Breckinridge-Ohio-Hancock County KyArchives News.....ONE HUNDRED ATTEND PARTY March 7, 1904
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Peggy Russell meemawpeg7@gmail.com October 22, 2017, 12:07 am

Breckinridge News, Cloverport, Ky., Wednesday, March 16, 1904 March 7, 1904
Page 7, Column 1
     On Monday, March 7, 1904, the relatives and friends of Mrs. Rebecca HEDDEN, 
widow of the late Newton HEDDEN, gave her a birthday dinner at her home near 
Hopewell Baptist Church on the Breckinridge and Ohio County line, she being on 
that day, 92 years old, as the News stated on a former occasion, Mrs. HEDDEN was 
born in the WHITTINGHILL homestead, now Jones Station, March 7, 1812, and was the 
second daughter of John and Elizabeth WHITTINGHILL.
     Her father was of a patriotic Virginian family during the dark days of the 
American Revolution, and settled the farm at Jones Station October 15, 1807, and 
his son, Peter T. WHITTINGHILL is said to be the second or third child born in 
Ohio County.
     Mrs. HEDDEN'S mother was a sister of the late Joseph H. COOPER, of the 
Rockvale community in Breckinridge County, and the late William COOPER, of near 
Cloverport.
     Mrs. HEDDEN was born in Chester District on the Catawba River in South 
Carolina, and was a schoolmate of General Andrew JACKSON at the Wastraws.
     Newton HEDDEN'S father was a Captain in Governor Isaac SHELBY'S Kentucky 
troops in General W. H. HARRISON'S Northwestern Army, and a member of the 
Viriginia family of THOMAS'S of WASHINGTON'S Artillery.
     About one hundred persons participated in the celebration, and sat down to 
the beautiful dinner (she said she would never live to see another birthday).  
Prominent among the persons present was four of her nephews:
Judge James H. HOWARD of Fordsville, Ky (Ohio County)
David N. HOWARD of Rockvale, Ky (Breckinridge County)
James H. WHITTINGHILL of near Mitchell's Station, in Ohio County.
James B. HOWARD, a contractor and mine owner of Eagle City, Alaska  The latter 
being on a visit to his Kentucky relatives and friends, who sat by the side of 
Mrs. HEDDEN at the table, and aided in waiting on, and in otherwise entertaining 
her.

Additional Comments:
Eagle City, called Eagle, Alaska now, lies on the south bank of the Yukon River 
near the United States and Canadian border.  The population in the 2010 census was 
86 people, the southeast Fairbanks census area in Alaska.
Peggy Russell

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