Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Janet/Jessie Richard Logan was born at 'Violet Grove', Royal Terrace, Dunedin on 24 November 1861 – the daughter of John Logan, the clerk to the Superintendent of Otago, and Janet Alexander Pollock. (See 33 Janet A Logan)
She married Owen James Hodge, the head teacher at Highcliff school, on 29 September 1886 at her parent’s home in Dunedin.
They had no children and Owen later worked as a solicitor and they went to live in Te Puke.
Janet died on 19 April 1925 her obituary said she 'was of a kindly disposition, and was highly esteemed”.
Owen died later the same year, they are both buried in the Te Puke Old Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/