Evelina was the daughter of Edward Beare and his wife Mary (Mitchell). They came out to South Australia when Evelina was six months old. They lived in Kent Town, and Evelina was educated at the Advanced School for Girls. Edward Beare set up a business in Pulteney Street making Ventian blinds, and later ran a hotel in Port Adelaide.
Evelina had four sisters and a brother (also Edward Beare). She became a member of the Pirie St Young Men's Literary Society which was attached to the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Pirie St, being accepted as an associate on the 10th April 1891. She was a member of the Literary Societies' Union, and the only published writing of hers to have been discovered so far was a novella, 'The Old and the New', included in their 1894 Year Book as winner of 1st prize in the Novelette section of the Union's annual writing competition in 1893. The Literary Societies' Union Combined Programmes show her on several occasions to have provided the musical 'Overture' for the meeting.
In 1902 she married William Hayley Bedford, a commercial traveller, whose address at first was Norwood, then Black Forest, then 62 Rose Terrace Wayville. She lived at Wayville from the 1930s until 1967. They had six children, one of whom died of diphtheria at the age of seven. Evelina died in 1967 at the age of 93, and is buried in the West Terrace Cemetery.
