Hi Shirley, I don't have a clue about the origin of the name. I lean toward it being related to abstinence from alcohol. Most all churches had a Temperance Society in olden times. This lady was Temperance Robards Bledsoe, wife of Henry Bledsoe a brother of my gg-grandfather, Aaron Bledsoe. John

Hi John , Thank You for your information ,the name Bledsoe sounds familar, Maybe we are related and don't know it. My family so far are TAYLOR , BRINSON , GROOMS , FERGUSON , COX , OWEN'S , PENNINGTON'S , AYDOLETTE , LARSON , DONNER , ARMSTRONG , WILLIAMS , HAYES , SNYDER , GATLIFF , WALKER , WALLS , PELERINE , WILKERSON , BRYANT , STAVONOLA , SEABOLT , WEAVER , just to mention a few. Shirley "John A. Foster" wrote: > Hi Shirley, > I don't have a clue about the origin of the name. I lean toward it > being related to abstinence from alcohol. Most all churches had a > Temperance Society in olden times. This lady was Temperance Robards > Bledsoe, wife of Henry Bledsoe a brother of my gg-grandfather, Aaron > Bledsoe. > > John > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

My husband's great-grandmother was a Bledsoe from Missouri. I have a great deal of information about the Bledsoes in a three-volume self-published genealogy by a Bledsoe researcher, Banks McLaurin, Jr. I can do a lookup if you'd like. (I do find Henry Bledsoe and Temperance Robards Bledsoe in Volume 3 of this work, by the way.) At 01:27 PM 11/13/02 -0800, you wrote: >Hi John , Thank You for your information ,the name Bledsoe sounds familar, >Maybe we >are related and don't know it. My family so far are TAYLOR , BRINSON , >GROOMS , >FERGUSON , COX , OWEN'S , PENNINGTON'S , AYDOLETTE , LARSON , DONNER , >ARMSTRONG , >WILLIAMS , HAYES , SNYDER , GATLIFF , WALKER , WALLS , PELERINE , >WILKERSON , BRYANT >, STAVONOLA , SEABOLT , WEAVER , just to mention a few. Shirley > >"John A. Foster" wrote: > > > Hi Shirley, > > I don't have a clue about the origin of the name. I lean toward it > > being related to abstinence from alcohol. Most all churches had a > > Temperance Society in olden times. This lady was Temperance Robards > > Bledsoe, wife of Henry Bledsoe a brother of my gg-grandfather, Aaron > > Bledsoe. > > > > John > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237