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- Aged Resident In Allerton Is Taken By Death
Mrs. Philora Hedges, 80, died at 5:20 o’clock Tuesday morning (January 31, 1928) at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lottie Clester.
Infirmities and heart disease caused her demise. She had been ill for several weeks. The exact hour for the funeral has not been set, but it will be held sometime Thursday at the Presbyterian church with Rev. J. M. Bean, officiating. Burial will be in the Fairfield cemetery. Mrs. Hedges was born at Greenup, Ky., Sept. 28, 1847. She came to Allerton 45 years ago. Dec. 26, 1866 she was married to James A. Hedges who died six years ago.
She leaves the following children: Mrs. George Clifton, of Moneta, Ia.; Mrs. Edward Ellis, of Macy, Ind.; Mrs. Thomas Smith, of Homer, Ill.; Mrs. Lottie Clester, of Allerton, and George Hedges, of Gilmore City, Ia. She is also survived by 21 grand-children and several great grand-children.
Danville Commercial-News. January 1928 Allerton, Ill., Jan 21.
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- member of Center Point Church
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- A Century of Roots, Allerton, Illinois: 1887-1987. page 94.
James and Philora Hedges family
James was born in Kentucky in 1843. When he was 18 he enlisted in the Home Guard, serving a year. He enlisted in the 19th Kentucky Calvary serving 13 months. He then enlisted in the 10th Indiana Calvary serving until the end of the war.
He married Philora Allen from Kentucky. In 1871 they moved to Illinois, later returning to Kentucky for a short time. They had seven children, Eva Clifton, Dee Ellis, Ada Smith, Lottie Clester, Ike, Russell and George.
In 1901 they moved to Allerton and purchased the dray business. His youngest son, George, assisted him. They met the train daily and delivered the Cargo. They, also, had a poultry business. He was a very honest and genial man. They lived on Green Street.
Philora was a very religious person and often quoted scriptures to one and all. She loved to smoke a corn cob pipe and often used her son, George as a lookout. The minister called and as a joke, George let him into the smoke filled room. Punishment was severe.
Their son Russell left home to look for work but never returned or heard from again. They kept a lighted lamp in the window for many years.
George went to Iowa and married Bertha Juluis, a German Lutheran girl from Palmer, Iowa. They had one daughter, Sophia (Hedges) Larrance, Indianola, Illinois.
Ada Smith and Lottie Clester settled in or near Allerton. The other children lived in Indiana and Iowa.
Submitted by Sophia (Hedges) Larrance.
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from Ada (Hedges) Smith, 21 September 1950.
Ada Louvina Smith's parents, James Alva Hedges and Philora (Allen) went in January, 1881, from Rowan Co., Ky, near Farmers (they’d lived in the old house on their grandfather Hedges’ place, and he in the new one) to Homer, Ill., and when they went to leave, Ada went to tell her grandfather goodbye. He was up on a ladder trimming trees, and she recalls that he had white whiskers. She had been 7 in August. “We said, ‘Goodbye, Grandpa.’ And he began to cry and said, ‘Don’t tell me goodbye.’ That was the last time we ever saw Grandpa. We kissed the dog when we left, and even the folks cried. That dog was a wonderful god. He was called ‘Old Ring,’ and was a nice collie, but the thing he did that last time has been talked of in the family ever since.
Ada heard her grandmother, Malinda R. (Cassity) Hedges say, ‘There are two roosters running around in the back orchard, and we should have Old Ring run them down, and we’ll divide them.’ They (Grandpa and Grandma, and my folks) had just let their chickens run together. Old Ring must have been getting fairly old then, or the folks would have brot him along, as he was their dog. Grandma and Mother went on about their business, and by and by they went out to the orchard, and there was Old Ring, with one of the roosters caught. As soon as they picked up that one, he ran and caught the other. No one could be found who would admit to setting Old Ring onto the roosters, and so far as they could determine, Old Ring had understood their remark and acted upon their quietly spoken words to each other.”
Willie was a baby when they returned to Kentucky in 1874, and Ike and Russell were born there. We lived in the old house and Grandpa and Grandma in the new one on the same place. “Aunt Betty” lived with grandpa. She was a woman who’d been jilted. She was no relation to the family. She went blind, and once fell downstairs and broke her neck. She was good old soul. (I think she was the ‘Aunt Betty’ of the perpetual sunbonnet, that Ida Cronkhite told me of. M.H.R.)
James Alvah Hedges and Philora Allen, his wife left Kentucky in a covered wagon probably in the fall of 1871, to go to a place S. of Ogden, Ill. They made a camp at Covington, Indiana, and “Phy” did the washing while they lay over. They located at Ogden, Ill., but ca. spring of 1872, became homesick for Kentucky and went back by covered wagon. They returned to Ill. In March 1882, on the train, and settled this time near Fairmount, Vermilion Co., Ill.
James Alvah’s brother, Wm. Rively Hedges had come to Ill. with him, and settled N. of Ogden, and Frank Hedges came with them. After James Alvah left to return to Ky., via covered wagon, Wm. Rively and his family went back by train and whom should they see on arrival but “Jim”, oldest son of Wm. Rively, whooping and “Hollering.” Wm. Rively and family returned to Ill. ca.1881, and located near Fairmount, Vermilion Co., and James Alvah and his family followed in 1882. Wm. Rively Hedges moved in 1890 (Mary Dalton’s birthday), on the train, to Purdin, Mo.
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