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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





Page 930

[From the chapter on the Township of Island Grove.]

JOSIAH HEDGES was born about 1788, in Maryland, and was taken to Virginia, and from there to Grayson county, Kentucky, when he was about twelve years old. Anna Brown was born December 25, 1798, in Davis county, Kentucky. Josiah Hedges and Anna Brown were there married, and made Grayson county their home until they moved to Sangamon County, Illinois, 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.

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 county. When he came, he bought 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. He died in 1872.

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