Rosannah Ribelin
1780 - 1848 (68 years)
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Name Rosannah Ribelin Born 2 Sep 1780 Yadkin Valley, North Carolina 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Female Died 29 Sep 1848 Fleming County, Kentucky [1, 2] Buried Old Crain Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky [1, 2] - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25751032/rosannah-hedges
Mary Hedges Reiner visited the cemetery in November 1950 when it was known as the Graham Cemetery. Two Flemingsburg High School boys went with her to hunt for headstones and they found them completely covered with earth. She took photographs of the two stones.
Person ID I341 Hedges Last Modified 6 Feb 2023
Father William Ribelin, b. 3 Jul 1759, Rowan County, North Carolina , d. 4 Nov 1822, Fleming County, Kentucky (Age 63 years) Mother Mary Ann Kiher, b. 6 May 1759, Yadkin Valley, North Carolina , d. 23 Jan 1842, Fleming County, Kentucky (Age 82 years) Married 5 Nov 1779 Rowan County, North Carolina [1, 3] - LKH note: North Carolina, index to marriage bonds. William Ribelin and Mary Kiher bond date 29 October 1779, Rowan County, North Carolina. Bondsman: Martin Ribelin. Witness: Jo Brevard. [4]
Family ID F207 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Levi Hedges, b. 24 Nov 1775, Frederick County, Maryland , d. 1 Apr 1847, Fleming County, Kentucky (Age 71 years) Married 1795 Kentucky [1] Children 1. William R. Hedges, b. 1796, Montgomery County, Kentucky , d. 1796 (Age 0 years)2. William Ribelin Hedges, b. 14 Mar 1798, Montgomery County, Kentucky , d. 28 Nov 1885, Rowan County, Kentucky (Age 87 years)3. Mary Ann Hedges, b. 7 Sep 1800, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 28 Oct 1838, Fleming County, Kentucky (Age 38 years)4. Rosanna Hedges, b. Abt 1803, Fleming County, Kentucky 5. Monroe Hedges, b. 11 Feb 1803, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 18 Oct 1899, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Age 96 years)6. Addison W. Hedges, b. 27 May 1807, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. Abt 1875 (Age 67 years)7. Jesse Hedges, b. Abt 1810, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 29 May 1894, Rowan County, Kentucky (Age 84 years)8. Sarah Hedges, b. 3 Sep 1812, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 16 Jul 1892, Fleming County, Kentucky (Age 79 years)9. Levi Hedges, b. 1814, Fleming County, Kentucky 10. David R. Hedges, b. Abt 1817, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 27 Oct 1878, Fleming County, Kentucky (Age 61 years)11. Jonathan Kiher Hedges, b. 31 Jul 1819, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 15 Nov 1912, Smoot, Greenbrier County, West Virginia (Age 93 years)12. James Hedges, b. Abt 1820, Fleming County, Kentucky 13. Louvina Jane Hedges, b. 18 Jul 1823, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 14 Jul 1891, Fleming County, Kentucky (Age 67 years)Last Modified 18 Feb 2018 Family ID F2 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25751032/rosannah-hedges
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Born - 2 Sep 1780 - Yadkin Valley, North Carolina 
Married - 1795 - Kentucky 
Died - 29 Sep 1848 - Fleming County, Kentucky 
Buried - - Old Crain Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Headstones Rosannah Ribelin 1780-1848 
Rosannah Ribelin headstone close up
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Notes - MHR note: Rosannah (Ribelin) Hedges was the neighborhood nurse and midwife. There is a story told of a black servant who came to take her to attend a birth in the home of his master. He rode a horse and led one with a side saddle. The river was in flood, and she was swept out of her saddle in the dark. The servant caught her and held her head above water until the horses swam to the shallow water and they went on. She attended to her duties as midwife and next morning the water was down so she could go home.
She told fortunes with tea leaves.
Levi Hedges left Maryland and came to Kentucky probably around 1795. That is also the year that he met and eloped with Rosannah, the oldest daughter of William Ribelin (who had moved his family to Kentucky from Yadkin Valley, North Carolina). Levi was about nineteen and she was not quite fifteen years old. Her father threatened to scratch her name from the family Bible, but he did not do so as Mary Hedges Reiner saw the family Bible of William Ribelin (probably in the 1950's) in the Historical Society in Lexington and Rosannah's name was still there. [1]
- MHR note: Rosannah (Ribelin) Hedges was the neighborhood nurse and midwife. There is a story told of a black servant who came to take her to attend a birth in the home of his master. He rode a horse and led one with a side saddle. The river was in flood, and she was swept out of her saddle in the dark. The servant caught her and held her head above water until the horses swam to the shallow water and they went on. She attended to her duties as midwife and next morning the water was down so she could go home.
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