John D Bedell (Bedel)

BEDELL - OR - BEDEL

Posted By: Mary E Boyer (email)
Date: 11/29/2006 at 09:29:56

BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN D BEDELL (BEDEL)*
Pioneers of Marion County - Page 167
Red Rock Township - Marion County - Iowa

Mr. B. was born in Bath county, Kentucky, September 25, 1817; from whence he emigrated to Montgomery county, Missouri, in the fall of ‘30, and from thence to Van Buren county, Iowa, in the fall of ‘42, and made a claim near the present site of Farmington, and erected a cabin. Two weeks after making this claim he sold it and returned to Missouri. But early in the spring of ‘43 he returned to Iowa, and at Iowaville met and formed the acquaintance of a Frenchman named Lewis Leplant, who could converse in the Indian language, with whom he formed a sort of co-partnership in an expedition into the new purchase in quest of a location for a settlement.
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*There is more history on Mr Bedell (Bedel) within the pages of Pioneers of Marion County.

Transcribed by Mary E. Boyer for Iowa Gen Project - Marion County