BIO:  HEDRICK, F.M., s/o George F. Hedrick 

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

HEDRICK   ISHEM   SCOTT	

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Reeve Twp., page 875

F.M. HEDRICK was born in Daviess County, Ind., March 16, 1842, and is the
fourth of six children born to George F. Hedrick, who was a Kentuckian by
birth, born in 1790.  The mother was born in 1808.  Mr. Hedrick was reared
on a farm, where he remained until nineteen years of age.  He secured a
good common school education.  In 1860 he purchased forty acres of land--
which he has since increased to eighty--and commenced his career as a farmer.
On the 4th of February, 1866, he was united in marriage to Miss Ishem,
daughter of Joel and Bettie (Scott) Ishem.  They became the parents of these
children:  Laura Ann, Mary, Thomas, Albertie and Pearlie May.  Mr.Hedrick
is a Democrat.  On the 22d of September, 1864, he enlisted in Company F,
Eighteenth Ohio Infantry, and was in the battle of Nashville.  He was honor-
ably discharaged June 10, 1865, and returned home and resumed his duties on
the farm.  He and wife are members of the Christian Church.  Mr. Hedrick is
sober, industrious and a worthy type of the self-made man.
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