Margaret Leuty Hedges

1850 - 1924  (73 years)

• Name	Margaret Leuty Hedges
  Born	27 Oct 1850	Walpole Township, Haldimand County, Ontario
  Gender	Female
  Died	1 Jun 1924	Walpole Township, Haldimand County
  Buried	Cheapside United Cemetery
  Person ID	I02639	Jacob and Barbara (Schenk) Hoover
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2014

  
  

  Father	William Hedges,   b. 17 Oct 1811, Somersetshire, England ,   d. 25 Mar 1900, Walpole Township, Haldimand County  (Age 88 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Margaret Leuty,   b. 11 Mar 1822, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 5 May 1887, Walpole Township, Haldimand County  (Age 65 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	6 Jan 1846
  Family ID	F1018	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Oscar Everden Shoup,   b. 24 Mar 1845, Willoughby Township, Welland County, Ontari ,   d. 22 Dec 1924, Walpole Township, Haldimand County  (Age 79 years)
  Married	20 Feb 1867
  Children	1. George Beckett Shoup,   b. 9 Jan 1868, Walpole Township, Haldimand County ,   d. May 1948  (Age 80 years)  [Natural]   2. Rolph Hedges Shoup,   b. 23 Apr 1870, Walpole Township, Haldimand County  [Natural]   3. Esther Shoup,   b. 26 Apr 1872, Cheapside, Ontario ,   d. Jan 1937  (Age 64 years)  [Natural]   4. Walter Horace Shoup,   b. 23 Dec 1873, Walpole Township, Haldimand County ,   d. May 1942  (Age 68 years)  [Natural]   5. Willis William Shoup,   b. 3 Aug 1877, Walpole Township, Haldimand County  [Natural]   6. Nellie Shoup,   b. 25 Sep 1879, Walpole Township, Haldimand County ,   bur. Cheapside United Cemetery  [Natural]   7. Emma Mary Shoup,   b. 12 Jul 1882, Walpole Township, Haldimand County ,   d. 1939  (Age 56 years)  [Natural]   8. Annie Shoup,   b. 25 Sep 1884, Walpole Township, Haldimand County ,   d. Oct 1965, Brevard County, Florida  (Age 81 years)  [Natural]   9. May Shoup,   b. 25 Sep 1884, Walpole Township, Haldimand County ,   d. 9 Oct 1884, Walpole Township, Haldimand County  (Age 0 years)  [Natural]   10. Edgar Oscar Shoup,   b. 18 Aug 1889, Walpole Township, Haldimand County ,   d. 1976  (Age 86 years)  [Natural]   11. Jacob Roger Shoup,   b. 8 Oct 1891, Walpole Township, Haldimand County ,   d. 8 Jul 1913  (Age 21 years)  [Natural]
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2014
  Family ID	F1017	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From "Memoirs Garden" by Annie Shoup Brewe BIOGRAPHY OF MOTHER Margaret Leuty Hedges was the wife of Oscar Everden Shoup. She was born on what was known as the John Anderson farm, three miles north of Cheapside. She was the second child and oldest daughter of William Hedges and his wife Mararet Leuty Hedges. When she was four years of age her father sold the farm to John Anderson and moved to a farm on the shore of Lake Erie. She was a very active young lady and her mother's main stay in the home. At the age of eleven, she was compelled to leave school to relieve her sickly mother of home responsibilities. On the 20th of February, 1867, she was united in marriage to Oscar E. Shoup. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. A. Wilmet. The happy couple started on their wedding trip with a horse and buggy, intending to drive to the Niagara Peninsula. After they had gone some distance the snow on the road became so heavy, they had to draw up to a farm house and exchange the buggy for a cutter, then they continued on their way to Effingham in Pelham township, Welland County. The next day they and their cousins went to Niagara Falls. They went to visit the Zoo while in the city, where Mother had a unique experience. As they were watching the buffaloes eating from a trough, Mother said that she would like to feel how thick the wool was on the buffalo's head. As soon as the buffalo felt her foot touch him, he butted his head against the bars and sent Mother backwards into a snowdrift. Father often mentioned his experiences on this trip to the zoo. He was teasing a parrot that would talk and whose vocabulary seemed none too chaste. He asked the parrot some questions and in very plain language he told Father where he could go and what he could do. After their visit they returned to their home leaving the cutter and getting their buggy again. By the time they reached home the snow was almost gone. They settled in the log house at the back place with Grandfather Shoup for the first year, and then Grandfather moved out to the front place with Grandmother Waggoner. Father and Mother lived in this house until their fourth child was two years old. In 1875 Grandfather bought the St. Williams farm and moved there, and Mother and Father moved to the house at the front. Eleven children were born to them - six boys and five girls, all grew to manhood and womanhood except one little girl May, who died in infancy. They like every couple had many pleasant experiences along with their many responsibilities as well as some not too pleasant. At all times they maintained stout hearts, and with courage and fortitude they lived fifty-seven years of married life. In 1904 mother was taken sick with arthritis which caused her to spend the rest of her life an invalid for over twenty years. She was confined to her chair or bed for the entire period and suffered greatly. In 1917 she and Father celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. A gathering of the family and old friends were entertained in the old home. Two sons were unable to attend. During her illness she exercised a strong influence for God in her community, her advice and counsel being frequently sought. On June 1, 1924 she passed peacefully to her heavenly home, and her body was laid in the Methodist Cemetery, beside her youngest son Jacob Roger who predeceased her in 1913. She chose as her funeral text, John 3:16. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son that whosoever believed in Him should have Everlasting Life."