Clifford: There is speculation/confusion over whether the John Beckelhymer, Jr who married Charity Harger in Franklin County, VA circa Sep 7, 1803 was the son of the John Beckelhymer who married Barbara Weddle and who died in Clermont County, OH in 1812 or whether the John Beckleshymer, with wife Anna, who lived in Fulton County, IL was the son of John and Barbara. I have even heard speculation that Charity and Anna were one and the same person, i.e., Charity Anna Harger. Have you found any courthouse records in PA for the marriage of John and Anna Henry? Also, where did the info about the old bible come from? Is it still in existence? Was the LDS group sheet you mentioned, one of the ones the LDS Church used to keep years ago in those big black binders (I haven't seen any entry in the ancestry files)? The John who was the son of John and Barbara was known to have served in the War of 1812 in Captain Haines mounted volunteers and his widow is supposed to have applied for a pension, receiving bounty land in return for her husband's service. I plan on trying to find these records at the National Archives when next I am in Washington, DC (where my mother-in-law lives) Regarding your Charles Behymer, I just ordered some microfilms from the LDS Church that contain the chancery court records for Fulton County, IL. One interesting item I found was the following: Charles, Diantha, Hezekiah, Charlotte and Lewis are listed as children and heirs of Charles Behymer, late of IN deceased and still residing there in the settlement of the estate of John Behymer circa 1850. I have received a large number of family group sheets on the John Behymer who settled in Fulton County, IL and his descendants from Sallye Gundy who has done an extraordinary amount of research on the Behymers over the years. She and I are both quite active on the Behymer mailing list. You should re-subscribe to the list as there is quite often some interesting data that comes across. With her permission, I could forward some of these to you, if you provide me your address. You should also check out the new Behymer web page that I created (I just posted an update today). Point your browser to http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JohnDoeTippet/ I am hoping that this can be used as the single repository of the generally-accepted version of the Behymer genealogy. Of course, for this to happen, I need a lot of inputs/comments from the members of the mailing list. Comments? John Charles Tippet JohnDoeTippet@csi.com ---------- > From: Clifford C. Trimble <cct71@nconnect.net> > To: johndoetippet@csi.com > Cc: saundman@essex1.com > Subject: Beckelshymer Surname Research: > Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 12:24 PM > > John & Merle: I wanted to answer both your last E-Mails so I figured it > best to send you both the same info and see how it goes with what you > have. > John Beckelshymer, B-11 Mar 1780, D-9 Apr 1847: > According to a Family Group Record I have from LDS, John married > Anna Henry on 12 Aug 1806 in Philadelphia. She was born either in > Wales Or England according to an old family bible. B-8 Oct 1785, > D-16 May 1852. This also per LDS. > Merle, you reference to John marrying a Charity Ann Harger on 7 Sep 1803 > in Franklin County, Virginia. B-8 Oct 1783, D-16May 1862. This > you had gotten from another Beckelshymer researcher. > With the references we also have from LDS and John & myself, I feel the > only way that could have happend would have been for John to go to Vir., > marry Charity in 1803 and after divorce go to Philadelphia and marry > Anna Henry in 1806. Will try to run down some applicable documents to > get that straightened out. > Merle: I will do some checking on whom you had listed as possible > parents of John. > John: With reference to the section of your E-Mail listed marriages > not accounted for etc., I submit the following > Charles R. (Behymer) Beckelshymer married Rachel Lavina Holmes on > 16 Feb 1860 in Ipava, Fulton, Ill. His oldest son was my direct > descendent. Willard. > Diantha Beckelshymer married Ezekial Clark on 19 Dec 1849. She was > Charles's sister. Andrew Beckelshymer was their father. > Hezekiah Beckelshymer served with Charles in the 103rd Illinois > Infantry and died of wounds at a Marietta, Georgia Hospital on > 23 Aug 1864. > Nothing on the others you had listed. I have many updates on the > info you sent me and am also working with a descendent of another > of John's sons, Alexander. > All I have as far as John & Anna and their birth places is what I > have here plus the record from LDS. Will close this for now and > get this off to you both. I was plugged into the Behymer Group > but I got a ton of E-Mail but none I could tie in so I went off it > for the time being. Would get back into it, if I could get some > info to use. Both of you take it easy and I will do the same. > Cliff Trimble cct71@nconnect.net