James Hoge Tyler, Governor of Virginia b. 11 Aug 1846 Blenheim, Caroline, Virginia d. 3 Jan 1925 "Belle Hampton", Pulaski, Virginia: If the Legends Are True...

Suffix Governor of Virginia

Birth 11 Aug 1846 Blenheim, Caroline, Virginia [1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13]

This letter from J. Nellie Hoge appeared in the Richmond Dispatch in August, 1879.

"The article in your issue of the 17th, copied from the Washington Post, contains a statement in regard to Major Tyler which is as absurd as it is erroneous.l Major Tyler was born at Bleinheim, the Tyler Homestead, near Bowling green, Caroline County, Va. His mother was an only and idolized daughter. She is said to have been a woman of superior attractions of mind and person, and from her he inherits the tact which has made him ppular with all classes. It is true, as stated, that she yielded up her young life in giving him birth, but it is not true that he was entrusted to the care of a negro nurse to be borne, Indian fashion, across the wilderness. His grandmother, who was with her daughter, bore him in her own loving arms to Lynchburg (I presume they traveled from Richmond by the canal) at which point her husband met them with his carriage. There the little one was placed in a wicker basket, which was made fast to a net work of silk cord that ornamented the top of the vehicle. Thus swaying lightly with each movement, he was brought safely. The carriage remained in the possession of a member of the family long after its useful days were past and your correspondent has often looked with childish wonder at the faded cords while listening again to the story of how the little babe swung from them like a bird from the tree tops. Such sorrows and all that attend them are generally too deeply traced for the history to be lost in a generation, and you may be sure that this is the true version.

"His grandmother, the wife of General James Hoge, was the daughter of Major Daniel Howe, on whose headstone, in the family burial ground, in Pulaski County, is the unique epitaph:
'In youth a solider of the Revolution,
In old age a solider of the Cross.'

"The Howe homestead is in the possesion of a granddaughter, Mrs. Eugene de Jarnette (nee Agnes Howe).

"In Mrs. Howe's veins flowed some of the proudest English blood, but as her ancestor had thrown away his title to the trappings of heraldry to espouse the cause of liberty so she ever impressed on this boy that
' 'Tis only noble to be good,
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.'

"Hence he is a democart in heart; one of the people; ever ready to sustain that prime American principle: Nobility belongs only to those who win it.

"Bluff City, Virginia, August 21 1879.

J. Nellie Hoge

The Family of Hoge – 1927

Gender Male

AFN 15V1-0KP

Education Edge Hill Academy [8]

His mother dying at his birth, he was taken to the home of his maternal grandparents in Pulaski county, where his early years were spent and after the General's death he returned to his father in Caroline county, who sent him to Edge Hill Academy, then under the direction of Samuel Schooler.

Education Bef 1862 Albemarle County, Virginia [5, 8]

Minor's Academy

From Schooler's academy he was sent to Minor's Academy in Albermarle, where he remained until he entered the Confederate Army.

Military Service Abt 1862-1864 [1, 5, 11]

as a private in the Confederate Army

Biographical 1877 [5, 8, 11]

elected to the State Senate

He was a member of the Board of Public B uildings at Blacksburg and Marion, which committee received special mention and commendation from the Governor in a message to the State Legislature, because of the economic manner in which its work had been accomplished.

Occupation 1890-1894 Virginia, USA [5, 11, 14, 15]

Lieutenant Governor

Occupation 1898-1902 Virginia, USA [3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16]

Governor

His service as Governor was marked by a careful, economical policy, and by general prosperity in the State. As Governor he met all current expenses of the commonwealth, including those of a special session of the Legislature and a Constitutional Convention; gave an increase to the public schools of the State of $21,000 and increased the Literary Fund by the addition of $68,000 and left in the State Treasury when he reitred from office a sum of $800,000.

Among the beneficial measures, which received his support and which were passed during his administration, were the Labor Bueau and the Conditional Pardon System. The boundary line dispute between Viginia and Tennessee was also settled during his administration.

Residence 1864-1925 "Belle Hampton", Pulaski, Virginia [1, 8]

After the Civil War, Tyler decided to return to the old home of his grand-parents, where he held some property and so was soon settled in Pulaski, where he became active in public affairs.

Obituary Jan 1925 Richmond, Richmond (city), Virginia, USA [17]

The Richmond Times-Dispatch

'God bless Virginia, and may every officeholder be filled with a deep sense of duty to his state.'

With this brief prayer former Governor J. Hoge Tyler concluded his last message to the people of Virginia, voiced through the Times-Dispatch on New Year's Day. And, no man ever had a better right, if that is the word, to make such a prayer than J. Hoge Tyler. For during a long and honored life he had done all within his power, which was a vast deal, to lift his state to a fuller enjoyment of the blessing of Providence, and had at all times and conspicuously, though modestly, made it manifest that he was filled with a deep sense of duty to his state.

The seventy-nine-year-old servant of the state was one of those weary but exalted boys of the army of the Confederate States of America who the scythe of war left for the purpose of rebuilding a well-nigh destroyed civilization. Faithfully, unfalteringly and ably he did his part – and more. With many of his comrades, he emerged from the smoke of battle and the sorrow of surrender without a hint of a broken or shaken spirit. His life had been uprooted; then he would build and live a new life. He did, and his effort joined with the efforts of other defeated but victorious warriors to raise up the New South from the ashes of the Old South.

It is given to some to have known the beauty of his private life at home; it is given to more to have known the simple piety and devotion to all good works that marked his life as a churchman; it is given to far more to have known and to remember that his service to his community, to all who tilled their lands and to the whole state always glowed with a deep sense of duty to his state.

The news columns tell in some detail the many rewards his quiet, thoughtful endeavor – always inspired with a deep sense of duty to his state – returned to the people of Virginia. These rewards have grown in richness and remain a monument to his memory. And, too, because they were brought about by the unselfish striving of a man who revered his God and loved his fellow-man, they silently repeat the prayer of Virginia's dead servitor: 'God bless Virginia, and may every officeholder be filled with a deep sense of duty to his state,"

Alt. Death 3 Jan 1925 "Halwick", Pulaski County, Virginia [13]

Biographical Tyler Memorial Church, East Radford, Pulaski, Virginia [13]

founded

Biographical was president of South West Virginia Livestock Association [5]

Biographical was president of Virginia State Farmers Institute [5]

Died 3 Jan 1925 "Belle Hampton", Pulaski, Virginia [1, 5, 10, 12, 15]

Obituary 8 Jan 1925 Radford, Bedford, Virginia, USA [18]

The Radford News

Governor Tyler is dead.

His death on Saturday morning last brought a sense of personal loss to the people of Radford and that may be said of young and old, high and low, rich and poor, good and bad.

He loved to talk to little children and it plesaed him that they liked to talk to him. There was no difference in his manner with the highest and the lowliest. This was no affectation. It came from the heart of a fine, gentle nature. It came from no weakness, for he was singularly strong in his convitions, fearless for the right, who in his day dared a machine when reform was needed, and could be strong in rebuke when the most charitable course demanded severity. But there was none of the holier or better than thou in his composition, but rather the benison of a friendly interest, a cordial smile, a warm handshake, and to the erring: 'Go thy way and sin no more.' That element in him may have accounted for his readily seeing the need of change in penal methods and for his being rather proud of the fact that his first act as governor was the exercise of the pardoning power, and his last act the same.

"Every one loved Governor Tyler. Few candidates for high office have had so varied and sincere tributes paid to them as did Governor Tyler in his campaigns. Tribute called for no fulsomeness, no flattery, for so much could be said in truth, with always the inspiration of some pleasant recollection of the man, his courtly gentle manner of the old school, free from guile; who never spoke to hurt, but sought rather what he might say that would help and encourage; his bright stories, always clean; his amiable sweetness combined with recognized ability; his strong adherence to principles so ingrained that expediency could not swerve. And, he was a good campaigner. He could make a fine speech, not only entertaining but couched in graceful diction, a bit of humor, a bit of sentiment and in thus wise put across the more serious message. In a day when conservatism might easily be narrow, he was really progressive, while earlier progressiveness, so- called, came to see that in his conservatism he was wise with remarkable prescience.

He was a very warm friend of William Jennings Bryan and entertained him here at "Halwick," while he was in turn entertained by the Commoner at his western home. On one occasion Bryan suggested his name among others which the party could consider as suitable timber for the presidency.

After long years of useful public activity, Governor Tyler settled down here in his comfortable "Halwick," but in his retirement found many ways to be useful, through his unselfish lending of himself for the many occasions that demanded a speaker, or the presence of an ex-governor or the advice of a seasoned judge of affairs; in membership on various boards; in his church work, and perhaps that which we all will remember most thankfully in being just himself and letting us all know the pleasure that comes within the aura of a good soul.

To his family, so singularly blessed in husband and father and so markedly partaking of him, his friends will feel the warmest sympathy in their sorrow.

In 1912 when Governor Tyler went to hospital for an operation, the outcome of which was in doubt, he lived to read some beautiful tributes that were paid by the press, and returning to Radford to find the broad avenue at the end of which his home is located changed from the unsuited name of Commerce Street to Tyler Avenue, in his honor.

A tribute from one of the state papers at that time described him as one of Virginia's best loved executives, respected both for his public and private life, and most loved where best known, at his home, where everyone knew him from personal experience of his goodness and tenderness and sympathy.

Throughout his long public career Governor Tyler kept a scrap book which contains what the papers had to say in various campaigns. There were competitors for office and at times there was the usual political acrimony. The Governor clipped them all, the pro and the con. They are an interesting history of the governor and of the state for the period they cover. But, from time to time one finds a bit of verse. The verse thus selected, and thus kept amid the strife of political conflict contains a revelation of the inner self, the spiritual, and likely the key to his philosophy.

Governor Tyler was deeply religiouos, deeply sensitive to the beautiful in all God's handiwork. Christ frequently used similes from nature's book as when he spoke of the lilies of the field.

The following verse was taken from one poem in the governor's scrap book:

I gaze into the sky of sunlit blue;
I look upon the flowers of perfect hue;
I see the butterfly, he skims along
On brilliant wing; I hear the bird's sweet song
And then I long for heaven and think if God
Has made the flowers, upon this earthly sod,
So fair, and given the birds such melody
What must the singing of angels be.

Political was a Democrat [5]

Occupation farmer [5]

Occupation 1927 New York [1, 16]

The Family of Hoge was published

His biography may be summed up in the words of the gentleman who nominated him for Governor: "A man whose personal character cannot be assailed, whose political integrity requires no defense, whose record is clear, whose purpose is high, whose bravery and love of country have been amply proven on many a hard fought field, whose fidelity to his party is an inspiration, whose public career has illustrated the Jeffersonian virtues of honesty, capacity and fitness, and whose private life is a benediction."

Person ID I5449 If the Legends Are True...

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Father Honorable George Tyler, b. 13 Dec 1817, Caroline County, Virginia , d. 11 Nov 1889

Mother Eliza Hoge, b. 11 Dec 1815, d. 11 Aug 1846

Alt. Marriage Aft 1841

Family ID F2076 Group Sheet

Family Sue Montgomery Hammet, b. 16 Jul 1845, d. 23 Apr 1927

Married 16 Nov 1868 [3, 5, 9, 13, 19]

Residence Bef 1891 "Belle Hampton", Pulaski, Virginia [3]

Residence 1891 Radford, Bedford, Virginia, USA [3, 20]

Halwick

Tyler → home - Halwick

Children

	1. Edward Hammet Tyler, b. 15 Dec 1869, "Belle Hampton", Pulaski, Virginia , d. 22 Mar 1939, Radford, Bedford, Virginia, USA
	2. James Hoge Tyler, Junior, b. 12 Dec 1871, d. 1937
>	3. Stockton Heth Tyler, b. 13 Sep 1874, "Belle Hampton", Pulaski, Virginia , d. 5 Sep 1934
>	4. Belle Norwood Tyler, b. 9 Mar 1876, "Belle Hampton", Pulaski, Virginia , d. 4 Feb 1955
>	5. Sue Hampton Tyler, b. 9 Apr 1877, "Belle Hampton", Pulaski, Virginia , d. 1949, Norfolk, Norfolk (city), Virginia, USA
	6. Henry Clement Tyler, b. 10 Dec 1878, "Belle Hampton", Pulaski, Virginia , d. 1 Dec 1941, Radford, Bedford, Virginia, USA
>	7. Eliza Tyler, b. 7 Sep 1882, d. Yes, date unknown
	8. Eleanor Howe Tyler, d. Infant

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	Residence - Halwick - 1891 - Radford, Bedford, Virginia, USA
	Obituary - The Richmond Times-Dispatch - Jan 1925 - Richmond, Richmond (city), Virginia, USA
	Obituary - The Radford News - 8 Jan 1925 - Radford, Bedford, Virginia, USA

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Photos		Tyler → James Hoge Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Governor of Virginia. Compiler of "The Family of Hoge", published in 1927

Notes	Carried in a champagne basket suspended from the top of a carriage and attended by a faithful black mammie and a devoted grandmother, one then only three weeks old, but destined to become the Governor of Virginia and incidentally the author of the record contained in this book, was brought 300 miles to the Hoge homestead in Pulaski County Virginia: His mother had died at his birth and he was being brought to the home of his grandparents where he was reared and where he lived for the remainder of his life. James Hoge Tyler was born August 11th, 1846, at Blendheim, in Caroline County, the son of George Tyler and Eliza Hoge. His father was a descendant from Richard Tyler, who came from London in 1647. His mother was the only daughter of General James Hoge; of Pulaski County. At that time General Hoge represented what was then Montgomery County in the House of Delegates at Richmond. He had just completed several terms as senator from his district and as presidential elector for his congressional district. He had acquired large properties and amassed considerable wealth. The homestead now known as "Belle Hampton," was devised by him to James Hoge Tyler. When the civil war came, preferring to be with a companion, the young Tyler at the age of sixteen declined a commission and entered the confederate Army as a private and served in that capacity until the end of the war. He returned to "Belle Hampton" after the war and assumed the management of the farm. He made "Belle Hampton" the home of some of the finest Durham cattle in Virginia and took a leading position in the agricultural interests of Southwest Virginia. He served as president of the Virginia Stock Farmers' Institute and as president of the Southwest Virginia Live Stock Association. He became interested in politics. The History of Virginia, issued by the American Historical Society, gives the following summary of his political career: "He was elected State Senator in 1877 and took prominent position in the senate as an advocate of retrenchment and reform. He was a member of the building committee that erected the Southwestern State Hospital, at Marion, which, in completeness, is unsurpassed, considering the amount expended. He was for years a member of the board of visitors and rector of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Institute, now the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and for a long period was connected with all the agricultural societies of the state. He was a member of the State Debt Commission and was firm in his stand to secure an extension of the two per cent interest period from five to ten years. In 1889 he was the Democratic candidate of Southwest Virginia for the governorship, but P.W. McKinney, securing the nomination, Mr. Tyler gave him his loyal support and accepted the second place on the ticket. In 1897 he was party candidate and was elected governor by the largest plurality ever given a gubernatorial candidate in the state, making the third Tyler to hold the high office of governor of Virginia. "Governor Tyler's administration was marked by the settlement of the long vexed oyster question, for it was largely through his efforts that the LeCato bill was made effective and the oyster beds of the state made to yield an income to the state instead of an annual deficit. As governor he secured the reduction of taxes and the state debt and the increase of the public school fund and the literary fund. Other measures credited to his administration are the establishment of the Farm Bureau, the reorganization of the agricultural department, a conditional pardon system and the settlement of the Virginia-Tennessee boundary question." While governor he was candidate for the United States Senate against Senator Martin. His last public activity was in the Great War when he served as food administrator for Radford and Montgomery Counties. It is said of Governor Tyler that his private, as well as his public life, was entirely without blemish. He was noted for his religious conviction and allowed it to dominate his whole life and philosophy. Three times he was elected to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church. In 1892 he was a delegate to the Pan Presbyterian Alliance in Toronto and in 1896 a delegate to the convention in Glasgo, Scotland, where he presided over one of the sessions. He was a member of the boards of trustees of Hampden-Sidney College, the Union Theological Seminary and the Synodical Orphans Home at Lynchburg. On November 16, 1868, Mr. Tyler married Sue Hammet of Montgomery County, and the children by that marriage were Edward Hammet, James Hoge, Stockton Heth, Belle Norwood, Sue Hampton, Henry Clement and Lily. He was named for his grandfather, General James Hoge, to whom he was devoted and in whose name and lineage he took a profound pride. This record reveals his absorbing interest and pride in the history of the family. For many years during the latter part of his life he wrote hundreds of letters to members of the family requesting information and data which he used in making the record. When a delegate to the convention in Glasgow, he took occassion to investigate the history of the family in Scotland whence it emigrated to America. To all the members of the family Governor Tyler did credit by the life he lived and the lustre he shed upon the name in public service, and, in the preparation of this record, he contributed a material service for which the whole family is debtor. The Family of Hoge – 1927 (Research):Lieut.-Gov J. Hoge Tyler is descended from a long line of ancestors distinguished both in church and State, on both sides of his family. He was born at Blenheim, the old ancestral home of the Tylers, in Caroline county, Virginia. His father, the Hon. George Tyler, represented the county of Caroline from 1859 to 1865, and was loved and honored as the worthy son of Henry Tyler, grandson of the Capt. George Tyler, who, in the Revolutionary War, raised, uniformed and equipped a company of Patriot soldiers, soon after Patrick Henry sounded the tocsin of war. His lineage is the same as President Tyler of Virginia. On the maternal side, we find, by reference to "Foote's Sketches of Virginia," that his ancestors were among the early settlers of Virginia. His mother, Eliza Hoge, still remembered for her graces of mind and person, was the daughter of Gen. James Hoge, of Pulaski, a man of marked characteristics, strong, forceful, a splendid type of the man of his day who met and battled with difficulties. He served with distinction as an officer in the war of 1812, and for years was the representative of his county and district as Senator and member of the House of Delegates, and was chosen by his party as District Elector in five or six presidential elections. He was the son of James Hoge, of Frederick county, of the same lineage as Rev. Moses D. Hoge, of Richmond; Judge John Blair Hoge, of West Virginia, and others. These Hoges trace to the William Hoge and Barbara Hume who were the ancestors of that long line that have been useful in church and State in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The maternal grandmother of James Hoge Tyler was Eleanor Howe, the daughter of Major Howe, of the Revolutionary War, of the same lineage as Lord Howe and General Wayne. Thus we see, from lineage and inheritance, Mr. Tyler has nothing to be ashamed of, but one of his most striking characteristics is the belief, on which he has acted, that every man should stand on his own merit. He illustrated it by declining the soft and easy place in the Confederate army which could have been procured by family influence, saying if his boyish neighbor, Willie Goodwin, on whom, after an elder brother was killed, depended the support of mother and sisters, could go in the ranks, "If it is right for him to go, it is more incumbent on me," so with knapsack and musket, at the age of sixteen he stood by the side of his youthful companion a faithful soldier until the flag was folded at Appomattox. When the war was over, young Tyler returned to his dismantled home. Unfenced, washed and worn fields met the eye, but under his skillful management he has made it a most attractive home, not only drawing from it the support of his family, but was enabled to assist his father. He has also developed a coal vein upon his land, thus giving employment to many in his neighborhood. Politically, we find him active ever since the age of twenty-one, taking part in every contest that has been waged in Virginia since the war; was alternate delegate to the convention that nominated Tilden at St. Louis in 1876, and took an active part in canvassing for his election; was elected in 1877 to the State Senate, and his friends point with pleasure to the record made. In 1886 he was appointed on the Board of Visitors to Blacksburg College, and, almost immediately after, was elected rector of the college and made chairman of the Executive, Finance and building Committees, and as such had charge of the erection of the handsome barracks building at that place; was sent by the Board to inspect the agricultural farms and colleges in the United States and Canada, with a view to perfecting arrangements for establishing the Experimental Station at Blacksburg. It was whilst engaged in this work and absent from the State that his friends advocated him for Congress, and it was whilst canvassing for Mr. Buchanan, making the first and last speech in his behalf, that gave him so much reputation, his name began to be mentioned for Governor. To aid this movement, his friends throughout the State gave a ready response, and in the Convention which assembled in Richmond in August, 1889, he had a large and faithful following. Captain P. W. McKinney proved to successful aspirant, due to the hearty, cheerful and ringing speech that Major Tyler made endorsing his old friend, Captain McKinney, which electrified and captured that large convention and caused him to be the unanimous nominee for Lieutenant Governor. It is said but few speeches have ever been made in Virginia which so thoroughly captivated an audience as the one made by Major Tyler in old Amrory Hall on that hot August day. It carried his name throughout the State, and he at once entered the canvass a favorite of the people. How well he sustained himself was evinced in may ways. We quote these few lines from the Washington Post: He had a rousing meeting at Stanardsville, Green county, and made a speech of two hours length, and showed himself the peer of any of the Democratic spearkers now on the stump." Major Tyler has been thoroughly identified with the cause of agriculture, attending most of the county, State and some of the National Farmers' meetings. At present is a member of the State Agricultural Society, Vice-President of the Lynchburg Agricultural Society, and has been on the boards of many of the different agricultural societies throughout the State. At this time he is actively engaged in working up an interest in the State with a view to having Virgina properly represented at the Columbian Exhibition, at Chicago, in 1893. At a large meeting held in Pulaski City in July he was elected President of a State Association organized to promote this interest. He has been an elder in the Presbyterian church since early manhood, and has ever been an active, earnest worker in church and Sunday-school matters. In 1868 he married Miss Sue Hammet, daughter of Col. Edward Hammet, of Radford, Montgomery county, and has four sons and three duaghters. He is a public-spirited man, and his energies have been exerted in the upbuilding of his section and State; is President of the Radford Development Company, a company of $200,000 capital, organized to promote the growth of Radford, and also President of the Virginia Mutual Building and Investment Association, and is president and an active member in other similar enterprises organized for the upbuilding of his State and section. South-west Virginia and the valley – 1892

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