I too am interested in the Beals line. Barbara S. Baker ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Wilson <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 2:36 PM Subject: [TNWASHIN] Campbells, Haws, & Beals from Wash. Co. > Iowa > I am a new member of the Washington County list, prompted to join by the > forwarding of a recent exchange of Wash. Co. List e-mails on John HAWS and > wife Nancy. (Messages were forwarded by my Campbell cousins Oscar and Jan > Williamson, [email protected]) > > I am the Richard Wilson that cousin Jim Hawes referred to in his 1/24 > posting on his g-grandfather John Smith HAWS. Like Jim, I too am trying to > sort out info. on John HAWS, and esp. on his wife Nancy Elizabeth WILSON who > md. (1) John HAWS 1859 in Washington Co. and (2) John F. BEALS 1864 in > Washington Co. > > >From Sue Maxwell's very helpful posting we know that: > > Nancy2 CAMPBELL (Hugh1) b. abt. 1806, d. Sep. 1840, md. John HAWS. Sue > states they had 1 child, John Smith3 HAWS (Nancy2, Hugh1). > > But Nancy d. bef. 13 Oct. 1840, the date John m. (2) R. HAIL. So does this > mean that John Smith3 HAWS, who (according to Jim Hawes) was b.1841 prob. > Wash. Co., TN, was s. of John HAWS and R. HAIL, not Nancy CAMPBELL?! Since > Sue seems sure that John Smith3 HAWS was Nancy's son, I suspect he may have > been b. 1840; possibly mother Nancy d. in childbirth with him. > > Jim Hawes -- are you sure about this 1841 b.d.? > This John Smith3 HAWS (b. 1841) d. 27 Jan. 1863 in Hospital 15, Louisville, > KY -- mbr. of Co. B, 4th TN Cavalry (US). He md. Nancy Elizabeth WILSON 12 > Sept. 1859 in Washington Co., TN. > Can anyone shed any light on antecedents of this Nancy WILSON? Here's what > I know (or think I know): > Nancy Elizabeth WILSON b. 26 Jan. 1839 in PA (??). She gave PA as her b.p. > in 1910 census for Scott Twp., Johnson Co., Iowa [Nancy E. BEALS], and her > parents' birthplace as North Carolina (for both of them). [Note that her > son Charles Oscar Malcolm BEALS (1865-1940) gives his mother Nancy's > birthplace as TN in 1900 census for Johnson Co., IA, while Nancy reportedly > gives her b.p. as PA in 1910 census, Scott Twp., Johnson Co., IA. I have a > hunch she was b. Washington Co., TN.] > Nancy md. (1) John Smith3 HAWS 12 Sept. 1859 in Washington Co., TN. Nancy > and John HAWS had 1 child: > 1. John William Squib HAWS, b. 17 June 1860, md. Sarah Elizabeth > DOUGLAS 28 Feb. 1878 Wash Co., TN(?). > Nancy WILSON md. (2) John F. BEALS 25 Aug. 1864 Washington Co., TN. John F. > BEALS was the son of Joseph BEALS, Jr. and Mary SHERFY/SHERFIG. Nancy was > living in Jonesboro in 1890; she d. 26 Feb. 1916 in Iowa City, Johnson Co., > IA. She and John F. BEALS had 5 children: > 1. Charles Oscar Malcolm BEALS, b. 26 May 1865 Jonesboro, md. 30 > July 1890 in Washington Co., TN, Ida Myrtle CAMPBELL, dau. of Henderson > (Henry) Clark CAMPBELL and Martha Ann MCGINNIS. (Charles and Ida BEALS > moved from Washington Co. to Iowa City, IA, in 1895.) > 2. James F. C. BEALS, b. 26 Jan. 1878, Jonesboro. > 3. Melvin S. BALES, b. 7 Dec. 1875 Jonesboro, m. Fanny KINSINGER. > 4. Lydia Ellen BEALS, b. 28 May 1877 Jonesboro, m. John H. SUSONG. > 5. George BEALS, b. 31 Aug. 1879 Johnson City, m. Lady Jo KIRBY. > So -- any help on clearing up the b.d. (1840? 1841) of John Smith3 HAWS, or > on this Nancy WILSON line? > Thanks, > Richard Wilson > Seattle, WA > > >