Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley ..., Volume 3
By John Woolf Jordan pg 896
Jacob Hodil, the founder of the family, was born in Germany, died in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, at the age of about ninety-one years. When he was about twenty years old, he came to this country, settling first in eastern Pennsylvania, but soon started to seek a place for settlement in the west. Being captured by the Indians, he was taken to Pittsburgh, but made his escape in three days. Living on such food as he could find in the woods, wild plums it is said having formed a great part of his fare, he went on out of danger from his captors, and selected a site for settlement five miles above Sharpsburg, at the head of Squaw Run, near Freeport, Pennsylvania. The place is still known as Hodil Settlement. He took up five hundred and sixty-five acres of land, which is still in possession of the family. All of his life he was a farmer. He married Susan __ (perhaps Strohm); she died three days before her husband, aged about eighty-nine. Children, all deceased: George, born in 1803, married in 1835, Martha Grubbs; Samuel; Mary; Frederick; Henry, of whom further; Phillip, Susan; Jacob.
By John Woolf Jordan pg 896
Jacob Hodil, the founder of the family, was born in Germany, died in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, at the age of about ninety-one years. When he was about twenty years old, he came to this country, settling first in eastern Pennsylvania, but soon started to seek a place for settlement in the west. Being captured by the Indians, he was taken to Pittsburgh, but made his escape in three days. Living on such food as he could find in the woods, wild plums it is said having formed a great part of his fare, he went on out of danger from his captors, and selected a site for settlement five miles above Sharpsburg, at the head of Squaw Run, near Freeport, Pennsylvania. The place is still known as Hodil Settlement. He took up five hundred and sixty-five acres of land, which is still in possession of the family. All of his life he was a farmer. He married Susan __ (perhaps Strohm); she died three days before her husband, aged about eighty-nine. Children, all deceased: George, born in 1803, married in 1835, Martha Grubbs; Samuel; Mary; Frederick; Henry, of whom further; Phillip, Susan; Jacob.
Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley ..., Volume 3
By John Woolf Jordan pg 896
Jacob Hodil, the founder of the family, was born in Germany, died in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, at the age of about ninety-one years. When he was about twenty years old, he came to this country, settling first in eastern Pennsylvania, but soon started to seek a place for settlement in the west. Being captured by the Indians, he was taken to Pittsburgh, but made his escape in three days. Living on such food as he could find in the woods, wild plums it is said having formed a great part of his fare, he went on out of danger from his captors, and selected a site for settlement five miles above Sharpsburg, at the head of Squaw Run, near Freeport, Pennsylvania. The place is still known as Hodil Settlement. He took up five hundred and sixty-five acres of land, which is still in possession of the family. All of his life he was a farmer. He married Susan __ (perhaps Strohm); she died three days before her husband, aged about eighty-nine. Children, all deceased: George, born in 1803, married in 1835, Martha Grubbs; Samuel; Mary; Frederick; Henry, of whom further; Phillip, Susan; Jacob.
By John Woolf Jordan pg 896
Jacob Hodil, the founder of the family, was born in Germany, died in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, at the age of about ninety-one years. When he was about twenty years old, he came to this country, settling first in eastern Pennsylvania, but soon started to seek a place for settlement in the west. Being captured by the Indians, he was taken to Pittsburgh, but made his escape in three days. Living on such food as he could find in the woods, wild plums it is said having formed a great part of his fare, he went on out of danger from his captors, and selected a site for settlement five miles above Sharpsburg, at the head of Squaw Run, near Freeport, Pennsylvania. The place is still known as Hodil Settlement. He took up five hundred and sixty-five acres of land, which is still in possession of the family. All of his life he was a farmer. He married Susan __ (perhaps Strohm); she died three days before her husband, aged about eighty-nine. Children, all deceased: George, born in 1803, married in 1835, Martha Grubbs; Samuel; Mary; Frederick; Henry, of whom further; Phillip, Susan; Jacob.
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