I found two Biographies which I think are L6--I don't want to type them if you already have them! I could not find them posted. From "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Monongalia, Marion and Taylor Counties, West Virginia Compriding About Five Hundred Sketches Of the Prominent And Representaive Citizens of These Counties", 1895 One is page 19 Newton S. Beatty--quite a long one giving his parents as James C. and Maria (Dent) Beatty, Alexander Beaty paternal grandfather. The other is page 86 Ezra Shuman son of Joshua and Mariam (Amos) Shuman--grandfather John Shuman who "emigrated from near Philadelhia to what is known as Minster's run, Marion County, them Monongalia county...He had two brothers --Philip and another who served in the Revolutionary War...he married Elizabeth Smith, and they became parents of fourteen children, as follows: Mary, Rachel, Catherine, Joseph, Benjamin, Jacob, (one that died in infancy), Letitia, John, Sophia, David, Elizabeth, Hannah and Joshua...." Laurel Baty, L252

Laurel, You are correct on the first one as being L-6, but the second one, while it is indeed part of my family, is not directly related to the BEATY family. Joshua Shuman was a younger brother of Joseph Shuman who married Elizabeth BEATY, oldest child of Alexander BEATY, first known ancestor of the L-6 line. Those histories are some of the "vanity" histories published during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We've scoured through them for facts, but have had to take what they say with a pretty big lump of salt sometimes <g>. That's why we've not posted them online anywhere, although those who are curious can view our "version" of the early history at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~shuman/genealogy.html. Thanks for pointing them out. JS At 10:26 pm +0000 2/14/04, laurelbaty@comcast.net wrote: >I found two Biographies which I think are L6--I don't want to type them if you >already have them! I could not find them posted. From "Biographical and >Portrait Cyclopedia of Monongalia, Marion and Taylor Counties, West Virginia >Compriding About Five Hundred Sketches Of the Prominent And Representaive >Citizens of These Counties", 1895 > >One is page 19 Newton S. Beatty--quite a long one giving his parents >as James C. and Maria (Dent) Beatty, Alexander Beaty paternal >grandfather. The other is page 86 Ezra Shuman son of Joshua and >Mariam (Amos) Shuman--grandfather John Shuman who "emigrated from >near Philadelhia to what is known as Minster's run, Marion County, >them Monongalia county...He had two brothers --Philip and another >who served in the Revolutionary War...he married Elizabeth Smith, >and they became parents of fourteen children, as follows: Mary, >Rachel, Catherine, >Joseph, Benjamin, Jacob, (one that died in infancy), Letitia, John, Sophia, >David, Elizabeth, Hannah and Joshua...." > >Laurel Baty, L252 > > >==== BP2000 Mailing List ==== >Visit the BP2000 Web Page >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bp2000/ -- _________________ James Shuman jshuman@telis.org _________________