Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Hedge, Alvah 1854 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

ALVAH HEDGE.

    Alvah Hedge, one of the pioneers of Marshall county and the proprietor of a
well-kept and profitably cultivated farm of a quarter of a section in section 10
of Center township, is a native of the old Hoosier state, but has been a
resident of Kansas since 1878 and of the place on which he now lives since 1884,
having settled there the year following his marriage in 1883, having bought the
place in 1880. He was born on a farm in Blackford county, in the eastern part of
Indiana, August 21, 1854, a son of Abner and Charlotte (Castelline) Hedge,
natives of the state of New York, whose last days were spent in this county,
where they had settled in pioneer days.

    In February, 1878, the Hedge family came to Kansas from Indiana and settled
in Marshall county, locating in Center township. In 1883 Abner Hedge bought half
of section 10 in that township and about the same time rented the farm at the
county infirmary and was working the latter at the time of his death not long
afterward, in March, 1884. He was born in 1827 and was thus fifty-seven years of
age at the time of his death. The family then moved to the Charles Keller place
in Center township and developed the same. Mrs. Hedge, whose death occurred in
November, 1901, was born in 1831 and was thus seventy years of age at the time
of her death. Abner Hedge and wife were the parents of four children, those
besides the subject of this sketch being Morgan, who is in the lumber business
at Oketo; Ira, who is now living at Grass Range, Montana, and Mrs. Mary Warren,
of Joplin, Missouri.

    Alvah Hedge was twenty-three years of age when he came from Indiana to
Marshall county with his parents in the early spring of 1878 and he early took
his part in the pioneer life of this then sparsely settled region. In 1880 he
bought a quarter of a section of land in section 10 of Center township, and in
1884, the year after his marriage, established his home there and has ever since
lived there, with the exception of about ten months spent at Oketo. Upon
establishing himself on his private farm Mr. Hedge built a house eighteen by
thirty-five, one and one-half stories, containing three rooms on the first floor
and two on the upper floor. He now has a comfortable home of nine rooms and his
farm buildings are in keeping with the same, the farm plant being up-to-date and
well kept. In addition to his general farming Mr. Hedge has given considerable
attention to the raising of live stock and has done very well. He is a Democrat
and has served as clerk of Center township.

    On April 8, 1883, Alvah Hedge was united in marriage to Ida Nelm, who was
born in New York state on March 27, 1862, daughter of Edwin and Margaret
(Meredith) Nelm, natives of England, who came to this country in 1857, after
their marriage, and settled in New York state, where they made their home until
1864, when they moved to Illinois and there resided until 1869, in which year
they came to Kansas and settled in Marshall county, Mr. Nelm homesteading a
tract of land one mile south of the Hedge place in Center township. There Edwin
Nelm spent his last days, one of Marshall county's substantial pioneer farmers,
his death occurring in 1902. He was born in 1825. His widow, who was born on
February 5, 1834, is still living, making her home now with her children. These
children, besides Mrs. Hedge, are as follow: Mrs. Emma Helverin, of Beattie;
Mrs. Sarah Wise, also of Beattie; Mrs. Addie Hedge, of Hoxie; George, of Center
township; Mrs. Lizzie Hedge, of Grass Range, Montana: Reuben, of Center
township; Fred, of Wells township, and Mrs. Maggie Huf, of Home. Mr. and Mrs.
Hedge have two children, Edith, who married Dane Dexter, of Center township, and
has one child, Arwayne, and Mabel, at home. The Hedges are members of the
Winifred Baptist church and ever have taken a proper part in church work and in
the other good works of the community in which they live. Mr. Hedge is a member
of the local lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and Mrs. Hedge is a
member of the Degree of Honor.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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