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Wirt T. BEE

Wirt T. BEE

Male 1852 - 1855  (3 years)

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  • Name Wirt T. BEE 
    Born 8 May 1852  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 9 Jul 1855  [1] 
    Person ID I52040  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 2 Jul 2008 

    Father Josiah H. BEE,   b. 7 Apr 1825, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 May 1876, Wirt Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years) 
    Mother Mary Jane DAVIS,   b. 20 Nov 1829, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Oct 1903  (Age 73 years) 
    Married 20 May 1845  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    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.) [3, 4]
    Family ID F20316  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. 107.

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

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

    4. [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 >).