a founder of Arabi, Georgia
Wife Susan's CSA widow's pension paperwork is on line, courtesy of GA virtual vault. It states he enlisted July 1864 in Wilcox Co, Ga in Co. G of 7th Ga Regt. Infantry, Militia. His unit surrendered at Hapsburg, S. C. in 1865 and he was with the unit.
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From "Historical and Genealogical Collections of Dooly County Georgia Vol. III," compiled/edited by Nora Powell and Watts Powell, c. 1975, Vienna, Ga Library of Congress Card Cat. No. 73-81043 page 58 quoting from "Memoirs of Georgia", Vol I, p. 603:
"Richmond A. Bedgood, an enterprising business man of Arabi, was born Aug 3, 1847 in Washington County, Ga. He was the son of a farmer, Henry Bedgood, from whom he was separated by death in 1856. The boy received a very limited education, enlisting in the seventh Georgia Militia in 1864, when he had scarcely completed his seventeenth year. Since the war closed, Mr. Bedgood has engaged in farming and has a large sawmill and a successful business in Arabi. He is a respected member of the masonic fraternity. The first wife of Mr. Bedgood was Elizabeth Brown, whose father was the well-known Maj. Brown of Cordele. Mr. Bedgood's second wife was Susan Clements, daughter of J. J. Clements of Dooly County. He is the father of four sons and five daughters, one of his sons, John H., being his father's partner in business."
Wife Susan's CSA widow's pension paperwork is on line, courtesy of GA virtual vault. It states he enlisted July 1864 in Wilcox Co, Ga in Co. G of 7th Ga Regt. Infantry, Militia. His unit surrendered at Hapsburg, S. C. in 1865 and he was with the unit.
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From "Historical and Genealogical Collections of Dooly County Georgia Vol. III," compiled/edited by Nora Powell and Watts Powell, c. 1975, Vienna, Ga Library of Congress Card Cat. No. 73-81043 page 58 quoting from "Memoirs of Georgia", Vol I, p. 603:
"Richmond A. Bedgood, an enterprising business man of Arabi, was born Aug 3, 1847 in Washington County, Ga. He was the son of a farmer, Henry Bedgood, from whom he was separated by death in 1856. The boy received a very limited education, enlisting in the seventh Georgia Militia in 1864, when he had scarcely completed his seventeenth year. Since the war closed, Mr. Bedgood has engaged in farming and has a large sawmill and a successful business in Arabi. He is a respected member of the masonic fraternity. The first wife of Mr. Bedgood was Elizabeth Brown, whose father was the well-known Maj. Brown of Cordele. Mr. Bedgood's second wife was Susan Clements, daughter of J. J. Clements of Dooly County. He is the father of four sons and five daughters, one of his sons, John H., being his father's partner in business."
a founder of Arabi, Georgia
Wife Susan's CSA widow's pension paperwork is on line, courtesy of GA virtual vault. It states he enlisted July 1864 in Wilcox Co, Ga in Co. G of 7th Ga Regt. Infantry, Militia. His unit surrendered at Hapsburg, S. C. in 1865 and he was with the unit.
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From "Historical and Genealogical Collections of Dooly County Georgia Vol. III," compiled/edited by Nora Powell and Watts Powell, c. 1975, Vienna, Ga Library of Congress Card Cat. No. 73-81043 page 58 quoting from "Memoirs of Georgia", Vol I, p. 603:
"Richmond A. Bedgood, an enterprising business man of Arabi, was born Aug 3, 1847 in Washington County, Ga. He was the son of a farmer, Henry Bedgood, from whom he was separated by death in 1856. The boy received a very limited education, enlisting in the seventh Georgia Militia in 1864, when he had scarcely completed his seventeenth year. Since the war closed, Mr. Bedgood has engaged in farming and has a large sawmill and a successful business in Arabi. He is a respected member of the masonic fraternity. The first wife of Mr. Bedgood was Elizabeth Brown, whose father was the well-known Maj. Brown of Cordele. Mr. Bedgood's second wife was Susan Clements, daughter of J. J. Clements of Dooly County. He is the father of four sons and five daughters, one of his sons, John H., being his father's partner in business."
Wife Susan's CSA widow's pension paperwork is on line, courtesy of GA virtual vault. It states he enlisted July 1864 in Wilcox Co, Ga in Co. G of 7th Ga Regt. Infantry, Militia. His unit surrendered at Hapsburg, S. C. in 1865 and he was with the unit.
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From "Historical and Genealogical Collections of Dooly County Georgia Vol. III," compiled/edited by Nora Powell and Watts Powell, c. 1975, Vienna, Ga Library of Congress Card Cat. No. 73-81043 page 58 quoting from "Memoirs of Georgia", Vol I, p. 603:
"Richmond A. Bedgood, an enterprising business man of Arabi, was born Aug 3, 1847 in Washington County, Ga. He was the son of a farmer, Henry Bedgood, from whom he was separated by death in 1856. The boy received a very limited education, enlisting in the seventh Georgia Militia in 1864, when he had scarcely completed his seventeenth year. Since the war closed, Mr. Bedgood has engaged in farming and has a large sawmill and a successful business in Arabi. He is a respected member of the masonic fraternity. The first wife of Mr. Bedgood was Elizabeth Brown, whose father was the well-known Maj. Brown of Cordele. Mr. Bedgood's second wife was Susan Clements, daughter of J. J. Clements of Dooly County. He is the father of four sons and five daughters, one of his sons, John H., being his father's partner in business."
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