This story is derived from a presentation which Mike and Betty Heazel presented at the AAFA Annual Meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina in October 2001. Those who attended the presentation know the Hoge Family is related to the Alfords as far back as the 18th century.

Governor James Hoge Tyler spent the last years of his life creating a genealogy book titled "The Family of Hoge". This book traces the lineage of his great-great-great-grandparents, William Hoge and Barbara Hume, who were the American ancestors of the Hoge Family. The book was published after his death in 1927 by James Fulton Hoge. Scholars consider this work culturally significant, and it is a valuable part of our collective knowledge. Since no individual or corporation holds the copyright to this work, it can be freely copied and distributed within the United States.

This is a history of the Howe family from Caroline County, Virginia, and a detailed account of how the Civil War affected their family and the reconstruction that followed. The history of the homes and farms from the settling of the land to the turn of the century and how they have changed. There is a genealogy section of the Howe's and those that are related to them. There are many portraits of family members located throughout the book. Elizabeth Howe Married James Mayo Hoge in abt 1764. There son General James Hoge married his first cousin Eleanor Howe making them more Howe than Hoge, so they say.

Daniel Dunbar Howe wrote another book, this time it is about the town of Radford and the early New River Settlers.

Belsprings Church was originally a spin off of New Dublin Presbyterian Church where John Hoge, the General’s brother, was an elder. Instead, he started White Glad Church in Belsprings along with other Hoge family members. Here is a bit of their history.

William Hoge (1669-1749) and Barbara Lambert Hume (1670-1745) met on the ship Caledonia from Glasgow to New York City in 1682. They fell in love, married in New Jersey in 1685 and eventually settled in Frederick County, Virginia in 1735. John Howe Hoge is one of their descendants. William’s son James had a son named James Mayo Hoge. His son, Daniel Howe Hoge is William’s father.

Our "immigrating ancestor" was William Hoge who arrived in New Jersey from Scotland in 1682. We've traced his ancestry back to Erip, Prince of the Picts. I may be the last William Lacy Hoge in our line, so we want to share our family history, especially regarding the blending of cultures at Falls of the Ohio. Our genes and ancestors have had a significant impact on who we are today. William Lacy Hoge, Jr. was a gentle, loyal, and committed man who inspired his children and grandchildren.

This book is an attempt to share with our extended family the stories of our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and the other ancestors from the Hoge line who extend back across the Atlantic Ocean to the ancestral homeland of Scotland. We hope you’ll enjoy sharing this journey with us.

William Lacy Hoge III

Governor Tyler married Sue Hammet. Here are their family trees with all of their ancestors. Many are Revolutionary War soldiers and first families in Virginia. Although some information is in ancestry.com, many dates were discovered in the Governor’s Diary and not listed any place else.