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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



HEDGES, JOSIAH, born about 1788, in Maryland, and was taken to Virginia, and from there to Grayson county, Ky., when he was about twelve years old. Anna Brown was born Dec. 25, 1798, in Davis county, Ky. Josiah Hedges and Anna Brown were there married and made Grayson county their home until they had three children, and then moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1826, at the north side of Island Grove, two and a half miles northwest of the present town of Berlin, where two children were born. Of their five children--

LUCINDA, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Henry Hawkins. They have nine children, and live near Beatrice, Gates county, Nebraska.

LEAH, born in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, Sept. 25, 1842, aged about twenty-four years.

MARINDA, born in 1820, in Kentucky, married William D. Chilton, and live near Berlin.

CALEB, born July 4, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Jan. 11, 1866, to Theresa Dunlap, who was born May 30, 1841, in Knox county, Ky. They have three children, HARDIN W., LOGAN H. and DORA BELL. Caleb Hedges lives on the farm settled by his father in 1826, and where he was born. It is two and a half miles northwest of Berlin.

ELIZABETH A., born April 4, 1833, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 18, 1863, to George W. Dunlap. He was born March 29, 1829, in Knox county, Ky. They have four children, IRVIN T., SARAH A., WILLIE H. and GEORGE A., and live north of Island Grove, and two and a half miles northwest of Berlin.

Mrs. Anna Hedges died June 9, 1872, and Josiah Hedges died August 29, 1872, both on the farm where they settled on coming to the county in 1826.

Mr. Hedges moved from Kentucky with an ox team. One of his oxen was trained to work in shafts. He made a light wagon all of wood, and with that ox did all his marketing after coming to the country. When he came he brought money to enter forty acres of land. By industry and economy he became the owner of nine hundred acres of the richest land in the county.



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