caused by the discover of gold in California she emigrated
with some relatives from Missouri to the gold fields, where it
is supposed that she died.
Leonard Hedrick was born in North Carolina May 14th,
1784, and came to Marietta, Ohio, in 1800, and went on the
first ship commanded by Captain James Merrill as a cabin
boy to the ocean. When he returned, he married Elizabeth
Loucks, of Gallia county, but settled on his own farm in Scipio
township. Mr. Hedrick was a soldier in the War of 1812 and
served under Colonel Robert Safford in the Northwest cam-
paign. Mrs. Hedrick was born February 3rd, 1786. Their
children were: Margaret, born February 2nd, 1810, married
_____ Camp, who died in a few years after the marriage; she
died in Rutland, December 14th, 1891, aged eighty-one years,
ten months. Mary, born December 15th, 1811, married Still-
man C. Larkin, November 21st, 1837, and died in the Larkin
homestead, May 30th, 1904, aged ninety-two years, five months
fifteen days. Catharine, born September 25th, 1816, married
James Misner, she died many years ago. Mrs. Misner has
lived in Point Pleasant, W. Va. Sally, born October 17th,
1818, married David Forrest and lived in Scipio township.
William, the only son, June 29th, 1824, lives on a part of his
father's farm. Malinda, daughter of Mrs. Camp, moved to
West Virginia, married W. Starkey. Mr. Lemuel Hedrick
died March 29th, 1861, aged seventy-six years and ten months.
Mrs. Hedrick died March 4th, 1870, aged eighty-four years
and one month.
Mr. Hedrick was a good citizen, reliable and industrious.
Aaron Holt came originally from near Hartford, Conn., but
after the Revolutionary War was induced, like many others,
to go to Canada for cheap lands, but became dissatisfied and
removed with his family to Rutland, Ohio, in 1807. His son,
Horace Holt, was born October 7th, 1798, in Connecticut, near
