Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Charles H. HEDRICK

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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CHARLES H. HEDRICK - born in Blue Sulphur district, Greenbrier County, 
February 27, 1840, is still a resident in this district, where he owns a fine 
farm, and he is also successfully conducting a grocery and butcher business 
at Alderson, Monroe County. Henry and Nancy J. (LIVESAY) HEDRICK, the latter 
died in 1873, were his parents. His first wife was Virginia ROBISON, whom he 
wedded March 9, 1860, and who died without children, March 6, 1866, in Mason 
County, Illinois, of consumption. In Monroe County, West Virginia, 
September 9. 1867, Charles H. HEDRICK and Eliza HOGGSETT were united 
in marriage, and their children are five, John Henry, born September 
27, 1868; Mary V, November 12, 1869; Lulie B., May 8, 1871; James N., 
June 1, 1873; Willie H., December 1, 1878. John and Mary HOGGSETT, 
born in Augusta County, Virginia, were the parents of Mrs. HEDRICK. 
They made their home in Monroe County, and the mother is still 
living on the homestead there, the father died in 1857. The birth of 
Mrs. HEDRICK was in Monroe County, born September 8, 1841. She had 
one brother, S. F. HOGGSETT, who was a Confederate soldier, serving 
in Edgar's Battalion, Company F. Charles H. HEDRICK's post office 
address is Alderson, Monroe County, West Virginia.


Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.