John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 1494

Let’s give some of the Beemon children who were baptized at the Hopeful Lutheran Church in Boone Co., Kentucky (Giving the parents first).

    Joshua Beemon and his wife (unnamed):
    1. Abraham, bapt. 23 July 1814.

    John and Peggy Beemon:

    1. Alpha, b. 28 Jul 1807;
    2. Abel, b. 12 June 1811;
    3. Weedon, b. 25 April 1813;
    4. Jordan, b. 11 June 1816;
    5. Noah, b. 27 May 1818;
    6. Nathanael and Salatheil, b. 9 March 1820;
    7. Elly, b. 19 Nov 1822.

    Austin and Annie Beemon:

    1. Jeremiah, b. 1 Dec 1837;
    2. Mary Ann Emily, b. 22 July 1839.

    Jordan and Elizabeth Ann Beemon:

    1. Mary Margaret, b. 6 April 1841;
    2. Isabel Virginia, b. 2 Sept 1842.

    Weedon and Elisan Beemon:

    1. Lewis Sandford, b. 17 Jan 1841;
    2. America, b. 14 April 1843.

I recognize John and Joshua as being two of the people from Madison Co., Virginia, who went with the group to Boone County.

Weedon, b. 1813, was the son of John.  Jordan, b. 1816 was also a son of John.  Austin, perhaps of an age similar to Weedon and Jordan, is an unknown.

The general conclusion is the Beemons in Boone County are descendants of either John or Joshua Beemon.  I can say very little more about the Beemons in Boone County.

Looking again back in Virginia, we can say very little about the parents of Daniel Beemon, or of his wife Nancy (Unknown).  The name Boehme is not an unusual name in Germany.  (The name Böhm occurs eleven times in the index to Rupp’s “ Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants ”.)  The closest physical point to Culpeper Co., VA, is the Shenandoah Valley, where there were Böhms.

Let’s look at the baptismal sponsors.

For the children of Daniel and Nancy:

  1. Susanna:  John Smith, Jr.; Delila Breil; and Eva Bohm.

I will not have space to go through all of the children this note so I will make a comment about the baptism of Susanna.  It is recorded twice in the Baptismal Register.  The first time it was written in the Register, one of the sponsors was Eva Bohm.  The second time it was written in the Register, Eva Bohm’s name was omitted.  Duplicate entries are not unusual.  The first time was in the chronological section, and the second time was in a family section.
(09 Oct 02)

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