Battle/Hodge
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Updated: 24 Jun 2021
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Land grant deeded to Alexander E. HodgeLand grant deeded to Mills M. BattleHodge dies, plantation divided among his children: Archie Hodge, Abner A. Hodge, Alex E. Hodge, and Ruth Hodge Harris.Archie Hodge purchased approximately 1,200 acres within the Mills M. Battle league. That year he paid taxes in Fort Bend County on 1,455 acres of land.By 1852, the Hodge brothers held less than 800 acres of the original Alexander Hodge League.Archie Hodge conveyed 126.5 acres of his holdings within the Mills M. Battle League to John H. Walker, who was married his sister Clarinda Hodge.Ruth Harris conveyed a total of 2,657 acres of land, comprising half of Hodge’s Bend, to William Freeman, Sr.Walker purchased 536 acres of land within the Hodge LeagueFelix G. Secrest’ purchased 127.6 acres in Battle League from Clarinda Walker, widow of John H. Walker, including Walker Station.William Freeman conveyed a portion of the Hodge League to his son James FreemanOver 2,500 acres of the Hodge’s Bend property sold to Littleberry Ambrose Ellis. Ellis took possession of the property where Freeman’s convict labor camp was located.2 acres near Walker Station were conveyed to James FreemanThe state awarded a five year contract to Edward H. Cunningham and Littleberry A. Ellis.Periods
Battle begins selling off portions of his Fort Bend County LeagueWalker’s Station must have been built in this timeframeThe Civil WarJames Freeman established a convict labor camp on the plantation where he had cultivated sugarcane and cotton crops with slave labor.Nelson Burton Dunlavy held a lease for convict labor as early as 1877. The convict labor camp was located north of the Brazos River at the south end of the old Alexander Hodge League. Nelson Dunlavy died in 1881 and a portion of his land holdings where the convict camp was located was sold to Littleberry Ambrose Ellis in 1882.
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