Malinda Russell Cassity
1805 - 1887 (81 years)
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Name Malinda Russell Cassity Born 14 Oct 1805 Montgomery County, Kentucky 
[1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Female Died 12 Sep 1887 Rowan County, Kentucky [1, 2, 3] Buried Three Lick Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky [2] Person ID I2 Hedges Last Modified 17 Sep 2023
Father Peter Thompson Cassity, b. 19 Jun 1775, Virginia , d. 12 May 1862, Rowan County, Kentucky (Age 86 years) Mother Mary "Polly" Melissa Armstrong, b. 10 Feb 1779, Augusta County, Viriginia , d. 29 Sep 1860, Rowan County, Kentucky (Age 81 years) Married 20 Sep 1796 Clark County, Kentucky [3, 5] Family ID F3 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family William Ribelin Hedges, b. 14 Mar 1798, Montgomery County, Kentucky , d. 28 Nov 1885, Rowan County, Kentucky (Age 87 years) Married 22 Dec 1822 Rowan County, Kentucky [1, 2, 3, 6] Children 1. Mary Ann Hedges, b. 26 Nov 1823, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 22 Sep 1854, Fleming County, Kentucky (Age 30 years)2. Addison W. Hedges, b. 13 Feb 1826, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 9 Aug 1863, Rockwall, Rockwall County, Texas (Age 37 years)3. Vianna Jane Hedges, b. 4 May 1828, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 24 Jan 1911, Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky (Age 82 years)4. Peter Thompson Hedges, b. 29 Jan 1831, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 12 Jun 1924, Tilton, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 93 years)5. Levi Marion Hedges, b. 30 May 1833, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 28 Jan 1907, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas (Age 73 years)6. Rosannah Sarah Hedges, b. 1 Nov 1835, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 27 May 1924, Jamaica, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 88 years)7. Melissa Lucinda Hedges, b. 17 Mar 1838, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 3 Mar 1899, Farmers, Rowan County, Kentucky (Age 60 years)8. William Riley Hedges, b. 10 Mar 1841, Farmers, Rowan County, Kentucky , d. 25 Oct 1925, Purdin, Linn County, Missouri (Age 84 years)9. James Alva Hedges, b. 14 Sep 1843, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 3 Nov 1921, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 78 years)10. Isaac Armstrong Hedges, b. 4 Mar 1846, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 1930, Santa Paula, Ventura County, California (Age 83 years)Last Modified 18 Feb 2018 Family ID F1 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 14 Oct 1805 - Montgomery County, Kentucky 
Married - 22 Dec 1822 - Rowan County, Kentucky Died - 12 Sep 1887 - Rowan County, Kentucky 
Buried - - Three Lick Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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William Ribelin Hedges and Malinda Cassity 
William Ribelin Hedges and Malinda Russell Cassity Cassity, Malinda Russell 1805-1887
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Hedges, Malinda Russell Cassity
Albums 
Family Bible of William Ribelin Hedges (4)
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Notes - MHR note: Stories told by Ida M. (Hedges) Cronkite to Miriam Hickman. Malinda, daughter of Peter and Mary (Armstrong) Cassity married William Ribelin Hedges. "They used to say 'she lifted the limb of a tree it took two men to lift.' This is the true story. She and a small boy with his mother were hurrying to get home from a storm. Part of a tree blew down and caught the boy and pinned him down. Malinda lifted till the mother could drag him out. Next day two men went to clear the road and it took two men to lift it from the ground. This was my father's mother and he told me he had seen her lift an anvil off the block with one hand. She could weave four yards of jeans then walk four miles up hill to spend the night with a neighbor. When she was seventy, she was still spinning and weaving. The year she was eighty-two, 1887, your grandmother came with her to Illinois. They were two days on the train. There were four sons, two grandsons, and one granddaughter to visit, all in Vermilion County, but hard trips between in horse and buggy days. Then a train to Montezuma, Indiana to visit two nieces. Then to Louisville, Kentucky, where the youngest son met her with a lumber wagon to take her over a corduroy road sixteen miles to his home. Back again to Louisville and then the train on home at the mouth of Blue Bank on the Licking River near Farmers, Kentucky.
"About a week later she heard there was to be preaching at Slaty Point. This was about three miles away. There she had gone to church all her life. They had no conveyance but hadn't they always walked? So she went. At the church she got sick and they took her to the nearest neighbor and a day or two later she died. She was eighty-two years old. At the age of seventeen she went from her father's home to her husband. She moved from the old house to the new and lived sixty-five years on the same farm."
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- MHR note: Stories told by Ida M. (Hedges) Cronkite to Miriam Hickman. Malinda, daughter of Peter and Mary (Armstrong) Cassity married William Ribelin Hedges. "They used to say 'she lifted the limb of a tree it took two men to lift.' This is the true story. She and a small boy with his mother were hurrying to get home from a storm. Part of a tree blew down and caught the boy and pinned him down. Malinda lifted till the mother could drag him out. Next day two men went to clear the road and it took two men to lift it from the ground. This was my father's mother and he told me he had seen her lift an anvil off the block with one hand. She could weave four yards of jeans then walk four miles up hill to spend the night with a neighbor. When she was seventy, she was still spinning and weaving. The year she was eighty-two, 1887, your grandmother came with her to Illinois. They were two days on the train. There were four sons, two grandsons, and one granddaughter to visit, all in Vermilion County, but hard trips between in horse and buggy days. Then a train to Montezuma, Indiana to visit two nieces. Then to Louisville, Kentucky, where the youngest son met her with a lumber wagon to take her over a corduroy road sixteen miles to his home. Back again to Louisville and then the train on home at the mouth of Blue Bank on the Licking River near Farmers, Kentucky.
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