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- The following was posted at the Find A Grave web site:
Stephen Hiram Hogg, known as Hiram was the son of Stephen Hogg and Sarah "Sallie" Williams. The Hoggs were descendants of a Scottish immigrant from Edinburgh who arrived in Virginia about 1745. Hiram grew up on the farm in Perry (now Letcher) County, Kentucky. As an adult he was a farmer and a tanner. In his early years he was the Justice of the Peace of Perry County. Hiram owned one of the first houses built in Summit City.
In 1842, Letcher County was created and Hiram was one of the 3 men appointed by the Governor to define the boundaries of the new county. There was considerable debate over where the county seat should be located. Hiram owned most of the buildings in Summit City and offered to give 10 acres of his farm land to the new county for a county seat if it would be located in his hometown of Summit City. The county officials readily accepted this offer. The new name of the county seat became Whitesburg. The present courthouse of Letcher County is occupying Hiram's old bean patch.
Hiram became one of the county's first sheriffs. Later he became a judge. The first Circuit Court in Letcher County was held in Hiram's home. He was one of the first jailers and the first sheriffs. These circumstances earned Judge Hiram Hogg the name "Courthouse Hiram." In 1847 he served in the State Legislature as a Representative for Letcher, Perry and Clay Counties in the Legislature for one term.
About 1820, he married Viney Williams and they had 14 children. Viney died in April of 1846. Seven months later Hiram married Mary Polly Roark on 11-22-1846 in Letcher County. His children with Mary Polly Roark were Maletha "Letha," Solomon, Paulina, Mary, and Greenville. Rosa and William Wesley were also likely Hiram's children by Mary Polly. They were born before her marriage to Hiram. Their last name was changed from Roark to Hogg by an act of the legislature in 1848 so "that they be capable to inherit the estate of Hiram Hogg, as if they were his own children born in lawful wedlock."
In the fall of 1862 Hiram and his son Stephen, an attorney and businessman, moved their families from Whitesburg to Booneville about 75 miles to the northwest. In fact the entire town of Whiteburg was practically depopulated for some time in the 1860s. That summer (1862), a neighbor, Col. Ben Caudill, and his gang of guerrilla rebels were terrorizing the Whitesburg and Letcher County residents who were neutral in the Civil War or were Union sympathizers. People were being killed, crops burned, and property confiscated. Hiram move to Booneville Kentucky in hopes of escaping the violence.
Four of Hiram's sons, Stephen, Henry, Edward and Tennessee Rhea volunteered in the Union Army. Two of them, Edward and Tennessee Rhea died in the war. One son, Hiram, Jr., enlisted in the Confederate Army in October 1862. He survived and was discharged at the end of the war (1865).
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Maletha Hogg Hogg (1847 - 1919)*
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Hogg Cemetery
Booneville
Owsley County
Kentucky, USA
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Record added: Apr 06, 2008
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