The McBeaths

The McBeaths
    Robert McBeath, born June 5, 1763 and died April 21, 1847 at the age of
    83 years, 10 months, 3 days, married Frances __________, born April 23,
    1770, died December 22, 1848 at the age of 78 years, 7 months, 29 days.
    Robert McBeath and his wife, Frances, left Pennsylvania in the middle of
    the 18th century and settled in Tennessee.  They had the following
    children:
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        |Robert McBeath and his wife, Frances, are my Great-Great-Great     
        |Grandparents.                                                      
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     1.  Polly Wilson McBeath, born July 24, 1793.
     2.  Andrew McBeath, born May 26, 1795.
     3.  William McBeath, born November 12, 1799.
     4.  John Dunlap McBeath, born August 14, 1797 in Kirksville, Tennessee;
         died October 10, 1879 at the age of 82 years, 1 month, 26 days and
         is buried in Monticello, Kentucky.  In 1820, John Dunlap McBeath at
         the age of 23, married 17 year old Sarah (Sally) Jones, daughter of
         James Jones and Mary Buster.  Sarah (Sally) Jones McBeath was born
         April 5, 1803 in Monticello, Kentucky and died August 26, 1874 at
         the age of 71 years, 4 months, 21 days and is buried in Monticello,
         Kentucky.  John Dunlap McBeath and Sarah (Sally) Jones McBeath had
         the following children:
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        |James Jones and Mary Buster Jones are my Great-Great-Great         
        |Grandparents.                                                      
        |John Dunlap McBeath and Sarah (Sally) Jones McBeath are my Great-  
        |Great Grandparents.                                                
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        | From "A Century of Wayne County" page 204:                                                    
        | At one time prior to 1939, a count was made of living descendants 
        | of Joshua Jones and it was determined there two thousand scattered
        | throughout the United States.  Joshua Jones left an honored name, 
        | one his numerous descendants are proud to claim.  He was of       
        | unmixed Welsh stock, his family being easily traced to about 1100.
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         a.  Mary J. "Polly" McBeath, born August 18, 1827; married George K.
             Marcum.
         b.  a son, born June 15, 1829, married first Serepta Fleming, second
             Belle Bartelson.
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        |This son is Robert Clinton McBeath. He had three sons:
        | Thomas Frisbie McBeath,
        | Theophilus Jones McBeath, born 1858
        | J. Mark McBeath, born 1865.                                       
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         c.  Frances Jane McBeath, born January 24, 1831; died March 13, 1876
             at the age of 45 years, 1 month, 28 days; married J. Tom Lee.
         d.  Sarah Ann McBeath, born December 1, 1832; died January 8, 1858
             at the age of 25 years, 10 months, 23 days.
         e.  Irene Frisbie McBeath, born July 24, 1834 in Wayne County,
             Kentucky; died April 15, 1905 at the age of 70 years, 8 months,
             26 days.  Irene Frisbie McBeath married William Fletcher Hall.
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        |Irene Frisbie McBeath is my Great Grandmother (my father's         
        |grandmother on his father's side).                                 
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         f.  Elisa McBeath, born December 11, 1837; died May 16, 1875 at the
             age of 37 years, 6 months, 26 days.  Elisa McBeath married
             George Fleming.
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        |From "A Century of Wayne County", page 201:                        
        |Sarah Jones, daughter of James Jones and Mary Buster, married John 
        |McBeath.  Their son, Andrew, who married Susan Gholson, had a      
        |daughter, Susan, who married John Warden.                          
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     5.  Sally McBeath, born December 10, 1801.
     6.  Moses McBeath, born January 19, 1804.
     7.  Archibald McBeath, born May 21, 1806.
     8.  James McBeath, born October 23, 1808.
     9.  Robert McBeath, born June 9, 1815.
    10.  Fanny (Frances) McBeath, born June 9, 1815.
    The following persons were also listed with these records but their
    relationship is unknown. (1/28/2004) I now think these are Robert Clinton
    McBeath's children:
      Theophilus Jones McBeath
      Thomas Frisbie McBeath
      Mary McBeath, married Archibald.
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        |Possibly Archibald Woods Jr.                                       
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        |Susan McBeath, married John Harden.
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        |This Susan McBeath could be the Susan (daughter of Andrew McBeath  
        |and Susan Gholson McBeath) who married John Warden. ????           
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Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Metcalfe County.

J. MARK McBEATH was born April 14, 1865 (the same on which President 
Lincoln was assissinated), in Monticello, Wayne, Co., Ky., and is the 
youngest of four living children born to Robert C. and Sarepta (Fleming) 
McBeath, the former of whom was a native of Fentress County, Tenn., and 
the latter of Wayne County, Ky. They were of Scotch and English descent, 
respectively, and were born June 15, 1829, and August 18, 1833.  When 
but a mere child Robert C. McBeath removed with his parents to Wayne 
County, Ky., where he received a good common school and academic 
education in youth, and where he married.  In early life he taught 
school for a number of years, and was afterward elected school 
commissioner for Wayne County, and held that position for some twelve 
years; he was then employed as a traveling salesman for John P. Morton & 
Co., of Louisville, for abut seven years, since which time he has been 
engaged in teaching at the Merrimac Academy in Taylor County, Ky. From 
early life he has been a consistent member of the Christian Church.  His 
father, John McBeath, was born near the present site of Knoxville, in 
east Tennessee, August 8, 1797, and at one time owend the land on which 
that city is built. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits and at 
merchandising until his death, which occurred October 11, 1879.  His 
father, Andrew McBeath, the great-grandfather of J. Mark, was born in 
the north of Ireland, immigrated to the colony of Pennsylvania in 1750. 
He belonged to the Pennsylvania militia during the war of the 
Revolution, and helped to guard the Hessians captured by Gen. Washington 
at Trenton, J. J., on Christmas day, 1776. Mrs. Sarepta McBeath departed 
this life Decembr 9, 1868; she was all her life a devout member of the 
Christian Church.  At the age of fourteen J. Mark McBeath was employed 
as a salesman in a dry goods sotre at Priceville, KY., remained about 
two years, after which he was employed in an express office for a time. 
In August, 1882, he entered the Glasgow Normal, Scientific and Business 
College, and graduated from that institution with high honors with the 
class of 1883-84. After that he taught for one year at Edmonton, 
Metcalfe County, Ky., and in the spring of 1885 opened a harness and 
saddler shop at that place, where he is doing a good business.  He is 
also assistant postmaster at Edmonton. Mr. McBeath is one of the rising 
young men of the county, and is highly respected by all who know him.

Fleming Lincoln McBeath Taylor Washington
=
Fentress-TN Glasgow-Barren Ireland Knoxville-TN Louisville-Jefferson 
Monticello-Wayne PA Priceville-Hart Taylor Trenton-NJ

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Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Barren County.

THEOPHILUS J. McBEATH, son of Robert C. and Saraepta (Fleming) McBeath, 
was born August 5, 1858, in Wayne County, Ky. He received a good common 
school and academic education in youth, and at the age of eighteen began 
teaching in the public and select schools of the country.  In 1880 he 
removed to Cameron, Clinton Co., Mo., where he followed his profession 
for two years. In 1883 he accepted a position in the Indianola (Texas) 
High School, which, later, he resigned to return to his native State. He 
then took a normal and scientific course at the Glasgow Normal School, 
and received his degree of B. S. in 1884. He then conducted for one year 
the Tompkinsville Academy, at the end of which time he resigned to 
assume the principalship of the Middleburgh Seminary, of which he still 
has charge. March 5, 1885, Prof. McBeath was united in marriage with 
Jennie Chism, a daughter of T. T. and Mary A. (Howard) Chism, both 
natives of Monroe County, where Mrs. McBeath was born December 12, 1865.  
The Professor and wife are members of the Reformed Church.  He is a 
Republican.

Chism Fleming Howard McBeath
=
Cameron-Clinton Glasgow-Barren Indianolo-TX MO Tompkinsville-Monroe 
Wayne

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