the final resting place of one of those soldiers.

Had we not gotten way off the planned route, we would never have seen this.

By the way, Spell Check and I fought with each other all the way through this little story.   Apparently, there is no "A" in "cemetery"    Who knew?