Indiana Louisa "Lou" Hedges
1858 - 1883 (24 years)-
Name Indiana Louisa "Lou" Hedges Birth 20 Aug 1858 Rowan County, Kentucky 
[1, 2] Gender Female Death 15 Apr 1883 Carter County, Kentucky [1, 2] Burial Enix Cemetery, Fitch, Carter County, Kentucky [1, 2] - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39497889/lourena-indiana-enix
- MHR note: This according to Clara Morton (Exix) Gearhart. It is a badly kept cemetery.
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Person ID I374 Hedges Last Modified 26 Feb 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 [3, 4, 5] Family ID F10 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Joseph Buchanan Enix, b. 6 Aug 1856, Carter County, Kentucky d. 25 Dec 1927, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky (Age 71 years) Marriage 26 Mar 1879 Rowan County, Kentucky [1] Children 1. Clara Morton Enix, b. 4 Dec 1879, Fithian, Vermilion County, Illinois d. 28 May 1956, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky (Age 76 years)+ 2. Elmo Willis Enix, b. 5 May 1881, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky d. 5 Sep 1955, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas (Age 74 years)Family ID F228 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 18 Feb 2018
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39497889/lourena-indiana-enix
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Birth - 20 Aug 1858 - Rowan County, Kentucky 
Marriage - 26 Mar 1879 - Rowan County, Kentucky 
Death - 15 Apr 1883 - Carter County, Kentucky 
Burial - - Enix Cemetery, Fitch, Carter County, Kentucky = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - MHR note: Indiana Louisa went to North Madison, Indiana to visit her relatives, who sent her to school there two years. While there she heard the song "Lourena" and thereafter called herself Lourena and her family called her "Lou". According to Ida Cronkhite, she was a pretty, lively girl and became engaged to William Vawter, a relative (called "Wid"). When she returned to Kentucky, "Wid" wrote her at intervals, saying he was coming to see her, but each time failed to appear. She taught a mountain school in Kentucky and in the spring of 1879 brough home her husband, Joe Enix (who after his second marriage began spelling his name as "Enochs").
Lou and her husband went to Illinois with her parents in October 1879 and remained there until after the first child was born. But Joe became homesick and they returned to Carter County, Kentucky and their second child was born there.
According to Ida Cronkhite, Lou contracted malaria and died. But Helen Gearhart Greers said her mother thought it had been TB that had caused Lou's death..
Lou's mother, Samanatha sent a postcard about her daughter's death to relatives in Missouri.
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- MHR note: Indiana Louisa went to North Madison, Indiana to visit her relatives, who sent her to school there two years. While there she heard the song "Lourena" and thereafter called herself Lourena and her family called her "Lou". According to Ida Cronkhite, she was a pretty, lively girl and became engaged to William Vawter, a relative (called "Wid"). When she returned to Kentucky, "Wid" wrote her at intervals, saying he was coming to see her, but each time failed to appear. She taught a mountain school in Kentucky and in the spring of 1879 brough home her husband, Joe Enix (who after his second marriage began spelling his name as "Enochs").
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