Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-08-03
.,;,r Facts About Mr. Hedges

Eau People living today can lay
- .,e boast that their fathers
80 in the Revolutionary War, but
: Hedges, of Middletown,
N., w.. If Mrs. Clinton R. Grove, of
,-',.,s,,wn. is one of these. Rev. Mr..
80, father, Shaddock Hedges, who
,;ra4 near Middletown, was one OF
80 bo fought for the independence
.s;s country back in 1776. When
s..s4o.E vas 4 mere boy, he ran away
-, home and joined the Continen-
al Army. According to Rev. Mr..
us4,es. he remembers some of the
'..;ss~.s that happened during the war
tod to him by his father. Rev.
~ Hedges is now in the S7th year
-. his age His father died at the
~. age Of %, having been born in
1852
Porn on the old Hedges farm, sit
Ida, the foot of Catoctin Mountain,
:, Viti,etown district, on October
,,s, 1896. Rev. Mr.. Hedges received
bis early education in the private
schools of Middletown. AS his father
~. farmer, he too worked in the
fields when not going to school.
In 1880. Rev. Mr.. Hedges entered
Gssyturg College to continue his
srAes. After four long years of
ssjying. this country lad received his
college diploma in 1868. 1t was his
orhition TO enter the ministry, but
snances were somewhat scarce in those
DAYS so Rev Mr.. Hedges returned to
Nt4'ctown. where he taught school
for three wears. He then entered the
Theological Seminary at Gettysburg,
where he took the full two-year course
in one. graduating in 1867. He was
licensed to preach the gospel in the
Lutheran Church the same year.
The first passionate of Rev. Mr..
Hedges was at New Bloomfield, Perry
county, Pa, where he remained be-
tween three and four years. He next
served at York Springs, Adams county,
Pa, at which place he remained be-
tween four and five years. He then
received a call from Frederick county
and took the pastorate at the Utica
charge the parsonage of which was To-
Gated at Lewistown. After being there
for abOu! six years he was called to
the Newfcld, Pa, field where he was
stationed between three and four
years. Jefferson, Frederick county,
next claimed Mr.. Hedges, and for
about fourteen years he guided the
spiritual dcstinies of these people. AT
present Rev. MIR. Hedges is supply pas
tor for the charge at Pleasant Hill,
Frederick county, where he has had
charge for the past twenty-one years.
OF the Civil War, Rev. Mr.. Hedges
remembers quite a number OF personal
incidents The Confederates camped
near his home, he said, while they were
on their way to the Battle of South
Mountain. Later the Union forces ar
rived and camped in Middletown. On
Sunday morning before the battle Rev.
Mr.. Hedges saw General Mcclellan in
his tent Rev. Mr.. Hedges declared
That he could plainly hear the booming
Of the guns on the top of the mountain
On the Wednesday after the battle, IN
company with 4 brother, Rev. Mr..
Hedges Went to the battlefield and
there saw tA- dead and wounded
stretched on 5hc ground.
During Iuoll Early's raid, the
horses at the Hedges farm were taken
ny S'-2cg.e~s. Rev Mr.. Hedges SAL
mat it Wa, rumorei that the Conrcd-
crates wr. co0fscating every hocsc
that they could get so the Hedges
horses N--y taken to the High Knob,
',.s ..-s "-Ty Secretei i'll the woods.
h'.-'-1, the horses were discovered
""- -on'.sa.-l At another time q
C.''s~-'e Wnn;cd a chicken from
" "-.. -m and gave Rev. Mir.
m'-@-5 ID -.at-Icra.e 50 bill for it.
tie still b. the bill, he said.
'a T-H. F.. a query as to what he
thought o.. ..- present day styles for
-. H." N.r. Hedges declared that
"'-.. Nrroycd of them. H.
,, IL. has often denounced the
.'.m The pulpit. He add
~, HE ..ught bobbed hair ride
D-1 ..- course of the CONVEX
M-. Hedges said that he
"'~I. the Scriptures were he.