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 in
1803, 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.

Bedford Chadwell Allen
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Bourbon-KY Jessamine-KY VA England

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