Seventh Generation

502. Pleasant Bedwell^122,195 was born about 1846 in Tennessee.^122,195 He died in 1919.⁶¹¹

• 1870 Census for District 8, McMinn County, Tennessee, shows Pleasant Bedwell, 23, a laborer; Mary, 25; and Hester, born Aug 1870. They are living in the household of James Combs, 33, a laborer, and Emeline Combs, 37. All were born in Tennessee. James Combs is the only one who can read or write.

• From a post by Nancy Bible (genbug1@@juno.com) on the Bedwell Family Genealogy Forum on genweb: I am descended from Pleasant & Mary Elizabeth (Rhodes) Bedwell thru their son, John Francis Bedwell, who was my paternal grandfather. My John is buried at West Hill cemetery in Dalton, GA.

Pleasant Bedwell and Mary Elizabeth Rhodes were married on 7 Oct 1868 in McMinn County, Tennessee.³⁷³ Mary Elizabeth Rhodes¹⁹⁹ was born about 1845 in Tennessee.¹⁹⁹ Pleasant Bedwell and Mary Elizabeth Rhodes had the following children:

1652	i.	Hester Bedwell199 was born in Aug 1870.199
1653	ii.	John Francis Bedwell was born on 8 Dec 1873.
+1654	iii.	George Washington Bedwell.
1655	iv.	Janettie S. Bedwell was born on 4 May 1879.
+1656	v.	James Andrew Bedwell.
1657	vi.	Sallie Bedwell was born on 16 Sep 1886.

Pleasant Bedwell and Annie Brewer were married.⁶¹¹