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698. John W. Bedwell289 was born in Mar 1854 in Tennessee.
In 1895 he was a night watchman for Rabbeth & Dunlop Mill Co.779 He died on 13 Jan 1911 in Tennessee.
1895 Clarksville, Tennessee directory shows a J.W. Bedwell who is employed
as a night watchman with the Rabbeth & Dunlop Mill Co. His spouse is Georgie.
1900 Census for District 6, Montgomery County, Tennessee shows John W.
Bedwell, born Mar 1854, a farm laborer, as head of household with: Georgia, born
May 1858, his wife of 24 years who has had 8 children with 3 still living; son
John, born Nov 1886; son Pirtle, born Mar 1891; and daughter Lillian, born May
1889. They are living next door to brother Willis P. Bedwell.
1910 Census for Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee shows John Bedwell,
54, a house carpenter who is a widower, as head of household that also includes
daughter Lillian, 17, and son John, 22, who works as an engineer in an electrical
plant. They are renters on Eleventh St.
Notes from Linda Clark: The Clarksville Leaf Chronicle published on Jan
16 1911 gives his death as taking place on Jan 13, 1911. Cause of death was pneumonia.
He was employed at Dunlop Flouring Mill as a watchman. His survivors included
sons, Johnnie and Pyrtle and daughter, Lillian. He was buried in Roslyn graveyard
in Cumberland City TN. John W. Bedwell and Georgia Ann Parrish were married
on 21 Jan 1875 in Houston County, Tennessee. Georgia
Ann Parrish (daughter of James Gilbert Parrish and Stacy Bishop) was born
in May 1858 in Dickson County, Tennessee. She appeared in the census
in 1900 in Montgomery County, Tennessee. She died before 1910.
John W. bedwell is listed as a widower in the 1910 census for Montgomery County,
Tennessee.
1900 Census for Montgomery County, Tennessee states that Georgia Bedwell had
eight children, only three of whom were still living in 1900. John W. Bedwell
and Georgia Ann Parrish had the following children:
2172 | i. | Sallie Belle Bedwell was born about 1875
in Cumberland City, Stewart County, Tennessee. She died on 24 Nov
1877 in Cumberland City, Stewart County, Tennessee. | 2173 | ii. | John Bedwell
was born in Nov 1886 in Tennessee.762
In 1910 he was an engineer in an electric plant. He died after 1911. | +2174 | iii. | Pirtle Fred Bedwell. | +2175 | iv. | Lillian
Louise Bedwell. |
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