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Beaty Family-related Articles from History of Fentress County (1987)
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Lineage of Charlotte Jane “Lottie” Beaty Franklin
Possibly written by Mavis Opal Franklin Cravens Manis
Charlotte Jane Beaty was the daughter of Richard and Lydia Stephens Beaty. She was born September 4, 1879 in Glenobey, Fentress County, Tennessee. She was the granddaughter of David and Jane Smith Beaty Jr. The Great Grandaughter of David and Sarah Stephens Beaty. She was also the Great Grandaughter of George and Lydia Ann Wilson Beaty. Lottie Jane’s mother was Lydia Ann Stephens, daughter of Andrew Jackson and Charlotte Beaty Stephens.
Lottie Jane married James Walter Franklin. They lived in Fentress County, Tennessee in the Boatland area on a forty acre farm valued at $200.00. They raised ten children on this farm. Jim died July 14, 1941, Lottie Jane then moved to Crossville, Tennesse, she died in Crossville on October 18, 1958 at the age of 79.
Richard Beaty
Richard Beaty was born March 24, 1849 in Boatland, Fentress County, Tennessee. He was the first son of David and Jane Smith Beaty. Richard married his second cousin, Lydia Ann Stephens. She was born on Jan. 6, 1857 in Glenobey, Tennessee.
Richard and Lydia had eleven children:
1. Emma Etter b. March 29, 1882. She married Luke Hall.
2. Charlotte Jane b. Sept. 4, 1879. She married James Walter Franklin.
3. Dice b. 1883-d. 1978. She married Harve Smith.
4. Mary Ann b. April 18, 1886. She married Cullum Beaty.
5. Margaret b. March 2, 1890-d. May 29, 1986. She never married.
6. Alva Beaty, she married Landon Threet.
7. Pearl, she married Clarence Atkinson.
8. John Allen, he married Emiline Hall.
9. Walter b. Sept. 4, 1888-d. April 1978. He married Mary Downs.
10. Ben b. June 5, 1895-d. Dec. 1984. He married Forest Conatser.
11. Pat, he married Mable Conatser.
Richard and Lydia are buried in the Elijah Watters Cemetery on Glenobey Rd. Richard died Feb. 25, 1936, Lydia died March 25, 1923.
David Beaty Jr.
David Beaty Jr. was born about 1823 in Boatland, Fentress Co. Tennessee. He was the son of David and Sarah Stephens Beaty. He lived on his father’s farm on the Obey River until he married in 1844. He married Jane Smith, she was the daughter of Richard and Elender Means Smith. David and Jane had seven children:
1. Catherine b. March 8, 1845-d. August 13, 1916. She married Hiram Cyrus Beaty, he was the son of Thomas and Jane Mullinex Beaty.
2. Lodicey b. 1847, she married Clairborn Beaty. He was the son of Tinker Dave Beaty and Ava Collier.
3. Richard b. March 24, 1849-d. Feb. 25, 1936.
4. Marion B. b. May 1850-d. Nov. 10, 1895. He married Martha Emiline King.
5. Clemons , he married Lottie Bowden.
6. Julia Ann b. June 1856. She married James Stephens b. Nov. 1848.
7. Ellen, she married Cull Threet.
David Beaty Sr.
David Beaty Sr. was born in 1783. He was the son of John and Margaret Montgomery Beaty Sr. He married Sarah Stephens about 1807. She was the daugher of Thomas Grainger and Sarah Miller Stephens. Sarah was the sister to Zoralbabel Stephens. David and Sarah settled on the East Fork of the Obey River in Boatland, Tennessee. David and Sarah had fifteen Children:
1. George b. 1808, he married Agnes Boles.
2. Jenetta b. 1810, she married David Conatser.
3. Mary b. 1812, she married William Reagan
4. Ann b. 1814, she married Sampson Solomon.
5. John b. 1815, he maried Narcissa Hinds.
6. Ida b. 1816, she married Nathaniel Franklin b. bet 1800-1810.
7. Jeremiah “Jerry” b. 1818, He married Sarah Choate.
8. David Jr. b. 1820.
9. Catherine b. 1822, she married Jacob Cooper.
10. Rita b. 1824, she married William King.
11. Sarah b. 1826, she never married.
12. Julia b. 1828, she married Asberry Wilson.
13. Nancy b. 1829, she married A. L. Shoops
14. Cuzzy Jane b. 1831, she married John C. Albertson
15. Artemia b. 1833, she married Mose Phillips.
David Beaty Sr. died sometime between 1850 and 1860
John Beaty Sr.
John Beaty Sr. was born in Ireland about 1725. At age 22 he came to America settling in Pennsylvania. John married Margaret Montgomery, daughter of Thomas Montgomery. Margaret was born about 1730. John Beaty Sr. had eleven children, some believe that Margaret was not the mother of all of the children.
1. Andrew b. 1758 in Pennsylvania-d. July 19, 1836 in Fentress Co, TN. He was a Revolutionary War Veteran. He enlisted in the spring of 1777 at age nineteen. He served three months as a Private, and re-enlisted several times after that. He married Elizabeth Cooper, the daughter of John and Margaret Steele Cooper.
2. Thomas b. 1750
3. James b. Feb. 15, 1752 Chester Co., Pa.-d. aft. 1835. He also served in the Revolutionary War, four campaigns under Capt. Nichols. He married Mary Catherine Smith.
4. Phoebe b. Feb. 15, 1752, she was twin sister to James.
5. Martin b. 1774 in Washington Co, Va.-d. 1856. He drilled salt-water wells between Burkesville and Somerset, Ky. In 1829 he accidentally struck oil near Burkesville, Ky.
6. Pleasant b. 1770 Pa.
7. Captain William b. Mary 1, 1760-d. Jan. 11, 1836. He also served in the Revolutionary War.
8. Alexander M. b. 1768 in Chester Co., Pa. He married Catherine Travis.
9. John Jr. b. 1780, he married an Abagail.
10. David Beaty b. 1783-d. 1850.
11. George b. 1785Pa. He marrried Lydia Ann Wilson, after the death of Lydia he married Hannah Graham. He was the father of Tinker Dave Beaty, he organized Beaty’s Company of Independent Scouts to protect the home front during the Civil War.
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Saga of the Beatys
A book by Ruth Holt Payne. Introduction by Mike Allen: “This little book formed the basis for lineage 002 of The Beaty Project 2000. It may be incorrect in the assumptions that all the first generation Beaty men are brothers. There were two David Beatys that are considered sons of John Beaty and Margaret Montgomery. Other researchers assert that the David Beaty (c1787 – c1850) who married Sarah Sallie Stephens and who remained in TN was the son of John and Margaret. Mrs. Hilton, however maintains that the David Beaty, (February 05, 1789 – c1874), who married Jean (Jane) Crockett, was the son of John and Margaret. In any case, the account of the other children contained in this book has been documented by other sources.
From the book:
[page 7] In 1799 inspired by pioneers such as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett who had blazed a trail into Kentucky in 1780 via Cumberland Gap country, four Beaty brothers, Alexander, James, William, and Andrew, and a Martin Beaty, evidently related, come to Cumberland County, Kentucky (now Clinton County). They settled along Lick Creek and each took up at least 200 acres, all adjoining.
Another group of Beatys, David, George, John, and Pleasant, settled just across the Kentucky line from the first group, in Fentress County, Tennessee. At this writing we have no actual proof of which group the Kentucky brothers are descendants but most researchers believe they were from the Virginia–Tennessee group. A Pension claim statement made by Andrew Beaty seems to bear this out. There was a Beaty school and cemetery there and the community was known as Beatyville.
[page 8] David, son of George Beaty, known as “Tinker David”, organized a company of Home Guards for the Union during the Civil War and caused quite a bit of trouble for the many Beaty relatives whose sympathies were with the South. David’s son, Captain Claiborne Beaty, also served on the Union side.
Family loyalties were often split by loyalty to North or South and one member of the family was a Union spy. He was overheard by another member who was a Southern sympathizer, to say three of the Beaty boys were to be his next victims. They were duly warned and escaped just in time.
Other contemporary families on the Fentress County line, who were to be connected by marriage to both groups of Beatys, were the William Travis, the Jeremiah Odle and the Crockett families. (As this book progresses it will be seen how the connections come in.)
William Travis lived on Caney Fork of Wolf Creek in 1817 and probably came to this part of Tennessee in 1799 with the other early arrivals. William Travis’ wife was Polly Crockett, related to the historical figure, David Crockett. The Travises left Tennessee after the Civil War because of the belligerent “Tinker David ” and his band and went to Barren County, Kentucky. They owned a slave market, a three story tavern and a large portion of land. They were Southern sympathizers.
An old deed dated August 20, 1820, from John McIver of Fairfax County, Virginia to Margaret Odle, widow of Jeremiah Odle, and John, Samuel, Rebecca, Abraham, Polly, William, Nancy, and Margaret, all being children of Jeremiah Odle, conveys to the children a tract of land on Lick Creek in Overton County, later Fentress County, Tennessee, comprising 401 acres.
The deed states that John McIver sold said land to Jeremiah Odle during his life time, that Jeremiah had paid part of it, that since his death his widow and children had paid the balance of $1000. From evidence, it is assumed Jeremiah settled on this land much earlier, perhaps in the early 1800’s.
[page 11] William Beaty, brother of the 1799 group, was born between 1760 to 1770’s. He had two known sons, Robert, who stated that he was a son of William Beaty when he obtained a land grant of 100 acres on Lick Creek in 1825 and William Beaty, another son, born 1805. William Beaty Senior and two sons, Robert and William, went to Saline County, Missouri, about 1830.
William Beaty Junior, married Lucinda Beaty, born, 1815 in 1833. Lucinda was a daughter of David Beaty, probable brother of the Clinton County group and who settled, with his brother, Pleasant, in Fentress County, Tennessee. David also had two known sons, John Crockett Beaty and Joseph Beaty. It is not known who David’s wife was but she is believed to have been a Crockett or a Travis for they were related to the Crocketts.
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Andrew Beaty, Revolutionary War Pension Application
Transcribed by David Rhode
J. F. Dorman, VA Revolutionary War Pension Applications, 1958. Researched by Ray Beaty, September, 1996.
BEATY, Andrew. S.2989
May 1834. Fentress Co., Tenn. Andrew (X) Beaty of Cumberland Co. Ky., living
about 100 yards from the state line, aged 74, declares he volunteered in Washington Co., Va., in the Spring of 1777 to serve three months under Capt. William Asher. They went to Little Station on Holston River as a guard.
He volunteered in Washington Co., Va., in March 1779 for three months as private under Capt. Abraham Bledsoe and Co. Shelby. They marched off to the mouth of Big Creek in Hawkins Co., Ten., and there redesvoused. They then marched with the body of troops to the Chickamauga towns.
He volunteered in Washington County for three months under Capt. George Maxwell and Col Shelby in 1780 a short time before the battle of King’smountain. They marched to the Sycamore Shoals o Watauga River where the troops redezvoused and then across the Yellow Mountains and Blue Ridge into North Carolina, with prisoners they had taken.
His younger brother, Alexander Beaty, is about 60 years of age and recollects his returning from service. He is informed that Robert Crocket with whom he served is too infirm to be a witness.
He was born in Pennsylvania but is not certain of the county. He lived in what was called Washington Co., Va., but when the line was run it became Sullivan Co., Tenn. He continued to live there until 1799 and then moved to his present neighborhood in Tennessee.
5 May 1834. Fentress Co., Tenn. Alexander Beaty, aged 66, declares he is the younger brother of Andrew Beaty who lives in his neighborhood. He recollects that his brother returned home from service in the early part of the Revolutionary War with Thomas Cooper from Shelby’s Fort. He recollects his returning from service after being at Chicamogga and also from King’s Mountain. He distinctly recollects crying at one time when his brother entered the service.
Andrew Beaty of Fentress Co., Tenn., private in the company of Capt. Bledsoe for nine months, was placed on the West Tennessee pension roll at $30 per annum under the Act of 1832. Certificate 26791 was issued 29 May 1834. He died 19 July 1836.”
Source: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/fentress/military/revwar/pension/beaty01.txt
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Contributed by Paul Lemasters
BEATY, Julia. “Our Mail Bag.” Boatland, Fentress Co., Tenn., August 28, 1880. Died, on the 22d inst., Mrs. Julia BEATY, wife of Mr. James BEATY, of typhoid fever, after a short but painful illness. [Source: Chattanooga Daily Times, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., Tn, Thurs, 2 Sept. 1880].
BEATY, Sallie. “Our Mail Bag.” Boatland, Fentress Co., Tn, March 8, 1880. Died, near this place, a few days ago, Mrs. Sallie BEATY, at the advanced age of three score and ten. [Source: Chattanooga Daily Times, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., Tn, Wed., 10 March 1880.]
Photos from Mike Allen’s Visit to Fentress County
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