Bedros (Armenian for Peter) was born in Angora (now Ankara), Turkey, the son of Haroutune (Artin) Tekian & Mariam Karagarabedian. He was baptized on February 10, 1863, and so was likely born a day or two prior as babies were usually baptized as quickly as possible. Bedros was the husband of Sourpik Papazian and they had three daughters and three sons who lived to adulthood, as well as a daughter and twin sons who did not. He was a landlord who rented property to tenants which included Turks. It is said he was very wealthy and also had a seaside vacation home in Smyrna. He is said to have been out collecting rents when he died, the reason why whether it was a natural cause or something else is unknown. A cenotaph for him made decades later indicates he died in 1914 so it was likely then, however that isn't otherwise confirmed. The Armenian Genocide occurred shortly after and all the lands were confiscated and the family exiled. At this time one of his sons was serving in the Ottoman army and so was thought to have been killed, while the rest of the family escaped to Istanbul. In the 1920s his daughters moved to Philadelphia and his sons to France, including the one who had been thought lost at war, who had actually defected and fled to Egypt. Having once been very well-to-do, Sourpik's circumstances in Istanbul were reduced to poverty. She left to go to her sons in France before joining her daughters in Philadelphia. When she died many years later, Bedros's name was also put on her grave as a cenotaph. Bedros was most likely buried in the Armenian Catholic Cemetery of Ankara, which was closed by the state in the 1940s and built over with government buildings. He also may have been buried in the courtyard of one of the four Armenian Catholic churches in Ankara, all of which were destroyed in a great fire which destroyed the Armenian quarter in 1916 along with the vital records which would have revealed when exactly he died. Whatever the case, his grave is now gone and this cenotaph in Pennsylvania is the only marker for him.