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134. Squire George
Bedwell36,187 was born about 1802 in Tennessee.188 He died before Sep 1870 in Cherokee County, Alabama.189 He was a farmer.
• Ancestry.com has four land records for Squire Bedwell (from United States.
Bureau of Land Management. Alabama Land Records. [database on-line] Provo,
UT: Ancestry.com, 1997-. Original electronic data from: United States. Bureau
of Land Management. Alamaba Pre-1908 Homestead & Cash Entry Patent and
Cadastral Survey Plat Index. General Land Office Automated Records Project,
1996.):
Name: SQUIRE BEDWELL; Land Office: LEBANON; Document Number: 11315; Total Acres:
39.89; Signature: Yes; Canceled Document: No; Issue Date: Sept 02, 1850; Mineral
Rights Reserved: No; Metes and Bounds: No; Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566;
Multiple Warantee Names: No; Act or Treaty: Apr 24, 1820; Multiple Patentee Names:
No; Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries; Land Description: 1 SESW HUNTSVILLE
No 11S 10E 29.
Name: SQUIRE BEDWELL; Land Office: LEBANON; Document Number: 11316; Total Acres:
39.85; Signature: Yes; Canceled Document: No; Issue Date: Sept 02, 1850; Mineral
Rights Reserved: No; Metes and Bounds: No; Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566;
Multiple Warantee Names: No; Act or Treaty: Apr 24, 1820; Multiple Patentee Names:
No; Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries; Land Description: 1 NENW HUNTSVILLE
No 11S 10E 32.
Name: SQUIRE BEDWELL; Land Office: LEBANON; Document Number: 11371; Total Acres:
39.85; Signature: Yes; Canceled Document: No; Issue Date: Sept 02, 1850; Mineral
Rights Reserved: No; Metes and Bounds: No; Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566;
Multiple Warantee Names: No; Act or Treaty: Apr 24, 1820; Multiple Patentee Names:
No; Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries; Land Description:
1 SWNW HUNTSVILLE No 11S 10E 32.
• Genealogy.com adds an earlier land record:
Document number: 6817 Description number: 1 ; Number of acres: 159.4200 Accession
number: AL3100__.263; Patentee Surname: Allsup Patentee given name: James R.;
State name: Alabama; Volume: 3100 Page number: 263; Land office: Lebanon Aliquot
part reference: NEl; Section number: 32; Township: 11 South Range: 10 East; Meridian
or special survey area: Huntsville Meridian; Title transfer authority: Sale-Cash
Entries; Combined signature date: Jun 1, 1845; Multiple patentees: N Multiple
warrantees: N Comments: ASSIGNEE OF SQUIRE BEDWELL; Signature: Y Canceled document:
N Subsurface rights reserved: N.
• 1850 Census for Cherokee County, Alabama, taken Dec 4 1850, shows Squire
Bedwell, 48, whose occupation is shown as "agr", as head of household
with: Sarah, 43; Calvin, 24; Jane, 23; William, 21; John, 19, a chair maker;
Artemicia, 18; Margaret, 16; Andrew, 13; Sarah, 15; Thomas, 11; Amanda, 9; Catherine,
6; Francis, 4, female; Rufus, 2; and Jesse, 2/12. Sarah and the younger children
were born in Alabama, the parents and older children in Tennessee.
• 1860 Census for Cherokee County, Alabama, shows Squire Bedwell, 58, a
farmer who owns $1400 in real estate and $800 in personal assets, as head of
household containing: Sarah, 51; Mary, 30; Artemilia, 27; Sarah, 24; Thomas,
21; Amanda, 18; Catherine, 16; Frances, 14, female; Rufus, 12; and Jesse, 10.
The first four, including Squire, were born in Tennessee, the rest in Alabama.
All are listed as able to read and write, none as having attended school in
the past year.
• 1870 Census for Cherokee County, Alabama, shows: S. Bedwell, 62, female,
who owns $600 real estate and $766 assets, as head of household including: Mary
J., 40; Artemissa, 38; Sarah, 32; Amanda, 26; Meranda C., 23; Rufus, 21; Jessy,
19; T. West, 12; and J. Bedwell, 9. Sarah, Jessy, and J. are the only ones shown
as able to read and write.
(Living next door is J.M. Bedwell, 24, male, a farm hand with $100 assets; Matilda,
20; and sister-in-law M.Smith, 36. Who is J.M. Bedwell???)
(Also in the 1870 Census for Cherokee County, Alabama is an E. Bedwell, 6, who
is living with her grandmother, L. Angle, 50. Where does she fit in?)
• 1880 Census for Cherokee County, Alabama, shows Sarah Bedwell, 72, a widow
born in Tennessee, as head of household: daughter Mary J., 52, married; daughter
Artemeasa, 46, single, a farm laborer; daughter Catherine, 35, a farm laborer;
son Joseph W., 18, a farm laborer; and daughter Ema B., 7. All are shown as
unable to read or write except for Joseph W. Joseph's father is shown as born
in Georgia, while the others have their father as born in Tennessee, except for
Ema, whose father was born in Alabama. What is not clear is, who is their mother? Squire
George Bedwell and Sarah West were married on 20 Oct 1825 in Roane County, Tennessee.
Sarah West was born in 1808 in Roane County, Tennessee.
She appeared in the census in 1870 in Cherokee County, Alabama.
She in $600 in 1870.189
[NEED TO DEFINE SENTENCE: Personal Estate]189
She appeared in the census in 1880 in Cherokee County, Alabama.
Squire George Bedwell and Sarah West had the following children:
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