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Female 1896 - 1974  (77 years)


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  1. 1.  Gertrude Frances Gilkison was born on 7 Jul 1896 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky (daughter of Albert Gilkison and Mary Samantha Jane "Mollie" Cassity); died on 31 May 1974 in New Castle, Henry County, Indiana; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Losantville, Randolph County, Indiana.

    Notes:

    Mrs. John C. Newton
    Economy – Gertrude F. Newton, 78, died unexpectedly Friday night at the Henry County Memorial Hospital in New Castle where she had been a patient one day.
    She was a native of Morehead, Ky., and had resided in Muncie before moving to Economy 40 years ago. She was a member of the Christian Church in Morehead, Ky.
    Survivors include her husband John C.; her sister, Mrs. Myrtie Estep of Morehead, Ky.; two brothers, Russell Gilkison of Morehead, and Thadeus Gilkison of Armstrong, Ill., and several nieces and nephews.
    Services for Mrs. Newton will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Culbertson-Reynard Funeral Home in Modoc. Rev. Albert Oren will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery near Losantvile. Friends may call from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
    Palladium-Item, Richmond, Indiana. Sunday, 2 June 1974.


    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88537763/gertrude-f.-newton

    Gertrude married John Cleveland "Cleve" Newton on 21 Sep 1929 in Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky. John was born on 29 Sep 1889 in Glenville, Gilmer County, West Virginia; died on 31 Aug 1974 in New Castle, Henry County, Indiana; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Losantville, Randolph County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Albert Gilkison was born on 22 Aug 1848 in Island Fork, Triplett Creek, Fleming County, Kentucky (son of William Gilkison and Sarah Hedges); died on 28 Dec 1932 in Rock Fork, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried on 30 Dec 1932 in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1880, Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1900, Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky

    Notes:

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23932707/albert-gilkison

    Albert married Mary Samantha Jane "Mollie" Cassity on 30 Nov 1876 in Fleming County, Kentucky. Mary (daughter of Albert Russell Cassity and Vianna Jane Hedges) was born on 2 Dec 1856 in Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 23 Mar 1933 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Mary Samantha Jane "Mollie" Cassity was born on 2 Dec 1856 in Rowan County, Kentucky (daughter of Albert Russell Cassity and Vianna Jane Hedges); died on 23 Mar 1933 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky.

    Notes:

    MHR note: Mollie (Cassity) Gilkison went to live with P.T. Hedges and family from October 1874 to September 1875.


    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23932733/mary-s_-gilkison

    Notes:

    Married:
    Kentucky marriage records, 1852-1914 lists marrige date as 24 Nov 1876

    Children:
    1. Benoie Gilkison was born on 10 Mar 1878 in Pine Springs, Kentucky; died on 10 Mar 1878 in Pine Springs, Kentucky.
    2. Clarence Edgar Leonard Gilkison was born on 25 May 1880 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 14 Nov 1923 in Pilot, Vermilion County, illinois; was buried in Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    3. Bertha Gilkison was born on 15 Oct 1885 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 15 Oct 1885 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    4. Myrtie Amelia Vivian Gilkison was born on 2 Aug 1887 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 8 Mar 1976 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Estep Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    5. Thaddeus Morton Gilkison was born on 29 Apr 1889 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky; died in Jun 1975; was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Rantoul, Champaign County, Illinois.
    6. Ora "Russell" Gilkison was born on 17 Nov 1890 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 14 Feb 1980 in Ladoga, Montgmery County, Indiana; was buried on 16 Feb 1980 in Evans Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    7. 1. Gertrude Frances Gilkison was born on 7 Jul 1896 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 31 May 1974 in New Castle, Henry County, Indiana; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Losantville, Randolph County, Indiana.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  William Gilkison was born on 26 Jul 1807 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 3 May 1883 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky.

    Other Events:

    • Occupation: farmer
    • Census: 1850, Fleming County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1860, Rowan County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1870, Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1880, Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky

    Notes:

    LKH note: MHR give William's parents as William Gilkison and Sarah (Walton) Gilkison. She also lists two brothers, Mark and French Gilkison. So far I can not find records for them.


    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23932811/william-gilkison

    William married Sarah Hedges on 3 Sep 1840 in Fleming County, Kentucky. Sarah (daughter of Levi Hedges and Rosannah Ribelin) was born on 3 Sep 1812 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 16 Jul 1892 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Sarah Hedges was born on 3 Sep 1812 in Fleming County, Kentucky (daughter of Levi Hedges and Rosannah Ribelin); died on 16 Jul 1892 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky.

    Notes:

    Midwife record of Sarah (Hedges) Gilkison, Rowan County, Kentucky. Complied by Mary Hedges Reiner. Multnomah Chapter, Daughter of the American Revolution. 1957. 1, 24p.

    Copy of this record on our shelf.


    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23932889/sarah-gilkison

    Children:
    1. Harry "Burgess" Gilkison was born about 1842 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 12 Oct 1898 in Rowan County, Kentucky.
    2. Almira Louisa "Mira" Gilkison was born on 22 Nov 1842 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 27 May 1900 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Martin Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky.
    3. Levi Monroe "Roe" Gilkison was born on 19 Sep 1845 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 22 Oct 1895 in Kentucky; was buried in Muses Mills Cemetery, Muses Mills, Fleming County, Kentucky.
    4. Franklin Gilkison was born about 1847 in Kentucky; died before 1860 in Kentucky.
    5. 2. Albert Gilkison was born on 22 Aug 1848 in Island Fork, Triplett Creek, Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 28 Dec 1932 in Rock Fork, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried on 30 Dec 1932 in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    6. Amanda Gilkison was born on 3 May 1851 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 12 Oct 1912 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    7. Margaret L. Gilkison was born about 1854 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 26 Aug 1861 in Rowan County, Kentucky.

  3. 6.  Albert Russell Cassity was born on 21 Jan 1828 in Fleming County, Kentucky (son of James Albert Cassity and Mary Ann Hedges); died on 13 Sep 1856 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Hargis Cemetery, Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky.

    Notes:

    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.


    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.

    Albert married Vianna Jane Hedges on 9 Jan 1852 in Fleming County, Kentucky. Vianna (daughter of William Ribelin Hedges and Malinda Russell Cassity) was born on 4 May 1828 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 24 Jan 1911 in Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried on 24 Jan 1911 in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Vianna Jane Hedges was born on 4 May 1828 in Fleming County, Kentucky (daughter of William Ribelin Hedges and Malinda Russell Cassity); died on 24 Jan 1911 in Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried on 24 Jan 1911 in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1860, Rowan County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1910, Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky

    Notes:

    Story about Vianna in her grandson Lucian White's notes from newspaper article about Lucian's skills making dulcimer.
    * * * * *
    The Kentucky hills and its people, especially his grandmother Vianna Hamm, are what White likes to talk about most. “Oh,” he exclaimed, “every boy should have a grandmother like that to tell him stories.”
    It was right after the Civil War when the southern general John Hunt Morgan paid his last visit to White’s grandmother’s hunting lodge, White said. Morgan used to come there before the war for recreation and hunting and White’s grandparent’s hospitality.
    Grandfather Hamm had gotten a land grant to run the lodge and the area was excellent for hunting fox, white-tailed deer and the like. Also had good fishing, White said.
    Well Morgan was one of those generals who never did surrender. He became leader of an outlaw band and would ride in, steal horses and loot a place at the drop of a hat. If there wasn’t any loot worth having or he met resistance in taking it, he’d have his men set all the buildings on fire.
    When they came riding into his grandmother’s after her husband had died, she was down in a cellar along, White said. The outlaws were bent on stealing the horses from the corral but were unable to get them out. “For some reason the horses just ran around in the corral making a commotion.”
    His grandmother ran up from the cellar and accosted the outlaws by herself. White said “John Hunt Morgan!” she shouted at the former general. “Is this the tanks you give me for slaving over a hot cookstove while you were out hunting?
    Morgan just looked down from his big horse and motioned for his men to close the gate. “Come on boys,” he said. “her horse never were any good.” And they rode off.
    * * *
    Great Falls Tribune, Great Falls, Montana. Sunday, 20 April 1980. Section F, page 1.


    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185123536/vianna-jane-ham/hamm

    Unmarked grave

    Notes:

    Married:
    MHR gives marriage date as 10 February 1852.

    Children:
    1. Minera Cassity was born on 7 Feb 1851 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 20 Aug 1854 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    2. James Alva Cassity was born on 24 Sep 1853 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 1 Sep 1854 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    3. 3. Mary Samantha Jane "Mollie" Cassity was born on 2 Dec 1856 in Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 23 Mar 1933 in Triplett, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky.


Generation: 4

  1. 10.  Levi HedgesLevi Hedges was born on 24 Nov 1775 in Frederick County, Maryland (son of William Hedges and Elizabeth Dern); died on 1 Apr 1847 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Old Crain Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1800, Montgomery County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1820, Fleming County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1830, Fleming County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1840, Fleming County, Kentucky

    Notes:

    MHR note: Levi used to have family worship at their home and he loved to sing. He sat on his porch the evening before his death and watched the sun set, and sang his favorite song:

    The day is past and gone,
    The evening shades appear:
    Oh, may we all remember well
    The night of death draws near.

    We lay our garments by,
    Upon our bed to rest.
    So death may soon disrobe us all
    Of what we now possess.

    He was taken suddenly in the night by an attack of acute indigestion and was gone.


    MHR note: Levi Hedges worked as a blacksmith, tanner, carpenter, and of course, farmed also.


    MHR note:
    Levi's father, William, had stated in his will that his son Andrew could keep the plantation Hedgehogg is he could, which Andrew did by buying out the other two sons, Levi and William.


    1800 tax list. Montgomery County, Kentucky. Levi Hedges.

    Census 1820. Fleming County, Kentucky. In 1820, the age brackets indicate that Levi's household included 11 people: Levi (age 45); Rosannah (age 40); William (age 22); Monroe (age 17; Addison (age 13); Jesse (age 10); Levi (age 6; David (age 3; Jonathan (age 1); Mary Ana (age 20); [possibly Elizabeth age 16]; and Sarah (age 8).

    Census 1830. Fleming County, Kentucky. In 1830, the age brackets indicate that Levi's household included 8 people: Levi (age 55); Rosannah (age 50); Monroe (age 27); Addison (age 23); Jesse (age 20); [possibly Levi age 16]; David (age 13); Jonathan (age 11); [possibly James age 10]; Sarah (age 18), and Louvina (age 7).

    Census 1840. Fleming County, Kentucky. In 1840, the age brackets indicate that Levi's household included 5 people: Levi (age 65); Rosannah (age 60), Sarah (age 28); Louvina (age 17), and a female aged 5 to 9.


    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64938628/levi-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.

    Levi married Rosannah Ribelin in 1795 in Kentucky. Rosannah (daughter of William Ribelin and Mary Ann Kiher) was born on 2 Sep 1780 in Yadkin Valley, North Carolina; died on 29 Sep 1848 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Old Crain Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 11.  Rosannah RibelinRosannah Ribelin was born on 2 Sep 1780 in Yadkin Valley, North Carolina (daughter of William Ribelin and Mary Ann Kiher); died on 29 Sep 1848 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Old Crain Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky.

    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.

    Buried:
    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.

    Children:
    1. William R. Hedges was born in 1796 in Montgomery County, Kentucky; died in 1796.
    2. William Ribelin Hedges was born on 14 Mar 1798 in Montgomery County, Kentucky; died on 28 Nov 1885 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Three Lick Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    3. Mary Ann Hedges was born on 7 Sep 1800 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 28 Oct 1838 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Hargis Cemetery, Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    4. Rosanna Hedges was born about 1803 in Fleming County, Kentucky.
    5. Monroe Hedges was born on 11 Feb 1803 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 18 Oct 1899 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana; was buried in Mount Jackson Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.
    6. Addison W. Hedges was born on 27 May 1807 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died about 1875.
    7. Jesse Hedges was born about 1810 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 29 May 1894 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in New Hope Presbyterian Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky.
    8. 5. Sarah Hedges was born on 3 Sep 1812 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 16 Jul 1892 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    9. Levi Hedges was born in 1814 in Fleming County, Kentucky.
    10. David R. Hedges was born about 1817 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 27 Oct 1878 in Fleming County, Kentucky.
    11. Jonathan Kiher Hedges was born on 31 Jul 1819 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 15 Nov 1912 in Smoot, Greenbrier County, West Virginia; was buried in Andrew Chapel Cemetery, Williamsburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
    12. James Hedges was born about 1820 in Fleming County, Kentucky.
    13. Louvina Jane Hedges was born on 18 Jul 1823 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 14 Jul 1891 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Gilead Cemetery, Bath County, Kentucky.

  3. 12.  James Albert Cassity was born on 24 Jun 1797 in Bath County, Kentucky (son of Peter Thompson Cassity and Mary "Polly" Melissa Armstrong); died on 9 Jul 1845 in Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Hargis Cemetery, Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky.

    Notes:

    MHR note: James married second to Mary D. (Clack) Ringo. She was the widow of Lott Ringo whom she had married 7 September 1815 in Fleming County, Kentucky. Mary and Lott Ringo had 5 children: Fidelia Ringo (m. McPherson), Burtis G. Ringo (m. Nancy), Ann L. Ringo (m. H. T. Prather) , William Wallace Ringo, and Harrier D. Ringo (m. Sapp). Mary D. Clack was the daughter of Moses Clack. Mary D. (Clack) Ringo Cassity had two brother: Dixon Clack and Philip D. Clack.


    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.


    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.

    James married Mary Ann Hedges on 9 Jun 1825 in Fleming County, Kentucky. Mary (daughter of Levi Hedges and Rosannah Ribelin) was born on 7 Sep 1800 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 28 Oct 1838 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Hargis Cemetery, Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 13.  Mary Ann Hedges was born on 7 Sep 1800 in Fleming County, Kentucky (daughter of Levi Hedges and Rosannah Ribelin); died on 28 Oct 1838 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Hargis Cemetery, Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky.

    Notes:

    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.

    Buried:
    See notes below.

    Children:
    1. Infant Cassity was born on 10 Feb 1827 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 10 Feb 1827 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Hargis Cemetery, Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    2. 6. Albert Russell Cassity was born on 21 Jan 1828 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 13 Sep 1856 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Hargis Cemetery, Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    3. Eliza Jane Cassity was born on 22 Sep 1829 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 10 Sep 1857 in Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    4. William Newton "Newt" Cassity was born on 5 Jun 1831 in Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 31 May 1919 in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas; was buried on 3 Jun 1919 in Wetmore Cemetery, Wetmore, Nemaha County, Kansas.
    5. Rosannah Cassity was born on 10 Mar 1832 in Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 6 Jul 1911 in Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri; was buried on 7 Jul 1911 in Greenlawn Cemetery, Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri.
    6. Martin Peter Marshall "M.P.M." Cassity was born on 15 Jun 1835 in Kentucky; died on 12 Nov 1901 in Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri; was buried in Wetmore Cemetery, Wetmore, Nemaha County, Kansas.

  5. 14.  William Ribelin HedgesWilliam Ribelin Hedges was born on 14 Mar 1798 in Montgomery County, Kentucky (son of Levi Hedges and Rosannah Ribelin); died on 28 Nov 1885 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Three Lick Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky.

    Other Events:

    • Occupation: farmer
    • Census: 1850, Fleming County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1850, Fleming County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1860, Rowan County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1860, Rowan County, Kentucky
    • Census: 1870, Cross Roads, Rowan County, Kentucky

    Notes:

    MHR note: Ida Cronkhite said (in pink letter of 28 December 1949) she thought that “Aunt Betty” Hopper (Eliz. B.1820) who was found with the William Ribelin Hedges family in the 1870 census, was a distant cousin through the Armstrongs. She cared for her mother who died when Betty was about 25 years old. Malinda Hedges needed help, so Betty made her home with them. She got board and room and one third of the wool. Betty was so shy she put on her sunbonnet before coming downstairs and few ever saw her face. Lonely widowers found her not only unresponsive, but unwilling to talk to them. When 81 and nearly blind, she fell downstairs and died shortly thereafter. She helped rear the second generation and “Uncle Will” said she'd been a second mother.


    MHR Note: Letter from Melissa Lucinda Hedges, to her brothers, William R. Hedges, James A. Hedges and Levi M. Hedges and sister Philora (Allen) Hedges telling of their father's death. This letter was in the possession of Anna (Hedges) Bagley, Purdin, Missouri when Mary (Hedges) Reiner visited her in 1940. The heading “at home” refers to the home of William R. and Malinda R. Hedges on the bank of the Licking River at the mouth of the Bluebank, Fleming County, Kentucky, in the part of Fleming County.

    At home, December 1, 1885.
    Dear Brothers and Sisters:

    It is with a sad heart I take up my pen to write the sad news of our dear father’s death. He departed this life Saturday, Nov. 28, at 25 minutes after six o’clock in the morning. After a serious illness of 12 day. He suffered more than tongue can tell. He lay in an unconscious state for several hours. He suffered greatly from the time he was taken. The doctor had to draw his water from him. Oh it was so hard to see him suffer so, but it had to be. Rose came to see him; staid several days then went home; came back after he was down. Ike got here after he was dead. Uncle Jesse staid with him all the time. We laid him in the old graveyard where sister Mary was laid, there to slumber till Gabriel’s trump and the voice of the Lord shall awaken the dead from the old churchyard.

    I sent postals to you all when I found he was so bad, but I suppose it was not so any of you could come. He never talked about any of his children, but thought he could not live from the start. We done all we could for him but nothing done any good. He has done paid the debt we all have to pay and we can go to him; he cannot come to us; Oh how we miss him. Mother sits around and looks so sad. I can hardly bear it. She is not well. She send her love to you all.

    My love to you all. Write soon as you all are very close together. I want this letter to be read by all. I would love to see you and talk to you face to face but we are far apart. Yes we are scattered – we are scattered, though a joyous band were we. Now this letter is for one and all of you. Write as often as you can.
    You sister, M. L. Stenrod


    1850 US census, enumerated 20 August 1850
    Division 2, Fleming County, Kentucky
    William R Hedges, age 52, farmer, real estate $3000
    Malinda R, age 44
    Addison W, age 24, farmer
    Viana J, age 22
    Peter T, age 19, laborer
    Levi M, age 17, laborer
    Rosannn S, age 14, attending school
    Malissa L, age 12, attending school
    William R, age 9, attending school
    James A, age 6, attending school
    Isaac A, age 4
    Mary Ann Crouch, age 26
    Peter L Crouch, age 2
    William N Cassity, age 18, laborer



    1860 US census, enumerated 15 Aug 1860
    Rowan County, Kentucky
    W R Hedges, age 62, farmer, real estate $3000, personal property $1060
    Malinda R, age 54
    Viana J, age 31
    Malissa I, age 21
    William, age 19
    James, age 16
    Isaac, age
    Elizabeth Hopper, age 40, domestic



    1870 US census, enumerated
    Cross Roads, Rowan County, Kentucky
    William Hedges, age 72, farmer, real estate $5000, personal property $1000
    Malinda, age 64, keeping house
    Melissa Demere, age 30, domestic servant
    Malinda Demere, age 5
    Elizabeth Hopper, age 50, at home

    In the 1870 census, four household are listed next to each other: William Ribelin Hedges and three of his sons: Levi, William R. and James Hedges.



    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64939177/william-hedges

    William married Malinda Russell Cassity on 22 Dec 1822 in Rowan County, Kentucky. Malinda (daughter of Peter Thompson Cassity and Mary "Polly" Melissa Armstrong) was born on 14 Oct 1805 in Montgomery County, Kentucky; died on 12 Sep 1887 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Three Lick Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 15.  Malinda Russell CassityMalinda Russell Cassity was born on 14 Oct 1805 in Montgomery County, Kentucky (daughter of Peter Thompson Cassity and Mary "Polly" Melissa Armstrong); died on 12 Sep 1887 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Three Lick Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky.

    Notes:

    MHR note: Stories told by Ida M. (Hedges) Cronkite to Miriam Hickman. Malinda, daughter of Peter and Mary (Armstrong) Cassity married William Ribelin Hedges. "They used to say 'she lifted the limb of a tree it took two men to lift.' This is the true story. She and a small boy with his mother were hurrying to get home from a storm. Part of a tree blew down and caught the boy and pinned him down. Malinda lifted till the mother could drag him out. Next day two men went to clear the road and it took two men to lift it from the ground. This was my father's mother and he told me he had seen her lift an anvil off the block with one hand. She could weave four yards of jeans then walk four miles up hill to spend the night with a neighbor. When she was seventy, she was still spinning and weaving. The year she was eighty-two, 1887, your grandmother came with her to Illinois. They were two days on the train. There were four sons, two grandsons, and one granddaughter to visit, all in Vermilion County, but hard trips between in horse and buggy days. Then a train to Montezuma, Indiana to visit two nieces. Then to Louisville, Kentucky, where the youngest son met her with a lumber wagon to take her over a corduroy road sixteen miles to his home. Back again to Louisville and then the train on home at the mouth of Blue Bank on the Licking River near Farmers, Kentucky.

    "About a week later she heard there was to be preaching at Slaty Point. This was about three miles away. There she had gone to church all her life. They had no conveyance but hadn't they always walked? So she went. At the church she got sick and they took her to the nearest neighbor and a day or two later she died. She was eighty-two years old. At the age of seventeen she went from her father's home to her husband. She moved from the old house to the new and lived sixty-five years on the same farm."


    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64939547/malinda-russell-hedges

    Children:
    1. Mary Ann Hedges was born on 26 Nov 1823 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 22 Sep 1854 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Three Lick Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    2. Addison W. Hedges was born on 13 Feb 1826 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 9 Aug 1863 in Rockwall, Rockwall County, Texas.
    3. 7. Vianna Jane Hedges was born on 4 May 1828 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 24 Jan 1911 in Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried on 24 Jan 1911 in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    4. Peter Thompson Hedges was born on 29 Jan 1831 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 12 Jun 1924 in Tilton, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 15 Jun 1924 in Forest Grove Cemetery, Canton, Lewis County, Missouri.
    5. Levi Marion Hedges was born on 30 May 1833 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 28 Jan 1907 in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas; was buried in Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas.
    6. Rosannah Sarah Hedges was born on 1 Nov 1835 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 27 May 1924 in Jamaica, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 30 May 1924 in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    7. Melissa Lucinda Hedges was born on 17 Mar 1838 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 3 Mar 1899 in Farmers, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Slaty Point Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky.
    8. William Riley Hedges was born on 10 Mar 1841 in Farmers, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 25 Oct 1925 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; was buried on 26 Oct 1925 in Purdin Cemetery, Purdin, Linn County, Missouri.
    9. James Alva Hedges was born on 14 Sep 1843 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 3 Nov 1921 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 5 Nov 1921 in Fairfield Cemetery, Newman, Douglas County, Illinois.
    10. Isaac Armstrong Hedges was born on 4 Mar 1846 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died in 1930 in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California.


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