Mason Hedrick

Birth Date

c1832

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Breckinridge County, Kentucky, teacher and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Cordelia Woodward in Ohio County, Kentucky, in October 1854. Father of Luther Woodward, Lissie Woodward, and Walter Woodward. Married to Henrietta J. Payne on December 17, 1863, in Hancock County, Kentucky. Teacher in Breckinridge County in 1860. Served in the 12th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain from November 17, 1862, to April 7, 1863. Provost marshal in Hancock County in 1864. Commissioned to recruit a company of the State Guard on July 15, 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, District No.1, p. 432.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Warrick County, Owen Township, p. 595B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio County Marriages, Film #000494956, p. 371.
United States Adjutant General’s Office, Official Army Register of The Volunteer Force of The United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65, vol. 4, (Washington, D.C.: 1865), 1234.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 316-17.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hancock County Marriages, Film #000495729, p. 47.
KYR-0002-225-0041.
KYR-0002-225-0046.

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