Robert Stinson Hogg, (known as "Stinson"), son of George Hogg, was born around 1838 in Butler County, PA. The 1850 census shows Stinson, then age 12, living with his Aunt Margaret (Hogg) Atwell, then age 74. The 1860 census shows him at age 21 living in Jackson, Iowa, with his brother James. Stinson fought in the Civil War, as a member of Company "I", 31st Iowa Infantry, from 1861 to 1865.
Mary Jane Dutton, daughter of Russel B. and Mary Ann (McDonald) Dutton, was born March 22, 1849, in Jackson County, Iowa.
After mustering out of the army, Stinson and Mary were married, on July 4, 1867. Altogether they had 16 children (only 10 were still living in 1910):
Ellen "Belle" Hogg | Born in 1870. |
Nancy Ann "Annie" Hogg | Born in 1873. Married to Joseph Norton. |
Margaret Lucretia Hogg | Born in 1875. |
Olive Lucinda Hogg | Born in 1877. Married George J. Augmeyer. |
Caroline Viola Hogg | Born in 1878. Married John C. Edwards. |
John William Hogg | Born in 1880. |
Cyrus Hogg | Born in 1880. |
Ulysses Edison Hogg | Born in 1882. Married Rosetta Rose Eastman. |
Minnie Hogg | Born in 1884. |
Eunice Cordelia Hogg | Born in 1886. Married Noah L. Clark and had 5 children. |
Amy Hannah Hogg | Born in 1888. |
George Russell Hogg | Born in 1890. |
Dollie Louella Hogg | Born in 1892. Married James Murray. |
(Female) Hogg | Born in 1893. |
Clara Hogg | Born December 19, 1894. Clara married Charles Wesley Clark and they had 9 children. |
Stinson died July 30, 1903, and is buried in the Willison Cemetary in Jackson County, Iowa. The 1910 census finds Mary, then age 61, as widowed, in Monmouth, Iowa, living in a rented home with her son Edison and daughter Clara. Ten years later, she is found living in Wyandotte County, Kansas, in the home of her daughter Annie, who had married Joseph Norton. Her son John William Hogg was also living there (listed as a clerk for the railroad). Mary died March 18, 1923, and is buried next to Stinson.