(1) Name: Benjamin Francis BEDFORD
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Birth: December 23, 1762 Lunenberg, Virginia
Death: December 18, 1822 Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 59
Occupation: Member, Committee Of Safety Of Charlotte County, Virginia (Appointed Januery 13, 1775) [1]
Father: Colonel Thomas BEDFORD (1726-1785)
Mother: Mary Ligon COLEMAN (1731-)
Misc. Notes
Boonesborough, Kentucky was established on the west bank of the Kentucky River in Madison County by Daniel Boone in 1775. By an Act of the Virginia legislature in Oct 1779 in response to a petition by the inhabitants, Boonesborough was established as a town with the stated purpose of "reception of traders". The original trustees of Boonesborough refused to act and in 1787 new trustees were appointed. Benjamin Bedford was one of the new trustees appointed in 1787. Benjamin was the first Bedford to move to Kentucky when he came with his family to Madison Co, KY in 1787 and the next year located in Bourbon Co, KY. Benjamin's wife was a second cousin to the American Stateman Henry Clay. Benjamin was commissioned as Paymaster in the Kentucky Militia of Bourbon County on 12 May 1800. The 1810 Census listed 14 gunpowder mills in 5 counties in the Inner Bluegrass area. Two of these mills were in Bourbon county. Benjamin Bedford owned one and John Tucker owned the other one. This was of special importance because US-British relations were getting worst at this time. The Johnson paper mill in Scott County was converted to a gunpowder mill about this time. These events led up to the War of 1812. (ref. Register of Kentucky Historical Society, Vol 87, 1989; KY Pioneer Genealogy and Records) [2]
Spouses
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1: Tabitha CLAY
Birth: November 15, 1767 Cumberland, Virginia
Death: 1864 Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 96
Father: Dr. Henry CLAY III (1736-1820)
Mother: Rachel POVALL (1739-1820)
Marriage: September 26, 1786 Charlotte County, Virginia
Children: Mary “Polly” (1787-1827)
John Franklin “Jackson” (1791-)
Nancy “Anne” (1793-)
Stephen R. (1794-1850)
Robert (1797-1829)
Benjamin Franklin (1799-1872)
Sallie P. (1801-)
Henry P. (1806-)
Sidney (1808-1829)
Thomas Jefferson (1809-1841)
Sources
1. Virginia Historical Magazine, October, 1897.
2. Bedford and Kirker, p. 30.
(2) Name: Elizabeth W. (Lizzie) BEDFORD
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Birth: 1854 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: December 1932 Carter County, Kentucky Age: 78
Burial: Paris Cemetery, Paris, Kentucky
Father: Capt. Harry Povall BEDFORD Sr. (1826-1912)
Mother: Mary Susan EWALT (1831-1900)
Misc. Notes
The Bedford name is of English origin, the Kentucky branch tracing their ancestry back to Thomas Bedford of Charlotte Co., VA; Thomas was a very prominent landowner who fathered 13 children, by two different wives. The first one of the Bedford name to come to Kentucky was his son Benjamin Francis, b. Dec. 23, 1762, who emigrated first to Madison Co., about 1787, and then to Bourbon Co. in 1789 in the Paris Precinct area; his wife was Tabitha Clay, b. Nov. 15, 1761. daughter of Dr. Henry Clay and Rachel Povall. Benjamin and Tabitha had a son, Benjamin Franklin Bedford, b. Dec. 1799, in Bourbon County. Benjamin Franklin and his wife, Eleanor G. "Elizabeth" Buckner, b. Nov. 2, 1799 were the parents of Harry Povall Bedford, b. April 10, 1826, in Bourbon Co.; Harry married Mary Susan Ewalt, daughter of Samuel Ewalt and Cynthia Pugh. They became the parents of Elizabeth.
Harry was a very prominent citizen of Bourbon County. He served with the Kentucky troops during the Mexican War, returning to Bourbon Co. to operate a grocery store. He also served as sheriff and became a well-known farmer. When the Civil War broke out, Harry initially served the South in its Secret Service -- he was arrested in September 1861 for aiding the Confederacy. After his release, he joined the CSA as Captain of Co. C, Fifth Cavalry and served throughout the War. After his wife's death, Harry went to live with Elizabeth and her husband, Daniel Shawhan, in Carter Co., KY, where he was listed on the Census of 1910.
Spouses
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1: Daniel SHAWHAN
Birth: 1852 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: 1937 Carter County, Kentucky Age: 85
Burial: Paris Cemetery, Paris, Kentucky
Father: John SHAWHAN Major, CSA (1811-1862)
Mother: Tabitha RUSH (1819-1857)
Misc. Notes
After the death of his father, Major John Shawhan, Daniel was initially raised by his sisters. When he became of age, he elected to migrate to Carter County, Ky to enter the lumber business; the business was not successful, and Daniel became involved in the coal mining operations that were the primary source of wealth in Carter Co.. He took up residence in a little, old, mining company rental house, and opened a small general store in the town of Grant, near Music, KY -- he also had a tiny farm, with a few chickens and pigs. He became known in the community as "Uncle Dan". He was a staunch patriot and a Democrat; one of the highlights of his life occurred when he was able to visit a son living in Washington D.C. and see the second inaugural of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1937.
The Sept. 7, 1933 edition of the Cynthiana Democrat, Cynthiana, KY, carried an article submitted by Daniel in which he listed the Muster Roll of the First Battalion, Kentucky Calvary, C.S.A., initially formed in September 1861, under the command of Captain John Shawhan, his father. The following Shawhans were included on the muster roll, in addition to the Captain: Joseph W. Shawhan, Corp. (died 1862); John Snell Shawhan, ; Charlie Shawhan, , (taken prisoner); George Shawhan, , (died 1862). Daniel was very interested in the Shawhan family's history as witnessed by his exchange of letters, in 1936, with William G. Hills, of Chevy Chase, Maryland -- Mr. Hills' "Shawhan Family Notes" constitute an outstanding genealogical research record.
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Kentucky 1910 Miracode Index:
Daniel Shawhan
Enumeration District: 0047 Color: W
Age: 58 Birth Place: Kentucky
Visit: 0101
County: Carter
Relation: Husband
Relatives: Wife Elizabeth 55, Kentucky
Father-in-law Harry T Bedford 85, Kentucky
Marriage: September 22, 1874 Bourbon County, Kentucky [1]
Children: Harry Bedford (1875-1966)
John (1877-)
Pugh Miller (1881-1967)
Joseph Ewalt (1883-1944)
Sources
1. Bourbon County Marriage Book 3, p. 206:
Parties--Daniel Shawhan and Elizabeth W. Bedford
Witnesses--John Shawhan and George Bedford
Official--Rev. D. W. Case
(3) Name: Capt. Harry Povall BEDFORD Sr.
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Birth: April 10, 1826 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: December 10, 1912 Music, Carter County, Kentucky Age: 86
Burial: Paris Cemetery, Paris, Kentucky
Father: Benjamin Franklin BEDFORD (1799-1872)
Mother: Elizabeth Giles (Eleanor?) BUCKNER (1799-1840)
Misc. Notes
HARRY BEDFORD, [1] farmer; P. O. Shawhan. Soon after the settlement of Lexington and Boonesborough, a family came to this county from Caroline County, Va., by the name of Bedford, the head of which was Benjamin, his wife's maiden name being Tabitha Clay; they settled in the then wild country and reared a large family; one of the sons being named Benjamin F., born in December, 1799, who received a very fine education, especially in mathematics and surveying. Benjamin F., like his father, gave his whole attention to the development of his farm; he married Miss Eleanor Buckner, who came with her parents from Virginia; she died abut 1836, leaving a family of ten children; he married the second time and died in his seventy-fifth year. Harry, the subject of this sketch, was born April 10, 1826; in his 20th year he began clerking, but the Mexican war being inaugurated, he enlisted in the service, and served throughout that struggle, when he return to Bourbon County and clerked in a store in Paris five years; he then engaged in the grocery business until 1856, when he was elected Sheriff, and after serving his term in that position, commenced farming, at which he has continued since; when the late war broke out, he espoused the cause of the South, first being in the secret service, and afterward Captain of Co. C., Fifth Cavalry, being in the service three years. He was married in March, 1853, to Miss Mary Ewalt, daughter of Samuel Ewalt, of Bourbon, and has nine children: Elizabeth W., Thomas, Ewalt, Anna Pugh, Harry, Wm. B., Benjamin, Mary H. and Eleanor B.; he is a Mason and a Democrat.
“Architecture,” p. 55
BB-45. Mount Lookout, Captain Harry Bedford House; ca. 1850-60
Townsend Valley Road
Situated on a steep rise overlooking Townsend Creek, this two-story brick house, now painted white, was appropriately named Mount Lookout. Although the trim of the house is severe Greek Revival, it has closely spaced Italianate brackets consistent with its traditional date. A single-bay central gable is supported by two-story pilasters, which are repeated under the return of the cornice on the ends of the main block. A one-story three-bay Tuscan portico was added about 1913. The house was built just before the Civil War for Confederate Captain Harry Bedford, who was captured at Cynthiana during the war. He was a grandson of Benjamin Bedford, who emigrated to Kentucky from Virginia about 1787, and settled on the Winchester Road. A veteran of the Mexican War, Harry operated a grocery business until his election as Sheriff in 1856. After the Civil War he returned to his farm, where he spent the remainder of his life as a farmer and stockman.
At the turn of the century the property belonged to Professor James Milton Scott, an experimental farmer who worked with the University of Kentucky Experimental Station to up-date agricultural practices. One of his innovations was a famous round barn, 100 feet in diameter, with a silo in the center and a variety of interior provisions.
Mrs. Jasper B. (Ellen Scott) Shannon; Perrin, pp. 82, 451-52, 462.
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Kentucky 1910 Miracode Index
Harry T Bedford
Enumeration District: 0047 Color: W
Age: 85 Birth Place: Kentucky
Visit: 0101
County: Carter
Relation: Father-in-law
Relatives: Husband Daniel Shawhan (W)
Spouses
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1: Mary Susan EWALT
Birth: January 29, 1831 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: October 12, 1900 Carter County, Kentucky Age: 69
Burial: Paris Cemetery, Paris, Kentucky
Father: Samuel EWALT (1792-1878)
Mother: Cynthia PUGH (1795-1833)
Marriage: April 6, 1852
Children: Margaret Brent (1852-1854)
Elizabeth W. (Lizzie) (1854-1932)
Thomas Ewalt (1858-)
Harry Ewalt (1859-)
Anna Pugh (1860-)
Harry Povall (1863-1898)
William B. (1868-1936)
Benjamin F. (1868-)
Mary Hawes (1870-)
Eleanor Buckner (1873-1941)
Sources
1. History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & County, Chicago, 1882, pp. 451-452
(4) Name: Hillery Mosely BEDFORD Jr.
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Father: Hillery Mosely BEDFORD (1803-1884)
Mother: Ann Duff CHADWELL (1812-ca1905)
Misc. Notes
A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Franklin Co.
HILLERY BEDFORD was born in Franklin County, May 1, 1851, and is the fifth son of H. M. and Ann D. (Chadwell) Bedford. H. M. Bedford was born in Bourbon County, December 11, 1803, and was a son of Archibald and Letitia (Clay) Bedford. Archibald was born in Virginia, immigrated to Kentucky, and was one of the first settlers in Bourbon County. The great-grandfather of Hillery Bedford, John Bedford, was born in Virginia, and his father, John, Sr., born in Europe, was the son of the Duke of Bedford. He did something that displeased his father, and was disinherited. Hillery's maternal grandfather, George Chadwell, was born in King George County, Va., and was a major in the war of 1812. The maternal great-grandfather, William [sic] Chadwell, was born in Virginia. H. M. and Ann D. Bedford were married October 5, 1832, and had seven children, five living: R. D., who married Lizzie Wilson (Taylor); T. H., who married Annie Harper; W. C., who married Ida Allen; Annie R., who married Alex Mackim and Hillery, who married Miss Susie Harper, of Lincoln County, Ky., daughter of A. W. and Margaret (Owsley) Harper. To the union of Hillery and wife were born five children: Lawrence, Whitley, Mattie, Hillery, Jr., and William E. H. M. Bedford died July 22, 1884, a member of the Baptist Church, of which his widow is also a member. Hillery Bedford and wife are both Baptists. Mr. Bedford is owner of and cultivates 240 1/2 acres of land.
(5) Name: John Coleman BEDFORD
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Birth: November 17, 1822 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: January 29, 1843 Lincoln County, Tennessee [1] Age: 20
Father: Benjamin Franklin BEDFORD (1799-1872)
Mother: Elizabeth Giles (Eleanor?) BUCKNER (1799-1840)
Misc. Notes
John’s death notice appeared in the newspaper in Bourbon County on February 24, 1843. It stated the death was near Robinson’s Store in Lincoln County, Tennessee (ref. Bluegrass Roots 1983). [1]
Spouses
Unmarried:
Sources
1. Bedford and Kirker, p. 66.
(6) Name: John Coleman BEDFORD Sr.
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Birth: August 11, 1782 Virginia
Death: March 13, 1847 Age: 64
Father: Stephen BEDFORD (1752-1837)
Mother: Martha “Patty” HARDAWAY (1755->1795)
Misc. Notes
He removed with his parents to Bourbon County, Kentucky, at an early age and remained in this area for only a short time before moving on to Green County, Kentucky. Green County was later named Cumberland County and in 1820 named Monroe County. He was a member of the Church of Christ. [1]
Spouses
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1: Rebecca HALSELL
Birth: January 22, 1788 South Carolina
Death: August 26, 1865 Age: 77
Father: Benjamin HALSELL
Mother: Sarah TURNER
Misc. Notes
Her father owned most of the McFarland Creek watershed in Cumberland County, Kentucky. He also owned land across the Cumberland river in the Turkey Neck bend areas over to Kettle Creek (ref. paper by Ralph E. Drake). [1]
Marriage: circa 1805
Children: Martha Caroline (1823-1895)
Sources
1. Bedford and Kirker, p. 55
(7) Name: William Chadwell BEDFORD Sr.
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Birth: March 19, 1845 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Father: Hillery Mosely BEDFORD (1803-1884)
Mother: Ann Duff CHADWELL (1812-ca1905)
Misc. Notes
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Franklin Co. WILLIAM C. BEDFORD was born in Bourbon County, Ky., March 19, 1845, and is the third son, living, of Hillery M. and Ann D. (Chadwell) Bedford, natives also of Bourbon County. Mrs. Ann D. Bedford is a daughter of Duff Chadwell, a native of Virginia, a soldier of the war of 1812, and a resident of Jessamine County, Ky. Hillery M. Bedford was born in1803, was a great-grandson of the old Duke of Bedford, England; moved from Bourbon County to Franklin County in 1847; was always a farmer, served in the Legislature in 1863-64, and died in 1884, a member of the Baptist Church. William C. Bedford was reared to farming, and has always followed that vocation. In October, 1881, he married Miss Ida Allen, a daughter of J. Wash. Allen, of Franklin County, and to this union one child, Hillery Allen, was born in November 1882.
Spouses
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1: Ida ALLEN
Father: J. Wash. ALLEN
Marriage: October 1881
Children: Hillery Allen (1882-)