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198. Asbury (A.B.)
Bedwell85 was born
about 1830 in Lincoln County, Tennessee. He died before 1870.289 He was a wheelwright and a
wagonmaker in Lincoln County, Tennessee. He served in the military
in the CSA as a Private/Corporal in the 41st Tennessee Infantry during the Civil
War.
• 1850 Census for Bedford County, Tennessee shows Asberry Bedwell, 20, an
apprentice waggon maker, living in the household of Robert N. Jones, a waggon
maker born in North Carolina.
• 1860 Census for Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee shows A.B. Bidwell,
29, a wheelwright, and wife Louisa, age 29, a seamstress. They have no children,
and show assets of $400.
• A.B. Bedwell ran an ad for his wagon making business in the Fayetteville
Observor newspaper in 1860. It ran every week for seven months starting on June
14:
Wagon Making
The subscriber has opened a Wagon Shop in Fayetteville near Joel Commons Blacksmith
shop and is now prepared to do all kinds of work in his line at reasonable prices,
at short notice, and in the best manner. Call and see. My stock of lumber is
probably the largest ever in the town, and it is good.
June 14 -- 7m A.B.
Bedwell
• 1870 Census for District 6, Montgomery County, Tennessee, shows Louisa
Bedwell, 30, and Cicily E., 6, living in the household of Asbury's brother, John
B. Bedwell. Was Asbury deceased by 1870? Asbury (A.B.) Bedwell and Louisa
J. Davis were married on 29 Aug 1854 in Tennessee. Louisa
J. Davis255 (daughter
of Pleasant Davis and Edny Bell) was born about 1842 in Lincoln County, Tennessee.255 She appeared in the census
in 1870 in Living with John B. & Sarah Bedwell in Clarksville, Montgomery County,
Tennessee.. Asbury (A.B.) Bedwell and Louisa J. Davis had the following
children:
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