Notes
Matches 8,101 to 8,150 of 11,070
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| 8101 | MHR note: Stutsman Cemetery on farm 12 miles south of Brookfield, Missouri. | Cassity, Nancy Armstrong (I2253)
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| 8102 | MHR note: Thaddeus taught school a few terms, beginning at age 17. At 18, he preached his first sermon when the minister was absent, and in 1885 was ordained at Pleasant Mount near Georgetown, Illinois. When 80 years old he had preached 54 years and had been district evangelist in Indiana and state evangelist for Ohio, Nebraska and Missouri. He was evangelist and pastor in Missouri for 27 years. He was 11 when they visited his grandparents in the squared log house so that would have been about 1870. from Moberly Monitor-Index, Moberly, Missouri, Friday, February 21, 1947, Page 3. Fred Hedges' Parents Are Wed 65 Years. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hedges returner early this morning from South Haven, Kas., where they attended a family reunion honoring the 65th wedding anniversary of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hedges. Mr. and Mrs. Hedges were married February 19, 1882, at the Christian church in Ogden, Ill. Their six children were present at the dinner Wednesday noon. They are Herbert Hedges. Kansas City, the Rev. A. A Hedges and Bert Hedges, Wichita, Kas., Fred Hedges of Moberly, Mrs. Neill Heeney, South Haven, and Mrs. Grace Tallman, Canton. Mo. Mr. Hedges is 87 years old and Mrs. Hedges is 84 years old. | Hedges, Thaddeus Arlington (I364)
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| 8103 | MHR note: The three children who died young, William J., infant, and Louesa J., are buried on the Cornelius turner farm in the Graham Cemetery near Poplar Plains, Kentucky. | Hedges, David R. (I642)
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| 8104 | MHR note: Their 11th child was an infant who died just a few days old. Joyce also died then. | Roberts, Joyce (I730)
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| 8105 | MHR note: There were Hyatts at Homer, Illinois when Ada (Hedges) Smith went to school there, who claimed to be related to the Hedges. | Hedges, Louvina Jane (I693)
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| 8106 | MHR note: They went to Seattle, leaving on their wedding night and lived 9 years and then lived in Denver a few years. He had been in Seattle with a brother, William Henry Boner, before a year or so and worked in timber. | Boner, John Quincy (I1778)
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| 8107 | MHR note: Thomas' sons furnished music for the Linneus reunions. | Cassity, Thomas (I2286)
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| 8108 | MHR note: three daughters | Jenkins, Everett Alonzo (I127)
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| 8109 | MHR note: Virginia was given the name Mary Virginia after Mary died. | Hedges, Virginia (I908)
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| 8110 | MHR note: Wayne was a manager of the Farm Club, Browning, Missouri. He belonged to the Church of Christ. In 1969 he had the Pic Motel. They had two children. | Bagley, Marlin "Wayne" (I186)
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| 8111 | MHR note: Went to Shreveport, Louisiana in 1909 or earlier. | Cassity, George Henry (I2211)
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| 8112 | MHR note: When Mary "Polly Ann" (Hedges) Cassity died, her body was hauled on a sled drawn by an ox-team which forded a stream to get to Morehead. She is buried in Hargis Cemetery near the rail road tracks in Morehead. LKH note: Burials in the Hargis Cemetery were relocated during the Cave Run Lake construction project, 1965-1974. Some burials were relocated to Alfrey Cemetery. However, I can find no information for relocation of James Albert Cassity and his family. MHR note: Mary Ann Cassity is given as "Polly Ann" on the stone. The Hargiss Cemetery is across a very narrow road from the railroad tracks. the graves have coffin-like covers and there is a tiny one beside theirs and a child-sized one next to that, both without inscriptions. The man living next to the little cemetery (James Edward Hall) said several stones had disappeared from the cemetery one night. One may have been that of their son, "Russell" Cassity. | Hedges, Mary Ann (I404)
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| 8113 | MHR note: William Allen has a stone, but his wife does not. | Allen, William Riley (I1850)
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| 8114 | MHR note: William F. and his brother Frank F. Reiner sold Pap's Coffee Shop in 1902, rebought it and sold it again 16 July 1906. It had been owned formerly by a man named Hemsworth. William was a member of the Washington Loge, no.46, A.F. and A. M. | Reiner, William Frederick (I1021)
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| 8115 | MHR note: William fell from his horse, his foot caught in the stirrup and the horse dragged him. He died a few hours later. | Allen, William Riley (I1850)
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| 8116 | MHR note: William Gilkison (Catlin, IL) said "Jim" used to talk in his sleep and once he sang "Joyfully, joyfully will I go home". His wife said the next morning "This is the durndest family I ever saw!" | Hedges, James Alva (I24)
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| 8117 | MHR note: William Moore and Anne moved to Kansas. They had two children. She and her sister Nancy used to dance to their father's flute. Anne had black hair and blue eyes - typically Irish. | Cassity, Anne Deborah (I2497)
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| 8118 | MHR note: William P. Miles has about 800 acres of land near Purdin, Missouri. He had a grist mill west of Purdin run by water power. | Myles, William P. (I1845)
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| 8119 | MHR note: William T. and Dorotha Cassity (called Dollie) took their family from Kentucky to Lee County, Iowa and stayed from October 1849 to Januiary 1851 when they moved to Missouri, settling first on the Fields Property about 2 miles east of Purdin. In 1851 their grandson, Frank E. Cassity (sone of Wm. Harrison Cassity) lives on the place. William T. Cassity is buried on the old farm of Alva Cassity, which later also belonged to his son, Alvah Jr. The stones being endangered by cattle which got into the plot, their grandson, Frank E. Cassity had the stones of his grandfather and those of two of his grandfather's sons, John Alva Cassity and Isaac Franklin Cassity, moved to the Dryden Cemetery at Grantsville, Missouri. MHR note: William T. Cassity family Bible to his son William Harrison Cassity, to his son Frank E. Cassity of Purdin Missouri. Copied by Mary Hedges Reiner on 19 September 1950. MHR note: William T. Cassity bought a clock two week before the birth of his son James Ira Cassity in 1 November 1830. in 1950 the clock was owned by Frank E. Cassity. It has wooden works. There is a mirror on the front and the bell tone is clear and good. A little piece had been broken from it by a hen which came into the house and flew at her miage in the mirror. it was later reparied, thought without authority, when the clock was left for repari at one time. | Cassity, William T. (I1731)
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| 8120 | MHR note: "Ed" Parker was foreman of Bradford Supply Co., B Olivar, New York. The company does supplies for oil wells and water wells. | Parker, Edward George (I814)
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| 8121 | MHR note: "Forrest" joined the Christian Church about August 1950. He was a trucker hauling coal. He worked for the L & N Rail Road for awhile and farmed. The Vawter part of his name was for Ashby Vawter Hedges, his cousin, who visited in Corbin in 1926 and had not learned of his cousin Amelia's death. | Parker, George Vawter "Forrest" (I826)
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| 8122 | MHR note: "Frank" reared Bessie Helvesteen (who married John Jones); Hina Helvesteen; and Jim Calvert. | Hedges, William Franklin "Frank" (I457)
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| 8123 | MHR note: "Marion" moved his family from Topeka, Kansas to Montrose, California in 1920. He preached at Marietta, Kansas, June 1916. He was a house carpenter, and had a roving foot. He was reared by P.T. Hedges and Mary Ann. MHR note: "Marion" was taken in by Aunt Mary and Uncle Cappy [P.T. Hedges and wife Mary Ann (Vawter0 Hedges] but didn't get along with the girls and was unhappy. At 15 he ran away to Chicago with a neighbor boy and was gone a month or so. He returned but left again at 16 and tramped to Norton and worked on a bridge gang a couple of months. He returned to Norton. On his bicycle went to Palro and worked in harvest at Anmon's. [spelling?] MHR note: He went with Nettie some, went to Hays on July 4 and tore the lace off her wrap. After his marriage he heard that Nettie was working in Denver at a restaurant, took off to see her without telling Alma who initiated a search and it became news in a paper notice. Nettie saw the item and sent him back to Topeka. He reported that he went to a lodge convection and when he got on the train he know no more until he woke up in a rooming house in Denver and supposed he'd been drugged. Four children. | Hedges, Levi "Marion" Freece (I384)
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| 8124 | MHR note: "Monroe" was a blacksmith and a minister in the Christian Church. William Gilkison of Catlin, Illinois can recall seeing him at his forge at Ringos Mills, Kentucky when Willie was about 15 years old. Monroe is buried at Godard, Kentucky, as is his wife and son, John Tilden Hedges, but no stones for them could be found. Lavina reared the children of her son, Lloyd, when their mother died. Monroe was tall and thin and had dark blue eyes and dark brown hair. This information from Rose Sherlock as told to her sister Ethel Collins. | Hedges, James Monroe "Monnie" (I647)
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| 8125 | MHR note: "Pete" had 160 acres, 4.5 miles N.E. of Wetmore, Kansas. In 1916 it had an 8 room house and electric lights. He had a well drilling outfit with which he could make $150 per month in 1916. He gave a statement for my book - see big sheet, p.B-4. | Cassity, Peter Albert (I435)
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| 8126 | MHR note: "Peyton was a preacher and operated a country store. | Estep, Ira Peyton (I635)
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| 8127 | MHR note: "Roe" Gilkison lived on Island Fork of Triplett Creek, Rowan County, Kentucky. He met his death by falling off a wagon and breaking his back. He and Sarah are buried at Muse's Mills Cemetery and have stones. | Gilkison, Levi Monroe "Roe" (I598)
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| 8128 | MHR note: "Sarah (Hedges) Gilkison was a midwife. The record we have is one written on the pages of a little notebook, some of the leaves of which have become lost. What we have of her record begins with the year 1864, near the close of the Civil War. As Sarah did not marry until she was 28 years old, probably she had gone with her mother, Rosannah (Ribelin) Hedges, and assisted her at some of the births at which her mother had officiated. Just what territory Sarah covered in her attendance at the births does not appear, but probably mostly in the community back in the hills, called Triplett, and environs. She rode horseback on her missions. Just what her equipment was, is unknown to the compiler of this record." | Hedges, Sarah (I567)
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| 8129 | MHR note: 4 children | Jenkins, Mary "Lee Anna" (I129)
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| 8130 | MHR note: 7 children. | Hedges, Lovinia Alice (I687)
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| 8131 | MHR note: 7 Sept 1857 | Cassity, Eliza Jane (I428)
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| 8132 | MHR note: According to Clara Gilkison, Blanche jumped from a window of their burning house and died as a result. | Gilkison, John Warren (I1148)
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| 8133 | MHR note: According to Clara Gilkison, Blanche jumped from a window of their burning house and died as a result. | Elam, Blanche Mae (I1149)
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| 8134 | MHR note: Addie fell and broke her hip in May 1958. She left 3 brothers: Charles Cox, Portsmouth, Ohio; Lewis Cox, Bluffton, Indiana; and William Cox, Daytona Beach, Florida. Addie had lived in Vermilion County, Illinois since she was 12 years old and in Catlin Township for 51 years. She belonged to the Catlin Church of Christ. Names of parents and grandparents of Addie come from a page in the back of the Hedges Reunion Book. Also the names and birth dates of her six children. MHR gives Addie's parents names: John Henry Cox and Mary Elizabeth Ratefill. | Cox, Sarah Adeline "Addie" (I1175)
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| 8135 | MHR note: After his father's death, Cecil lived with George F. Hedges and attended Jamaica grade school and Sidell high school. He graduated from Blackburn college at Carlinville. | Simpson, William "Cecil" (I191)
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| 8136 | MHR note: Albert Cassity was called "Ab". He moved from Milan Missouri to Fall River, Kansas about 1909 and to Fredonia, Kansas about 1912. | Cassity, Albert Thompson (I1750)
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| 8137 | MHR note: Albert S. Back left Bertie when her child was born. She heard from him once thereafter. | Parker, Roberta Vianna "Berta" (I835)
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| 8138 | MHR note: Albion was named for a judge, Albion Winneger Tourgee, who sent Albion Hedges his framed pictures. It bore the inscription: "Ignorance and neglect are the mainsprings of misrule." Albion went to Canton, Ohio, March 1914. He attended high school at Benton, Kansas and Bible College at Canton, Ohio. | Hedges, Albion Tourgee (I1012)
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| 8139 | MHR note: Alfonse Gears was in the Marines during WWI and was overseas in Germany. | Geers, Alfonse Fredrick (I996)
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| 8140 | MHR note: Alma was a member of the Catlin Christian Church | Hedges, Alma Maud (I1355)
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| 8141 | MHR note: Alvah Russell Cassity, Jr. was walking up Burlington Railroad track to his brother William’s house when a railroad motor car came along and being deaf Alvah didn’t hear the men shout and they could not stop the handcar which struck and fatally injured Alvah. | Cassity, Alvah Russell (I2261)
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| 8142 | MHR note: Amelia joined the Pine Grove Methodist Church at age 17 and the Christian United Church at Soldier, Kentucky in 1884. | Hamm, Amelia Helena (I352)
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| 8143 | MHR note: Amelia Rose (Gilkison) Scaggs and infant daughter died on the same day and are buried together. | Gilkison, Amelia Rose (I1163)
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| 8144 | MHR note: Amy Belle was a nurse and was nursing in Colorado when A.W. met her. She was superintendent of nursing at a Phoenix, Arizona hospital in 1951. | Fulghum, Amy Belle (I774)
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| 8145 | MHR note: Amy was William Ward's 4th wife. He was her step father. Ten children | Starrett, Amy (I1198)
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| 8146 | MHR note: April or May 1777 | Hedges, William (I1585)
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| 8147 | MHR note: Arden was a miner. He graduated from high school in 1922. He once worked in a coal mine and was park supervisor in Danville, Illinois. In 1952 he began a job as custodian for a theater in Danville, Illinois. He is a member of the Christian Church. In about 1969 they moved to Stultz Mobile home Park. | Tillotson, Bertie "Arden" Luther (I980)
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| 8148 | MHR note: Arthur learned to fly at Memphis, Tennessee, December 1943. He was for a time Director of Education at Fisher Air Corporation. He bought a store at maple Hill, Kansas in October 1944. He had lived at Scott, Arkansas in 1940. He graduated from high school in Denison, Kansas in 1924. Received an A.B. from Beebe College, Beebe, Arkansas in 1938. He was a mason and belonged to the M.E. Church. He taught school for eleven years before becoming a minister in the "All Souls Church" in Scott, Arkansas. He engaged in newspaper work in Houston, Texas and in Arkansas. He attended Bethany College, Bethany, Missouri; Maryville Teachers College, Maryville, Missouri; Pittsburg Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas; Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas; Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas, University of Arkansas, Fayette, Arkansas. | Hedges, Arthur Marion (I1068)
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| 8149 | MHR note: Ashbey Vawter Hedges was a school teacher and superintendent of schools for 50 years (if parts of terms are counted). He taught first "Slaty Point" school, Rowan County, Kentucky (along the Triplett Creek) and went back to teach his last school there. He taught also in Illinois (Wingard School, among others), and in Kansas, and one term in Oklahoma (1907-08). He carried the mail by horseback from Mt. Sterling to Cross Roads, Kentucky (now Farmer), swimming the Licking River to do so. He was a Mason, Oddfellow and Republican. He was a member of the Christian Church. | Hedges, Ashba Vawter (I375)
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| 8150 | MHR note: Ashby had a little over two years of college at Fort Hays, Kansas State College and 1923-24 taught at Hugoton, Kansas high school and in spring was principle when the former resigned. He is Superintendent of Distribution for Shell Oil Co., Columbus, Ohio in 1956. They lived for nine years in Arkansas City, Kansas and in Toledo, Ohio in 1950. | Hedges, Ashby Vawter (I1029)
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