NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11508 UNKNOWN CO –WILLIAM W.HEDGES – Hedges, Tinsley, Burks 11508 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, (Unknown county). William W. Hedges, farmer, post-office Bowling Green (MO), has a farm of one hundred acres, the most of which is under cultivation. His place is finely improved, with good house, barn, and other conveniences, all representing good taste and thrift. Mr. Hedges is a native of Pike county, Missouri, born October 27, 1833. His father, John F. Hedges, was by birth a Virginian, born in June, 1797, and moved to Kentucky with his parents at the age of eight years. He learned the cabinet making trade and then came to Pike county, Missouri, in 1819, stopping in that part of the county which is now Peno township. When about twenty-six years of age he was married to Miss Lucinda Tinsley, daughter of William Tinsley, who was also from Kentucky. Here he followed farming and stock raising; he died in 1881, his wife having died in 1878. William W. Hedges, our subject, was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools, and when grown commenced life for himself as a farmer and stock raiser. He was married in 1857 to Miss Sarah M. Burks, of Pike county, daughter of Henry Burks, Esq. They had ten children, eight of whom are still living. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx