That's really interesting Rooster. Thanks for calling that to my attention. There's a real irony in all this. My immediate family wasn't into researching our family history, but I did hear vague stories growing up about them having a role in founding Limestone (Maysville) back in the 1770s, then moving to Bourbon County and a few other things.Nice transparentcy. Stmbled across the Hedges family stuff via the fold3 Revolutionary War records building my own. Good stuff.
But it was after I was living in Maryland that I stumbled across that detailed history online traced from my grandfather all the way back into the 1600s -- and found that more than 300 years ago the family lived in the part of Maryland that I had coincidentally returned to.
Also, I used to drive up into the Shenandoah Valley in what is now WVA, and noted there was a small town called Hedgesville - but only after finding those records did I realize that was also a stop on my family's way to Kentucky - from Maryland, to Western Virginia to Kentucky.