Artists, Poets, Authors
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As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.
James McNeil Whistler |
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter Scott |
Deer & Hounds, freehand scissor cutting by Henrietta (Netta) Gray Bedinger
Artistic talent in the Bedinger family has been demonstrated through the generations. Is artistic talent developed through environment and training or is artistic talent inherited? Perhaps both. We will let the reader decide, but notable artistic talent is found in the European ancestral lines of the von Schlegel and the Rutherford families. The Von Schlegel family is noted for poetry composition through the generations, the stellar accomplishments of the brothers August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel, romanticists of German literature, and the paintings of the renowned Lucas Cranach. The Rutherford family brings into the Bedinger family the genetic inheritance of none other than the Scottish poet Sir Walter Scott, whose mother was a Rutherford. The Rutherford and von Schlegel lines are combined in the children of Daniel Bedinger (7), a poet himself, and his wife Sarah Rutherford. We shall exhibit some of the poetry and art of their children and that of their offspring in succeeding generations. The artistic talent in the American generations of Bedingers is revealed in paintings, drawings, scissor cuttings, calligraphy, prose, poetry, and musical ability. Objects of art, poetry and writing are found in documents, memorabilia and publications, collected by family members and held in private and public collections. Objects of art and poetry were more amenable to being held and passed down than the work of instrumental and vocal musical artists. We have scarce anecdotal references to musical talent in the earlier generations, but today, with electronic recordings, we should preserve the works of the musical artists of our family.
Second Generation
Henry Bedinger (4)
Daniel Bedinger (7)
Third Generation
Virginia Ann Bedinger (Lucas)(43)
Henrietta Bedinger (Lee)(44)
Henry Bedinger III (45)
Fourth Generation
Lawrence Berry Washington (107)
Sarah Eleanor Washington (110)
Benjamin Franklin Washington (111)
Mary Elizabeth Washington (Asbury) (113)
Thornton Augustin Washington (114)
Anna Bedinger Cornwall (122)
Sarah Jerusha Cornwall (123)
Daniel Bedinger Lucas (130)
Virginia Bedinger Lucas (131)
Edwin Gray Lee (132)
Rev. Henry Bedinger Lee(136)
Mary Bedinger (Mitchell) (140)
Caroline Dane Bedinger (Danske Dandridge) (142)
Fifth Generation
Henrietta Gray (Netta) Bedinger (199)
Virginia Lucas (311)
Rebecca Rust Lee [Styled as Rebecca Burwell Lee](338)
Margery Bedinger (355)
Serena Katherine Dandridge (356)
Sixth Generation
Nina Celeste Bedinger (Askew) (406)
Edward Rentfro Bedinger
Mildred Louise Bedinger (Rhea)
Alexandra Lee (Levin) (585)
Seventh Generation
Thelma Celeste Bedinger (Dobson)
William Eugene Bedinger
Eighth Generation
Davis Griffith-Cox
George Michael Bedinger
Mary Elizabeth Bedinger
Sally Sue Dobson (Ingram)
Michelle Kirstin Fikse
Ninth Generation
Jordan
Thomas
Katie