Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886 Metcalfe County

GEORGE E. PEDIGO was born November 3, 1818, in Metcalfe County (then
Barren), where he has since resided, except for short periods spent in
Monroe and Hart Counties.  He now lives within six miles of his birth
place, and with the exceptions named - aggregaing about twenty months -
has always lived in the vicinity of it.  His father, John Pedigo, was
born February 4, 1796, in Patrick County, Va. He (the father) was thrice
married; first, in 1817, to Sally B., daughter of Tarpley Oldham.  From
this union sprang six children: George E., Charles T., Eliza J.
(deceased), William F., Elizabeth (Bowles), and Mary C.  Our subject can
remember very distinctly carrying his great-grandfather in his arms when
he had become helpless.  By industry he has become the owner of 330
acres of productive land.  He is a member of the Church of Christ, and
in politics a Republican.  He had very poor opportunities for obtaining
an education in early life, his mother having died when he was a small
boy.  Living with his grandfather, he went to school three miles to an
old log house, with dirt floor, and rude seats made of round logs split
open, and the split side turned up, with rude pins for feet; on these
seats the scholars would sit and hum their lessons from early morn till
late in the evening.  At these schools he obtained his education, such
as reading, writing and arithmetic.  There was not a grammar nor
geography in any school he ever attended; yet with pleasant memory he
recalls those olden times, when he would rise early in the morning and
start to the old schoolhouse in the bottom, the pathway leading through
the woods covered with the seared leaves of autumn.  O, that drum and
fife we used to hear coming to the old schoolhouse for us to march after
that day! William Anderson was the teacher.

Pedigo Anderson Bowles Oldham
=
Barren Hart Monroe Patrick-VA

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