Biographical Sketch of Cicero P. Hedrick, Dent County, Missouri >From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889. ********************************************************************** Ex-Judge Cicero P. Hedrick, manager and stockholder of Victor Roller Mills, was born in Davidson county, N.C., in 1850, being the son of Alfred and Elizabeth (Goss) Hedrick, and grandson of Adam Hedrick, who was born on the same farm in Davidson county, N.C., and his son and grandson, and there spent his entire life. He was killed at a muster drill by a drunken man when his son Alfred was a boy two years old. He was the son of Capt. Peter Hedrick, who came to America at an early date, and served as a captain in the Revolutionary War; he had also one son in that war. His barn was burned by Tories during the latter part of the war. He died on the farm on which his great-grandson, ex-Judge Cicero P. Hedrick, was born. Joseph Goss, maternal grand- father of our subject, was born in North Carolina, where he spent all his life as a slave holder. He was of German descent. Alfred and Elizabeth (Goss) Hedrick were also natives of Davidson county, N.C., born in 1824 and 1832, respectively. They lived in their native state until 1874, when they came to Dent county, Mo., and here the mother died in 1881. The father is still living, and is a farmer by occupa- tion. During the late war he served about one year in a North Carolina regiment of infantry, in the Confederate army. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the German Reformed Church, of which his wife was also a member for many years. They were the parents of six sons and three daughters, three sons and two daughters now living. Of this family ex-Judge Hedrick was the second child. He attended school two winters previous to the war and only two months afterward, most of his knowledge of books being acquired by his own efforts. He began for himself at the age of twenty-two as a farm hand, and continued as such for nine years. He came with his parents to Dent county, Mo., in 1878 was united in marriage to Miss Tennessee, daughter of James C. and Emily Connell, formerly of Tennessee, but early settlers of Dent county where Mrs. Hedrick was born. Her mother is still living, but the father died in Cape Girardeau county, Mo., about 1872. He served through the Federal army as a captain. Judge C. P. Hedrick followed farming in Dent county, Mo., until 1884, when he learned the carpenters trade, and followed the same until July, 1888, when he assumed charge of the Victor Mills, which he assisted in building. He is a Democrat in his political views, and his first presidential vote was for O'Conor in 1872. He is a member of Edgar Springs, Lodge No. 416, I.O.O.F., and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He served four years as justice of the peace, from 1882 to 1886, and in the last named year he was elected associate judge of county court from the Second District, and served one term. He has been notary public three years, and has held numerous minor offices nearly ever since his majority. He has a fine farm of 200 acres, eighty acres under cultiva- tion, all well improved. His father has been postmaster at Taladego Post office since 1882. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joe Miller Penny (Eisenbarger) Harrell ====================================================================