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From: Bob Francis <>
Subject: [KYHARRIS-L] Samuel Hedges
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:35:14 -0500

HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol.
III, pp. 1360-1361. [Bourbon County]

SAMUEL HEDGES, ESQUIRE, the youngest son of the pioneer, Joseph Hedges,
was born June 24, 1792, several months after his parents reached
Kentucky. Left fatherless at the age of twelve, the responsibility of
developing the best qualities within him devolved upon his mother, who
was equal to the obligation. On November 8, 1816, he married Mrs.
Lucinda Scott, daughter of Reuben Sanford and Frances V. Webb, of
Virginia, and granddaughter of Robert Sanford and William Crittenden
Webb, both of Virginia. The children of this union were William G.
Hedges, of Harrison county, Kentucky; Mrs. Matt Stone, Dr. T. W. Hedges,
of Cynthiana, and Mrs. Sarah Victor, of Carlisle, Kentucky.

On March 11, 1838, he married Rebecca Barber Moran, born August 26,
1815, daughter of Edward B. Moran, of Virginia, and Letitia Clay, of
Kentucky, and granddaughter paternally of William Moran, born in 1748,
and Rebecca Barber, born in 1748, of an influential Virginia family, and
maternally of Samuel Clay, born in 1761, in Virginia, died in 1810, in
Kentucky, and Nancy Winn, of Fayette county, Kentucky. Samuel Clay was a
brave Revolutionary soldier, when hardly sixteen years old. He was the
second son of Dr. Henry Clay, a pioneer to Bourbon county, Kentucky,
from Virginia. Samuel and Rebecca Hedges left four children: Mrs.
Henrietta Ewalt, Lieutenant Joseph E. Hedges, Letitia Clay Hedges and
Edward Barber Hedges, all of Bourbon county and the only surviving
grandchildren of the pioneer in Kentucky.

Mr. Hedges engaged in agricultural pursuits all of his life, and to some
extent in stockraising, being an excellent judge of live stock. He was
for many years magistrate of Bourbon county, receiving his appointment
in 1833 from Governor Breathitt. In politics he was a Whig. He lived
through a period of events decisive in the history of the United
States-the wars of 1812, 1840 and 1861; in the latter he felt for his
beloved southland, in defence of which his son, Lieutenant Joseph E.
Hedges, was fighting, although he always contended that "the North with
its overwhelming numbers would be victorious."

During the war between the states he occupied the unique position of
entertaining the "blue and the gray" the same night. The recipients of
his hospitality were several Yankee officers heavily armed and hunting
Rebels who stopped for shelter early in the night and were assigned an
apartment upstairs, and a poor, half-starved and half-frozen wandering
Rebel scout, who presented himself later, ate and then threw himself
blanketed on the floor in the light of the cheerful hearth to spend a
comfortable night. His host watched the entire night that he might sleep
undisturbed, and aroused him at an early hour to breakfast and aided him
to escape. Our subject's bravery in defending both commands our
admiration. Not a thought had he of the dire consequences that may have
ensued---of the imminent peril to himself or the conflagration that may
have been made of his home. He was providing home comforts for "the
stranger within his gates," and throwing around them such safeguards as
his vigilance could conceive.

In appearance Air. Hedges was well formed, rather stout,
broad-shouldered and erect. His broad, full forehead, surmounted by a
shapely head well covered with snow-white hair, gave character to his
thoughtful countenance, His
bearing was unaffected and dignified and a pleasant candor of address
inspired respect. His habits were strictly temperate. Was a fluent and
original conversationalist and possessed a mind well-stored with useful
and varied information, which made him a most agreeable companion. He
was uncommonly shrewd and rarely erred in his discriminating and
comprehensive judgment of men. Noted for his hospitality, with
charitableness, his heart ever beat in unison-with the great
master-chord of Christianity-the peace and good-will toward all. He left
a busy, well-rounded life gradually having long passed the Psalmist's
allotted span, dying July 3, 1874, at his residence on Cane Ridge, at
the great age of eighty-two years.

Samuel Hedges, the subject of this sketch, is the maternal grandfather
of Joseph Hedges Ewalt, whose sketch is on preceding pages.
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*Harrison Co. Cemeteries:
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Ruddlesfort Page:
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