This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BEAM FRANKLIN JONES JOHNSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0UB.2ACI/169.390 Message Board Post: Which Beams? I'm descended from what seems to be a lost line of Beams (no one else is looking for them!). My gggrandfather was Abe Beam. We believe him to be the same Abram Beam, age 17, living with his grandfather George Beam, age 63, in the 1880 Mitchell County census. That's as far back as we know. Abe married Loura Franklin (daughter of General Franklin from TN) and they had four children: Gipsy, Glispie, Glaira, and Gertrude. (I'm descended from Gip.) Abe died early, around 1895, and Loura went on to marry several more times and have many more kids. Does any of this sound familiar? To anyone?? Let me know - always happy to meet more cousins! Thank you, Tara Scarborough