Levi "Marion" Freece Hedges
1882 - 1944 (61 years)-
Name Levi "Marion" Freece Hedges Birth 16 Jun 1882 Hope, Illinois 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Census 1910 Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Census 1920 Grant, Clay County, Kansas Census 1940 Barstow, San Bernardino County, California Death 31 Mar 1944 La Crescenta, Los Angeles County, California [1, 2, 4] Person ID I384 Hedges Last Modified 13 Apr 2023
Father Levi Marion Hedges, b. 30 May 1833, Fleming County, Kentucky d. 28 Jan 1907, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas (Age 73 years) Mother Samantha Jane Vawter, b. 6 Feb 1841, Jefferson County, Indiana d. 29 Aug 1884, Fithian, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 43 years) Marriage 10 Nov 1857 Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky [5, 6, 7] Family ID F10 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Alma Elizabeth Dempsey, b. 5 Dec 1884, Manhattan, Pottawatomie County, Kansas d. 25 Jul 1981, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California (Age 96 years) Marriage 17 Jun 1907 Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas [1] Children 1. Louis Marvin Hedges, b. 4 May 1910, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas d. 14 Jan 1992, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California (Age 81 years)2. Alois Everett Hedges, b. 28 Dec 1912, Clay County, Kansas d. 30 Aug 1967, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California (Age 54 years)3. James Claire Hedges, b. 12 Oct 1915, Kansas d. 11 Mar 1993, Sonoma, California (Age 77 years)Family ID F235 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Oct 2021
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Event Map 
Birth - 16 Jun 1882 - Hope, Illinois 
Marriage - 17 Jun 1907 - Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Census - 1910 - Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas 
Census - 1920 - Grant, Clay County, Kansas 
Census - 1940 - Barstow, San Bernardino County, California 
Death - 31 Mar 1944 - La Crescenta, Los Angeles County, California = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - 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.
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- 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.
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Sources - [S2] Mary Hedges Reiner, The Hedges Family by Mary Hedges Reiner.
- [S18] California Death Records.
- [S5] 1900 US census.
- [S11] Hedges Reunion Book, Library of Linda Hedges.
- [S1] Family Bible, William Ribelin Hedges.
- [S30] Kentucky marriage records, 1852-1914.
- [S77] Norman Bloss Mavity, The Mavity Family, (Edwards Brother, Inc.), page 23-24, Library of Linda Hedges.
- [S2] Mary Hedges Reiner, The Hedges Family by Mary Hedges Reiner.