This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IhB.2ACI/317 Message Board Post: This is probably a really dumb question but I've looked in fifteen or twenty places that "ought" to have the answer to this question and don't. I thought I'd try people who might actually know the answer. Who or what was Bedford County TN named for? Thanks. Pam