Ralph was born in 1864. He is the son of Benjamin Tedford and Harriet Shaw.
Ralph Henry Tedford, born January 30, 1864, at my Grandfather Tedford's Home, Pleasant Valley, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. My father was a seagoing man, went aboard ship at the age of 15 and followed the sea most of the time as cook until he was 36; part of the time as First Mate. I crossed the Bay of Fundy from Digby, Nova Scotia to St. John, N.B., three times before I was six years old. When but five years and three months old I began to go to school, walking five miles each day for nearly five months missing only two days. One day it rained too hard; the other there was no one to go with me. My teacher was a Captain Saunders, 1st class. [Note: At that time public school teachers in New Brunswick were certified as "1st Class" or "2nd Class".] I was in the Fourth Reader when I quit school. In the fall of 1869 I crossed the Bay for the third time, leaving Digby, Nova Scotia, for St. John, New Brunswick, on our way to Grandfather Shaw's, at Windsor, N.B. We went by cab from St. John to a small out-of-the-way place where we met Father who came ashore from his ship to spend the night witn us -- Mother, myself and two small brothers, William Arthur and Harry Judson. In the morning Father said goodbye and returned to his ship. We continued our journey up the St. John River in the old "Side Wheel Steamer". I think it was called "The Bonnie Doon." We were met at Hartland by Grandfather Shaw, who took us to his home, where we lived for a little over a year. In the spring of 1870 I began to go to school in what was then called the "Stockford" schoolhouse, about a mile and a half away from a brook that was named "Gin Brook". I don't know why, for when I went in swimming, it didn't taste any different to me than other water. (Written about 1944 by Ralph Tedford)
Ralph married 2nd Maria Pushaw. There were no children in either marriage.
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