Book Description
James Hedrick (1828/1830-1864) was born in Pennsylvania (per 1850 census) or Maryland (per 1860 census), and married Alta Jane Chaney in 1851 at Talladega, Alabama. She was from Virginia and North Carolina. After 1858 they moved to Marion County, Texas, where he served in the Confederate Army (and died of pneumonia). Family tradition indicates that James' father was a Dutch immigrant who spelled the surname Hetric; some tombstones of descendants spelled the surname Hedrick, and some military pension records spelled it Hendrick or Henaricks. Descendants and relativs lived in Alabama, Texas, California and elsewhere.