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Elizabeth was born in 1699 in Spotsylvania, Virginia[1]. She was the daughter of Peter Russell and Sarah Hallowell. Elizabeth married John Hodges and had 4 step children.
Elizabeth married John Wesley Roberts born 1695 and they had 10 children[2].
Elizabeth died around 1768 and was buried in Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia.[1].
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In this profile and in the profile of John Hodges, Jr., it was previously claimed that John had a second marriage, at Ross, Herefordshire, England, on 17 November 1718, to Elizabeth Lobill Roberts Russell[3]. For various reasons this did not make sense: John's first (and only) wife, Mercy (Tisdale) Hodges, survived him by half a dozen years – dying in 1749 – and there is no record of a divorce. John was a prominent figure in the town of Norton, Massachusetts Bay, where he was a selectman for multiple terms, and was in fact the town clerk and the moderator of town meetings during the precise period when he is alleged to have been in England marrying Elizabeth[4]. The groom John Hodges in that 1718 marriage may have been the John Hodges christened at Ross-on-Wye in 1677[5]; or the John Hodges christened there in 1686[6]. There is nothing in any known, reliable record to suggest that John Hodges, Jr., of Massachusetts Bay removed to England at any time.
The claimed second marriage must therefore be regarded as erroneous, and the link to Elizabeth Lobill Roberts Russell as a second wife of John has been severed.
England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973; Bristol, England, Select Church of England Parish Registers, 1720-1933
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