Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Harvey J. HEDRICK

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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HARVEY J. HEDRICK - born in Greenbrier County, February 2, 1829, has 
passed his life in this county except for sixteen years he lived in 
Illinois 1858-74. During his residence there he ably filled the office
of justice of the peace for five years, and township collector one year. 
The first wife of Mr. HEDRICK was Isabella ROBINSON, and their children 
were three: James W., born November 2, 1855; Charles H., April 2, 1858; 
Isabella, December 9, 1862, deceased. In Ford County, Illinois. 
November 29, 1864, Harvey J. HEDRICK and Rachel A. HARRIS were 
joined in wedlock, and to them were born eight children: Lilla B., 
March 6, 1866; Perry M., January 18, 1868; John H., November 8, 1871; 
Stephen H., March 20, 1872; De, February 24, 1874: Nancy E., July 18, 1876;
Mary, November 10, 1878; Martha A., February 11, 1881. John H. is
deceased, the other children of the second marriage living with their 
parents. The two sons of the first marriage live in Mason County, Illinois. 
Rachel A., wife of Mr. HEDRICK, was born in Montgomery County, Indiana 
July 8, 1845, a daughter of James M. and and Elizabeth (BISHOP) HARRIS. 
Her father was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, in February, 1815, and her 
mother was born in Indiana, in April, 1819. They now make their home in 
Illinois. Henry HEDRICK, father of Harvey J., was born April 25, 1792, in 
Greenbrier County, and he married Nancy LIVESAY, born in this county, he 
is still living here, but his wife is deceased. Harvey J. HEDRICK owns and 
carries on a farm of 450 acres in Meadow Bluff District, and is thinking of 
going southwest, and offers his farm for sale at a very reasonable price, 
His postoffice address is Little Sewell, Greenbrier 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.