This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: beesley, beasley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/plC.2ACEB/1108 Message Board Post: My great-grandfather was Henry Wilgerson Bea/esley (b. 23 Dec 1894, Pontiac MO; d. Oct 1973, Beggs, OK). I think we have traced him back to a John Beasley, b. 1685 on Beesley Island, Craven Co., NC, but we are not sure. Henry's mother was Martha Jane Burns (b. 6 Sept 1860, Kentucky, d. 23 May 1942 in Oklahoma), and his father was John Beesley (b. 30 Mar 1850, Warren Co., KY, d. 1898). I have found a lot of information on everyone EXCEPT HW Beesley. It's almost as though he did not exist, though he did have a Social Security Number and I have seen his headstone in the Okfuskee Cemetery. I know that he was married twice. His second wife, Ezra Esther Owen, gave birth to 14 children (one being my grandmother, Dorothy). I need information on his first wife and their children (seven or eleven, I'm not sure which), whose names include Charles Frank (b. 1917, d. 1973), Jewel (b. 1914, d. 1931), Flay, Fray, Duff, Ida, and Hazel. We need any information anyone has on Henry Wilgerson, and would also like to know if we are on the right track following him back to Solomon (1707, Beasley Island) and John (1685, Beasley Island). Any tiny bit of information would be greatly appreciated.