Individual Details
Anna BUCKALEW
(25 Oct 1784 - 4 Mar 1846)
Unless otherwise noted, information on this family is from gedcom at ancestry.com, not verified.
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by Tom Osborne tlosborne@aol.com, posted 15 Feb 2006.
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Source: Autobiography of George W Bean: Patron Pedigress, LSD Gan Soc; pp 164-171, Archibald F Bennett, Searching with sucess, Temple Index Bureau..
Note: Todd County was formed from Christian County and that is why some of the older records list these places as in Christian County..
WILLIAM BEAN (3), son of William (2) and grandson of William (1), was born about 1777, according to family records. He was the eldest son in the family of William Bean (2) and wife Ann Scott. He appears first on the Kentucky Tax Lists for Livingston County in 1803. Assuming he was 21 at the time he appears on the tax list, his birth date would be 1782 rather than 1777.
The following comment explains how the tax record can be used to calculate births: "Another bright side to an enumeration set on tax records is that up until the 1850 Census only the head of the household was named. In Kentucky when a male became 21 years of age he was to pay a poll tax and therefore he first appears on the tax lists, generally beside his father." (1).
William (3) married Anna Buckalew 20 June 1803 in Livingston County, Kentucky. (Fig. 14) She was born 25 October 1784, Edgefield County, South Carolina, to Garrett and Polly (Newton) Buckalew. (See Buckalew). The original marriage license, reported to be in the McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, Tennessee, and quoted by Jamie Ault Grady in her book, "William Bean, Pioneer of Tennessee" page 209, reads:.
"Know all men by these presents that we William Bean and Robert Scott are held firmly bound unto James Garrard, Esq. Governor of the State of Kentucky in the penal sum of fifty pounds current money of this state to the payment of which we bind ourselves our heirs, Executors, etc., personally by these presents.".
"The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage strictly to be had and solemnized between WILLIAM BEAN and ANNA BUCKALEW both of this county. Now if it shall always hereafter appear that there is no just cause to obstruct said marriage then the above obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force and virtue this 20th day of June 1803.".
William Bean (seal).
Robert Scott (seal) .
"To W. Enoch Prince please to let the bearer William Bean have license on my account for daughter Anna and in so doing you will much oblige your fr[iend] Garrett Buckalew.".
From Livingston County, Kentucky in 1803, William, Jr.(3) and wife Anna Buckalew went to Christian County where he is listed as owning one horse in 1805. This also was the location of his in-laws, the Buckalews. He remains in Kentucky for several years, but by 1807/8 was making plans to move west to Missouri. Seven or eight families from Christian County decided to move together. William Bean (3), Garrett Buckalew, his father-in-law, and a number of Buckalew's other sons-in-law comprised this group. Garrett Bean (4), son of William and Anna, later wrote that they "were poor in the things of this world, for they all together were only able to fit out one waggon." (2) The country was so rugged that their belongings had to be moved part of the time on pack horses.
In May 1808 William was given a bequest in the will of his grandfather, William Scott in South Carolina. By that summer the Beans had settled in St. Charles District, Missouri. (The county was not formed until 1812.) (Fig. 17,18) This country was unbroken wilderness excepting for the village of St. Charles. When the Louisiana Territory was purchased in 1804 from France, who had just gotten it from Spain; it was divided into two parts--the Southern which was designated as the Territory of Orleans and the Northern, which was the District of Louisiana. The latter embraced the present state of Arkansas, Missouri and Iowa, a large part of Minnesota and the vast region extending westward to the Pacific Ocean excepting for the territory claimed by Spain..
William Bean (3) did not enjoy this new country or take part in the toils of settling it for long. According to his son Garrett (4), his father "sickened and died September (or October) 1809 and left my poor mother with three helpless children in very destitute circumstances". (3) Her troubles were compounded with the birth of a posthumous child, William (4), 4 December 1809..
About nine months later, she (Anna Buckalew Bean) married Andrew Edwards, 16 July 1810. He was of St. Charles District, Missouri, He was a son of Thomas Edwards (so named by his grandson, Esaias Edwards in his history, page 82). Andrew was a widower with one daughter, Sarah. She married John Wells and had three sons, Joshua, Andrew and Volney. The latter died young. There were also some daughters born to the Wells family. They lived first on Ramsey's Creek in Missouri thence to Calhoun, Pike County and finally JoDavies County, Illinois in 1845..
Andrew made a claim on 900 arpens (640 acres) of land (survey #738), confirmed 2 Mar 1805 in Calloway Township, St. Charles District. (4) This wasn't surveyed until Apr 1817. The political instability was too great in that region for him to actually take possession of it in his lifetime. So, it was up to his heirs to do that after his death..
Hauck's "History of Missouri" lists an Andrew and David Edwards among the first settlers on the Cuivre River in the early 1800's. Andrew is also listed on the Perrique River with Christopher Zumwalt Sr., and with Joseph McCoy and Eli Buckalew, on Ramsey's Creek in 1811. (5) It was here that Andrew and Anna settled. In 1818 this area was a part of Pike County..
During December of 1811 they had to flee from the Indians who had murdered a local family. This was not an unusual occurrence and so several times in the ensuing years the family had to run to Clark's Fort in neighboring Lincoln County for protection. According to Garrett Bean they had to move from place to place until the War of 1812 was over (1815). Many settlers lost a large portion of their crops and other effects because they didn't think it safe to stay on their property..
The family was raised on the roughest and hardest of fare but schooling was valued, even though it was carried out under very humble circumstances. Garrett and the other children "never attended a school in a house that had a single pane of glass, stove, or plank floor and in winter they wore leather breeches full of siches with leather buttons on and in summer flax and tow that mother and my sisters spun and wove at home." (6).
In April 1820 Andrew served as an election judge for which services he billed the county $3.00. The family lived in Pike and then Lincoln Counties until about 1828. (They may have gone with James Bean in 1826.) Then they moved to Adams County, Illinois, where Andrew purchased a quarter section of land (160 A) 8 October 1828 in the Military Bounty Tract from G. Davis Large for $100. (Fig. 18) On 31 January 1829 John L. Soule and wife sold him another 160 acres in this same tract for $500. The 20 February 1829 Neomiah Eastman Farmington of Strafford County, New Hampshire, sold him another 160 acres there for $200. (7).
On 2 November 1830 Andrew sold William and James Bean 40 acres each for $1.00, (Bk A:402-3) and another 40 acres to Garrett Bean for $1.00 on 30 March 1831 from the same tract..
Andrew Edwards died, intestate, 13 July 1833, Adams County, on his farm on the "John Wood's" prairie. "John's Wood's" prairie later became part of the city of Quincy. Garrett Bean's evaluation of his step-father was typical of most of us, "he was good and bad.".
On 28 July 1835 the Survey #738 of 640.
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tlosborne&id=I06506
by Tom Osborne tlosborne@aol.com, posted 15 Feb 2006.
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/26976760/person/12217328028/mediax/3?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7CpgNum
Source: Autobiography of George W Bean: Patron Pedigress, LSD Gan Soc; pp 164-171, Archibald F Bennett, Searching with sucess, Temple Index Bureau..
Note: Todd County was formed from Christian County and that is why some of the older records list these places as in Christian County..
WILLIAM BEAN (3), son of William (2) and grandson of William (1), was born about 1777, according to family records. He was the eldest son in the family of William Bean (2) and wife Ann Scott. He appears first on the Kentucky Tax Lists for Livingston County in 1803. Assuming he was 21 at the time he appears on the tax list, his birth date would be 1782 rather than 1777.
The following comment explains how the tax record can be used to calculate births: "Another bright side to an enumeration set on tax records is that up until the 1850 Census only the head of the household was named. In Kentucky when a male became 21 years of age he was to pay a poll tax and therefore he first appears on the tax lists, generally beside his father." (1).
William (3) married Anna Buckalew 20 June 1803 in Livingston County, Kentucky. (Fig. 14) She was born 25 October 1784, Edgefield County, South Carolina, to Garrett and Polly (Newton) Buckalew. (See Buckalew). The original marriage license, reported to be in the McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, Tennessee, and quoted by Jamie Ault Grady in her book, "William Bean, Pioneer of Tennessee" page 209, reads:.
"Know all men by these presents that we William Bean and Robert Scott are held firmly bound unto James Garrard, Esq. Governor of the State of Kentucky in the penal sum of fifty pounds current money of this state to the payment of which we bind ourselves our heirs, Executors, etc., personally by these presents.".
"The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage strictly to be had and solemnized between WILLIAM BEAN and ANNA BUCKALEW both of this county. Now if it shall always hereafter appear that there is no just cause to obstruct said marriage then the above obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force and virtue this 20th day of June 1803.".
William Bean (seal).
Robert Scott (seal) .
"To W. Enoch Prince please to let the bearer William Bean have license on my account for daughter Anna and in so doing you will much oblige your fr[iend] Garrett Buckalew.".
From Livingston County, Kentucky in 1803, William, Jr.(3) and wife Anna Buckalew went to Christian County where he is listed as owning one horse in 1805. This also was the location of his in-laws, the Buckalews. He remains in Kentucky for several years, but by 1807/8 was making plans to move west to Missouri. Seven or eight families from Christian County decided to move together. William Bean (3), Garrett Buckalew, his father-in-law, and a number of Buckalew's other sons-in-law comprised this group. Garrett Bean (4), son of William and Anna, later wrote that they "were poor in the things of this world, for they all together were only able to fit out one waggon." (2) The country was so rugged that their belongings had to be moved part of the time on pack horses.
In May 1808 William was given a bequest in the will of his grandfather, William Scott in South Carolina. By that summer the Beans had settled in St. Charles District, Missouri. (The county was not formed until 1812.) (Fig. 17,18) This country was unbroken wilderness excepting for the village of St. Charles. When the Louisiana Territory was purchased in 1804 from France, who had just gotten it from Spain; it was divided into two parts--the Southern which was designated as the Territory of Orleans and the Northern, which was the District of Louisiana. The latter embraced the present state of Arkansas, Missouri and Iowa, a large part of Minnesota and the vast region extending westward to the Pacific Ocean excepting for the territory claimed by Spain..
William Bean (3) did not enjoy this new country or take part in the toils of settling it for long. According to his son Garrett (4), his father "sickened and died September (or October) 1809 and left my poor mother with three helpless children in very destitute circumstances". (3) Her troubles were compounded with the birth of a posthumous child, William (4), 4 December 1809..
About nine months later, she (Anna Buckalew Bean) married Andrew Edwards, 16 July 1810. He was of St. Charles District, Missouri, He was a son of Thomas Edwards (so named by his grandson, Esaias Edwards in his history, page 82). Andrew was a widower with one daughter, Sarah. She married John Wells and had three sons, Joshua, Andrew and Volney. The latter died young. There were also some daughters born to the Wells family. They lived first on Ramsey's Creek in Missouri thence to Calhoun, Pike County and finally JoDavies County, Illinois in 1845..
Andrew made a claim on 900 arpens (640 acres) of land (survey #738), confirmed 2 Mar 1805 in Calloway Township, St. Charles District. (4) This wasn't surveyed until Apr 1817. The political instability was too great in that region for him to actually take possession of it in his lifetime. So, it was up to his heirs to do that after his death..
Hauck's "History of Missouri" lists an Andrew and David Edwards among the first settlers on the Cuivre River in the early 1800's. Andrew is also listed on the Perrique River with Christopher Zumwalt Sr., and with Joseph McCoy and Eli Buckalew, on Ramsey's Creek in 1811. (5) It was here that Andrew and Anna settled. In 1818 this area was a part of Pike County..
During December of 1811 they had to flee from the Indians who had murdered a local family. This was not an unusual occurrence and so several times in the ensuing years the family had to run to Clark's Fort in neighboring Lincoln County for protection. According to Garrett Bean they had to move from place to place until the War of 1812 was over (1815). Many settlers lost a large portion of their crops and other effects because they didn't think it safe to stay on their property..
The family was raised on the roughest and hardest of fare but schooling was valued, even though it was carried out under very humble circumstances. Garrett and the other children "never attended a school in a house that had a single pane of glass, stove, or plank floor and in winter they wore leather breeches full of siches with leather buttons on and in summer flax and tow that mother and my sisters spun and wove at home." (6).
In April 1820 Andrew served as an election judge for which services he billed the county $3.00. The family lived in Pike and then Lincoln Counties until about 1828. (They may have gone with James Bean in 1826.) Then they moved to Adams County, Illinois, where Andrew purchased a quarter section of land (160 A) 8 October 1828 in the Military Bounty Tract from G. Davis Large for $100. (Fig. 18) On 31 January 1829 John L. Soule and wife sold him another 160 acres in this same tract for $500. The 20 February 1829 Neomiah Eastman Farmington of Strafford County, New Hampshire, sold him another 160 acres there for $200. (7).
On 2 November 1830 Andrew sold William and James Bean 40 acres each for $1.00, (Bk A:402-3) and another 40 acres to Garrett Bean for $1.00 on 30 March 1831 from the same tract..
Andrew Edwards died, intestate, 13 July 1833, Adams County, on his farm on the "John Wood's" prairie. "John's Wood's" prairie later became part of the city of Quincy. Garrett Bean's evaluation of his step-father was typical of most of us, "he was good and bad.".
On 28 July 1835 the Survey #738 of 640.
Events
| Birth | 25 Oct 1784 | Burke Co., North Carolina | |||
| Marriage | 20 Jun 1803 | Livingston Co., Kentucky - William BEAN |  | ||
| Marriage | 15 Jul 1810 | Illinois - Andrew EDWARDS | | ||
| Death | 4 Mar 1846 | Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois | |||
| Reference No | 653 |
Families
| Spouse | William BEAN ( - ) |
| Child | James BEAN (1804 - 1882) |
| Child | Mary Ann BEAN (1805 - 1843) |
| Child | Garrett BEAN (1807 - ) |
| Child | William BEAN (1809 - ) |
| Spouse | Andrew EDWARDS (1775 - 1833) |
| Child | Esaias EDWARDS (1812 - 1897) |
| Child | J. Andrew EDWARDS (1813 - 1846) |
| Child | Jesse EDWARDS (1815 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth EDWARDS (1816 - 1885) |
| Child | Jonathan Shin EDWARDS (1818 - 1847) |
| Child | Milton Medford EDWARDS (1820 - 1880) |
| Child | Anna EDWARDS (1823 - 1905) |
| Child | Armilda EDWARDS (1825 - 1908) |
| Child | Eli EDWARDS (1826 - 1904) |
| Father | Garrett BUCKALEW (1744 - 1824) |
| Mother | Mary (Polly) NEWTON ( - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah (Sally) BUCKALEW (1776 - 1834) |
| Sibling | Lydia BUCKALEW (1778 - 1834) |
| Sibling | Eliab BUCKALEW (1779 - 1844) |
| Sibling | Dimpsey BUCKALEW (1780 - 1845) |
| Sibling | Mary Polly BUCKALEW (1781 - 1860) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth BUCKALEW (1782 - 1834) |
| Sibling | Temperance BUCKALEW (1788 - 1850) |
| Sibling | Celia BUCKALEW (1791 - 1841) |
Endnotes
1. Marriage Transcription.
2. Illinois Statewide Marriage Index.