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Subject: Comp 170 - (Peregory) Burnett-Turner-Ross-Via-Etc/Etc
Letter of Alice Perdue Pedigo, Dated 20 Jul. 1962.
The children of Henry Clay and Martha were born in at least three different
States. Their marriage Cir 1816 occurred either in Ky.
or across the line in TN. Their eldest Dorothy Ruth was born in TN. The next
two were Wm. page and Edward Taylor both born
in Mo. H.C. and Martha were called back to Ky. by Joseph to care for him in
his declining years, so the last nine of their children
were born in Ky. After the death and burial of Joseph (16 Apr. 1834). Henry
c. and Martha with some of their children returned to
Mo. where they purchased a farm in Cass Co., Mo., 25 Nov. 1848. Wm. Page,
Edward Taylor and Henry Clay jr., had each
married in Ky. and they came to Mo. with the parents. Dorothy R. and Martha
Ann were also in Ky. but remained there. The
marriage of three daughters Eliza Jane, Elizabeth M. and Emerine H. are
recorded at Cass Co., Mo., Court house and the 1830
Census records have enabled us to place each child in line according to age,
except Amanda. She belongs in the one space left in
the family line, number 8. Elizabeth M. belongs in No. 7.
It is not know whether Henry, Martha and younger children, moved from Mo.
soon after disposing of his farm, but he was
located in Tarrant Co., TX. 19 Aug. 1855. The 1860 Tarrant Co., TX. Census
and all County records were destroyed at Ft. W by
a disastrous fire, so are lost to us forever.
The 1865 KS. Census Wyandotte co., Wayne Twp. shows Wm. Page Pedigo age
46 living with his Mother Martha P. Pedigo
age 64 and Wm. P's two younger children. It seems evident that henry c. died
prior to the Census enumeration. The census for
1870 shows Wm. P. and Martha living together with Sarah Farrell, 17. Niece of
Wm. P.s granddaughter Martha. Wm. pages two
sons had married and each had a child or two. This was the town of
Edwardsville. Mrs. Clyde Campbell of San Antonio, Texas
contributed the census microfilm and marriage records of Wyandotte and
Johnson Counties KS.
I have brought data on this line more up to date but much is yet to
be done. Perhaps it will be of some value to those working
on this line.
Best wishes to Pedigo Cousins !
Alice Perdue Pedigo
(Mrs. Newton L. Pedigo)
(Cleveland, Mo.)
Martha: Living with son William Page, on 1865 State Census, also on 1870
Federal Census
Children:
i Dorothy Ruth "Dolly" (Ann) PEDIGO b. 12 Oct 1816/17, TN (Probably
Overton Co.), Ref # 136-171,1 m.
6 Dec 1839, in Barren Co, KY,2 Note of: Alice Perdue, MO,3 George Edwin
PEDIGO, b. 3 Nov 1818,
Barren Co, KY, Bapt/Rel,Pref: Church of Christ, (son of John P.
"Major/Colonel" PEDIGO and Sarah
Bishop "Sally" OLDHAM) Ref # 136-161, ### Farmer,4 d. 25 Oct 1909, Randolph,
Barren Co, KY,5
Buried: Old Randolph, Pleasant Hill Cem. KY, Location: 1900, Edmonton,
Metcalfe Co, KY. Dorothy died
17 Dec 1891, Barren Co, KY, Buried: Old Randolph, Pleasant Hill Cem. KY.
George: Dolly Ruth & George Edwin were 1st cousins.
Randolph Ky.
Nov. 8, 1904
Mrs. Leona Arnett Murray, Kind friend and relative,
I received your letter in due time. you must excuse bas writing. My hand
trembles. I was 86 years old the third
of Nov.
In the year 1805 my grandfather, Joseph Pedigo, moved form Virginia to
Kentucky and settled down near
Pleasant hill. The house is on the land he bought. (250 Acres) two or three
years after this he went back to
Virginia and moved Grandshire Ned to Kentucky and settled him on part of this
land. Grandshire Ned lived
there until the death of his wife, then went to his son Joseph's and lived
and died there. My Mother having died,
I was placed at my grandfather's and I waited on Grandshire Ned until he
died. He is buried 2 1/2 miles North
of Pleasant Hill Church. No graveyard here then.
Mrs. Sam Clark of your place, wife of Lucas Clark, the miller is one of
my old friends and neighbors.
Yours with respect,
George E. Pedigo
(Letter re typed by Frances Pedigo, November 18, 1977)
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886 Metcalfe County
GEORGE E. PEDIGO was born November 3, 1818, in Metcalfe County (then
Barren), where he has since
resided, except for short periods spent in Monroe and Hart Counties. He now
lives within six miles of his birth
place, and with the exceptions named - aggregaing about twenty months - has
always lived in the vicinity of it.
His father, John Pedigo, was born February 4, 1796, in Patrick County, Va. He
(the father) was thrice married;
first, in 1817, to Sally B., daughter of Tarpley Oldham. From this union
sprang six children: George E.,
Charles T., Eliza J. (deceased), William F., Elizabeth (Bowles), and Mary C.
Our subject can remember very
distinctly carrying his great-grandfather in his arms when he had become
helpless. By industry he has become
the owner of 330 acres of productive land. He is a member of the Church of
Christ, and in politics a
Republican. He had very poor opportunities for obtaining an education in
early life, his mother having died
when he was a small boy. Living with his grandfather, he went to school
three miles to an old log house, with
dirt floor, and rude seats made of round logs split open, and the split side
turned up, with rude pins for feet; on
these seats the scholars would sit and hum their lessons from early morn till
late in the evening. At these
schools he obtained his education, such as reading, writing and arithmetic.
There was not a grammar nor
geography in any school he ever attended; yet with pleasant memory he recalls
those olden times, when he
would rise early in the morning and start to the old schoolhouse in the
bottom, the pathway leading through the
woods covered with the seared leaves of autumn. O, that drum and fife we
used to hear coming to the old
schoolhouse for us to march after that day! William Anderson was the teacher.
ii William Page "Pledge" PEDIGO b. 22 Feb 1819, Howard Co, MO, Ref #
136-172, m. 14 Jan 1841, in
Barren Co, KY,6 Note of: P. Dawkins, WA,7 Avaline FERRELL/FARRILL, b. 27 Apr
1819, KY,
(daughter of Charles FERRELL and Sarah "Sally" DOWDY) Ref # XXX, d. 21 Mar
1854, Cass Co, MO.
William died 29 Jul 1898, Location: Shawnee, Indian Territory (Later OK).
iii Edward Taylor Turner PEDIGO b. 30 Apr 1821, Howard Co, MO,8
Bapt/Rel,Pref: Christian Church, Ref
# 136-173, ### Farming, m. (1) 23 Sep 1841, in Barren Co, KY, Note of: Ovie
Sypher,9 Thurza Ann
FERRELL/FARRELL, b. Cir 1821, Barren Co, KY, Bapt/Rel,Pref: Christian Church,
(daughter of Charles
FERRELL and Sarah "Sally" DOWDY) Ref # XXX, d. Aft 1890, Location: 1881,
Kansas City, Wyandotte
Co, KS, m. (2) Aloisie Ida Cecelia COLIN-DROST, b. 14 Apr 1894, Shawnee Twp,
Johnson Co, KS,
(daughter of Simon COLIN and Salina Mary ETUE) Ref # XXX, d. --- 1966,
Denver, Arapahoe Co, CO.
Edward died 30 Oct 1907, Location: 1857, KS. No Children, 1848 Cass Co. MO;
1857 Shawnee Twp. KS;
Seems Edward took himself a young bride in his old age.
Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, Chicago 1890, page 762
Edward T. Pedigo is a member of the third white family that settled in
Shawnee Township, Wyandotte County,
Kansas, the date of their settlement being 1857. he was born in Howard Co.,
Missouri on April 30, 1821, but
was reared on Blue-grass soil, but in 1848, with his parents, Henry and
martha Pedigo, Virginians, he came to
cass County, Mo., and a few years later to Bates County, where they made
their home for one year. One year
was then spent at Pleasant hill, three years in Westport, and then he came to
Wyandotte County, Kansas and
purchased his present farm, consisting of thirty acres. He gives ten acres to
potatoes, raising from 100 to 150
bushels to the acre, and in addition to this raises melons, cabbage,
cauliflower, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc., and
he finds a ready market for these products. He first began growing vegtables
for market in 1881 and has been
very successful, securing a comfortable competency for the rest of his days,
and he considers Kansas, and
especially Wyandotte County, the garden spot of the United States. He has
easy access to water, the wells being
bored to a depth of from twenty-eight to thirty-four feet, and the water is
pure, cold and slightly impregnated
with iron. before coming to this county he had experienced many hardships and
privations, and he now fully
appreciates his comfortable home and the delights of domestic life, He paid
$75 for his claim, and it is now
worth at least $1,000 per acre. His land was heavely covered with timber, but
by indefatigable energy he has it
cleared and nicely improved. His estemable wife was formerly miss Thirza Ann
Farrell, a native of Kentuky,
whom he married on Sept. 23 1841, she being a daughter of John and sarah
farrell, of Virginia. They have no
children of their own, but have raised a nephew, William Andrew Pedigo, a
native of Kansas. Mr pedigo is a
Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Christian Church, of
kansas city, Kansas.
Aloisie: After Edward died Aloisie maried a man named Drost.
iv Martha Ann PEDIGO b. 24 May 1823, Randolph, Barren Co, KY, Ref #
136-174, m. 6 Dec 1838, in
Barren Co, KY,10 Note of: J.P. GRADY, TX, Samuel Chandler LAFFERTY II., b.
May 1818, KY, (son of
Samuel LAFFERTY I,(1812). and Frances "Frankey" SMITH) Ref # XXX, ###
Farmer, d. Aft 1887,
Location: 1851, Cumberland Co, KY. Martha died 5 Sep 1852, Cave City, Hart
Co, KY. Remained in KY. 7
Lafferty children
v Eliza Jane PEDIGO b. 15 Apr 1825, KY, Ref # 136-175, m. 24 Jan 1850,
in Cass Co, MO, Hardin
LEACH, b. Cir 1825, Ref # XXX, Location: 1850, MO. Eliza died Belton, MO.
This family lived near
Belton, MO. They were the parents of 4 children.
vi Henry Calhoun (Clay) PEDIGO b. 23 Apr 1827, Barren Co, KY, Ref #
136-176, m. 30 May 1848, in
Barren Co, KY, Calphurnia "Callie" FERRELL/FARRILL, b. 28 Dec 1823, KY,
(daughter of Charles
FERRELL and Sarah "Sally" DOWDY) Ref # XXX, d. 30 Apr 1906, KS, Buried:
Woodlawn Cem.
Johnson Co, KS. Henry died 17 Nov 1885, KS, Buried: Woodlawn Cem. Johnson
Co, KS. This couple had
no children.
Calphurnia: No Children
vii Amanda PEDIGO b. Abt 1830, KY, Ref # 136-178, ### NFI.
viii Elizabeth Maud PEDIGO b. 19 Apr 1832, Barren Co, KY, Ref #
136-177, m. 29 May 1849, in Cass Co,
MO,11 Littleton FERRELL/FARRELL, b. Abt 1827, Metcalfe Co, KY, (son of
Charles FERRELL and
Sarah "Sally" DOWDY) Ref # XXX. Elizabeth Location: 1849, Cass Co, MO. 8
children
Littleton: Elizabeth 1st wife of Littleton.
ix Jonathan A. PEDIGO b. 22 Aug 1834, Barren Co, KY, Ref # 136-179, d.
Young ?, Killed by Indians. ?.
Died young; thought to have been killed by Indians. NFI.
x Emerine-Emarine Hailard PEDIGO b. 6 Aug 1837, Barren Co, KY, Ref #
136-17A, m. 8 Aug 1854, in
Cassville, Barry, MO, Note of: Pat Hilbert, CA,12 Jacob Boffman SON, b. 25
Mar 1831, Platte Co, MO,
(son of Samuel SON and Mary E. "Polly" _____- SON) Ref # XXX, d. Abt 1883,
Barry Co, MO. Emerine-
Emarine Location: 1881, Barry Co, MO.
xi Mary Merritt PEDIGO b. 12 Mar 1840, Barren Co, KY, Ref # 136-17B, m.
12 Apr 1860,13 Hamilton
Thomas (Tom H. NEAL) McNEIL, b. Cir 1840, Ref # XXX, Location: 1860. Mary
died 26 Oct 1902, TX.
5 children, 3 sons and 2 daughters.
xii Caroline H. PEDIGO b. 5 Mar 1843, Barren Co, KY, Ref # 136-17C, m.
(1) _____ McMAHAN, b. Cir
1840, Ref # XXX, Location: TX, m. (2) William T. McKINNEY, b. Cir 1840, Ref #
XXX. Caroline died 3
Sep 1927, TX. 2 Sons.
xiii George A. PEDIGO b. --- 1848, Cass Co, IL, Ref # 136-17D.
120. Edward PEDIGO b. 15 Apr 1805, Patrick Co, VA,14 Ref # 136-19, ###
Pioneer, m. 2 Nov 1826, in Barren Co, KY, Lettice
"Letty/Lettie" GILL, b. 29 Nov 1806, Barren Co, KY, (daughter of Edward GILL
and Amey, (Amy) SHIRLEY (?).) Ref #
XXX, d. 29 Jun 1879. Edward died 25 Aug 1894, Eden Valley, Tekoda, Whitman
Co. WA, Location: 1870 census, Clackamas
Co, OR.
Old SETTLERS STORIES
--This one by--
Edward Pedigo at age 89
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to set forth their travels and
experiences in pioneer life, it seems proper for me to have
something to say also, for my experience reaches farther back in this century
than any others that have written before me of their
pioneer life in the Palouse county.
I will go away back to the place and time of my birth, at the foot of the
Blue Ridge, in Patrick County, Virginia, April 15, 1805,
for a starting point. But I am so forgetful I cannot remember whether the day
of my birth was clear or cloudy. But I will try and
write some of the ....(A line of type must have been omitted here).
In September 1805, my father with all his children, set out on their long
journey to the wilderness of Kentucky. We crossed the
Alleghany mountains without an incident, but afterwoods when camped near a
farmhouse where there was a large flock of sheep,
an old gentleman of the party was unhanrnessing the horses and while hanging
up the harnesses, a buck ran up behind him and
gave him such a dab that it knocked his totters from under him. when the old
man arose from the ground, the buck had backed off
to give him another bumper, but the old man dodged him and caught him by the
wool, saying "You old rascal, I'll gouge your
naternal old eyes out!" The old buck got such a gouging that he was willing
to go off and mind his business. The next morning the
old farmer came out through his flock of sheep to the immigrants' camp and,
noticing how red and swollen his old buck's eyes
were, said he wondered what was the matter with the old sheep's eyes, but the
whole company was mum so they got off without
any fuss.
An incident worthy of note was when we were camped in the Cumberland
mountains. A company of Indians kept up such a
"hillabelloo" of laughter that some of the whites concluded to go and see
what tickled them so. One of the Indians, afraid that
some of the whites would steal his pony, tied the halter around his body and
laid down to sleep. Toward day, after the fire had
burned down, the pony blew his breath in the Indian's face, which scared him
so bad that he jumped over the fire. That scared the
pony and he jumped back and drew the Indian back through the fire. The other
Indian's would point at him and laugh, but he
looked very sullen. This much I have learned from my father.
Well, we at length landed safe in Kentucky, and there I was brought up,
and there I found my true-love, Miss Lettie Gill, one of
Kentucky's best women, and the State was famed for good women, you know. We
got married in the year 1826, and she proved to
be a faithful helpmate to me , standing by my side through prosperity and
adversity for over 50 years. In 1830 we bade farewell to
friends and relatives and left Barren County with three children. bound for
the rich prairies of Illinois. We got along very well with
the help of a young man by the name of Cyrus Renick, until we got to Green
County Ill., and there we met with a scare. Our
wagon turned over with the family in it, and I saw the blood and brains of
our baby washed out, as I thought, Oh, what a shock it
was to me! But you can imagine what relief it gave me when I found out that
there was no one seriously hurt. We had some
sassafras tea for breakfast that morning and we had some of it left, which my
wife poured into the coffee pot and set it in the wagon
to have it with our dinner. It was the tea and sassafras bark that I thought
was the blood and brains of our dear infant.
I was so thankful I shed tears of joy. We the went on our way to Sangamon
County, and there we took our abode for five years.
After the Blackhawk war, (1831-32 between U.S. and the Sac & Fox Indians
under Chief Blackhawk) we moved to what was then
called the Blackhawk purchase, now Iowa. It became a territory, I think in
the year 1838 and we lived there until after it became a
state. I was in Iowa when it became a state, in Oregon when it became a state
and in Washington when it became a state.
In the year 1854 we started to the "promised land" in the far west, with
all of our children but one. She and her husband had
preceded us by two years. I said "promised land" because Uncle Sam had
promised to give land to all that would migrate thither
within a certain length of time.
I will now go with a skip and a bound over the hills, prairies and
mountains, inasmuch as my son-in-law, J.S. Fisher in his article,
has given the time of our starting from Iowa in wagons with ox teams in
April. We passed through the long and perilous journey
without any deaths, and but little sickness.
We left the last mountains behind us an landed at Phillip Foster's in the
Willamette valley. Mr. Foster said the best thing we could
do was to do into the fruit raising business, for Gen. McCarver of Oregon
City sold his apples that fall for $12 per bushel, in the
orchard. I took his advice and bought a claim in the timber eight miles from
Oregon City and cleared off ten acres as soon as I
could and planted it in an orchard. But nearly everyone else did the same
thing, and when i got apples to sell the price had come
down and in a short time they would scarcely pay for gathering and hauling to
market.
In 1871 I and two of my Sons-in-law, J.S. Fisher and S.P. Gilliland, moved
up to the Palouse County. At that time there were
only two counties in eastern Washington east of the Columbia River. They were
Walla Walla on the south side of the Snake river
and Stephans on the north.
There was not a store or grist mill in Stephens County at that time, so we
had to go to Walla Walla for our groceries and
everything we stood in need of, even for our cats and chickens.
When we got to where Colfax now stands, James Perkins, H.S. Hollingsworth
and Mr. Reynolds were at work building a
sawmill, there we stopped, looked around and took claims five miles above
that place, where we found plenty of timber, water and
bunchgrass. They came here to raise stock and here they found the place they
wanted.
That was rather a hard winter and their cattle and those of Nr. Chase
would come home off the bunchgrass, kick up their heels
and fall and rise no more, until there were but a few left.
We built our cabins on the river side, broke ground and put in our crops,
but in August it came a hard frost and killed all our
gardens. Than I and Fisher became dissatisfied and moved six miles farther
up, and a mile from the river, and settled in a small
valley, which afterwards was called by Mr. Chase, Eden Valley.
At that time there was not a trail of any kind to be seen, until we made
them, and not a house between mine and the mountains.
Well. I am spinning my yarn too long, so I will quit without saying
anything about the crops, scarcity of money and hard times,
for we all know something about that. (Reprint from paper unknown, but likely
eastern WA as he lived in Palouse Co.)
Lettice: Gay Kennedy WSXS27A Question Are parents Edward Gill &
Amy/Amey/Shirley ? Pedigo's buried on old John
Twyman land around Hisseville area
Children:
i Zerelda Jane PEDIGO b. 5 Aug 1827, Barren Co, KY,15 Ref # 136-191, m.
6 Jul 1850, Henley Harrison
(Henry) HENDRIX, b. 29 Nov 1806, Ref # XXX, d. 29 Jun 1879, Location: 1850.
Zerelda died Aft 1891.
Copy of a letter to Zerelda from Father dated 21 Mar 1891.
ii William Evermont PEDIGO b. 5 Dec 1828, Barren Co, KY,16 Ref #
136-192, m. 1 Jul 1850, in Wapello,
IO, Sarah Ann HANNA, Ref # 136-192s, Location: 1850, Wapello, IO. William
died Abt 1900, Location:
1850, Wapello, IO.
iii Dolly Catherine PEDIGO b. 22 Jun 1830, Barren Co, KY,17 Ref #
136-193, m. 14 May 1846, in IA ?,
John Smith FISHER, b. Cir 1825 ?, Ref # XXX, Location: 1854, WA. Dolly died
Abt 1912, Location: WA.
iv Betsy Ann Emerine PEDIGO b. 27 Aug 1833, Sangamon Co, IL,18 Ref #
136-194, m. 16 Sep 1846, in IL,
Samuel Pinckney GILLILAND, b. Cir 1830 ?, Ref # XXX, Location: 1871, WA.
Betsy died 4 Feb 1897,
Location: WA.
v Nancy Malissa "Melissi" PEDIGO b. 5 Jun 1835, Wapello, IO, Ref #
136-195, ### Infant, d. 5 Sep 1835,
Wapello, IO.
vi James Henry PEDIGO b. 2 Aug 1837, Wapello, IO,19 Ref # 136-196, m. 6
Mar 1858, in Clackamas Co,
OR, Martha Ann FOSTER, b. 6 Mar 1858, TX, Ref # XXX, Location: 1870 Census,
Clackamas, OR.
James died Abt 1915, WA. James Henry is noted as the 7th child by Edward, We
are missing one.
vii John Jerome PEDIGO b. 19 May 1839, Lee Co, IA, Ref # 136-197, m.
(1) 5 Mar 1858, in Clackamas Co,
OR,20 Sarah Ann GRIMM, b. Cir 1840, Clackamas, OR, Ref # XXXa,21 d. By 1872,
m. (2) Aft 1869, in
Clackamas Co, OR, Josephine Amy SHELLY, b. Cir 1850, Ref # XXXb, Location:
1873, OR, m. (3) Polly
A. (DAVIS) DENNIS, b. Cir 1845 ?, Ref # XXXc. John died 12 Feb 1914,
Lewiston, Nez Perce, ID.
viii Joseph Albert PEDIGO b. 19 Jul 1841, Wapello, IO, Ref # 136-198,
### Child, d. Sep 1843, IA.
ix Edward Acel PEDIGO b. 19 Aug 1845, Wapello, IA,22 Ref # 136-199, m.
9 Sep 1856, in OR, Mary Ann
BAILS, b. Abt 1849, MO, Ref # XXX, Location: 1870 Census, Clackamas, OR.