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F Jane Sherman

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1881 personal census, Camden Twp, Kent Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Bedford Sheranan[sic], M, Married, 38, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist, Farmer;
Mary A., F, Married, 35, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Maria, F, 15, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Elsie M., F, 14, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Emma E., F, 3, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Jane, F, Widowed, 71, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 407-408:
David Henry Bedford, proprietor of the Essex County Dairy, and a successful and experienced dairyman and stock dealer, is a prominent citizen of Windsor, who has descended from an old English family of importance.
     Robert Bedford, the great-grandfather of David H., was born in England in 1745. He became the first school teacher in the County of Kent, Ont. Prior to the American Revolution he settled in Pennsylvania, from which he moved to Ontario, as a United Empire Loyalist. His first location was on Lot 10, R.R., Chatham township, later settling on River St. Clair, near Port Lambton, thence moving to the Thames river, near Louisville. He and John Boyle and William Needsmore were the first white settlers in the County of Kent, on the Thames river, above Chatham. After his location at Louisville, Mr. Bedford engaged in farming until his death in 1842,, at the age of ninety-seven. He married Elizabeth Edwards, by whom he had the following children: John, Abe, Robert, William, James, David, Thomas, Fanny and Mary.
     John Bedford, son of Robert, was born in Chatham township in 1796, and he became a farmer and school teacher in his native county, where he died in 1869. He was twice married, first to Orpha Jones, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Hart) Jones, the former a native of a France, and the latter of New York State. Mrs. Mary (Hart) Jones and her brother were scalped by the Indians, and while she recovered, her brother died. To John Bedford and wife were born these four children: John, Mary Ann, Ira and Christiana. For his second wife John Bedford married Jane Sherman, and one son, Sherman, was born of this union.
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