Tenth Generation

62. Murray Hartshorn HODGES¹ was born on 28 May 1910. He died on 4 Aug 1991.


The following excerpts are taken from the publication for the 1957Centennial celebration of Olathe, Johnson Co., KS, "Arrows to Atoms1857-1957" a historical album of Olathe. Kansas, page 39&54:

The First National Bank

The First National Bank of Olathe on the southeast corner of thecourthouse square for the past seventy years, received its charter fromthe treasury dept bearing the date , June 7, 18887. After informalmeetings early in 1887 , opening its doors for business the followingmonth......

...on the site 1887 stood the grocery store of Price and Welch. J. L.Price , son of a Carolin a planter gave up his grocery when he waselected the first cashier of the bank and utilixe3d his building to housethe bank. As secretary of the bank he kept meticulous minutes recorded inin his beautiful script which are highly prized by the bank today...

The Bank has had only five presidents in It's seventy years, LewisBryfogle, 1887-1907; John l. Pettyjohn, 1907- 1920; Frank R. Ogg,1920-1930; Frank Hodges, 1930-1955, now board chairman Murray H. Hodges.Present day bank directors are...Frank Hodges, Murray H. Hodges.

Murray Hartshorn HODGES and Betty C. had the following children:

+66	i.	Virginia Elizabeth HODGES.
+67	ii.	Susan HODGES.
+68	iii.	Thomas HODGES.

Murray Hartshorn HODGES and Margaret Louise STEIN were married in 1980. Margaret Louise STEIN¹ was born on 3 Nov 1915 in Miami, Ottowa Co., OK. She died on 16 Jun 2002. She was educated in University of Oklahoma, Phi Beta Kapa graduate. She was in Gibson Memorial Methodist Church, P.O. Box770, Spring Hope, NC 27882.