Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 630
SAMUEL E. HEDGES

Samuel E. HEDGES, one of the enterprising farmers of Jackson Township, residing on section 33, has made Harrison County his home since the autumn of 1881, when he bought forty acres of partly-improved land in Little Sioux Township. Here he built a one-story house 16 x 20 feet, set out an orchard of thirty trees and built him a good fence. This place cost our subject $22.50 per acre. After four years he sold the place and rented land for three years, and then bought the place he now occupies, which consisted of thirty-seven acres of improved land, to which he has added many good improvements, including outbuildings and an orchard.

Our subject was born in Hancock County, Ohio, September 17, 1853. His parents are John and Athelinda HEDGES, natives of the Buckeye State, who had a family of seven children, he being next to the oldest. The children's names were--Mary, deceased; Samuel E., our subject; Emily, deceased; Jacob, deceased; Jessie, deceased; Rachel; Diba, deceased; and Flora, deceased.

Our subject lived with his parents until he grew to man's estate, when he worked on a farm by the month for two years. We next find him in Nebraska, where he bought forty acres of land, and remained there two years, sold out and moved to Harrison County.

Mr. HEDGES was united in marriage September 7, 1876, to Christie KING, the daughter of William and Elizabeth KING, natives of Ohio, who had ten children, as follows--John, Jane, Addis, Mary, Eli, Cyrus, Barkley, Christie, Susie and Emily.

Our subject and his wife are the parents of three children--Wilbur, Emily, deceased and Calvin.

Mr. and Mrs. HEDGES are acceptable members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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