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Elisha S. Bedwell71,110 was born on 7 Jun 1825 in Jefferson
Township, Sullivan County, Indiana.398
He died on 22 Jul 1902 in Pleasantville, Sullivan County, Indiana.398,399 He was
buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Dugger, Sullivan County, Indiana.398,400
He is shown as Elisha S. Bedwell in the 1860 Census, but his cemetery
headstone shows him as Elisha E. Bedwell.
1860 Census for Jefferson Township, Sullivan County, Indiana shows Elisha
S. Bedwell, 31, a farmer with $700 real estate and $300 assets, as head of household
with: Jane, 29; Catherine, 12; Thomas, 10; John N., 8; Albert, 5; and Sylvester,
2. All were born in Indiana. Also on the same census page are Elisha's brothers
Squire Bedwell and James M. Bedwell, and his sister, Nancy Moody. (Mysteries:
Where is Amelia C., generally listed as this couple's first born child? Is she
actually the same person as the Catherine listed in this census? Also, where
is James A. Bedwell, who is shown in a later biography as the son of this couple,
born in 1855?)
1870 Census for Jefferson Township, Sullivan County, Indiana shows Elisha
S. Bedwell, 46, a farmer with $3200 real estate and $600 assets, as head of household
consisting of: Rebecca J., 41; John W. (or N.?), 16; James, 15; Ofelas, 12, male;
Reeder C., 9; Nancy, 5; and Anna, 3. Elisha S. Bedwell and Rebecca Jane Carrithers
were married on 19 Mar 1846 in Sullivan County, Indiana.398 Rebecca Jane Carrithers110 (daughter of William Carrithers
and Catherine McClanahan) was born on 2 Dec 1830 in Sullivan County, Indiana.398 She died on 16 Dec 1907 in
Sullivan County, Indiana.398,401 She was buried in Mount Moriah
Cemetery, Dugger, Sullivan County, Indiana.398
Elisha S. Bedwell and Rebecca Jane Carrithers had the following children:
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