A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--page 1078
Anderson Hedges, residing near North Salem, Ind., is a pioneer, and the son of one of the original pioneers of Hendricks County. He was born November 13, 1823, in Montgomery County, Va., and was but five years of age when his parents brought him to Hendricks County, Ind., where he was reared among the pioneers. He married Leah, daughter of John and Sarah (Dickerson) Dodd, and to them were born six children: Sarah C. (died at nineteen years of age), John W. (died at seventeen years of age), Clara (died a married woman), Millard (died an infant), Charles and Olie. The chances for an education were very limited in early pioneer days, and Mr. Hedges gained most of his education after marriage. He first settled three miles west of his present farm, and after one year, in 1847, bought eighty acres of the homestead where he now lives, which he cleared up, improved and added to until he own 260 acres of fine farm land. In political opinions Mr. Hedges is a Democrat, and fraternally a Mason—member of the North Salem lodge.