Typed extracts from family Bible of John Lucius Hedley (page 1 of 2)
Book 2, Page 33 ·1802–1924
Transcription
A typewritten sheet, the front side of a two-page document. The typing is faded carbon copy. The text continues on page 34 (the reverse).
Extracts from family Bible of John Lucius Hedley, brother of my grandmother, Maria Ann Hedley.
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On blank page in beginning of book is written, “The Alloe bloomed June 24th, 1846, in Broad Street near Friend Street”.
(They owned and occupied then the house now owned by J. K. Heyward on Broad St.)
Minnie P. FitzSimmons — 1924.
Married
John L. Hedley to Harriet F. Bryant Nov. 9, 1826.
Married
Benjamin J. Whaley to Sarah Jane Hedley May 10, 1849.
John Lucius Hedley, the son of the Rev. Dr. John Hedley, D.D. was born in [blank space left in typescript] Town near London, England, May 26, 1802, and came to Charleston with his parents in his infancy. The Rev. John Hedley was married to Miss Sarah Russell in St. Mary’s Church, London. He was the son of Roger Hedley of Coll[ashill?], Northumberland, Eng.
Deaths
The Rev. John Hedley, D.D. about 68 yrs. Father of John L. Hedley died on the 2nd of February 1832. Buried in St. Michael’s church yard.
William Hedley, age 28 yrs. 6 mos. 28 days, brother of J. L. Hedley died on the morning of the 19th of December 1832. Buried in St. Michael’s Church yard.
John Lucius Hedley died on the 5th day of January 1855 after having survived three strokes of paralysis at his residence on 15 King St., in the 55 (55) year of his age.
Sisters of John L. Hedley:
Eliza Steele, née Hedley, buried in St. Paul’s Church yard.
Maria Ann Fuller, née Hedley, buried in church yard of Baptist Church in Barnwell, S. C.
Inserted by Minnie P. FitzS. — 1924.
Births of Negroes belonging to J. L. Hedley and family —
(Faithful and beloved house servants I imagine) MPF — 1924
Selina daughter Jimmy and Daphne born 4th March 1841
AI Notes
A typewritten sheet (front side) headed with a transcription of extracts from the family Bible of John Lucius Hedley, brother of Maria Ann Hedley (grandmother of the typist Minnie P. FitzSimmons). Signed and dated ‘Minnie P. FitzSimmons - 1924’ near the top, with a parenthetical note about the house at Broad Street being owned by J. K. Heyward. The sheet records the family Bible’s marginal note dating an aloe plant’s blooming in June 1846 (not a wedding — ‘The Alloe bloomed’, a botanical curiosity in the Charleston garden), then marriages, deaths of clergy and family members, names of John L. Hedley’s sisters (Eliza Steele and Maria Ann Fuller, both née Hedley), and births of the family’s enslaved servants. A handwritten note overlaid on the verso (visible faintly through the page) identifies this as a copy of a letter originally in the Perry Family Bible, written by Minnie P. FitzSimons. The same Bible extracts are recorded in a different hand at book-001/635. Both date annotations on the page are 1924.
The text continues on the verso, page 34.