I came across the information somewhere that there were Bedells in Knox County or that area. I cannot provide any help with Nancy Bedell but wonder if she or her kin were any relation to my Bedells (also spelled Beadle, Bedle and Bedel among many other variations!). My Phoebe Beadle married a Fletcher in PA, then a Hall in Ohio and her Fletcher descendants ended up in Yates City. I believe one of her siblings was Francis Bedle. Phoebe was born in Sussex County, NJ in 1770 and apparently her family was among several families that migrated together from state to state through several generations, always heading ever westward! Susan

Bob Miller is going to take over the Knox county web pages for me and I will be the assistant. I haven't had time to do a good job of upkeep and have been just piecing things together. Bob has already made some wonderful changes, all the pictures are being thumbnailed which makes them fast to load and you can just click on them to make them big. I will continue to be the list person here, so hopefully people will do more transcriptions to add to the joint information about Knox county. Thanks, Pat Pat Thomas Post Office Box 885 Winona, Minnesota 55987-0885 1-507-452-8290 mailto:ptthomas@hbci.com Knox County, Illinois USGENWEB Assistant CC http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilknox/knindex.htm