Many of the descendants of George and Mary (Thatcher) Hodgson migrated to the Midwest from North Carolina. One result was the William and Phoebe Hodgson farm in Tazewell County, Groveland Township, 4 miles east of Pekin, Illinois.
Tim Sangalli, who provides the artwork, believes the property was the first of several farms Amos and William Hodgson homesteaded circa 1836.
It was purchased by Jack and Amelia Sangalli in the late 1940s.
Orphan George 