Pvt Ruben Hodson served in the United States Civil War. Side: USA Regiment(s): Battery H, 1st Missouri Light Artillery; Company H, 70th Regiment, Illinois Infantry
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"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M85Q-DB6 : 4 April 2020), Ruben E Hodson in household of Wm Hodson, Tazewell county, part of, Tazewell, Illinois, United States.
"United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSWH-636 : 4 December 2014), Reuben Hodson, Private, Company H, 70th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union; citing NARA microfilm publication M539 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 41; FHL microfilm 881,661.
"United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSZZ-7YF : 4 December 2014), Reuben E. Hodson, Private, Company H, 1st Regiment, Missouri Light Artillery, Union; citing NARA microfilm publication M390 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 22; FHL microfilm 881,557.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXK2-12K : 7 September 2017), R E Hodson, Hopedale, Tazewell, Illinois, United States.
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSHP-YFD : accessed 5 November 2020), R E Hodson, HopedaleTownship Hopedale vill., Tazewell, Illinois, United States.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKXY-9QY : accessed 5 November 2020), Reuben Hodson in household of Roy W Hodson, Boynton, Tazewell, Illinois, United States.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJCT-23M : accessed 5 November 2020), Reuben E Hodson in household of William F Hodson, Delavan, Tazewell, Illinois, United States.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHXD-H88 : accessed 5 November 2020), Reuben E Hodson in household of Leslie L Hodson, Bosworth, Carroll, Missouri, United States.
"Illinois, Tazewell County, Obituary Card Index from the "Pekin Times", 1914-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXWL-6Z9 : 29 July 2017), Ruben Hodson, 1932; citing ObituaryPekin, Tazewell, Illinois, United States, Pekin Public Library, Illinois.
"United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHZZ-HWD : 4 April 2020), Reuben E Hodson.
Find A Grave: Memorial #14342233 for Reuben E Hodson (23 May 1844–25 Dec 1932), citing Orendorff Cemetery, Hopedale, Tazewell County, Illinois, USA (includes headstone photo).
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