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Hedgepeth, Joel C.
LAST NAME: Hedgepeth FIRST NAME: Joel MIDDLE NAME: C. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: Rev.
BORN: 13 Jun 1851 DIED: 6 May 1906 BURIED: 8 May 1906 ~ English Cemetery
OCCUPATION:  Minister/Preacher
BIRTH PLACE:  Skidmore, Nodaway Co., Missouri
DEATH PLACE: Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
Name of father Lewis Hedgepeth
Maiden name of mother Priscilla Pickerel
MARRIAGE - "Joel Hedgepeth of Benton Co. & Belinda Jane Wood, m 12 Oct 1873 at house of John Vanderpool; T.V.B. Embree, M.G. Wit: S.E. Rhodes & Green B. Simpson Bk B p 192"
1880 OR CENSUS - J.C. Hedgepeth (29y, b MO, farmer), enumerated with him was wife Jane (27y, b MO) and 2 daughters, L. (5y, b OR) and J. (3y, b OR)
1900 OR CENSUS - Joel Hedgepeth, age 48, occuaption farmer, b. Jun 1851 in Missouri, is enumerated with his wife of 27 years, Jane B., age 47, mother of 4 children 3 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Feb 1853 in Arkansas, along with Delmer E., age 12, b. Jul 1887 in Oregon.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH DC (Polk County 1906) #973 - Joel H. Hedgepeth, male, married, b. 13 Jun 1851 at Skidmore, Missouri, d. 6 May 1906 11 miles south of Dallas, Oregon at the age of 54 yrs 10 mos 23 days, name of father Lewis D. Hedgepethe (b. Kentucky), maiden name of mother Priscilla Pickerel (b. Kentucky).
OBITUARY: 
Rev. J.C. Hedgpeth died Sunday, May 6, 1906, at his home near Lewisville. He was buried Tuesday of the same week, Rev. Gardner, his pastor conducting the funeral services. 
He was born June 13, 1851, in Missouri. He became a Christian in 1867 and took up the work of an itinerant minister in 1896, and at his death was a local preacher in the M.E. Church, South. He was married to Jane Wood on October 12, 1873, and to this union were born four children, three of whom, with the mother, survive him. The children are Mrs. Lettie McTimmonds, of Medford; Mrs. Anna Baker of Tillamook, and Delmar Hedgpeth, who is at the home place. 
Bro. Hedgpeth was a patient sufferer for four months with tuberculosis. He was a good man, faithful ion duties, patient in trials, clean in life, and triumphant in death. The floral tributes spoke volumes to his standing in the community in which he lived. 
Polk County Observer, May 18, 1906, 1:7
INSCRIPTION: 
J.C.
Hedgepeth
June 13, 
1851
May 6, 
1906
SOURCES: 
Saucy/Tolle Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Polk County 1906) #973
Polk County Oregon Marriage Records 1849-1879, pg 61
1880 OR CENSUS (Wasco Co, ED 125, Prineville, Page 301)
1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Luckiamute, ED 176, sheet 2B)
PCO 18 May 1906, 1:7
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