Benjamin Hagewood

  General Notes:

Surname Hagewood also found as HAGUEWOOD; HAYEWOOD; HAYWOOD; HAIGHWOOD; HAIGOOD. He himself signed with an X.

"United States War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815" shows Benjamin Haguewood as a private in the Company commanded by Captain Allen Bacon in the Regiment of east Tennessee Volunteers commanded by Col. John Brown. He volunteered in Roan County Tennesse in October 1812 for a term of three months and was honrably discharged in December 1812 at Fort Armstron on account of sickness.
For his service he obtained forty acres of bounty land in 1850 in the County Court of Greene, Missouri.

In 1817 Benjamin Hagewood was one of the pioneers of Roane County who petitioned to retain district lines. In 1819 Benjamin Hagood petitioned for a road.

In 1830 census Benjamin is in Roane, Tennessee.

Benjamin and Mary moved from TN to Brookline, Greene Co., Missouri abt 1838, with or following her brother Lindsey Robertson who moved there in 1837.

Brookline is about ten miles west of Springfield, and is surrounded by a gently undulating and beautiful prairie.
In congressional township 28 of Brookline, the first settlers were Thomas Hazeltine, who came in about 1834, and settled on section 4; John McCall, of Tennessee, who came also to section 4; N. D. McCall, from Tennessee, to section 3; Joel Phillips, of Tennessee, to section 2; Wm. Herrington to section 9; Thomas Dodd, to section 7. John Boyd settled on section 17, and was the first on the prairie in that quarter. Other pioneer settlers were Wm. Kerr, L. Robertson, Ben. Hagewood, Magruder Tannehill, Thomas Dodd, and Henry Small. These settlers came in at different periods, from 1834 to 1849.

The village of Republic is situated at about the center of the eastern line of section 19 (28-23). It is located in the midst of a rich, thickly populated, and well settled prairie, and has an excellent local trade. It is a station on the "Frisco" railroad, and a well known shipping and trading point. [676]
Republic was built after the completion of the railroad abt 1871. Source: History of Greene County, Missouri, 1883, R. I. Holcombe, Editing Historian.

Children: Ben Hagewood jr (first marriage), Pvt Thomas Haguewood, Nancy Hagewood, Mary Robertson Wade, Elizabeth Robertson.

1860 census of Pond Creek:
HAGEWOOD, Benjamin 69 M SC Farmer
Dolly 69 F VA
ROBERSON, James W 10 M MO

1870 living with son, Thomas, Pond Creek, Greene, Missouri.
1880 living with son, Thomas, Brookline, Greene, Missouri. Sp. Haggood.

His father can not be William Hogwood/Hagood/Hawkwood/Hagewood b. 1690 and Mary b. 1715, as many records state - due to old age.

There is a Benjamin Hogwood in the 1810 census of Sussex, Virginia, as is Thomas, John, Ransom. This might be the same Benjamin who is in Greensville, VA in 1820, over 45, one male under 10, three females under 10, two under 16, one 16-26 and one 45 or older.

Benjamin married Mary "Polly" Robertson, daughter of Thomas J. Robertson and Elizabeth Laine, on 11 Apr 1819 in Roane, Tennessee. (Mary "Polly" Robertson was born in 1791 in Amherst, VA, died on 24 Feb 1861 in Republic, Greene, Missouri, USA and was buried in Lindsey Chapel Cemetery, Republic, Greene, Missouri, United States.)

Benjamin next married Patsey Stephens on 1 Aug 1816 in Roane, Tennessee. (Patsey Stephens died in 1817 in Roane, Tennessee.)