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Asa BEE, Jr.

Asa BEE, Jr.

Male 1831 -

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  • Name Asa BEE 
    Suffix Jr. 
    Born 4 Oct 1831  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Census 1850, 1860  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1860  [3
    carpenter 
    Census 1870  Lancaster, Worcester Co, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1880  West Boylston, Worcester Co, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1870, 1880  [4, 5
    millwright 
    Census 1900  Worcester, Worcester Co, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1900  [6
    grain merchant 
    Person ID I31700  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 5 Oct 2010 

    Father Asa BEE, II,   b. 7 Aug 1798, Gloucester Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jun 1861  (Age 62 years) 
    Mother Hannah MAXSON,   b. 4 Feb 1799, Salem, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1879  (Age 79 years) 
    Family ID F11305  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catherine EHRET,   b. CA 1837, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 20 Mar 1856  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Notes 
    • 1860 Census, Ritchie Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Aug 14 1860:
      Asa Bee Jr, 28, b. Va, carpenter; Catharine, 23, b. Pa.

      1870 Census, Lancaster, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, enumerated on Jul 23 1870:
      Asa Bee, 46, b. Va, millwright; Catherine, 32, b. Pa; Laura, 9, b. Va; Percis (female), 6, b. Va; Curtis, 4, b. Va.

      1880 Census, Sterling, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, enumerated on Jun 12 1880:
      Asa Bee, 49, b. Va, farmer; wife Catherine, 42, b. Pa; son Lucius R, 16, b. W.Va, millwright; son Fernando C, 14, b. Va; dau Eva Joy, 7, b. Mass.
      (NOTE: All entries pertaining to the enumeration of this family were lined through in a manner to indicate that the entries were void. There was no explanatory notation. But five days later, the same family was enumerated in a different location within the same county, as follows.)
      1880 Census, West Boylston, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, enumerated on Jun 17 1880:
      Asa Bee, 48, b. Va, millwright; wife Catherine, 42, b. Pa; dau Laura C, 18, b. Va; son Lucius R, 16, b. Va; son Cortis S, 14, b. Va; dau Eva J, 7, b. Mass.

      1900 Census, Worcester, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, enumerated Jun 5 1900 on Shirley Street:
      Asa Bee, 69, b. Oct 1830 in W.Va, grain merchant, married 45 yrs; wife Catherine, 63, b. May 1836 in Pa, mother of 8 children (3 still living).
      In the adjoining household, at 8 Shirley Street, was the following family:
      Lucius R. Bee, 37, b. Feb 1863 in W.Va, stone (store? stove?) foreman, married 12 yrs; wife Sarah E, 37, b. Feb 1863 in Mass, mother of 2 children (both still living); dau Amy F, 11, b. May 1889 in Mass; son Asa R, 8, b. Sep 1891 in Mass.

      1910 Census, Worcester, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, enumerated in Apr 1910 on Fairfield Street:
      Katherine Bee, 72, b. Pa, married 51 yrs, mother of 8 children (3 (?) still living).

      1920 Census, Worcester, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, enumerated on Jan 14 1920 at the City Alms House:
      Among the "inmates" was listed Catherine Bee, 87, widowed, b. W.Va, both parents b. Germany.
    Children 
     1. Laura C. BEE,   b. CA 1861, Virginia (now West Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Lucius R. BEE,   b. Feb 1863, Virginia (now West Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Curtis BEE,   b. CA 1866
     4. Eva J. BEE,   b. CA 1873, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F12292  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S83] Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Susie Davis Nicholson, (Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >), p. 57.

    2. [S1630] Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985)).

    3. [S2068] 1860 Census, Ritchie County, (W)VA.

    4. [S1972] 1870 Census.

    5. [S1710] 1880 Census.

    6. [S1662] 1900 Census.

    7. [S1630] Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985)).
      Identified as Asa Bee Jr., 24, of Harrison Co, son of Asa & Hannah; and Katharine Erett (or Ehret), 18, of Philadelphia, dau of Jacob & Hannah. Married Mar 20 1856.