Z 2019.000 Gage-Hogg-Young Family Papers

Z 2019.000
GAGE-HOGG-YOUNG FAMILY PAPERS

Samuel Hogg, the son of Major Thomas Hogg and Rebecca Edwards Webb Hogg, was born in Halifax, North Carolina, on April 18, 1783. Hogg settled in Lebanon County, Tennessee, and he subsequently studied medicine in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee. After serving as a surgeon in several different organizations during the War of 1812, Dr. Hogg was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives. He was later elected as a United States congressman for the 1817-1819 term. By 1819, Dr. Hogg held an interest in a drugstore located in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi. After the drugstore closed in 1834, Dr. Hogg lived briefly in Natchez, and he practiced medicine with Dr. James C. Young from 1836 to 1838. Dr. Hogg kept a more permanent home in Nashville, Tennessee, where he continued to practice medicine from 1828 to 1836 and from 1838 to 1840. After 1840, Dr. Hogg retired to a farm in Rutherford County, Tennessee, where he died on May 28, 1842. Surviving Dr. Hogg were his wife, Mary Talbot Hogg, and four children: Sophia Maria (1807-1863), Rebecca Ruth [or Ruth Rebecca] (b. 1809), Mary Caroline [or Caroline Mary], and Thomas Talbot. Mary Talbot Hogg died in Nashville around 1860.

Physician James C. Young married Rebecca Ruth Hogg in 1833. The Youngs lived in Natchez for most of their lives, and they had no children. Rebecca Ruth Hogg Young died in Memphis, Tennessee, around 1847. Dr. Young was elected as clerk of the circuit court of Adams County in 1853, and he served as justice of the peace of the county from 1871 to 1873.

Mary Caroline Hogg was born in 1812, probably in Nashville. She married J. T. Lenoir (d. 1875), and they had two sons: William B. and Samuel Lenoir. After living in Stewartsboro, Tennessee, for a number of years, Mary Caroline Hogg Lenoir died in 1877.

Physician Thomas Talbot Hogg was born in 1814, probably in Nashville. He was living in Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi, by the 1830s. Dr. Hogg married Rosanna Russell in December of 1837.

Rosanna [or Roseanna] Russell, born on October 11, 1822, possibly in Tennessee, was the daughter of David Russell (1785-1829) and Mary Polly Dale Russell (d. 1823). After Rosanna Russell and her sister, Lucinda Russell, were orphaned in 1823, they moved to Claiborne County with their aunt, Martha Dale. Lucinda Russell married Amariah Rollins of Port Gibson in 1837. Rosanna Russell married Dr. Thomas Hogg, and they had one daughter, Mary Caroline Hogg (1839-1913). Mary Caroline Hoggs name was changed to Caroline (Carrie) Thomas Hogg after the death of Dr. Thomas Hogg on October 25, 1840. Five years after the death of her first husband, Rosanna Russell Hogg married James Alexander Gage.

James Alexander Gage, the son of James Gage and Mary Alexander Gage, was born on October 9, 1812, in Union, South Carolina, and he moved to Port Gibson in the early 1830s. After operating a furniture store for several years, Gage married Rosanna Russell Hogg on June 18, 1845. They had six children: James Russell, John Rollins, Lucie Enfield, Louis Maxwell, Mary Enfield, and Robert Douglas Gage. Rosanna Russell Hogg Gage died in Port Gibson on October 24, 1863. James Alexander Gage later held several offices in Claiborne County, including that of mayor. He died while visiting relatives in Pecos, Texas, on November 1, 1891.

The Gage, Hogg, and Young family papers include family correspondence, two biographical sketches of family members, and two invitations to formal balls in Natchez in 1845.

The family correspondence, consisting of original letters, photocopies of letters, and typescripts of letters, was primarily written in 1838 and 1845. Most of the correspondence was written by Rosanna Russell Hogg Gage to her sister-in-law, Mary Caroline Hogg. Rebecca Ruth Hogg Young also wrote several letters to her sister, Mary Caroline Hogg. Several infrequent correspondents include Dr. Thomas Talbot Hogg, Dr. Samuel Hogg, Mary Talbot Hogg, and two members of the Gage family identified only as W. Gage and "Grimpy" Gage. What appears to be a later hand inscribed brief genealogical notes on a few of the letters.

All of the correspondence covers a range of social and family subjects, especially activities in the Natchez and Port Gibson area of Mississippi. Marriages, births, deaths, and events of local interest were recorded by each of the correspondents. Among the large number of people mentioned who were living in the Natchez or Port Gibson area are members of the Bingaman, Gwin, Hardeman, Postlethwaite, Routh, Sessions, Shields, and Wilkins families.

The subject of the first biographical sketch is Dr. Samuel Hogg and his extended family, while the second biographical sketch covers Lucinda Russell Rollins and Rosanna Russell Hogg and their families. The sketch of Dr. Hogg is the more detailed and extensive of the two. The invitations to two balls in Natchez were to "Miss Hogg" and "Miss C. Hogg." The first ball, organized by Natchez firemen, was held on February 11, 1845. The second ball was held on April 14, 1845, to honor the Natchez Fencibles, an Adams County company first organized to fight in the Mexican War.