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                       KELION FRANKLIN PEDDICORD


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  KELION FRANKLIN PEDDICORD

  1863

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                       KELION FRANKLIN PEDDICORD
                           of Quirk’s Scouts
                  Morgan’s Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A.

                   Biographical and Autobiographical

  Together with a General Biographical Outline of the Peddicord Family


                       By MRS. INDIA W. P. LOGAN

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                        New York and Washington
                      THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY
                                  1908




                          Copyright, 1908, by
                         Mrs. India W. P. Logan

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                                CONTENTS


                                 PART I

                                                                    Page

 General Biographical Outline of the Peddicord Family,                 9


                                 PART II

 Biographical Sketch and Autobiography of Kelion Franklin Peddicord   19
   as Written in His “Journal” and in Letters from Military
   Prisons, and as Jotted Down by Him During a Busy Life After the
   War,

 Chapter

       I Youth and Early Manhood,                                     21

      II The Journal,                                                 29

     III Prison Life,                                                149

      IV After the War,                                              161

       V Some Letters Received by Mrs. Logan,                        164




                             ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                                    Page

 Kelion Franklin Peddicord, 1863,                         _Frontispiece_

 Columbus A. Peddicord,                                               12

 Carolus J. Peddicord,                                                18

 Kelion Franklin Peddicord, 1888,                                     50




                                 PART I
          GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE OF THE PEDDICORD FAMILY


Our great-grandfather was Adam Peddicord. He married Elizabeth Barnes, a
daughter of James Barnes, the elder. Their son, Jasper Peddicord, our
paternal grandfather, was born in 1762 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland,
from whence he moved to Ohio in 1829. He died in Barnesville, Belmont
County, Ohio, on September 23, 1844, aged 82. Barnesville was named
after James Barnes, grandfather’s cousin. Caleb Peddicord, another
cousin of Grandfather Peddicord, emigrated from Maryland to Kentucky in
1830. Two other cousins of our grandfather, William and John Peddicord,
served in the war of 1812.

Amelia Hobbs-Peddicord, our paternal grandmother, was the daughter of
Thomas Hobbs. She was born in Maryland in 1767 and died March 23, 1841,
in Barnesville, Ohio.

Jared Hobbs, our maternal grandfather, was born in Howard County,
Maryland, March 22, 1772, and died on his farm in 1866 at the advanced
age of 94.

Our maternal grandmother was Elenor Shipley-Hobbs, daughter of Edward
Shipley. She was born in Howard County, Maryland, March 16, 1777, and
died August 21, 1828.

Wilson Lee Peddicord, our father, was born in Howard County, Maryland,
May 13, 1803, and died in Palmyra, Missouri, May 20, 1875, from injuries
caused by his team running away and throwing him under a large iron
field roller. He was a Royal Arch Mason, and Palmyra Lodge officiated at
his funeral.

Our mother, Keturah Barnes-Peddicord, the fifth child of Grandfather
Hobbs, was born in Howard County, Maryland, September 25, 1807, and died
January 9, 1876. She is buried near father in Palmyra, Missouri, where
she died.

Jared Hobbs and Elenor Shipley-Hobbs had six children:

                1. Louisa, born October 16, 1801.
                2. Robert T., born December 2, 1802.
                3. Julia Ann, born April 3, 1804.
                4. Corilla E., born March 2, 1806.
                5. Keturah B., born September 25, 1807.
                6. Teresa, born June 19, 1809.

Jasper Peddicord and Amelia Hobbs-Peddicord had twelve children; two of
whom died quite young:

                       Sons.          Daughters.

                   1. Thomas.     1. Pleasants.
                   2. Asbury.     2. Rebecca.
                   3. Benjamin.   3. Anna.
                   4. Joseph.     4. Cordelia.
                   5. Wilson Lee. 5. Hannah (Dorsey).

Anna married John Holton.

Cordelia married Thomas Holton.

Pleasants married Jerry Bartholow.

Rebecca married Robert Musgrove.

Hannah (daughter by a second marriage to Miss Dorsey) never married.

Wilson Lee Peddicord and Keturah Barnes-Peddicord were married on
November 17, 1829, in Howard County, Maryland, by the Rev. T. Linthicum.
They had seven children:

1. Columbus Adolphus, born July 18, 1831.

2. Kelion Franklin, born October 1, 1833.

3. Indiana Washington, born December 15, 1835.

4. Ruth Elenor, born November 7, 1837.

5. Carolus Judkins, born November 27, 1840.

6. Laura Clay, born November 22, 1844.

7. Lily Louisa Pleasants, born August 28, 1849.

Columbus A. Peddicord and Mrs. Issa Meador-Peddicord were married March