Seventh Generation

487. Squire Bedwell¹⁹⁴ was born in 1865/66 in Bradley County, Tennessee.⁶⁰⁸ He died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 4 May 1930 in Pine Breeze Sanitarium, North Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee.⁶⁰⁸ He was a carpenter.⁶⁰⁸

• 1900 Census for District 8, Bradley County, Tennessee shows Squire Bedwell, born Mar or May 1870, a carpenter who owns a farm, as head of household with: Mary, born 1879, his wife of one year who has had no children; daughter Nola, born July 1886; and daughter Annie, born Oct 1893.

Listed on the same census page as Squire and his family is a Patric Bedwell, born 1888, working as a live-in servant with the Thomas Gibson family. How is he connected with Squire Bedwell?

• 1920 Census for Hamilton County, Tennessee shows Squire Bedwell, 52, a widower, a grocery merchant, living as a boarder in the household of Major G. Waddell, a railroad cleerk.

• His death certificate confirms that his father was Caleb Bedwell. It says that he was born in 1862, but as he was shown as four years old at the time of the 1870 census, he was probably born in 1865 or 1866.

Squire Bedwell and R. Victoria Kyle were married on 19 Nov 1883 in Bradley County, Tennessee.¹⁹⁴ R. Victoria Kyle^194,609 died before 1899.^608,610 Squire Bedwell and R. Victoria Kyle had the following children:

+1641	i.	William J. Bedwell.
1642	ii.	Nola Bedwell was born in Jul 1886 in Tennessee.610
1643	iii.	Annie Bedwell was born in Oct 1893 in Tennessee.610

Squire Bedwell and Mary Heifnar were married on 9 Jul 1899 in Polk County, Tennessee.³⁷³ Mary Heifnar was born in 1879 in Tennessee.⁶¹⁰