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Obedience "Bedie" Clark

Obedience "Bedie" Clark

Female 1816 - 1895  (78 years)

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  • Name Obedience "Bedie" Clark  [1
    Born 9 Aug 1816  North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Census 1830  Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • Alexr [Alexander] Clark household
      1 male of 10 and under 15
      1 male of 20 and under 30
      1 male of 50 and under 60
      3 females under 5
      4 females of 5 and under 10
      1 female of 10 and under 15 [Bedie Clark, age 13]
      1 female of 15 and under 20
      1 female of 20 and under 30
      1 female of 30 and under 40 [Charlotte Chappel]
    Census 1840  Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • Ewin Thornton household
      1 male under 5 [??]
      1 male of 20 and under 30 [Ewin Thornton]
      1 female under 5 [Esther Elizabeth, about 2 or 3
      1 female of 20 and under 30 [Obedience "Bedie" Clark]
      0 slaves
      4 total
      0 engaged in agriculture
      1 engaged in manufacture or trades
      1 cannot read or write
    Census 29 Oct 1850  Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • 1. Thornton, Beda, 36, female, N. Carolina, cannot read or write
      2. _____, Elizabeth, 13, female, Alabama, attending school
      3. _____, Benjamin, 9, male, Tennessee, attending school
      4. _____, Howell, 7, male, Tennessee
      5. _____, Polena, 3, female, Tennessee
    Census 9 Jul 1860  Danielsville (post office), Dickson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    • 1. Thorenton, Beady [Bedie Thornton], 44, female, Domestic Lady, real estate $500, personal $400, North Carolina, cannot read or write
      2. _____, B. F., 18, male, farmer, Tennessee, attending school
      3. _____, H. J., 15, male, farmer, Tennessee, attending school
      4. _____, Polina J., 14, female, Tennessee, attending school
    Land 8 Jan 1872  Dickson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Beda Thornton sells to her son Howell J. Thornton, 56 acres jointly owned by her and HR Walker. States that she is "of" Dickson County. 
    Died 7 Aug 1895  Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
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    Buried Walker Chapel Cemetery, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3549  Full
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2019 

    Father Alexander Clark,   b. Abt 1780, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1852, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Robertson,   d. Between 26 Sep 1818 and Jan 1820, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 23 Apr 1808  Wake County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    • Name: Alexander Clark
      Gender: Male
      Spouse: Elizabeth Robertson
      Spouse Gender: Female
      Bond Date: 23 Apr 1808
      Bond #: 000152281
      Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
      ImageNum: 006832
      County: Wake
      Record #: 01 093
      Bondsman: Abraham Dodd
      Witness: Wm Hill
    Family ID F16  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ewin K. Thornton,   b. Between 1810 and 1815, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between 1846 and 1850  (Age ~ 36 years) 
    Married Bef 1836  Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Children 
    +1. Esther Elizabeth Thornton,   b. 1 Oct 1837, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Apr 1908, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
     2. Benjamin F. Thornton,   b. Abt 1841, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 24 October 1863  (Age ~ 22 years)
    +3. Howell Jackson Thornton,   b. 28 Jan 1844, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Feb 1923, Hartshorne, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
    +4. Polena "Lena" Thornton,   b. 26 Feb 1846, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Mar 1886  (Age 40 years)
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2009 
    Family ID F1195  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Della: "She was of Irish descent." [11]
    • Benjamin, Howell, and Reeves Adams, brothers. Reeves Adams appears in 1840 Humphreys Co tax records. Coincidental names? Bedie named sons Howell and Benjamin and her daughter Polina married a Reeves.

  • Sources 
    1. [S41] Missouri, Howell - Cemetery, Walker Chapel, (County Road 2980, near Trask, Howell County, Missouri), Bedie Thornton tombstone (Reliability: 3).
      "Bedie Thornton, 9 Aug 1816 - 7 Aug 1895"

    2. [S20] Tennessee, Hickman - census 1850, (1850 U.S. census, Hickman County, Tennessee, population schedule), Hickman County, Tennessee, pg 128 (penned), Dwelling 812, Family 912, Beda Clark household, jpeg image (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S192] Tennessee, Hickman - census 1870, (1870 U.S. census, Hickman County, Tennessee, population schedule), Pine Wood, District 5, Hickman County, Tennessee, Page 18 (penned), Dwelling 135, Household 133, H.R. Walker household (Reliability: 4).
      Ancestry.com, my online source for this digital image, has indexed this census family as "WALKES" instead of "WALKER."

    4. [S3663] 1830 U.S. census, Hickman County, Tennessee, [township not stated], p. 292 (penned), [no stamped no.], line 25, Alexr Clark household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 July 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M19, roll 176.

    5. [S3647] 1840 U. S. census, Hickman County, Tennessee, [township not stated], [no penned p. no.] p. 194 (stamped, second page), line 21, Ewin Thornton household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 July 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 524.

    6. [S3646] 1850 U.S. census, Hickman County, Tennessee, population schedule, [no township stated] p. 128 (penned, recto), p. 64 (stamped, verso) dwelling 912, family 912, Beda Thornton household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 July 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 884.

    7. [S3656] 1860 U.S. census, Dickson County, Tennessee, population schedule, Danielsville (post office), Middle Division, p. 42 (penned), p. 222 (stamped, verso), dwelling 289, family 289, Beady Thorenton [Bedie Thornton] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1247.

    8. [S5710] Dickson County, Tennessee, deed book O:391, B. Thornton to H. J. Thornton (1872); TSLA microfilm no. 62.

    9. [S3667] "North Carolina, Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 July 2013), marriage bond no. 000152281, for Alexander Clark-Elizabeth Robertson, Wake County, 23 April 1808.

    10. [S41] Missouri, Howell - Cemetery, Walker Chapel, (County Road 2980, near Trask, Howell County, Missouri), marker for Bedie Thornton (Reliability: 3).
      "Bedie Thornton, 9 Aug 1816 - 7 Aug 1895"

    11. [S25] Walker, Della - Documents, (The collected letters and documents of Della Eveline (Walker) Warren Lonnem (now deceased); these documents passed from Della Lonnem to her daughter, Faith (Lonnem) Quick; from Faith to her niece, Jesse Keenon (granddaughter of Della Lonnem); photocopied, 1996, in the possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC); original documents in the possession of Jesse Keenon (Muskogee, Oklahoma), 2007.).