"a
dweller on the path by the hedge"
Hedgpeth / Hudspeth NewsLetter Vol. 2 iss. 1
HEDGPETH NEWSLETTER
(Family Information Exchange)
Publisher: Mrs. Frances R. Nelson [street address removed] - Riverside, California 92505SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $5.00 per year (annual index included) Single or sample copies $1 each All subscriptions beg, in with issue #1 of the current volume. PUBLISHED MONTHLY - for 10 months plus index published the 11th month. No issue for the month of December. EXCHANGE ADS are welcome - Publication Exchanges invited. QUERIES - Free to all so long as they are Hedgpeth/Hudspeth or associated families. Please submit queries exactly as you wish them published. No limit on number of queries submitted.MATERIAL FOR PUBLICATION Any sort of material you care to have used is most welcome. If xeroxing is necessary I shall be glad to refund cost, or copy and return your material if you request it. STORIES AND TRADITIONS add richness to our endeavor and bring our people to life! Please send tales handed down through the generations. In many cases these stories will die with our generation. Getting them into print will preserve them. EDITORIAL POLICY It is my earnest desire. to record only reliable source material so that the Newsletter can be a reference tool for HEDGPETH searchers anywhere and anytime. Stories and traditions lend interest, but will be clearly identified as such.LET US ALL BE DILIGENT ! Should errors occur, as they surely will, I must rely on you good subscribers to catch them. Please amend your copies to comply with corrections to be noted. Should the grim reaper pro- vent our publishing a completely amended copy of this publication some day ......... perhaps our efforts will permit a correct version to be made eventually by someone. PHOTOGRAPHS - The FAMILY ALBUM section will be delighted to display your ancestor.... it might also serve to identify some of those elusive "unknowns" in your collection. Do not send the only copy in existence for the mails are not altogether safe. It is a good idea to have copies made for yourself anyway, for unpredictable things do happen to the irreplaceable! Include all the background information you can with each picture submitted.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CORBRIDGE COMMENTS ................. p. 1
Descent from HOWELL HEDGEPETH
of North Carolina ............... p. 5
COLLATERAL LINES:
BRADWAY/BROADWAY
JONES ........................... p. 6
QUERIES ............................ p. 7
SOME ANSWERS ....................... p. 8
HEDGPETH/HUDSPETH notes ............ p. 8
FAMILY ALBUM
"Your Hedgpeth Cousins" ......... p. 10
Lemuel's famous handwriting ..... p. 10
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CORRECTIONS!!!
Please amend your back copies to comply:
P. 98 Volume I 3rd item: Betty Hedspeth to David Picker-
ville. Change Betty to Betsy.
p. 97 - Vol. I, last item: Samuel Hedgpeth consented to the
marriage of Lydia to Archibald Ratliff (Change
Samuel to Lemuel)
same item: Witness to this marriage was Eliza Jones.
(Change Eliza to Elijah Jones)
p. 97 - Vol. I, next-to-last item: Samuel Hedgpeth was witness
to the consent for marriage of Louisa Hedgpeth to
James E. Carlile. (Change Samuel to Lemuel)
Thanks to Rachael Klemm for these corrections! She dug into
the original marriage bonds to verify .... that's dedication!
QUESTION:
In the marriage item of Louisa Hedgespeth to James E. Carlile,
.... Polly Hedgespeth gave consent .... Who was Polly? Is it
so obvious that I missed it? FN
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CORBRIDGE COMMENTS Submitted by Ann Theg Brown (1975)
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Corbridge land records are found in:
Hepham Priory Church of St. Andrew
Greenwich Hospital (first mentioned 786 AD)
Duke of Northumberland's St. Margaret's Vestry
manuscript's in Durham
Carlisle Dean & Chapter Durham Consistory
St. Mary's Chantry St. Nicholas' Register
About Corbridge:
Rectory Lands, originally under Carlisle Dean, had two
principal tenements:
Prior Manor or Prior Mains, the rectory house. This leasehold was held by Hudspeths from 1594 and were assigned in 1812 and 1814.
The Hill purchased from Hudspeths in 1609
Hudspeths also held:
Cawsey Head, a tenement or burgage, from St. Mary's Chantry (suppressed). Sold in 1628 to Roger by William Hudspeth, by him in 1639, and after subsequent sales it was purchased 1665 by none other than Cuthbert Redhead.
His son, Ralph, purchased 1686 lands of Richard Hudspeth, Cuthbert's grandson by .son John of Shilford - 1733 - and who married 1719 Isabel, daughter of Wm. Hudspeth of the Hole.
The Chantry, a farmhouse on land now held by Stagshaw Hospital.
Swinburne lands forfeited by him in the rebellion of 1569. Tenement in Sydegate Burgages with land, one of which was Angel Inn.
Waterflat Stagshaw Close The Hole Close, called The Hole Kyplyngland, (held for 9 shillings and one pound of pepper)
The HOLE and PRIOR MAINS were manor' houses leased by Hudspeths
for the usual one hundred years, generally. Prior Mains was
so called because it was owned by the Priory. None of these
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were actually owned (by our terms) but were "leaseholds".
Another family involved with Hudspeths was the Carnaby line.
ROBERTO de HODESPETH was bailiff of Corbridge under the
Earls of Northumberland whose control of Corbridge by
1534 passed to the Earl of Holton (Carnaby family).
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The above information now allows us to make better sense of the
following - (from a chart dated 1955 by Ann Theg Brown)
I CUTHBERT REDHEAD buried 25 April 1671 (will: 22 Apr 1671)
m. Jane (Purchased in 1664 part of Cawsey Head
which had originally been sold in 1628
by William Hudspeth.)
sons: John and Ralph Redhead (II-1 and II-2 below)
II- 1. JOHN REDHEAD of Shilford: buried 29 May 1709
m. Alice buried 6 April 1721
Bywell, St. Andrews
Ch:
III-1. Ralph of Broomley - bur. 17 Mar 1765
III-2. Jane
m. 12 Feb 1711/12 at Bywell, St. Andrew
to CHRISTOPHER REDCHESTER of Broomhaugh
III-3. Mary
m. 26 Jan 1724/5 - Bywell, St. Andrews
to JOSEPH NEWTON of Allendale
III-4. Cuthbert of Shilford and Broomley (see below)
II-2. RALPH REDHEAD : buried 20 Apr 1743 (age 102)
(Purchased 1686 land of RICHARD HUDSPETH)
m. 1) Jane bur. 27 Dec 1682
m. 2) Elizabeth Parker of Haydon -
bond - 17 Dec 1784; bur. 15 Jan 1734/5
Ch: (only one surviving child)
III-5. RALPH of Corbridge (see below)
[Generation III]
III-4. CUTHBERT REDHEAD of Shilford & Broomley: bur. 2 Dec 1733
m. 7 May 1719 to ISABEL HUDSPETH - bur 1 Aug 1755
daughter of WILLIAM~ HUDSPETH of The Hole
son: ALLGOOD REDHEAD of Broomley (see IV-1 below)
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III-4. RALPH REDHEAD of Corbridge: bpt. 10 Nov 1693
bur. 13 Apr 1763
m. 25 Oct 1732 to Jane, dau of John Aynsley of Hexham;
widow successively of WHITFIELD GREENWELL
and SAMUEL BREWER
[ Generation IV ]
IV-l. ALLGOOD REDHEAD of Broomley - bpt. 28 Apr. 1725
son of Cuthbert Redhead & Isabel Hudspeth
(23 Apr 1754 - sold his "land in Corbridge"
to ELIEZER BIRCH.)
Ann's Note: In 1684 RALPH HUDSPETH and CUTHBERT HUDSPETH
with THE WIDOW ALLGOOD were involved in legal
affairs over bridge repair.
The WIDOW ALLGOOD was Alice, d/o SAMPSON HUDSPETH
of Prior Mains (d. 1677). Alice was the widow
of GEORGE ALLGOOD of Lambley.
ISABEL HUDSPETH who married CUTHBERT REDHEAD (III-4
above) was the daughter of ISABEL HUDSPETH (d/O
SAMUEL HUDSPETH) and WILLIAM HUDSPETH of The Hole.
[A UNITED FRONT! But do we know to whom
Ralph & Cuthbert Hudspeth belonged? Had Ralph
and Cuthbert sailed off to Virginia leaving poor
Widow Allgood, cousin Alice, to cope with family
business matters at home? ... Fran]
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The above Corbridge information should be applied as a correction
to NEWSLETTER, Vol. I, p.103-4. I tried to red-pencil my
copy neatly, but was not very successful .... suggest you-all
simply mark your pages 103-104: "Refer to Vol. II, pp. 1-3
for revised data."
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HELP !!
So many promising leads come up on occasion that I have neither
the time nor the skill to follow. Perhaps, if I list some of
the possibilities, it might be worth-while. Some of you may have
already explored .... some may sound interesting, and will give
you ideas. (Let me know so we don't all chase the same rainbow.)
1. ROZELLA-LOEW - [street address removed], Tamaqua, Pa. I wrote
to her for she advertised that she had a list of Valley Forge men
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which she would search on request. She responded that her list
consisted only of Washington's personal guard of several hundred
men .... and no HEDGPETH was among them. (I had asked for Lemuel,
of course.) She further stated that she had previously written to
a California woman by the name of Caroline ...(?)... who had also
asked her for HEDGPETH information. [Could this have been our
Caroline Vosskuhler? ]
ROZELLA-LOEW further advised that if our Lemuel was enlisted in
the Penn. State Militia we should write to:
Penna. Historical & Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pa.
For records of regular U.S. Continental Army - U.S. Archives in
Washington, D.C.
Well? I've been sitting on this because I've assumed it has
been done by somebody, sometime already! We don't think Lemuel
would be Pennsylvania-attached .... but it wouldn't hurt to ask.
Is there a similar organization for Virginia to whom we might
apply? Of course, surely somebody did .... right?
2. YOUR FAMILY and MINE by Col. Ralph E. Pearson, USA Rtd.
[street address removed], Austin Tex. 78704
Says he has much HUDSPETH/HEDGPETH information in his book
"A History of the Fee Family", His note was obscure but he
listed several page references ... and the book was for sale
or was it just the pages for sale? I couldn't tell. We have
a bit of money in the Hedgpeth account for purchasing items of
interest .... let me know if we could use it. Would someone
write to him? He mentioned: Capt. Street Hudspeth; Mrs. Alice
Hedgespeth m. Mrs. Alice Hedgespeth; Mary H. Hudspeth m. Henry
Scott; L. E. Hedgepeth m. Wm, McAfee .... does any of it ring
a bell?
3. An idea from Rachael Klemm that I have been procrastinating
with:
"I think it would be worth-while to check with the Manuscripts
Division of the Alderman Library, University of Virginia,
Richmond, Va. ( a Depository of unpublished records) to see if
they have a HEDGPETH/HUDSPETH Family File. If they do, I would
share in the cost of copying the records there-in. If they do
not, I think it would be worthwhile to place the NEWSLETTER
there. (I'm sending the NEWSLETTER this issue ... and offering
to deposit Volume I with them. Sorry, I should have done it
long ago.) We shall see, so this item is mine.
SEND US SOME MORE LEADS! you busy people are the smart ones!
But maybe, if you have time to point us in the right direction, we
could get lucky.
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DESCENT FROM HOWELL HEDGEPETH - North Carolina
Lineage of Jesse Edwin Bell, jr.
I. JOHN H. HEDGEPETH b. 1835 (John H. or John C. Hedgepeth)
resided at Northampton County, N.C.
son of HOWELL HEDGEPETH
m. Laura E. Davis
ch: 1. Lebrum Hedgepeth b. 1860 N.C. (Northampton Co.)
2. William " b. 1862 6. Bettie Hedgepeth b.1870
* 3. Lorena " b. 1864 7. Jesse E. " b.1874
4. John R. " b. 1866 8. Jamie D. " b.1877
5. Emma O. " b. 1868 9. Maude " b.1879
II. LORENA HEDGEPETH b. 29 Sept 1864, Conway, Northampton Co. NC
bur. 21 December 1945, Arlington, Va.
dau of John C. (or H,) HEDGEPETH and LAURA E, DAVIS
m. 29 Nov. 1889 Northampton Co,, N.C.
to EBENEZER BELL (1842-1935)
Children:
1. Clara A. Bell b. 1890 N.C. d. 1961 Va.
2. Lloyde E. Bell b. 1891 d. 1963 Md.
3. Jesse Edwin Bell, sr. b. 1894 d. 1969 Va. m. Turner
4. Rufus Bradley John b. 1896 (living in Florida)
Bell
5. Howel H. Bell b. 1900 (living in N.C.)
6. Allen Frank Bell b. 1904 d. 1968 Tex.
III. JESSE EDWIN BELL, Sr. b. 27 June 1894, North Carolina
d. 24 May 19691 Arlington, Va.
m. 24 Aug 1917 in Baltimore, Md.
to PANSY HONORA TURNER (_____- 1970)
ch:
JESSE EDWIN BELL, jr. born Baltimore, Md.
IV. JESSE EDWIN BELL, jr. b. Baltimore, Md.
son of Jesse Edwin Bell, sr. and Pansy Honora Turner
m. in Beltsville, Md.
to FRANCES MAXINE SIMMONS
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Frances Simmons Bell who submitted the above lineage says she
has copied the 1800-1880 census records and marriage records for
Northampton Co. Wonderful! We would be delighted to have a copy
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COLLATERAL LINES
BRADWAY/BROADWAY [from The Riddle ,Runners (Quarterly) Aug. 1975
Wm. A. Yates, publisher, Box 1687, Rifle, Colo.]
Clearing house for any BRADWAY or BROADWAY family data, any state,
any date, any spelling. Quarterly research bulletin available at
$3.00. If you have a BRADWAY or BROADWAY line, please write.
Mrs. Bette I. Bradway, [street address removed], Schenectady, N.Y.
12309
JONES/JONES Perhaps more of Rachael Klemm's notes will be pro-
JONES/JONES ductive, anyway they are interesting:
Since the family of LEMUEL HEDGPETH seems not to
have been located in Isle of Wight Co. at the logical time for
the marriage of James Henry Hedgpeth to Ruth Jones to take place,
it seems much more likely that Pittsylvania Co. or Halifax Co.
could be the spot.
According to his marriage record, DAVID JONES was a resident of
Halifax Co. when he married Bethany Hedgpeth, April 12, 18OO.
DAVID JONES, ENOCH JONES; and ELIJAH JONES lived next door to
each other in the 1810 Census of Green Co., Ky. MORGAN JONES
was slightly removed, but in later census records he is next
door to GEORGE BELL, father-in-law of HOLLAND HEDGPETH, son
of JAMES HENRY HEDGPETH.
(a) James Henry Hedgpeth was bondsman for the marriage of
Enoch Jones to Sally Ratliff.
(b) Sally Ratliff was sister of Alexander Ratliff who married
Lemuel's daughter, Lydia.
(c) Elijah Jones was bondsman, witness, or present at every
Hedgpeth reference in Green Co.
(d) Each of these "Jones Boys" were of the right age to be
brothers of Ruth (Jones) Hedgpeth, and may well have been.
(e) I have been unable to prove who the children of William
Jones were, who left a will dated 1804 in Green Co.,
leaving "all to wife, Nancy, for her life-time, then all
children to be equal." Children not named.
(f) David Jones' will .in Green Co. was witnessed by Elijah
Jones, and James Henry Hedgpeth was bondsman for the
marriage of Holland Jones, son of David.
(g) Morgan Jones married Nancy Lewis, dau of Jeremiah, 1809
in Green Co., Ky. and died just prior to 1850. His land
fell into Taylor Co. territory when Taylor was formed
from Green Co.
(h) Enoch Jones remains on the tax list of Green Co. through
1819 and is gone there-after. He paid taxes on a tract
of land in Hardin Co., but does not appear on the 1830
Census.
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(i) Elijah Jones continued to live in Taylor Co. on Jones
Creek, next door to my Holland Hedgpeth; jr., and had
descendants named Holland, James and Bethany Jones.
THERE JUST MUST BE A CONNECTION!
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QUERIES:
Information traded on the Northampton, North Carolina JOHN &
LAURA E. (Davis) HEDGEPETH family. Nine children born between
1860-1879. In search of ancestors of JOHN HEDGEPETH b.1835, N.C.
[son of HOWELL HEDGEPETH]
Mrs. Jesse E. Bell [Frances Maxine (Simmons) Bell]
[street address removed], Eugene, Oregon 97405
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Does anyone have the marriage record of GEORGE HUDSPETH to
JUDY RAN (could have been in Va. or No. Carolina).
KATIE HUDSPETH, d/o GEORGE and JUDY (Ran) HUDSPETH married a
ROUNTREE. What was his first name? Who were their children?
In 1800 POLLY HUDSPETH, d/o GEORGE.& JUDY (Ran) HUDSPETH
was married in Hardin Co., Ky. to JOHN WELLS. Who were their
children?
AYRES HUDSPETH, son Of GEORGE & JUDY (Ran) HUDSPETH ... Whom
did he marry? What became of him?
In Washington Co., Mo. are a Wm., GE0., AYRES and MALINDA who
married NATHANIEL HIGHLEY. To what HUDSPETH line do they belong?
Miss Anna Ford, [street address removed], Kansas City, MO., 64109
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Has anyone found a line on LEWIS (C) HUDSPETH/HEDGPETH who
appeared (under both names) on tax lists for Madison County, Ark.
and on the 1860 Madison Co. Census. He was not on the 1880 Madi-
son Co. Census. [See NEWSLETTER Vol. I, p.lO-11]
1860 Madison Co.; Marble Township, family #955
LEWIS HUDSPETH age 51 b. Ky.; Sarah 47 b. Tenn.
John F. (waggoner) 23 b. Ark.; Amos W. 15; Nancy E. 13;
Lucinda J. 11; James L. 8; Jeremiah 3 (all ch. b. Ky.)
Names of children might indicate a relationship to the family
of Jeremiah & Charlotta Hedgpeth who were in the area, but
he hasn't fit in so far with that line. Also, he was born in
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Kentucky, not Tennessee or North Carolinas as were Jeremiah's
clan. There are Lewis's in LEMUEL's descendant line .... wonder
if he fits in there? Anyone lost a Lewis? Betty Hedgpeth
Turlock, Calif.
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SOME ANSWERS Volume I, p.47 of the NEWSLETTER at the bottom of
the page .... there is a listing of CARTER HEDGPETH
in the Tabb's Creek District, Granville Co., N.C. ... It shows no
enumeration, just zero across the line. We did wonder about it!
Betty Hedgpeth sent a sheet explaining the entries in some of
the early records. Whether or not it applies to this particular
entry is not established ... it is just a possible explanation.
"Sometimes a household includes both white & free Negro individuals,
which would result in the anomaly of a male named as head of the
household but no males shown in the numerical listing. Some of
the 'free colored' people were actually Indians, and this appears
to have been particularly true of the mixed households."
Well ....!
Some of the Pickerel family ... was it Simeon?... had an Indian
wife in Kentucky and his orphaned children were reared by some
of my HEDGPETH kin in Nodaway County, Mo. Or so the story goes.
There was some sort of connection between the Pickerels & Hedg-
peths.
HOW .... everybody! - Fran
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Remember I asked who GEO. W. HUDSPETH was .... Assistant Marshal &
census-taker in 1840 Buchanan Co., Mo. ??
Anna Ford knew! He was the son of JOEL HUDSPETH and NANCY CLACK
of Simpson Co., Ky. He was a doctor; and brother to Anna's grand-
father, SAMUEL M. HUDSPETH. His family has the original papers
with JAMES K. POLK's name on the Land Grants.
A doctor! Now, I know why I had trouble reading some of his
handwriting!
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HEDGEPETH/HUDSPETH NOTES
Va. Gazette, Williamsburg, Va.(1956) RALPH HUDSPETH, Sr., m.
MARGARET EYRES in 1689; will proved in Henrico Co., Va. in 1719.
Issue: GEORGE HUDSPETH who may have stayed in Va.; RALPH HUDSPETH,
jr., who moved to No. Ca.; HANNAH, ELIZABETH: MARY, and MARGARET.
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RALPH HUDSPETH, jr. will proved, Surry Co., N.C. 1777.
Issue: GEORGE, AIRS, HANNAH, MARY, JOHN, MARTHA, LUCY, GILES,
RALPH, CARTER, DAVID.
(Albert E. Hudspeth, [street address removed], Dallas, Tex.)
Ibid. (1958) MARGARET EYRES, (dau. of JOSEPH) m. 1688-89, Henrico
Co., Va. RALPH HUDSPETH. Son RALPH jr. m. CATHERINE (?) .
Want her parents. Their son, GEORGE HUDSPETH m. JUDY RAN.
Want her parents also.
(Miss Anna Ford, [street address removed], Kansas City, Mo.)
Ibid.(1965) Wish parents with dates & places for JOHN HEDGEPETH,
d. 1854, Chester Co., S.C. His first purchase of land in So. Ca.
was in 1793, the deed stating he was from Fairfield Co., S.C.,
though he does not appear as head of a family in 1790 state cen-
sus. He m. RHODA GRUBBS, (dau of Enoch of Fairfield Co.) Wish
parents of Enoch Grubbs. Tombstone of JOHN HEDGEPETH states he
was b. Va., 12 June 1768, but 1850 census states he was b. So. Ca.
Wish clarification.
(Miss Frances Hedgepeth, [street address removed], Shreveport, La.)*
old address!
DAR MAGAZINE (1958) RALPH HUDSPETH m. MARGARET BYRES, dau of
JOSEPH and MARGARET (Humphrey) EYRES in 1688-89, Henrico Co., Va.
Ralph left will in Henrico Co., Va. in 1619. Want places,
dates and parents of RALPH HUDSPETH and JOSEPH EYRES.
In 1728 a RALPH HUDSPETH with wife MARY of Goochland Co., Va.
conveyed land. Desire info on Mary's Parents.
In 1752 RALPH HUDSPETH of Amelia Co., Va., with wife LUCY deeded
land. Want info on Lucy's parents.
RALPH HUDSPETH of Surry Co., N.C. 1776-1777 in his will mentions
wife CATHERINE, (want info on her parents) and among children
son GEORGE who m. JUDY RAN. Want parents of Judy Ran)
(Miss Anna Ford, [street address removed], Kansas City, Mo.)
VIRGINIA TAX PAYERS, 1782-87 (other than those published by the
U.S. Census Bureau) Augusta B. Fothergill & John Mark Naugle.
HEADSPEATH, William - Henry Co. & HEDGPETT, George - Montgomery Co.
VA. WILLS & ADMINISTRATIONS 1632-18OO, Clayton Torrence.
Isle of Wight County: SARAH HEDGEPETH - 1780 will
MARY HEDGEPETH - 1782 inv.
BENJ. HEDGPETH - 1781 will
HENRY HODGEPETH - 1780 inv.
Goochland County: GEORGE HEDSPETH - 1744 inv.
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The above gathering of HEDGPETH-HUDSPETH very early information
could be helpful... Maybe we can start from the other end of the
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yardstick. There could only have been two or three or four Hud-
speth/Hedgpeths here originally .... at most! If we submit all
the early references any of us have found maybe we could sort
out some of the lines, and by process of elimination then con-
centrate on the unidentified. Usual process of working from the
known to the unknown has not seemed to produce much but utter
confusion, so let's try the other approach.
I know this is not an original thought .... others have done it,
but perhaps if we all pitched in all of our data ... the pool
system may sift out a couple of new leads. Let's hear from you!
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FAMILY ALBUM
The picture is of three unidentified HEDGPETH ladies. It was
taken in Hoquiam~ Washington.
The picture was rescued from the collection of my Aunt Rose
Campbell by some of the Campbell cousins.
Written on the back of the picture is "From your HEDGPETH
cousins."
The picture probably had been sent to Rose's mother, and
my gr-gandmother RUTH HEDGPETH CAMPBELL. Her HEDGPETH
cousins could have been legion! However · .. those who wound
up in the Oregon-Washington territory are possibly more easily
traced.
Who are these ladies?
Who is the JOEL HEDGEPETH who married BELINDA J. WOOD, 12 Oct
1873 in Polk Co,, Ore. Witnesses: S. E. RHODES & GRENE B.
SIMPSON?????? B. ~Embree~ JP
The marriage took place at the home of JOHN VANDERPOOL, who
was a great-uncle of my Ruth Hedgpeth Campbell. Rhodes was
an uncle by marriage also.
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The consent-slip written and
signed by LEMUEL HEDGPETH for the marriage of his daughter
Sarah to ISAAC ROMANS in Hardin County, Ky. February
ll, 1807.
This copy has been reproduced several times so that it doesn't
do justice to the quality of his famous penmanship. Are there
any other samples that survive? Notice, too, how easily one
might read LEMUEL as SAMUEL? This is something to bear in mind
in watching for early records.
FAMILY ALBUM
the picture that appears here,
I will insert a bit later on ....
"From your HEDGPETH cousins"
- Hoquiam, Washington
Can we identify these ladies?
hint: it's Eliza Jane (Elliott)
Hedgpeth 1833-1917
wife of
Thomas Riley Hedgepth with their two daughter's
Mary Jane
(Hedgpeth) Ash 1864-1958
Elizabeth
Van Deventer (Hedgpeth) Jacka 1881-1962
same picture is in the on-line Photo Album
at the bottom of the above link
Consent slip written by LEMUEL HEDGPETH, Hardin Co., Ky. - 1807
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As Fran had noted on the previous page, this hand written
consent slip has been copied over and over. Just as soon as
I locate a first or second generation copy, I will insert it
here ... but in the mean time here is a transcript of what
it said ... kgh ~
)
Kentucky > Hardin County
February the 11th day 1807
)
this is to Certify that I have Given my free
Consent in marriage between my Daughter Sarah
and Isaac Romans In witness where of I have
here unto Subscribed my name
[signed] Lemuel Hedgpeth
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send $7.00 to Circulation Manager, J. E. PENNINGTON
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SMITH SAGAS - Research bulletin for anyone searching for
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"BERRY PICKIN" - A research aid for anyone working on the
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"DIGGIN FOR DAVIS" - a research aid for anyone working on
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Note: the above periodical is no longer published, check with your
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of which 15 years worth, Frances Nelson was the editor.
HORINE FAMILIES ROUND-ROBIN RESEARCH GROUP - Free membership,
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HEDGPETH - Descendants of Revolutionary War Veteran
JOHN HEDGPETH (1757-1818)
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NEWSLETTER. Write to her for particulars regarding
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Note: as of 23 June 2002 the Vanderpool Newsletter was still
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MISSOURI CENSUS RECORDS - In preparation - State-Wide
Index of the 1840 Census - in 3 Volumes
To be published December 1976.
Also County-by-County enumerations released at intervals
during 1975-76. Write for details.
The above may be obtained from: Mrs. Frances R. Nelson,
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A N N O U N C E M E N T
1840 - MISSOURI CENSUS RECORDS - In Preparation
STATE-WIDE INDEX
To be completed in 1976 ...
Alphabetical listing of householders
and pensioners, with reference to
counties of residence ...
To be published in three volumes ...
COUNTY-by-COUNTY Series
Release at intervals during 1975-76...
Each reel of National Archives Microfilm
constituting one book and containing
several county records ... Indexed
Individual county records also available
separately .... with Index
Each county record shows: Neighborhoods, names
and ages of pensioners, heads-of-household with
enumeration of families by age-groups ...
Some County books now ready for delivery ...
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Ancestor's Attic
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[street address removed]
Riverside, CA 92505
RESERVE YOUR COPIES NOW! No money will be accepted until
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Dear folks,
Herewith the first issue of Volume II. Not very many
renewed so that I wondered if it were wise to continue ...
however, I think probably fall activities sneaked up on us
all and we are suddenly busy! We'll go ahead for awhile
and see ...
We do need some fresh lineage information .... some
new stories about the old days ... any bible records, census
information, tax lists etc. We have depended heavily upon
Ann Theg Brown and Anna Ford's work ... I know they would
appreciate something new from us for a change.
I'm including our publication schedule for our 1840
Missouri Census books so you can see what I've been up to ...
I've picked up a cracker-jack partner ... so now we have a
title and everything! Hopefully, I'll find some long-lost
Hedgpeth/Hudspeth names lurking in some of the out-of-the-way
counties, which was my original intention in going after these
records. Be glad to watch for any other names for you-all,
please but ask!
Already, I'm wondering what other records we might do
.... any suggestions?
Speaking of titles .... do we need to decide on a name
for the Hedgpeth Newsletter? I've heard there is a place
called "Hudspeth Hold" ----- someone suggested "Hedgpeth
Highlights" ..... Does "Hedgpeth Holler" sound interesting?
What do you think? What we really need is a name that incor-
porates HUDSPETH & HEDGPETH somehow ... "Hudspeth Hedge" ???
"Hedgpeth Huds" ... · ?????
Two versions of the 1858-9 wagon train story .... across
the southern route from Missouri to California · .. taken by
Judge Joel Hedgpeth & family are available still ... also two
newspaper accounts of the exploits of Marion C. Hedgpeth, our
wild-west outlaw! Wagon Train Booklet & Outlaw Booklet are
$1 each.
Best regards,
[signed Fran]
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