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4322. Emmett
Berry Bedwell1461,2142 was born on 15 May 1893 in
Tennessee.1461,2142 He died of coronary thrombosis and auricular fibrilation
on 24 Feb 1938 in Belleville, Lincoln County, Tennessee.1461,2142 He
was buried on 25 Feb 1938 in Old Orchard Cemetery, Petersburg, Tennessee.2141,2142
• World War I Draft Registration card, signed 5 June 1917, shows Emmett
Berry Bedwell, born 15 May 1893 in Bellville, Tennessee, a resident of Fayetteville,
Tennessee. He is a farmer. He is married with a wife and four children. He
is described as tall and stout with black eyes (hair color is not given). His
writing and signature are very sloppy, with poor spelling.
• 1920 Census for Lincoln County, Tennessee, shows Leota Bedwell, 28, a
widow, living with her daughter, Evelyn, 7, in the household of her parents,
Isom and Ella Waid, both 59.
(1920 Census for Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee, shows Emmett Bedwell,
26, who works as the manager of a pool room, as head of household consisting
of: wife Maggie, 28; stepchildren Newman Baker, 10, J.D. Baker, 8 (male), and
Willie Baker, 6 (female); daughter Annie, 2 and 11/12 (census was taken on Jan
19, 1920); and daughter Thelma, 3/12. They are renters on Hedgemont Ave. in
Fayetteville.
• 1930 Census for Lincoln County, Tennessee, taken April, 1930, shows a
Maggie E. Bedwell, 39, first married at 16, as married head of household (no
husband shown), a laundry worker, living with children: Annie R. Bedwell, 13;
Thelma L. Bedwell, 10; V. Elise Bedwell, 8; Marel I. Bedwell, 5; and Emmett Bedwell,
Jr., 1 & 11/12.
1930 Census also shows Emmett Bedwell, 36, living as a lodger in a rooming house
in Akron, Ohio. He was born in Tennessee, parents both born in Tennessee, and
was working as an apartment janitor.)
• Bedwell -- Funeral services for Emmett Berry Bedwell, aged 44 years, were
held at the Chestnut Ridge Church of Christ Friday, at 2:00 p.m., by Eld. C.
C. McQuiddy. Death occurred from heart trouble at the home of his mother, Mrs.
L. P. Harned, at Bellville. Mr. Bedwell was formerly a resident, of Newell, West
Va., where he was employed by the Homer Laughlin China Company. In addition to
his mother, he is survived by his wife, Mrs. E. B. Bedwell; two brothers, Everett,
and Judgielee; five daughters, Evelyn, Ruth, Thelma, Elsie and Marelle; and one
son, Emmett, Jr., all of Bellville. Burial in the Old Orchard Cemetery at Petersburg.
Lincoln County News - March 3, 1938
Callie Leota Waid2143 (daughter of Isom Waid and Ella Sorrelis) was born
on 15 Jun 1891.2143 She
died on 13 Apr 1975.2143
Emmett Berry Bedwell and Callie Leota Waid had the following children:
Maggie
Ethel Moore2144 was
born about 1892. She died after 1956. Emmett Berry Bedwell
and Maggie Ethel Moore had the following children:
6331 | i. | Annie Ruth Bedwell2144 was born on 21 Jan 1917 in Lincoln County, Tennessee.2144 She died tuberculosis of
lungs on 5 Nov 1941 in Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee.2144 She was buried on 7 Nov 1941 in Rose Hill Cemetery,
Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee.2144
She was an employed doing "N.Y.A. work" at the time of her death.2144 | +6332 | ii. | Thelma Bedwell. | 6333 | iii. | Elise Bedwell. | 6334 | iv. | Marel I. Bedwell. | +6335 | v. | Emmett Berry Bedwell Jr. |
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