KEDIGH BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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KEDIGH, Michael - b: 1840 Germany
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 424
residence: White Oak Twp

Michael Kedigh, a Union veteran of the Civil War and an early settler of Henry 
County, is a well known farmer of White Oak township. Mr. Kedigh was born in 
Germany December 11, 1840, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Moring) Kedigh, 
both natives of Germany. The Kedigh family emigrated to America in 1845, when 
Michael was five years old. They settled in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where both 
the parents spent the remainder of their lives. The father died the same year that 
he settled in Ohio and the mother died in 1870. They were the parents of the 
following children: Michael, the subject of this sketch; George, who also served 
in the Union Army during the Civil War, and died at the age of seventy; Mrs. 
Caroline Ricker, spent her life in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and is now deceased. 
Michael Kedigh received such schooling as the rural districts afforded in Ohio in 
his boyhood days, but as he says himself, his principal education was learning to 
work. Just about the time that he reached manhood the Civil War broke out and in 
November, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, 80th Regiment Ohio Infantry for a 
period of two years, and at the expiration of his term of service he re-enlisted 
as a veteran volunteer and served throughout the war, being mustered out of 
service at Little Rock, Arkansas, in August, 1865. He was a good soldier and made 
an unimpeachable war record of which he and his descendants for generations to 
come may be justly proud. He participated in many important battles and 
campaigns of great historic moment. He was with Sherman on his memorable 
march to the sea and took part in the battles of Iuka, Corinth, Jackson, 
Missionary Ridge and numerous other battles and engagements of lesser 
importance. He participated in the Grand Review at Washington, D. C. At the close 
of the war Mr. Kedigh returned to his Ohio home and bought a small farm which he 
tilled for a short time. In 1870 Mr. Kedigh came to Missouri and located in White 
Oak township, Henry County. The first eighty acres which he purchased here was 
at a cost of twenty dollars per acre. He has added more land and now owns one 
hundred ninety acres, which is well improved and is one of the valuable farms of. 
Henry County, and Mr. Kedigh is regarded as one of the successful farmers and 
stockmen of the county. Mr. Kedigh has been twice married. In 1868 he was 
married to Miss Christena Baker in Ohio. She died in 1880, leaving the following 
children: Caroline, now the wife of C. D. Martin; Jacob, who was engaged in the 
mercantile business at Ballard, Missouri, for some time and is now a successful 
farmer and stockman of Bates County, Missouri; John, who resides at Mountain 
Home, Arkansas. Mr. Kedigh's second wife, to whom he was married in 1881, bore 
the maiden name of Margaret Henny. She is a daughter of Benedict and Martha 
(Zehnder) Henny of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Benedict Henny was a native of 
Switzerland and came to America and settled in Ohio in 1854. In 1881 he came to 
White Oak township, Henry County, and died here November 6, 1893. His wife died 
in Ohio in 1880. They were the parents of the following children: Benedict, 
deceased; John, lives at Delmar, Missouri; Rudy, deceased; Christian, Delmar, 
Missouri; William, White Oak township; Margaret, the wife of Michael Kedigh, the 
subject of this sketch; Edward; Mrs. Emma Goodman, Urich, Missouri; Mrs. 
Elizabeth Fraley, Bogue, Kansas, and Mrs. Mary Little, Walker township, and Mrs. 
Sarah Graff, deceased. To Michael Kedigh and Margaret (Henny) Kedigh have been 
born three children, as follow: Benedict Edward, married Edith Scanlon and lives 
in Bogard township; Omer Frances, married Inez Hargrave and lives on the home 
place, and George William, married Lorena McDaniel and lives in White Oak 
township. Mr. Kedigh is a public spirited and progressive citizen and takes a keen 
interest in all matters for the public good. He took an active interest in the 
reclamation project in Henry County and for seven years served as a director of 
the drainage district board. He is one of Henry County's most valued citizens.

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