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Major Geo. M. Bedinger was born in Pa. in 1756 and died in 1843. His home and grave are over on the hilltop. He was an officer in the War of Revolution, took part in the defense of Boonesborough in 1779 and at the siege of Yorktown in 1781, and came back to Ky. in 1784. He was the first to survey this area, served in the Indian campaign in 1791, was a Ky. legislator from 1792 to 1794, and served in US Congress from 1803 to 1807. He opposed slavery and freed his slaves at their age thirty.
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