Sophia Cordella Hedges
1892 - 1974 (81 years)
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Name Sophia Cordella Hedges Born 10 Nov 1892 Jamaica, Vermilion County, Illinois 
[1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Female Religion Center Point Church [5, 6] Died 19 Sep 1974 Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois [1, 2, 3, 4] Buried GAR Cemetery, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois [3, 4] - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75774647/sophia-c_-yeazel
Block 16, Lot 34, Space 2
Person ID I92 Hedges Last Modified 3 Jun 2024
Father George Fielden Hedges, b. 27 Dec 1866, Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky , d. 19 Feb 1950, Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 83 years) Mother Cora Belle Gritton, b. 28 Aug 1870, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois , d. 19 Apr 1961, Tilton, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 90 years) Married 28 Jul 1892 Vermilion County, Illinois [2, 7, 8] Family ID F60 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Chester "Rollie" Yeazel, b. 11 Sep 1893, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois , d. 21 Jun 1979, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 85 years) Married 24 Oct 1915 Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois [1, 2, 7] Children + 1. Harold Ralph Yeazel, b. 6 Mar 1918, Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois , d. 15 Nov 1988, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Age 70 years)+ 2. Howard Baldwin Yeazel, b. 21 Nov 1920, Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois , d. 29 Aug 2011, Tulsa, Oklahoma (Age 90 years)Last Modified 18 Feb 2018 Family ID F70 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - 10 Nov 1892 - Jamaica, Vermilion County, Illinois 
Religion - - Center Point Church 
Married - 24 Oct 1915 - Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois 
Died - 19 Sep 1974 - Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois 
Buried - - GAR Cemetery, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Photos 
Hedges, Geo, Cora, Ralph, Grace and Sophia at Center Point Church 
Hedges, George F, Cora and their children Sophia and Ralph 
Hedges children: Sophia, Ralph and Grace 
Hedges children: Sophia, Ralph and Grace 
Hedges, George, Cora and family 
Hedges, Grace, Sophia and Ralph 
At the farm of Adam W. Yeazel 
Hedges, Sophia and Mary Parliament 
A gathering of the families of Sarah Lavina and William Riley Hedges in Missouri
We need help identifying some people in this photo. Is that Lucy Malinda Hedges Jenkins seated on the far left with a child on her lap?
Yeazel, Rollie, Sophia, Grace Fox Sep 1973 
Hedges, Sophia, Grace, Curtis Bagley, Wm Hedges 
Gritton, Hedges, Fox, Yeazel in Fairmount
On the porch at Grace and Willis Fox's house in Fairmount, Illinois. Back row from left: Cora Belle (Gritton) Hedges, Ada (Hedges) Smith, Mollie Pletch (a neighbor), Willis Fox. Front row: Sophia (Hedges) Yeazel, Elmer Ericson of Downey California, and Grace (Hedges) Fox.
Center Point Church 
Bagley, Curtis and Sophia Hedges 
Hedges Reunion - best guess for date is before 1939 
Hedges Reunion 
Hedges Reunion 1946
The Seventeenth Annual Hedges Reunion was held Sunday, August 18, 1946 at Lincoln Park, Danville, Illinois with 99 relatives and friends present. A basket dinner was served at the noon hour. George F. Hedges presided at the business meeting in the afternoon. Talks were given from those from distances and was enjoyed by all. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year. President J. W. Hedges, Vice President P. T. Hedges, Secretary Treasurer Anna Bagley. The next meeting will be held the 3rd Sunday in August 1947 in Missouri. Gifts were presented to the oldest man present, George F. Hedges, 79. Oldest woman was Mrs. Cora Hedges, 76 years old. The youngest was Robert Alan Yeazel, 3 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Yeazel. Newlyweds were Mr. and Mrs. John Hanks. The one coming the farthest was Jasper N. Hedges of Dubois, Wyoming, 1650 miles. There were 6 marriages, Betty Buckman and Dale Wood, Geraldine Hedges and Frank Pesorara, Betty Lou Smith and Frank Day, Lois Smith and Max Dodd, Roy Hedges and Inez Cola, Irene Smith and John Hanks. There were 9 births [transcriber has omitted this section to preserve privacy] Two deaths: Ercel Eldon Simpson and James A. Hedges. Greetings were received from those from a distance who could not attend.
July 24 1913 picnic 
Strawberry pickers Eva, Sophie, Grace 
The Morehouse Place 
Hedges families
around 1912, no later than 1916
The Morehouse place 
Hedges, George and Cora family 
Cora's family - postcard to Cora's parents 
Hedges, George and Cora family 
Hedges family reunion - need identification
HedgesAlbum133
Hedges, Sophie 
Hedges, Sophia, Ralph and Grace 
Hedges, Sophia, Ralph, Grace 
1913 picnic back 
Center Point Sunday School, Lizzie Huss, Grace Hedges 
Group of women outside a barn Sophia, Ralph, Grace, George F. and Cora Hedges 
1919 Grace, Eva, and Sophie 
Group on a porch 
Rollie Yeazel, Sophia, Howard, Grace and Willis Fox, Florence Reece Kidder, Geo and Cora Hedges, Florence and Winfield Reece, Marjorie, Joe, Marion Fox 
Rollie, Sophia, Howard Yeazel, Grace and Willis Fox, Howard Yeazel, Geo and Cora Hedges, Cora and Winfield Reece Marjorie, doll, Georgie Bell, joe Fox, Marion Fielden Fox, Joseph Benton.jpg 
Cora's family - postcard to Cora's parents 
Hedges Reunion 1932 
Group Photo at Adams house
Group of friends at the home of Maude and Joe Adams. Standing on porch: Sid Smith, Grace Hedges, "Grandpa" (no relation to us) Edmund Hawkins, June Elliott, Joe Adams, Annie Adams.
Standing: Ed Pletch, baby with father, Ralph Hedges, Mollie Pletch and baby, unidentified man, unidentified woman and boy in front, another unidentified woman with a boy in front, Maude Adams's mother who is married to Edwin Hawkins, unidentified boy, Sophia Hedges, Muriel Elliott, Emma Elliott, Maude Adams, Cecelia Elliot, Grant Elliott, Henry Adams, Cora Hedges, George F. Hedges, Ernest Gritton. (Identified by Grace (Hedges) Fox)Hedges, Sophia 
Yeazel, Rollie and Sophie 
Group Photo at Adams house
Group of friends at the home of Maude and Joe Adams. Standing on porch: Sid Smith, Grace Hedges, "Grandpa" (no relation to us) Edmund Hawkins, June Elliott, Joe Adams, Annie Adams.
Standing: Ed Pletch, baby with father, Ralph Hedges, Mollie Pletch and baby, unidentified man, unidentified woman and boy in front, another unidentified woman with a boy in front, Maude Adams's mother who is married to Edwin Hawkins, unidentified boy, Sophia Hedges, Muriel Elliott, Emma Elliott, Maude Adams, Cecelia Elliot, Grant Elliott, Henry Adams, Cora Hedges, George F. Hedges, Ernest Gritton. (Identified by Grace (Hedges) Fox)
Documents 
Hedges Reunion flyer 
Hedges, Sophia wedding announcement 
Hedges, Sophia obituary
Albums Center Point Church (7)
Stories of historical days in Vermilion County, Illinois
https://archive.org/details/storiesofhistor0tugg/page/56/mode/2up
CENTER POINT CHURCH
By WlLINORE Moreman, Dist. 170 Teacher, Edna White
I have chosen this subject because I am one of the fourth generation of my family to attend the Center Point Church.
This church is located about six miles southwest of Fairmount and three miles from Jamaica. In the year of 1891 this church was dedicated by Reverend Brooks of Paris, Illinois.
Prior to this time, the people worshipped in the Center Point schoolhouse. It was in the year of 1891, while a revival meeting was being held, that a young lady, Miss Ada Hedges, now Mrs. Ada Smith of Homer, Illinois, desired to enlist in the services and work of her Lord. Her parents, being members of the Church of Christ, sought to start their daughter in the Gospel training and their own faith. A preacher of the New Testament was then called. This minister was the Reverend B. N. Anderson, who held a three weeks' meeting in the Center Point Schoolhouse, and in which building Sunday School and Church were held until February 14, 1891. Sunday School and Church had been held in the schoolhouse in former years occasionally, but there was no organization until 1891.
Then the disciples named below met and organized themselves into a congregation of the New Testament teaching:
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hedges, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. Robert McKee, Mr. and Mrs. David Sconce, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Greer, Mrs. Matilda Hitchcock, Mrs. Jennie Hopper, Mrs. Lucy Hedges, Mrs. Anna Elliott Sullivan all now deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Ellis of Macy, Indiana
Mrs. Emma Elliott Carrington of Georgetown
Mrs. Ada Hedges Smith of Homer
Mr. Harvey Elliott of Sidell, Illinois.
Elders of the church chosen at the time the church was organized were: Richard Elliott, James A. Hedges. Deacons of the Church when organized: Ed. Ellis, Harvey Elliott.
Thirty-two members were received in the first revival meeting, many of whom have "crossed the bar" but whose children and grandchildren are still carrying on the work.
The Sunday School attendance on each Sunday is from 35 to 50. There is one man attending who has not missed Sunday School in five years. This man is George Hedges of Fairmount, Illinois. Many have a one year record.
Reverend I. L. Cummins of Danville has been the minister of the Church the last five years, and it is thought that his good work has kept the Church thriving and growing.
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Notes - One of the prettiest of fall weddings to be celebrated this season in this vicinity was the marriage of Miss Sophia Cordella Hedges, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hedges of Fairmount and Chester Rolla Yeazel of Homer. The wedding was solemnized at the home of the brides parents in the presence of a large number of relatives and a few immediate friends of the young people. Sunday evening, October 24, 6 p.m. by Rev. Campbell, pastor of the Sidell Christian church. Miss Grace Hedges, sister of the bride played Blumenlted wedding march for the processional as the bridle couple attended by the brides parents wended their way from the second floor to the place of ceremony where Rev. Campbell united in holy bonds of wedlock the young couple. The bride was at her loveliest in a gown of white silk net and blue silk charmuese with pearl trimmings. The bride who is a very talented musician has spent her entire life in our midst having grown from childhood to young womanhood and has a large circle of friends here, who have learned to love and respect her for her noble character and beautiful life of Christian influence. She has been an active worker in church and social circles and won for herself many friends whose well wishes follow her into her new home. The groom is a highly respectable young man of the Clark neighborhood who has a host of friends and is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Yeazel highly esteemed citizens of that place. After the ceremony and congratulations an elegant two course luncheon was served the young ladies of the Tudetis club assisted in the serving. The young couple was the recipient of many valuable and pretty gifts for their new home. They will reside for the present with the grooms' parents. Those who attended the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. John Gritton and Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Gritton of Danville. The bride has been the guest of honor at several pretty social functions since the announcement of her engagement to Mr. Yeazel.
[9] - Clark (Near Homer).
Mr. and Mrs. George Hedges and daughter Grace of Fairmount and Edith Gritton of Danville took supper Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Yeazel.
The Urbana Daily Courier, Urbana, Illinois. Saturday, 26 August 1916, page 3.
- Mrs. Sophia C. Yeazel, 81, well known Fairmount resident, dies
Funeral services for Mrs. Sophia C. Yeazel, 81, well known resident of Fairmount, were held September 21, 1974 at the Catlin Church of Christ with Marshall Hayden and Walt Zorn officiating. Following the services, interment was in the GAR Cemetery at Homer, with the Carrington Funeral Home of Fairmount in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Yeazel died September 19 at Lakeview Hospital, where she had been admitted the day before. She had been in poor health for some time.
She was born eat of Jamaica on November 10, 1892, a daughter of George and Cora B. Gritton Hedges. She was married October 15, 1915 to Rollie Yeazel, who survives.
Mrs. Yeazel was a member of the Catlin Church of Christ and the Berean Class. She served for several years as Fairmount correspondent for the Sidell Journal.
Besides the husband, she is survived by two sons, Harold R. of Marion, Ind., and Howard B. of Catlin; a sister, Mrs. Willis (Grace) Fox of Fairmount; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a brother, Ralph Hedges of Sidell.
[4, 10] - Sophia C. Yeazel, 81, of Fairmount died at 10:24 a.m. Thursday (September 19, 1974) in Lake View Hospital, Danville, where she was admitted Wednesday night.
Mrs. Yeazel was born November 10, 1892, east of Jamaica, a daughter of George and Cora B. Gritton Hedges. She was married to C. Rollie Yeazel Oct. 15, 1915, in her parent’s home.
Mrs. Yeazel leaves her husband, sons, Harold R. of Marion, Ind., and Howard B. of Catlin, three grandsons, one granddaughter, four great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Willis Fox of Fairmount. A brother preceded her in death.
Mrs. Yeazel spent all her life in the Fairmount-Homer area. She was a member of Catlin Church of Christ and in Berean Class.
[3] - member of Center Point Church
Baptized at age 15 at Center Point Church during a revival meeting by Rev. F. DeGafferally on 10 September, 1908.
When Center Point Church closed and was sold, George F. Hedges, Cora B. Hedges, Rollie Yeazel and Sophia Yeazel united with the Catlin Church of Christ on 17 September 1946.
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- One of the prettiest of fall weddings to be celebrated this season in this vicinity was the marriage of Miss Sophia Cordella Hedges, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hedges of Fairmount and Chester Rolla Yeazel of Homer. The wedding was solemnized at the home of the brides parents in the presence of a large number of relatives and a few immediate friends of the young people. Sunday evening, October 24, 6 p.m. by Rev. Campbell, pastor of the Sidell Christian church. Miss Grace Hedges, sister of the bride played Blumenlted wedding march for the processional as the bridle couple attended by the brides parents wended their way from the second floor to the place of ceremony where Rev. Campbell united in holy bonds of wedlock the young couple. The bride was at her loveliest in a gown of white silk net and blue silk charmuese with pearl trimmings. The bride who is a very talented musician has spent her entire life in our midst having grown from childhood to young womanhood and has a large circle of friends here, who have learned to love and respect her for her noble character and beautiful life of Christian influence. She has been an active worker in church and social circles and won for herself many friends whose well wishes follow her into her new home. The groom is a highly respectable young man of the Clark neighborhood who has a host of friends and is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Yeazel highly esteemed citizens of that place. After the ceremony and congratulations an elegant two course luncheon was served the young ladies of the Tudetis club assisted in the serving. The young couple was the recipient of many valuable and pretty gifts for their new home. They will reside for the present with the grooms' parents. Those who attended the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. John Gritton and Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Gritton of Danville. The bride has been the guest of honor at several pretty social functions since the announcement of her engagement to Mr. Yeazel.
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Sources - [S11] Hedges Reunion Book.
- [S16] Family Bible, George F. Hedges.
- [S6] Find a Grave.
- [S9] Obituary.
- [S83] Stories of historical days in Vermilion County, Illinois, Compiled for the school libraries by L. A. Tuggle, County Superintendent of Schools, (https://archive.org/), https://archive.org/details/storiesofhistor0tugg/page/n8/mode/2up.
- [S100] Records of the Center Point Church.
- [S2] Mary Hedges Reiner.
- [S19] Marriage certificate.
- [S103] birth record.
- [S88] newspaper clipping.
- [S11] Hedges Reunion Book.