A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--pages 992-993
Delano L. Hodges, one of the old soldiers of the Civil War, a native of Hendricks County, Ind., and now a resident of Marion Township, is a son of William and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Hodges. William Hodges was the son of William Hodges, Jr., came to Hendricks County, Ind., in 1831, and settled on a farm which he entered, adjoining that on which his son, Delano L., now lives, and which is still in the hands of his descendants, and is the only farm in the neighborhood still remaining in the family of the original pioneer who entered it. Mr. Hodges was a married man and had four children when he came, viz.: Amanda, Emma, John and Elizabeth. Eleven more children were born on the homestead in Hendricks County, viz.: Edna, Delano L., Matilda, Catherine H., Sarah E., Rachael, Lemmon D., Robert A., and three that died young. William Hodges cleared up his farm and made a good home. He lived to be seventy-seven years of age and died on this farm. Politically he was first a Democrat, but on the formation of the Republican Party voted for John C. Fremont. He was a hard-working pioneer citizen, much respected, and brought up a respected family of children, some of whom are among our best citizens. He had two sons in the Civil War, Delano and Lemmon D., the latter of whom was in the army nearly two years in three different regiments, first for one hundred days in the One Hundred and Seventeenth Indiana Infantry, next, for six months, in the One Hundred and Thirty-second Indiana Infantry, and next, for three years, for during the war, in the Forty-third Indiana Infantry.
Delano L. Hodges, our subject, was born on the old Hodges homestead in Hendricks County, May 18, 1834, received the common education of the pioneer, and has improved his time since, acquiring a fair education. He married, February 26, 1861, Elizabeth H., daughter of John and Christine (Caywood) Cord, and to this union three children were born, Susan M., Sarah G., and John W. After marriage, our subject settled on land adjoining his father's, and February 7, 1865, he enlisted at Indianapolis, in Company B, One hundred and Forty-eighth Indiana Infantry, for twelve months, or during the war, and was honorably discharged May 17, 1865, at Indianapolis, being mustered out under general order on account of the close of the war. He saw no active service, however, but he remained in Indianapolis on guard duty and in hospital. He was taken sick with typhoid fever and chronic diarrhea and came near death, and was finally sent home on furlough. He still is disabled from the effects of army life. After the war he settled for six months in Warren County, Ill., then moved to Peoria County in the same state, where he lived on one farm until 1888. He returned to Hendricks County, Ind., and settled on eighty acres, which he had bought in 1886 and he now owns over 126 acres of good land. Politically he is a Republican and is an adherent of the Missionary Baptist Church, and has always been a hard-working man and a good reliable citizen. His daughter, Sarah G., married Edmond Holmes, of Peoria, Ill., and Susan M. married Albert Hazlett, of same city, John W., remains with his father on the home farm and the family is one of the most respected in the township and county.