Killed by the Indians in 1793 on Bird Run
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Son of Silas and Margaret (Hoagland) Hedges, b. circa 1770, near Redstone Old Fort (now Brownsville, Pa.) ; d. Dec, 1793, while on a scouting expedition against the Indians, who had stolen horses (Barber & Howe, Hist. Coll. of Ohio, pp. 202-3). The manner of his death is related in various ways by different writers, but it is recorded by L. C. Draper in his extensive notes (Vol. 9, p. 122). His death occurred on Bird's Run, a southern tributary of Mill Creek, and about twelve miles below Cambridge, Ohio County, Virginia (vide Vol. 10, p. 2). He, with other men, were scouting for Indians who had stolen horses and other plunder from the settlers along the waters of the Ohio. When found he had from five to seven shots through his body, and his death, according to the story of his brother Isaac and sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland and Ruth Meeks, was very tragic. At that time he was a member of the Ohio County militia and had been made ensign in a rifle company in that year, his name being in the roster of Capt. Henry Hoagland's company (see Draper's Notes, Vol. 10, p. 2, p. 126; Vol. 9, p. 122, p. 160).
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Son of Silas and Margaret (Hoagland) Hedges, b. circa 1770, near Redstone Old Fort (now Brownsville, Pa.) ; d. Dec, 1793, while on a scouting expedition against the Indians, who had stolen horses (Barber & Howe, Hist. Coll. of Ohio, pp. 202-3). The manner of his death is related in various ways by different writers, but it is recorded by L. C. Draper in his extensive notes (Vol. 9, p. 122). His death occurred on Bird's Run, a southern tributary of Mill Creek, and about twelve miles below Cambridge, Ohio County, Virginia (vide Vol. 10, p. 2). He, with other men, were scouting for Indians who had stolen horses and other plunder from the settlers along the waters of the Ohio. When found he had from five to seven shots through his body, and his death, according to the story of his brother Isaac and sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland and Ruth Meeks, was very tragic. At that time he was a member of the Ohio County militia and had been made ensign in a rifle company in that year, his name being in the roster of Capt. Henry Hoagland's company (see Draper's Notes, Vol. 10, p. 2, p. 126; Vol. 9, p. 122, p. 160).
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Killed by the Indians in 1793 on Bird Run
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Son of Silas and Margaret (Hoagland) Hedges, b. circa 1770, near Redstone Old Fort (now Brownsville, Pa.) ; d. Dec, 1793, while on a scouting expedition against the Indians, who had stolen horses (Barber & Howe, Hist. Coll. of Ohio, pp. 202-3). The manner of his death is related in various ways by different writers, but it is recorded by L. C. Draper in his extensive notes (Vol. 9, p. 122). His death occurred on Bird's Run, a southern tributary of Mill Creek, and about twelve miles below Cambridge, Ohio County, Virginia (vide Vol. 10, p. 2). He, with other men, were scouting for Indians who had stolen horses and other plunder from the settlers along the waters of the Ohio. When found he had from five to seven shots through his body, and his death, according to the story of his brother Isaac and sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland and Ruth Meeks, was very tragic. At that time he was a member of the Ohio County militia and had been made ensign in a rifle company in that year, his name being in the roster of Capt. Henry Hoagland's company (see Draper's Notes, Vol. 10, p. 2, p. 126; Vol. 9, p. 122, p. 160).
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Son of Silas and Margaret (Hoagland) Hedges, b. circa 1770, near Redstone Old Fort (now Brownsville, Pa.) ; d. Dec, 1793, while on a scouting expedition against the Indians, who had stolen horses (Barber & Howe, Hist. Coll. of Ohio, pp. 202-3). The manner of his death is related in various ways by different writers, but it is recorded by L. C. Draper in his extensive notes (Vol. 9, p. 122). His death occurred on Bird's Run, a southern tributary of Mill Creek, and about twelve miles below Cambridge, Ohio County, Virginia (vide Vol. 10, p. 2). He, with other men, were scouting for Indians who had stolen horses and other plunder from the settlers along the waters of the Ohio. When found he had from five to seven shots through his body, and his death, according to the story of his brother Isaac and sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland and Ruth Meeks, was very tragic. At that time he was a member of the Ohio County militia and had been made ensign in a rifle company in that year, his name being in the roster of Capt. Henry Hoagland's company (see Draper's Notes, Vol. 10, p. 2, p. 126; Vol. 9, p. 122, p. 160).
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