Eighth Generation

859. Jackson Lee Bedwell³⁵¹ was born in Dec 1865 in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California.⁹¹¹ He died on 6 Feb 1912 in Richmond, Contra Costa County, California.^65,912 He was buried in Sunset View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California.⁶⁵ He was a dentist.⁹¹¹

• 1900 Census for 36 District San Francisco, San Francisco County, California shows J. L. Bedwell, born Dec 1865 in California of parents born in Missouri and Arkansas, a dentist, as head of household with: May, born Jan 1866 in California of parents born in Canada and England, his wife of eight years who has had two children, both still living; daughter Carrie, born Sept 1894; son Harold, born May 1898; and sister Nannie, born Dec 1862, single. They are renters at 1831 Fifteenth St.

• From an article in the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), 7 Apr 1905, about the Richmond Land Co.: "Dr. J. L. Bedwell has bought two lots on Thirteenth Street between MacDonald and Nevin avenues and will, during the season, erect a comfortable home there. Dr. Bedwell is an exceptionally good dentist and has already acquired a large practice. He is here to stay."

• From an article in the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), 18 Aug 1905, dateline Point Richmond, Calif.: "Dr. Bedwell, the dentist, is building a modern five room house on Thirteenth Street between Nevin and Richmond."

• An article in the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), 27 June 1909 mentions that J.L. Bedwell has been appointed a library trustee to help oversee the building of a new "Carnegie free library" in Richmond, California.

• An article in the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), 31 May 1912 mentions "the late Dr. J. L. Bedwell" as a member of the school board to whom great credit is being given for the "building up of a school system which would last into the future" in Richmond, CA.

• 1920 Census for Alameda City, Alameda County, California, taken in Jan 1920, shows May F. Bedwell, 52, a widow who owns her residence on Burbank St., as head of household with son Harold C. Bedwell, 21, a shipyard helper.

• www.PointRichmondHistory.org newsletter for February/March 2006 has this snippet in a headlines from the past section: "2-7: Dr. J.L. Bedwell, dentist died yesterday at 46. Born Healdsburg 12/65."

Jackson Lee Bedwell and Mae S. Chatfield were married in 1891 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California.³⁵² Mae S. Chatfield³⁵² was born in Jan 1866 in California.⁹¹¹ She died in 1926.⁶⁵ She was buried in Sunset View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California.⁶⁵ Jackson Lee Bedwell and Mae S. Chatfield had the following children:

+2577	i.	Caroline (Carrie) Bedwell.
+2578	ii.	Harold Chatfield Bedwell.