BIO:  WEDDING, John R., s/o Lloyd & Anne L. Raney Wedding

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

WEDDING   RANEY   KIDWELL   ADKINS   MORGAN

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

Daviess County, Barr Twp., page 834

JOHN R. WEDDING.  Lloyd Wedding, our subject's father, was born in Maryland
in 1793, and moved with his father to Kentucky in 1811, where he married
Anne L. Raney, in 1817.  She was born in 1799.  They came to Daviess County,
Ind., in 1818, where they located on forty acres of timber land.  At a later
period he purchased the farm where John now lives, and there spent the
remainder of his days.  He was a merchant the last thirteen years of his life
and was constabel and magistrate of Barr Township for five years.  He died
in 1863 and the mother three years later.  John R. Wedding was born in 1819
in what was then Daviess County.  He received poor educational advantages,
but on reaching manhood he again attended school and thus obtained a fair
education.  When twenty-nine years old he rented a farm, and after working
in this way for about five years he purchased 120 acres of land.  Some time
later he sold his farm and moved on the old homestead and cared for his
parents until their deaths.  In 1846 he married Elizabeth Kidwell, born in
1820, who bore him these children:  Lloyd, Nicholas, Theodore, George, Emily,
Mary, Louisa, John, Arnold, Francis and Elizabeth.  All of the sons are
farmers.  In 1873 Mrs. Wedding and Emily died and in the early part of 1874
Mary also died.  In 1875 Mr. Wedding married Sarah (Morgan) Adkins, born in
1834.  She is a member of the Catholic Church.  Mr. Wedding served as justice
of the peace for twelve years, and in 1876 was chosen to fill the position
of county commissioner.  He is a Democrat though he voted the Whig ticket
until 1856.
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