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    Richard B. Bedon

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    • 3rd Great-grandfather of John Watts Young — 6th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 44 
    • Birth Date:
    • 9 Sep 1786 
    • Birth Location:
    • Horshoe Plantation, Colleton County, South Carolina 
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    • Death Date:
    • 28 Aug 1857 
    • Death Location:
    • Horshoe Plantation, Colleton County, South Carolina 
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    • 15 Mar 1809 
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    • Notes: 
    • Richard Bedon was born Bedon Pendarvis. His father changed the surname of their family from Pendarvis to Bedon on 18 DEC 1802. Richard took the given name of a younger brother who died in 1785 at the age of two.

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  • Sources for Richard B. Bedon

    • 1 Heyward, James Barnwell, The Genealogy of the Pendarvis-Bedon Families of South Carolina, 1670-1900, Atlanta, Georgia: Foote and Davies Company (1905), 82, 95-102.