1. The United States Census records of Monroe County, Mississippi for the year of 1850...
2. David was a Chaplin in the War Between the States 1861-1865...
3. David was a well known Missionary Baptist preacher sent out by Prospect Church in Laurens County, South Carolina.
4. He was sent to Monroe County, Mississippi as a missionary from Prospect Church in Laurens County, South Carolina where he founded the New Prospect Baptist Church in Monroe County, Mississippi.
5. Information from Mrs. W. Fred Irwin's records page 4 Apr 17, 1963, and from George W. Howell, Jr.
1. Sarah & Frank were married by T. J. Morris...
2. Virginia Campbell said date of marriage was 27 Aug 1850...by T. J. Morris...
3. The 1870 U. S. Census,Tuscaloosa County, North Port, Alabama, lists Sarah's age as 51, which, would make her born about 1819....She no doubt was of sound mind at the time of the Census and certainly should have known her own age...with that, this writer will discard the alternate year of birth of 1824 that the 1860 Tuscaloosa, Alabama Census indicates.
1. Horatio served in Company I, Third Alabama Volunteer Regement.
2. At age of 17 he was in the Civil War, on 14 Sep 1862, he lost his left leg just below the knee at Battle of South Mountain, Maryland.
3. He was a Prisoner of War.
4. He shared pairs of shoes with a blak manin his community who had lost his right leg.
5. On 7 Aug 1867 he made an application for an artificial limb.
6. On 30 Apr 1881 he received an artificial leg.
7 He drew a Civil War Pension of $17.96 per month until his death.
1. Samuel & Malinda had eleven children born to them, all of them being born in Laurens County, South Carolina, before they moved to Monroe County, Mississippi, in December 1849.
2, One of the eleven children died in infancy.
3. The other ten married & reared families...
4. Sources: The 1850 Census records of Monroe County, Mississippi.
George W. Howell, Jr.
Mrs. Irena Beeks Rye
1. Malinda may have been going by the Andrews name at time of marriage...
1. Five Beeks brothers came to this country about the close of the Revolutionary War from Scotland....
1. Oscar M. Wilkinson, Jr. reports that Enoch had nine brothers and sisters.