• HBMS HISTORY 

    Opening in the fall of 1987, Hodges Bend Middle School was the sixth middle school build in the district. 
     
    The campus is located on the far west edge of Houston, Texas and on the northern part of the Fort Bend School District. The district covers 174 square miles of the eastern side of Fort Bend County. 
    The location of the campus is on the historical land grant belonging to Alexander Elliot Hodge born in York, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania between 1760 and 1862. He married about 1788 and had five boys and ten girls, Archie, William, Nancy, John, Ruth, Alexander Elliott, Mary, James, Cynthia and Lucinda. 
    A veteran of the "Swamp Fox", General Francis Marion's South Carolina brigade during the American Revolution, Alexander Hodge brought his family to Texas in 1825. Hodge was prominent among the "old three hundred" settlers that settled in this area. Stephen F. Austin assigned Hodge one of the five leagues of land Austin had saved for himself. His land grant for 4428 acres, issued in 1828 from Stephen F. Austin, was named Hodges Bend.
    While Texas was still under the Republic of Mexico, Hodge served his section of the colony as Comisario and Alcalde. During this time, settlers that would later take prominent positions in the history of Texas were visitors to Hodges Bend. Martin DeLeon, Lorenzo de Zavala, Mairbeau B. Lamar, Erastus (Deaf) Smith, William Travis, and James Bonham were at Hodges Bend before the Texas Revolution.
    His sons and sons-in-law fought in the Texas Revolution. Alexander, at 76 years of age, led his daughters and grandchildren in the Runaway Scrape. His granddaughter recalled how they huddled under a clump of trees and listened to gunfire at the Battle of San Jacinto.
    Hodges Bend also included the family cemetery. The first grave there was that of his wife, Ruth, who died in 1831. Hodge died August 17, 1836 and was also buried there. The old cemetery contains about 75 graves, including those of Hodge's descendants and other early settlers in the area. Alexander Hodge is the only known soldier of the American Revolution buried in Fort Bend County. 
    There is currently an Alexander Hodge Chapter of the Sons of the Revolution.