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MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BEAMER, Philip
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 20, 1999
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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 306-307
PHILIP BEAMER
Philip (1763-1838) (Elizabeth , d. 1840) left Reading, Penn., to
go to Tenn., but not finding a suitable location the family came about 1799
to the Plank Cabin Draft near Hillsdale. The journey was made in a large
four-horse wagon. On the land purchased were a hunter's cabin and an acre of
clearing. Here the parents and two or three children lived two years until
better quarters could be provided. C': Elizabeth (Conrad Cart, 1808)-Joseph
(b. 1796) ( --Bayley)-John (1798-1868) (Susan Cart, Harriet Stayley
Fleshman)-Philip (Elspeth Ballan-tyne)-Michael (1801-1882) (Jean Ballantyne,
1824)-George (1805-1877) (Lou ise Byrd) -Henry (Oregon )-Benjamin (0.) -Sarah
(James Crosier. 1820)-Mary (s)-Harriet ( -- Milholland)
C. of John: Amanda (Nicholas Vanstavern)-Mary (Benjamin
Vans-tavern)-Thomas-Calvin (Virginia Parker) - ?Catharine S. (Thomas
Brown, 1845).
C. of Philip: Andrew, Jean, Eliza, Mary C. (1833-1915) (George R. Williams,
1857), Franklin, Louise.
C. of Michael: Rev. Augustus B. (1826-1903) (Romanza Miller)-Eliza S.
(s)-Robert M. (b. 1831) (Mary S. Young, 1853)-Benjamin (1832-1909) (Caroline
Parker).
C. of R. M.-Isabel, Erastus (Elizabeth Baker), Byrd (Minnie Speil-man),
Serena C. (George Anderson), William M., Hugh (Virginia Haw-kins), Laura
(William Hawkins), Walter (Bessie Lynch), Edna L., Elsie L., Asa, Roy (Sarah
Moore).
C. of Benjamin of Michael: Alphonso, Ida, Virginia (William Wimmer), Simpson,
Joseph, Leslie, Dona, Mary.
C. of George: Clementina ( Handley), Mary (William T. Patton), Elizabeth
(Charles Sydenstricker), Byrd (k. '64).
According to the mortuary records of Monroe, John was born in Germany in
1798. Yet the deed-book records the purchase of the Larkin place in 1796
instead of three years later.
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