Katharine Hodges ^{2 3 4}

   Other names for Katharine were Kate Hodges ^{1 5 6 7} and Kathryn Hodges.

   FamilySearch ID: 297B-B9Z.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. She appeared in the household of Adrian Asbury Beecher in a census in 1900 in Terre Haute, Vigo, IN. ^{6 6} Adrian A Beecher [indexed in census as Adrwin A. Bucher due to poor handwriting], 43, was born Mar 1857, and married for 20 years to wife Kate, 42, Sep 1857. She had birthed 7 children, all alive in 1900. With them: Walter L. 19, Mar 1881; Lucinda M, 17, Apr 1883; Gertrude, 15, Dec 1884; Elouise, 12, Oct 1887; Genevra, 10, Nov 1889; Samuel E., 7, Apr 1893; and Katherine, 4, Apr 1896. Everyone and their parents were born in Indiana, except Adrian's parents were born in Switzerland.

2. Census in 1920 in Terre Haute, Vigo, IN. ⁵ Living at 1009 North 8th Street was Adiran Beecher, lawyer, 62, was living with wife Kate, 62; daughter Eloise, school teacher, 31; daughter Katherine Hopp, 23, widow; and her son William, 2. Everyone and their parents were born in Indiana, except Adrian's parents were from Switzerland and spoke German.

3. Book: History of Indiana from Its Exploration to 1922, 1922. ¹
Mr. Beecher was married in 1879 to Kate Hodges, who was born and reared in Linton township, Vigo County, the daughter of Harden Hodges, who was accidentally killed, and the granddaughter of John Hodges, one of the earliest settlers of Vigo county, and at one time a member of the legislature.

To Mr. and Mrs. Beecher the following children have been born: Walter, a farmer in this county; Lucinda, a graduate of the Indiana State Normal School, and now Mrs. Harry Snyder, of Terre Haute; Gertrude, who married Mr. Walter H. Garrigus, a native of Parke county, Indiana, a graduate of Rose Polytechnic Institute, and now a resident of Terre Haute ; Eloise, a graduate of the Indiana State Normal, has taught continuously for fourteen years, and makes her home with her parents; Genevra, who married Mr. Augustus Nelson, a native of Baldwin county, Alabama, now living in Mobile ; Samuel E., a graduate of the Indiana Law School, and now associated in practice with his father; and Katheryn, the widow of Mr. William Hopp, who was killed on the Vandalia Railroad, is a graduate of the State Normal School, teaches in the Terre Haute schools, and lives at home with her father and mother.
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Katharine married Adrian Asbury Beecher, son of George L. Beecher and Kezia Agnes Grover, in 1879.¹ (Adrian Asbury Beecher was born on 26 Mar 1857 in Pierson Twp., Vigo, IN,^{1 2 7 8 9 10} died on 9 Jul 1929 in Terre Haute, Vigo, IN ^{10 11} and was buried in Terre Haute: Highland Lawn Cemetery, Vigo, IN ^{10 11}.)