Charity Grubb BEESON

Father: Richard BEESON
Mother: Charity GRUBB

Family 1: Mordecai MENDENHALL
  1.  John MENDENHALL
  2.  Thomas MENDENHALL
  3.  Moses MENDENHALL
  4.  Stephen MENDENHALL
  5.  Maris MENDENHALL
  6.  Aaron MENDENHALL
  7. +Charity MENDENHALL
  8.  Isaac M. MENDENHALL
  9. +Richard MENDENHALL
  10. +Mordecai MENDENHALL 
                   _Edward BEESON _____
 _Richard BEESON _|
|                 |_Rachel PENNINGTON _
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|--Charity Grubb BEESON 
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|                  _John GRUBB ________
|_Charity GRUBB __|
                  |_Frances VANE ______
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Notes

A letter from Charity to her sister Phebe:

Loving Sister,

This is to let thee know that we have Received three letters from ye
and three presents therein I sent the(e) no letters; I had not freedom
Last winter was a year, I had a long time of sickness which brought me
very low in body, and mind and now I am troubled with short breath so
that I think I am going home softly. I thought it would Trouble Thee
more to let thee know my condition Then send no letters.

I goes to meeting sometimes; we have a meting every other fifth day at
our house, my husband grose weakly; the Lord who Lited our candled hath
not put them out. Our children Remember their loves to you all. I have
sente two presents to the(e) as a toacon of Love and youenity. We donte
know that thear heath bene any mischip done in the government as yet by
the Indins, but dont know how soon thear may be for some is doubtfull
thear my be before the truble some times be over. I desire the(e) to
remember oure kind Loves to all oure neare Relations and friends. We
under Stand that oure brother John Grubb is desesed, but we have no
Cartunty of it. I desire thee to let me know what is become of Peter
Grubb's widow. Remember my Love to brother Henry Grubb in particular.
So we ad no more at present but Remembering our kind Loves to thee and
thy family the 28th of ye fifth month, 1758.

Richard Beeson
Charity Beeson

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The reply letter from Phebe:

Loving Brother and Sister;

I received Your Letter this day, Dated ye 5th Month 1758, in which I had
Great
statisfaction to hear of You, Except that Impediment and Stopage in my
Sister's
Breath and my Brother's Weakness for which I am Ready to Sympathise With,
Still hoping
that Light, the Grace of God, may be your instructor Until it may Please
Him to Call us
Unto Himself Which is my Desire Both for you and myself, it Gives me
Great Satisfaction
to hear of your Keeping to meeting knowing by Experience the Benefit of
Waiting Upon
the Lord of help in this time of trouble. I have at this time no Child at
home But
I Acknowledge for myself on the Behalf of my children the Love My cousins
has Remembered
to us. The Present you have sent to me I Acknowledge and hope to keep as
a Sure token of
friendship. My desire is that you may be Still kept from the Merciless
hand of the Enemy
[Indians] and Above the fear of them by trusting in the god of all
strength. We have
frequently heard of their doing Mischief in the Province.

According to Your desire I shall Let our Relations Know the Contents of
your Letter as soon
as Possible; the time being so short I have not as yet had no Opportunity
But I shall be Carefull.
Brother John Grubb is Certainly Deceased this Life he Died with the
Gravel and Was decently
Buried at Chichester in Friends Buring Ground, the Corps Accompanied by
Brothers Emanuel,
Samuel, Nathaniel and my self, With a great Company of Others. Brother
John has set his two
oldest Negroes free and the Rest to be set free at twenty five Years of
age. Sister Hannah
Grubb Lives at Wilmington & among her Children. I saw her Lately. She
lives Exceeding Well
full and Plenty. My Children and family is at Present in health as Usual
and their families.
My son Nathaniel and Isaac is out at Work at the mason trade. Joseph is
at John Wall's.
John Wall, my son in Law has a daughter about nine months old and Calls
Her Name Charity.

Our Brothers is all in Good health Except our Living and Beloved Brother
Samuel; he is at this
time in Kingwood in Hunterton County in West Jersey or Was there Lately
to be Cured of a Cancer
in his Under lip which is Very Painfull. Brother Richard, I have heard
Lately of Joseph Gregg
and his family they are all in Reasonable Good health. I have heard
nothing to the Contray
from thy Cousins by the River. So I Conclude Still Remembering that Love
and Unity Which ought
to subsist among Brethern and Sisters in the fellowship of truth.

Please to Remember my Love to My Children and Grand Children by My Late
husband and to William
Cox and his Wife Rachel Wright, With all Other Enquiring friend. Do no
Neglect Writing to me
as often as Possible and the Circumstance of Your Affairs and Condition
if you please, Concerning
these Troubelsome times.

This from your sister Phebe Hadly."

(originally published in "The Grubb Family", Gilbert Cope, 1893)

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Edith Virginia BEESON

Father: Loring W. BEESON
Mother: Mary Edith FRY

Family 1: Willard GARRETT

  1. +Mary Edith GARRETT
  2.  Harry Beeson GARRETT
  3.  Eleanor Virginia GARRETT
  4.  Carolyn May GARRETT
  5.  Linda Christine GARRETT
  6.  Roger Malcolm GARRETT 
                     _John Schooley BEESON _
 _Loring W. BEESON _|
|                   |_Emma PATTERSON _______
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|--Edith Virginia BEESON 
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|                    _______________________
|_Mary Edith FRY ___|
                    |_______________________
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Notes

She married Willard
Malcom Garrett (b. 12 Aug 1905 d. 26 May 1957), the son of Harry Francis
Garrett and Addie Florence
Sparrough. Willard and Edith lived in the Washington DC suburbs. Willard
worked as a cartographer for
the USGS drawing maps and Edith was a registered nurse. They were both
accomplished portrait artists.
Willard played several instruments (his favorite being the banjo) and was
with a band as a hobby. After
Willard's death in 1957, Edith retired to Tampa, Florida where she passed
away in 1965. Edith Virginia
Beeson Garrett was taken to Arlington Cemetary, were she was buried next
to her husband, Willard
Garrett, and her mother, Mary Edith Fry Beeson.

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Janet Ann BIRKMANN

Father: Julius Herman Fred BIRKMANN
Mother: Mamie Marie PETERS

Family 1: Kenneth Mark GILSON

  1.  Philip Kenneth GILSON
  2. +Cynthia Marie GILSON 
                                ______________________________
 _Julius Herman Fred BIRKMANN _|
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|--Janet Ann BIRKMANN 
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|                               _Heinerich Engelhardt PETERS _
|_Mamie Marie PETERS __________|
                               |_Talka Marie GEORGES _________
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Jefferey T. HARMS

Father: Ted E. HARMS
Mother: Janet Marie BEILFELDT 

                          _Theodore Peters HARMS _
 _Ted E. HARMS __________|
|                        |_Lois Jean MCDONALD ____
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|--Jefferey T. HARMS 
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|                         ________________________
|_Janet Marie BEILFELDT _|
                         |________________________
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Robert Eugene HILLIARD

Father: Chlorus HILLIARD
Mother: Freda ?

Family 1: Marjorie MCCRACKEN
  1. +Robert Wayne HILLIARD
  2.  Connie Renee HILLIARD 
                     _Thomas Edward HILLIARD _
 _Chlorus HILLIARD _|
|                   |_Daisey Belle SWEENEY ___
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|--Robert Eugene HILLIARD 
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|                    _________________________
|_Freda ? __________|
                    |_________________________
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Francis Marion MENDENHALL

Father: John M. MENDENHALL
Mother: Rebecca MILLS 

                       _Aaron MENDENHALL ______
 _John M. MENDENHALL _|
|                     |_Lydia Horney ANDERSON _
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|--Francis Marion MENDENHALL 
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|                      _John MILLS ____________
|_Rebecca MILLS ______|
                      |_Charity MENDENHALL ____
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Dan Sidney PEEPLES

Family 1: Katy Lena SMART 

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|--Dan Sidney PEEPLES 
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Thomas RONEY

Father: Hercules RONEY
Mother: Mary BARNES 

                   ______________
 _Hercules RONEY _|
|                 |______________
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|--Thomas RONEY 
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|                  _John BARNES _
|_Mary BARNES ____|
                  |_ MARY _______
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Marie WININGS

Father: Lewis Thomas WININGS
Mother: Mae BROCKETT 

                         _William Robert WININGS _____
 _Lewis Thomas WININGS _|
|                       |_Maria Wilhemine ASCHERMANN _
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|--Marie WININGS 
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|                        _____________________________
|_Mae BROCKETT _________|
                        |_____________________________
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Jenny Belle YOUNTS

Family 1: Samuel Henry WEST

  1. +Mace Brian WEST
  2.  Wilbur WEST
  3.  Madge WEST
  4.  Blanche WEST
  5.  Bryce WEST
  6.  Florence WEST 
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|--Jenny Belle YOUNTS 
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