Snapshot: | wife of a poor farm laborer |
Parents: | 70Gilford Bedgood 71Lucinda ___ |
Born: | circa 1850 Georgia |
Last known record: | 1880 census Militia district 92 (map), Washington County, Georgia |
Buried: | unknown |
Who are The available census records strongly imply that I haven't found a marriage record for 70Gilford Bedgood and 71Lucinda ___. One could argue that 70Gilford may have had another wife before 71Lucinda, and that this hypothetical earlier wife could have been the mother of some of 70Gilford's children. The 1850 census, however, casts much doubt on this hypothesis: As you can see below, in 1850 70Gilford and 71Lucinda were young and had an infant daughter. Subsequent censuses show that 70Gilford and 71Lucinda remained married for many years. |
Is As you can see above, in 1850 70Gilford and 71Lucinda had a daughter named "Penop Ann P [Bedgood]," ... but in the 1860 census, 70Gilford doesn't have a daughter named Penelope, Ann, or anything of the sort. Perhaps she had died, and perhaps |
The 1860 census shows
By 1867 70Gilford had moved his family to Jefferson County, Georgia.
As noted in 34John's profile, the 1880 census shows
1: 1860 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Washington County, Georgia. Page 261, dwelling 776, family 756, Guilford Bedgood household. NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 140. Internet Archive, <https://archive.org/stream/populationschedu140unit#page/n263/mode/1up>, accessed 15 October 2021.
2: 1870 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Militia district 85, Jefferson County, Georgia. Page 142B, dwelling 369, family 431, Gilford Bedford household. NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 160. HeritageQuest, accessed 6 December 2010. Although I used HeritageQuest, the same record is available on Internet Archive: <http://archive.org/stream/populationschedu0160unit#page/n288/mode/1up>.
3: 1880 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Militia district 92, Washington County, Georgia. Enumeration district 125, page 258A, dwelling 1, Gilford Bedgood household. NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 170. Internet Archive, <https://archive.org/stream/10thcensus0170unit#page/n718/mode/1up>, accessed 15 October 2021.
4: 1850 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Division 91, Washington County, Georgia. Page 249A, dwelling 686, family 686, G Bedgood household. NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 87. Internet Archive, <https://archive.org/stream/7thcensus0067unix#page/n355/mode/1up>, accessed 15 October 2021.
5: Georgia's 1867-1868 Voter Registration Oath Books. Volume 106 (Jefferson County Book 4), page 171, entry 30, Guildford Badgood. Ancestry.com ("Georgia, U.S., Returns of Qualified Voters and Reconstruction Oath Books, 1867-1869" / Oath Book / Jefferson / 18 / image 740 of 997), accessed 20 May 2012. Although I copied the image from Ancestry.com, the corresponding microfilm reel at the Georgia Archives is microfilm 296/40.
6: Jefferson County, Georgia. White marriage book A (1803-1880), page 505, marriage of Mr. John Knight and Miss Mary T. Bedgood. FamilySearch, <https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-21404-28668-60?cc=1927197>, accessed 1 June 2013.