Sixth Generation

98. Ira Theophilus Bedwell^69,106 was born about 1789.¹⁰⁷ He died about 1824 in Lafayette County, Missouri.^107,108

• 02 Oct 1812 (White TN Volume E, p. 299). Indenture 2 Oct 1812 William RIDGE and Christopher CATRON, $100 paid, 120 acrs on Cane Creek, part of tract of 2500 acres originally granted by North Carolina to Robert KING, assignee of James WILLIAMS, JR, Grant No 341 dated 1 Mar 1797. Witnesses: Benjamin GRIFFITH, James McCORMACK. Sworn by Ira BEDWELL (White County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts 1801-1820. Abstracts of Deed Books Volumes A, B, C, D, E, and F. J. M. Murray, Dallas, Tx)

• Mon 18 Oct 1819 (White Co, TN Court Minute Book, 1819-1820, p. 3) Joe? Gee? BEDWELL to Issd. John McGEE. Deed of Conveyance for 126 acres was this day proven in open Court by the oath of Thomas WILLIAMS One of the Subscribing Witnesses there to for the purpose and things there in mentioned and the same having been here to fore proven by the oath Reuben WILHITE one other Subscribing Witness, it is ordered that the same be recorded. let it be Registered.

Ira Theophilus Bedwell and Barbara Jane (Barbary) Catron were married on 7 May 1807 in Grayson County, Virginia.^6,107 Barbara Jane (Barbary) Catron¹⁰⁷ (daughter of Johan Jacob Ketterling) was born on 10 Feb 1789 in Grayson County, Virginia.¹⁰⁷ She lived in Living at son's house in Sonoma County, California in 1870.¹⁰⁹ She died on 4 Aug 1871 in Sonoma County, California.¹⁰⁷ She was buried in Hall Cemetery, Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California.⁶⁵

According to http://users.ap.net/~chenae/hall.html she is buried in Hall Cemetery:

Hall Cemetery is located in a grove of trees behind the K. L. Barr Ranch, at 877 Alexander Valley Rd., in Alexander Valley, on property owned by Rick and Kathy Adams. The graves were recorded on Mar 21, 2001, by Debra McCann and Shay Tankersley.

Martha Jane Bedwell, wife of Barbary's son John C. Bedwell, is also buried there.

Ira Theophilus Bedwell and Barbara Jane (Barbary) Catron had the following children:

+253	i.	Mary Bedwell.
+254	ii.	Franklin Bedwell.
255	iii.	Nancy Bedwell110 was born in 1812. She died in 1850.
256	iv.	Zedikiah (Hezekiah) Bedwell110 was born about 1815 in Tennessee or Missouri.111,112 He died before 1893.113 • A website showed Zedikiah Bedwell marrying Rebecca Howard in February, 1841, in White County, Tennessee, but this might not be correct. This Bedwell family seems to have departed White County long before that time. • Hesekiah Bedwell, 34, is listed in the 1850 Census for Wayne County, Missouri. Hesekiah is a blacksmith, living with wife Jane C., 22. He was born in Missouri, and has assets of $700. The same census page also lists the family of Thomas C. Cattron, a clerk. Cattron is the maiden name of Zedikiah (Hesekiah?)'s mother, so this may be a cousin. Brother Elisha Bedwell, two years younger than Zedikiah (Hesekiah?), was also a blacksmith, so this may have been a family trade. • 1850 Slave Schedule for District 101, Wayne County, Missouri, shows Zedekiah Bedwell as the owner of the following slaves: one mulatto female, 25; one black male, age 10; and one mulatto female, 4. (Neighbor Thomas C. Cattron, who might be Zedekiah's cousin, is also shown as a slave owner, of an adult couple and two young children, all black.) • The 1850 Census for Georgetown, El Dorado County, California, taken Dec 14 1850, shows a Hezekiah Bidwell, 35, born in Tennessee, a carpenter, who owns $600 worth of real estate. He is the only sole resident of his household. Listed on the same census page, but a separate residence, is Mary Brooks, Hesekiah/Zedikiah Bedwell's sister. • Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office records show the sale of 160 acres in Wayne County, Missouri, to Zedikiah Bedwell on Oct 10, 1856. Accession/Serial #: MO3750__.192 BLM Serial #: MO NO S/N. • A biography of John H. Polly from History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 mentions Zedikiah Bedwell: "John H. Polly was born in Mississippi County, Mo., in 1840, and is a son of John and Mary (Hall) Polly, natives of Pennsylvania County, Va., where they were reared and married. About 1834 the father crossed the Blue Mountains in an ox-cart with his wife and family and located in Mississippi County, Mo. He then immigrated to Madison County, where his wife died when our subject was a small boy, after which he went to Wayne County, settling in Greenville, and again married. After running a hotel and blacksmith store some years at that place he moved upon a farm ten miles distant, and lived until his death. John H. is the yonngest and only living child of a family of eight, and losing his father when he was about nine he was reared by his brother-in-law, Zedakiah Bedwell, in Greenville, receiving but little schooling. When he was twelve years of age his brother-in-law gave him a horse, which he sold, and with the money purchased an interest in a grocery house at Marble Hill." There is more to the biography, but that is the only mention of Zedikiah Bedwell. (Found at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ar/crawford/bios/polly1.txt)
257	v.	Unknown Child Bedwell114 was born before 1819.115
+258	vi.	Elisha Bernard Bedwell.
+259	vii.	William Bedwell.
+260	viii.	John C. Bedwell.