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Bedford County Location

Bedford County Location

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HISTORY OF TENNESSEE ILLUSTRATED Nashville, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1887 BEDFORD COUNTY lies in the great Central Basin of Tennessee. The prevailing rocks are limestone generally thinly bedded and flaggy, but with some fine building stone. The limestones belong to the Nashville and Lebanon formations, limestones low geological series. West of Shelbyville excellent building stone abounds.  Two other varieties of limestone are found in the county, called white rock and sandstone or fire rock.  The white rock, found in the…

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Queries May 1999

Queries May 1999

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  BOYET, JERNIGAN, KILLINGSWORTH Looking for Info. on Jehu BOYET [D]1814 and wife K(C)atherine KILLINGSWORTH [D]1860 my ggg grandparents. Etheldred BOYET and wife Priscilla JERNIGAN each past on in Bedford County in 1830 and 1836 my gggg grandparents Decendent from Edward BOYET and wife Abigail of N.C. Ralph Bryant — 5553 46 Ave. N., Kenneth City, FL 33709 nitrox [at] tampabay [dot] rr [dot] com Submitted on Mon May 31 19:04:02 EDT 1999     WISE, TILLETT Searching for info on my…

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Archie Clarence Adcock Family File

Archie Clarence Adcock Family File

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ARCHIE CLARENCE ADCOCK          Archie Clarence Adcock, b. September 5, 1885 d. July 16, 1968, married December 26, 1907, Sarah Guynnie Dickens, b. January 1884, d. April 21, 1961. She was the daughter of Jason B. and Virginia Foster Dickens. Arch and Guynnie lived in the Longview area for a short time. Their two oldest children, Herschell and Eula, were born in Longview. They moved from Longview to Rover and then to a house just off Hwy. 269 near the…

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Thomas and Bettie Adcock

Thomas and Bettie Adcock

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Thomas J. and Bettie Adcock     Thomas Jefferson Adcock, b. March 16, 1860 in Bedford County, was the youngest of twelve children born to America and Martha Ann Turner Adcock. Lucy Elizabeth (Bettie) Thomas was born January 23, 1859 in Bedford County, to Eldridge and Elizabeth J. Barrett Thomas. Thomas Jefferson Adcock and Bettie Thomas both grew up in Bedford County. They married July 18, 1882.    Except for a few years in Marshall County, they lived most of their…

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Adcock Family Family Files Introduction

Adcock Family Family Files Introduction

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ADCOCK FAMILY    The Adcock family of Bedford County came from Granville County, North Carolina where the name was numerous and relationships are confusing.  They settled first in Rutherford County, Tennessee.  John Adcock died in Rutherford County in the fall of 1822, leaving a will naming his son John Adcock and William Vinson as executors.  Children listed were Livina Adcock, Polly Adcock, Willie Adcock, William Adcock, John Adcock, Marcus Adcock, Harmon Adcock, Stephen Adcock, Doctor Adcock, Robert Adcock, America Adcock,…

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Revolutionary War

Revolutionary War

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For information on obtaining Revolutionary War records and information from the Tennessee State Library and Archives, please click here.Click here for a list of Bedford Countians in the Revolutionary War. Tennessee had not yet become a state when the Revolutionary War was fought, 1775-1783. At that time, most of what is now Tennessee was a part of North Carolina, although a few areas may have been thought to belong to VA. The area that became Tennessee was quite sparsely populated, so…

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Historical Resources

Historical Resources

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  Shelbyville’s Three Major Floods Index from the Nashville Business Directory, Vol. III – 1857 – with revelance to Bedford County Compiled by the Rev. John P. Campbell Originally published by Smith, Camp & Co., 16 Deaderick St., Nashville reprinted for Century III Nashville, c1980 Index to the Pictorial History of Bedford County, Tennessee Published by: Shelbyville Times-Gazette; Shelbyville, Tennessee; David Segroves, Publisher; 1994 Index to Old Times in Bedford County, Tennessee (article by J.L. Hutson, published 197?? by the…

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Marriages

Marriages

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New Providence Church Marriages, 1833-1853Copies of available marriage records may be obtained from the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Marriage records in the USGenWeb Archives In addition, the following published resources are available. Check library catalogs for availability and interlibrary loan. – Tennessee, Records of Bedford County, Marriages, 1861-1864, 1938. – Marsh, Helen Crawford, Official Marriages of Bedford County, Tennessee, c 1996. This is a two-volume set and can also be ordered from Sistler and Associates. Vol. 1 covers 1861-1880. Vol. 2 covers 1880-1898. – Marriage…

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Historical Sites

Historical Sites

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U.S. Rubber’s Move To Shelbyville Was Tremendous Boost To Economy The man circled in the above photo is Clyde Waters, 1912-1964. Many thanks to his son, Gary Waters, who provided the photo. In its Dec. 7. 1933 issue, the Shelbyville Gazette devoted practically its entire news and advertising space to one firm in Shelbyville. That was the date that the official signing of an agreement between Shelbyville Mills U. S. Rubber Co. was announced to the public. And there was…

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