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Including variations in spelling, such as: BEDEL, BEDELL, BEADLE, BEEDLE, BEEDLES, etc.

Spelling variations and Soundex Codes

Origin and meaning of the Name and some early Bedels

Early Immigration to the USA

Some of the first of the name to reach the USA [nearly 180 years before it was the USA] were John and Gabriel Bedell who came to the New World in 1608 as part of the Virginia Company's "Second Supply" under Captain John Smith. They accompanied him on his voyage of exploration along the New England coast. Their sister, Dorothy, married second Roger Wingate of London, who became Treasurer to the Colony. [Ref provided by Betty Ralph:The Journal of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies published in Northgate, Canterbury, Kent England, Vol. 14, New Series 90, January 1988]

BEADLES Family Reunions

• Beadles-Freiley Reunion
  

Family Histories

-- BEADLES-BEEDLE-BEDELL-BEADLE-BEEDLES

• Rice BEADLES
  (ca. 1757 VA - 1825 KY)
  • Wilson Station Cemetery, near Junction City, Boyle Co., KY
  • A deed transferring land from Rice Beadles to John Crain in Mercer County, Kentucky in 1810.
  • John Beadles (1787 VA - 1829 KY)
    • William L. BEADLES - (ca.1823 KY - 1897 KS)
    • Family of Mary D. BEADLES MCCALL
      The link takes you into the Web genealogy of Ron Rittel, one of Mary's descendants.
  • Nathan Beadles
    of Lewistown, Fulton County, Illinois
  • Mary BEADLES and William RANDALL
    • Descendants of Peggy RANDALL SUTTON - granddaughter of Rice BEADLES
  • Rice BEADLES, Jr. (1806-1878)
    • Lewis E. BEADLES (1834-?) [see son John's article]
      • John E. BEADLES (ca. 1859-?) author.
  • Joel BEADLES (1803 KY - 1843 IL) - Thelia McGEE
    • James Harvey BEADLES (1832 IL - 1919) - Mary HANEY
      • Milton L. BEADLES
        
• BEADLES - Orange Co, VA and Cass & Macon Co, IL
  Descendants of Capt. John BEADLES (Rev. War vet 1769-ca. 1824)
  Court Documents in Orange Co, VA mentioning Beadles
• Beadles - Cason connection in Orange Co, VA
• Seaton BEADLES
  • James P. BEADLES
    (ca.1800 KY - ?)
  • William BEADLES
    (ca.1822 KY - 1906 KS)
• BEADLES in central Kentucky (Marion, Mercer, and Washington Cos.) and southern Indiana (Pike Co.)
  • BEADLES in central Kentucky and southern Indiana
  • Marion County, Kentucky
• Family of Lewis Yancey Beadles
  in western Kentucky
  • Descendants of Joe Beadles (1912-1975), Graves Co., KY
• Some Descendants of Bassett Beadles
  in western Tennessee and Kentucky.
  • Dukedom, Tennessee - founded by Duke A. Beadles in the 1830s.
  • Auzie M. Beadles and family
  • Descendents of Marion Beadles, Jr. (ca. 1930-)
  • Some descendants of A.B. Beadles, grandson of Bassett Beadles
• Bedell Families
  from census records in Wabash County, Illinois
• Beadles in Georgia
  has a list of Beadles census, marriage and other records of the family in Georgia.
• Beadles-Sublett Family
  in VA, KY, TN, AL, and TX
• Descendants of Clarence Victor Beadles (1868-1925)
  of Calhoun and Yalobusha Counties, Mississippi
• Descendants of Joseph BEEDLE and Mary MEEKS of Miami Co, OH
  
  • Descendants Tree at Family Treemaker Web site
  • Abram C. BEEDLE (1791-1846)
    of Miami Co, OH, Fountain Co, IN, and Kankakee Co, IL.
    • Abram Collins BEEDLE
      of Fountain Co., IN, Kankakee Co, IL
  • Simeon BEEDLE (1796-1864)
    of Ohio, Indiana, and Story Co, IA.
• BEDELL family
  of Sussex County, NJ and Lakawanna County, PA, USA
• BEEDLES family
  Wales, state of New York, USA, and Greenwood County, Kansas, USA
• BEADLE family
  Genesee Country area of New York, USA
• BEADLE family
  Prince William Co, VA to Montgomery Co, MO
• Berryman BEADLES family
  North Carolina, Kentucky, Scott Co, IL, Kansas
• BEADLE family
  in Iowa
• Will of Samuel BEEDLE
  St. Clair Co., Illinois, 1845

BEAGLES

• John H. BEAGLES
  of McDonough County, Illinois

References to BEADLES

• BEADLES in the American Civil War
  including both Confederate and Union soldiers.
• Land Grants and Tax Lists
  of Beadles and Allied Families in western Kentucky
• Beadles in Jefferson Barracks
  is a list of Beadles buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery
• Deed abstracts from Mercer Co, KY
  which are loosely associated with the Beadles families
• Richard F. Beadle(s)
  Land purchase in Jefferson Co., IL
• Beadle(s), Bedel(l), Beedle(s). . .
  Public Land Sales in Illinois
• Early Illinois Census Returns - Bedell, Biddle, Bittle, Beadle, and Beedle
• Virginia Pension Roll of 1835 - includes Beadles
• Beadles Cemetery, Marion Twp, Pike County, Indiana
• Zada Wade Beadles, Interviewed by Dr. Jack Beadles about life in Cairo, Illinois in the Early 20th Century.

Some of the more famous Beadles/Bedells

• Irwin P. Beadle and the Dime Novel
  In 1860 Irwin P. Beadle & Co. became the first American publisher to issue serialized paperback fiction at the fixed price of 10 cents each. The first dime novels were Indian and pioneer tales spirit. In the 1870s detective adventures, society romances, and rags-to-riches stories were introduced. [More about Dime Novels] [More about Beadle Dime Novels and Beadle & Adams]
• George W. Beadle, Nobel prize winner
  Doctor George Beadle won a Nobel prize in genetics. He was a lecturer at Oxford University, president of the University of Chicago, and was affiliated with Cal-Tech. Cal-Tech has an archive of pictures of George Beadle. You can find the list at www.caltech.edu
• Grace Bedell, persuaded Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard
  Grace was born about 1839. On Oct 15, 1860, she wrote a letter from her home in Westfield, NY, suggesting to Abraham Lincoln that he grow a beard. [Grace's letter and Lincoln's reply]
• William Henry Harrison Beadle, Civil War officer, educator
  Pvt, 1st Lt, Capt of Co. A., 31st Indiana Volunteers, Civil War; Lt. Col. of Michigan Sharpshooters; Brevet Brigadier General; Provost Marshall; Surveryor in Dakota Territory, 1869-1879; Dakota House of Representatives, 1877; Supt of of Public Instruction, 1879-86; Director of Indian school in Oregon, 1888-89; President of S. Dakota State Normal School, 1889-1905; Prof. Emeritus of History, 1905-1911.; Beadle County, S.D. is named for him. [born 1838; died 1915].
  Biography from pp. 193-207 of History of Dakota Territory by Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915)
  from Who's Who in South Dakota by Coursey (1913)
  from History of South Dakota by Robinson, Vol. I, 1904
• John Hanson Beadle, author, attorney, and newspaper man
  Brother of William H. H. Beadle (above), also a member of the 31st Indiana Volunteers, Civil War; [born about 1840; died 1897]
  Quotes on the Web from John H. Beadle's writings:
  • from The Undeveloped West, or Five Years in the Territory
  • from views on what the world would look like in 1993
  
  Titles by John Hanson Beadle (may be incomplete)
  • The undeveloped West; or, Five years in the territories., New York, Arno Press, 1973 [c1873]; LC Call No.: F594.B36 1973
  • 1880 history of Parke County, Indiana , Knightstown, Ind. : Bookmark, 1977; LC Call No.: F532.P2B38 1977

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