Bedford was born in Kentucky, son of John Rowland and Sarah A (Maiden name unknown), both born in Kentucky. The Rowlands originally came to Kentucky from Virginia, where John's father was born. In the 1880 census, Bedford was 16 years old, born about 1864. Other sources indicate it might have been 1865 or 1866.
He moved to Ethel, Arkansas, near the White River, and lived the rest of his life there. In Ethel he met and married Maggie Ella McSwain, daughter of Phillip K McSwain and Martha Elizabeth Padgett.
According to his granddaughter Shirley Rowland Mitchell, Bedford is buried in a family cemetery along with several others of the family, in unmarked graves on the old Rowland-Jones farm. He died between 1914, when his last child was born, and the 1920 census, when Maggie was a widow. Shirley suggests it was about 1917.
Only natural stones mark the graves, no monuments. The graves are in a woods behind the house where his daughter Sarah Elizabeth Rowland and her husband James (Jim) Jones later lived with her family after Maggie died. The original house on the property was farther back in the woods.
He moved to Ethel, Arkansas, near the White River, and lived the rest of his life there. In Ethel he met and married Maggie Ella McSwain, daughter of Phillip K McSwain and Martha Elizabeth Padgett.
According to his granddaughter Shirley Rowland Mitchell, Bedford is buried in a family cemetery along with several others of the family, in unmarked graves on the old Rowland-Jones farm. He died between 1914, when his last child was born, and the 1920 census, when Maggie was a widow. Shirley suggests it was about 1917.
Only natural stones mark the graves, no monuments. The graves are in a woods behind the house where his daughter Sarah Elizabeth Rowland and her husband James (Jim) Jones later lived with her family after Maggie died. The original house on the property was farther back in the woods.
Bedford was born in Kentucky, son of John Rowland and Sarah A (Maiden name unknown), both born in Kentucky. The Rowlands originally came to Kentucky from Virginia, where John's father was born. In the 1880 census, Bedford was 16 years old, born about 1864. Other sources indicate it might have been 1865 or 1866.
He moved to Ethel, Arkansas, near the White River, and lived the rest of his life there. In Ethel he met and married Maggie Ella McSwain, daughter of Phillip K McSwain and Martha Elizabeth Padgett.
According to his granddaughter Shirley Rowland Mitchell, Bedford is buried in a family cemetery along with several others of the family, in unmarked graves on the old Rowland-Jones farm. He died between 1914, when his last child was born, and the 1920 census, when Maggie was a widow. Shirley suggests it was about 1917.
Only natural stones mark the graves, no monuments. The graves are in a woods behind the house where his daughter Sarah Elizabeth Rowland and her husband James (Jim) Jones later lived with her family after Maggie died. The original house on the property was farther back in the woods.
He moved to Ethel, Arkansas, near the White River, and lived the rest of his life there. In Ethel he met and married Maggie Ella McSwain, daughter of Phillip K McSwain and Martha Elizabeth Padgett.
According to his granddaughter Shirley Rowland Mitchell, Bedford is buried in a family cemetery along with several others of the family, in unmarked graves on the old Rowland-Jones farm. He died between 1914, when his last child was born, and the 1920 census, when Maggie was a widow. Shirley suggests it was about 1917.
Only natural stones mark the graves, no monuments. The graves are in a woods behind the house where his daughter Sarah Elizabeth Rowland and her husband James (Jim) Jones later lived with her family after Maggie died. The original house on the property was farther back in the woods.
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