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Josiah H. BEE

Josiah H. BEE

Male 1825 - 1876  (51 years)


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  • Name Josiah H. BEE
    Birth 7 Apr 1825  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • "Davis - The Settlers of Salem WV," reports birth year as 1824 on p. 55, but as 1825 on p. 107.
    Gender Male
    Military Co C, 6th W.Va. Inf, and Captain of 180th Militia (Home Guard), Civil War  [2, 3] 
    Census 1850, 1860  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1870  West Union District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation blacksmith, oil driller  [4, 5, 6] 
    Death 17 May 1876  Wirt Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Burial Beauchamp Cemetery, Elizabeth, Wirt Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 8] 
    Person ID I19456  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 24 Jun 2016

    Father Ephraim BEE,   b. 26 Dec 1802, Salem, Salem Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Oct 1888, Cabin Run, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
    Mother Catharine DAVIS,   b. 10 Jun 1804, Virginia (now West Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jun 1852, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
    Family ID F7583  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Jane DAVIS,   b. 20 Nov 1829, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Oct 1903 (Age 73 years)  [9, 10]
    Marriage 20 May 1845  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 11] 
    Notes 
    • 1850 Census, Town of West Union, Doddridge County, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Jul 16 1850:
      Josiah H. Bee, 26, blacksmith; Mary A, 21; Berkley H, 4; Mary F, 2; Oscar J, one month.

      1860 Census, Doddridge Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumeration date not given:
      J. H. Bee, 35, blacksmith, value of real estate $3,000, value of personal estate $1,150; Mary J, 30; B. H. (male), 14; S. O. (male), 7; A. O. (female), 5; B. F. H. (male), 2; Arthur Ingle, 18; E. J. Dotson (female), 18. All born in Virginia.
      (NOTE: Arthur Ingle was presumbably an apprentice blacksmith, since that was his military specialty during the Civil War and his civilian occupation afterward. Emily Jane Dotson was a second cousin of Mary Jane (Davis) Bee. The female child identified as A. O. was daughter Alice O'Dell Bee. Although her birthplace is shown here as Virginia, subsequent census records of 1870, 1880, 1910, 1920 and 1930 all show that she was born in Missouri in 1855. Circumstances of this family being in or near Missouri at any time between the 1850 and 1860 censuses are not known.)

      The Josiah H. Bee family moved from Doddridge "to Wirt County and lived there between 1872 and 1883. They operated the Kanawha Hotel, located on the banks of the Little Kanawha River at Elizabeth. The hotel was a popular stop-over for boats hauling passengers and goods between Parkersburg and the interior regions of West Virginia. Josiah died there in 1876 following an injury inflicted by a horse. A few years after his death, Mary Jane sold the Kanawha Hotel and returned to Doddridge County where she died" in 1903.
      SOURCE: Goldenseal Magazine, Winter 1991, pp. 40-45. (NOTE: Article states that Mary Jane (Davis) Bee died in Doddridge County in 1905. But her headstone shows her death date as Oct 20 1903. No death record has been found for her. There was a Mary Bee who died in Doddridge County in 1905, but that was Mary Melissa (Welch) Bee, second wife of Ephraim Bee.) [10]
    Children 
    >1. Burtly Henry BEE,   b. 21 Feb 1846, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Apr 1932, Summit, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
     2. Mary F. BEE,   b. 29 Dec 1847   d. 6 Jul 1855 (Age 7 years)
    +3. Stinnett O. BEE,   b. 7 Apr 1850   d. 17 May 1873 (Age 23 years)
     4. Wirt T. BEE,   b. 8 May 1852   d. 9 Jul 1855 (Age 3 years)
    +5. Alice O'Dell BEE,   b. 25 Feb 1855   d. 13 Mar 1937, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    +6. Frederick H. BEE,   b. 27 Aug 1857, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Mar 1951, Roane Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years)
    +7. Emma L. BEE,   b. 5 Nov 1860, Wirt Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location
    >8. John Augustus BEE,   b. 17 Apr 1863, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Dec 1931, Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
     9. Ephraim A. BEE,   b. 30 Apr 1866
    +10. Frances Dora BEE,   b. 11 Jun 1868, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Apr 1950, Vienna, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    +11. James Edward BEE,   b. 3 Feb 1871, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jan 1933, Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
    Family ID F20316  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    19456_BEE_JosiahH_Captain_1825-1876_BeauchampCem_WirtCoWV.jpg    		19456_BEE_JosiahH_Captain_1825-1876_BeauchampCem_WirtCoWV.jpg

    Documents
    1850 Census, Doddridge Co Va (now W. Va.), 16Jul1850    		1850 Census, Doddridge Co Va (now W. Va.), 16Jul1850
    1870 Census, Doddridge Co WV, West Union Dist, 7Jun1870    		1870 Census, Doddridge Co WV, West Union Dist, 7Jun1870

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

    2. [S2392] The USGenWeb Project, Wirt County WV Cemeteries (website), (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvwirt/cemeteries/index.htm).

    3. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    4. [S1890] 1860 Census, Doddridge County, (W)VA.

    5. [S1999] 1870 Census, Doddridge County, WV (West Union Twp).

    6. [S691] West Union Herald, 10/23/1913.

    7. [S83] Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, (Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >), p. 107.

    8. [S2393] Cemeteries of Wirt County WV (website), (http://wirtcounty.net/Cemeteries/index.htm).

    9. [S83] Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, (Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >), p. 55.

    10. [S1883] Goldenseal Magazine, (West Virginia Cultural Center, www.wvlc.wvnet.edu/culture/goldensl.html), Winter 1991, pp. 40-45.

    11. [S1774] Doddridge County WV Marriages 1845-1937, (Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1993)).