Back to connections again after seeing this info on Ancestry, where is listed as Richard Branch Hodges and not Richard R. Hodges, but it addresses the confusion over his wife's name. Most Ancestry trees have his wife listed as Sarah Vann. Some have her listed as Sarah Vann Wilkins. One person suggested this possibility for the uncertainty of her name;
"Accounts vary wildly concerning Richard Hodge or Hodges and his wife (or wives) and children. Many show wife as Sarah Vann Wilkens... marriage dates range from 1720 to 1732, and places range from Isle of Wight County, Virginia to Bertie Co, North Carolina...! The names of the children seem to be listed fairly consistently, but then that could be because people have copied them over and over... ? I have done basically that, although some are better documented than others, and I have further speculated that there were two wives...one Sarah Vann and one Sarah Wilkins....I have absolutely no proof of this and it may very well be wrong, but it would explain why some marriage dates are 1720 or 1725 (which would corresponde well with the first two sons) and also shown as a marriage date is 1732 (which would be too late for the first two, but would be compatable with the very next son who was born abt 1732)... if anyone can help untangle this mess, please do."
and at least one tree does, in fact, show the two wives and their children:
Richard Branch Hodges
BIRTH: 1700 Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA DIFFERENT
DEATH: 21 Nov 1751 Marlboro, South Carolina, United States
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Family Info
Father
Robert Hodges III (1675–1742)
Mother
Ann Brandt Branch (1680–1742)
Spouse
Sarah Vann (1693–1760)
Children
Sarah (1717–)
Henry (1720–1802)
John Ballentine (1720–1778)
John Robert (1728–1822)
Spouse
Sarah Wilkins (1713–1760)
Married 1732
Children
Lemuel (1733–)
Thomas (1736–1755)
Ann (1742–1835)
Howell (1742–1799)
Mary (1744–)
Sarah (1747–1806)
Isabell (1748–1802)