Son of Silas and Margaret (Hoagland) Hedges, b. circa 1772, near Redstone Old Fort (Brownsville, Pa.) ; d. circa 1817 in Arkansas; wt. Susannah, dau. of Sarah Miller (who was the daughter of Andrew Fouts, of West Liberty, Brooke Co., Va.). They had no children. Solo- mon made his first trip against the Indians in Capt. Sam Brady's Co., in the Beaver Block House expedition in 1791. He then joined Capt. Faulkner's, or Capt. Ben. Lockwood's Co., and was out in St. Clair's defeat near Fort Jefferson, 4th Nov., 1791, at which time his company had to cut their way through the line of the savages. After St. Clair's defeat Solomon said he would never go to farming again " for the best farm in Brooke County." He was appointed lieutenant of the Rifle Co. of Ohio Co., 7th Jan., 1794. and was again with Brady in his expedition of 1794. He had served in 1793 in McCullough's scout and was in Linn's defeat, where " he had an arm broken, a shot in the breast and one in his belley," says Draper. He also spied with the Wetzells and other famous scouts. Solomon was with McMahon in his scout of 1792, and in February, 1794, he and Levi Morgan organized a scout and took some prisoners. In the War of 1812 he was out in the relief of Fort Meigs. Solomon was a large, stout man, weighing in his younger days about 175 lbs., always fond of hunting and kept a pack of dogs. For better hunting he went to Kentucky, where he killed many bears. While in Kentucky he also did some farming where he lived in Greenup County. From Kentucky he went to Arkansas, spending two years there ; was there in 1816 and while there was robbed by the Osages. Re- turning to Kentucky with his wife and a little boy whom they took to raise; still unsettled they set their faces again toward Arkansas, meaning to go to Little Rock, but be fore going arranged for another hunting trip and before he could start upon it he was taken down with black jaundice and died. His widow re- married in Kentucky and remarried (see Draper's Notes — in extenso ) .
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