See Edwards Family history by Lela Lilian Lones, pg. 83.
Garrett Bean wrote in 1879:
"I was born the 16th of February 1807, in Christian County, KY, and as near as I can learn, my parents, in company with seven or eight other families, went west to Missouri in the summer of 1808 (three were my uncles and my grandparents on my mothers side, all of whom were poor in the things f this world, for they all together were able to fit out one wagon.) I am not sure that it was drawn with four horses but think so. They must have crossed the Ohio River near the moth of the Cumberland and struck west through the south part of this state of Illinois and crossed the Mississippi at or near the city of Walton. It is proper to state that a portion of their effects hadt obe transported on pack horses. I htink that all settled in St. Charles County, Missouri, which was at that time almost an unbroken wilderness, except the Village St. Charles.
"The next year, 1809, I think in September, my poor father sickened and died and left my poor mother with three little helpless children in destitute circumstances, and what contributed much to her troubles was my brother William was born the 3rd of December 1809. From these facts it is evident what measure of grief must have been full to the overflowing, but she was a woman of great bodily power and endurance. I presume she did the best she could under the circumstances, for in due course she married a man by the name of Andrew Edwards, who was a widower with one child, a daughter (Sarah)."
The two older Bean children were William, born 1803, and Mary born 1805, in Christian County, KY.
Widower Andrew Edwards was married in St. Charles District to Widow Bean, nee Anna Buckalew, 5 July 1810.
See Edwards by Lela Lillian Lones, pg. 81, 83.
Buckalew ClanWhen gleaning names for their list of first settlers to arrive in Pike Co., MO, Houck and hte author of the HIstory of Pike Co., MO, both failed to include the name of the head of the South Carolina clan.
The author of the History of Pike Co. almost had it when he wrote, "Mr. George Fielder and very old settlers believe that the first cabin built in the township (was) by old Mr. Ramsey, at the Big Spring on hte farm afterward owned by Samuel Wilson. Ramsey was driven off by Indians (1803) and afterward settled at Bryant's Lick. These gentlemen believe that BUralew was the next comer to Ramsey's Creek."
The "Burkalew" to whom the very old gentlemen referred was Garrett Buckalew, who was also the first, 29 November 1815, to buy land - the norhteast quater of Lot 2 in Delauney's Spanish Land Grant - on Ramsey's Creek.
Rev. Timothy Flint, who preached at St. Charles in the year 1816, might well have benn describing Garrett Buckalew and his wife, Polly Newton, when he wrote: "His general motive in coming here is to be a freeholder, to have plenty of rich land, and to be able to settle his children about him."
"His manners are rough; he wears, it may be, a long beard; he has a great quantity of bear or deeer skins wroght into his household establishment, his furniture and dress; he carries a knife or dirk in his bosom, and when in the woods a rifle on his back, and a pack of hounds at his heels; but remember that his rifle and his dogs are his chief means of support and profit; remember that all of his first days werew spent in dread of savages; remember that he still (1816) enconters them; still meets bears and panthers. ---
"Good corn bread and butter, venison, prok, wild and tame fowls aare set before you. ---
"His wife is timid, silent, reserved, but constantly attentive to your comforts, does not set at the table with you, but like the wifes of patriarchs, stands and attends you."Garrett Buckalew and Polly Newton, his wife, had one son and eight daughters. Five or six of the daughters were married by 1811 when hte Buckalew Clan first entered what was to become Pike Co., MO.
Anna Buckalew, b. 1784 in Burke Co., NC, who had married William Bean 20 June 1803, was widowed in 1809. It is reproted that the Bean-Buckalew marraige record was found in Smithland, KY. It is surmised that when the marriage took palce, Smithland was the nearest county seat.
It has not been established when Elizabeth married a Smauel Groshong, nor has it been established wheather Elizabeth was Samuel's first or second wife. A Samuel Groshong was in the St. Charles area by December 1805 - Janueary 1806 when he placed his signature on a petition. His daughter, Fannie, was born 1806. Mary was born abt. 1812."Daniel McCoy came to Upper Lousiana in 1797 or 1799 with brothers John and Joseph, and father in law, Henry Zumwalt ---" Houck's History of Missouri, Vol. 2, page 96.
Celia Buckalew married Joseph McCoy 2 June 1808, after the Buckalew Clan reached St. Charles District."IBID pg. 101
On May 30, 1824, Garret Buckalew willed the remaining 81 acres, next to Delauncy and Young, to Daniel McHugh, husband of Temperence Buckalew. SInce Grandma Polly Buckalew is not mentioned in the Will, it may be assumed that she was not living at that time.Eliab Buckalew's probate records are in Pike Co., Illinois. Andrew and Anna Edwards' probate records are in Van Buren Co., IA. Daniel McHugh's probate records are in Van Buren Co., IA. Several probatre recorfds for Garett Buckalew's sons in law ar filed in Pike Co., MO.
There were many grandchildren, several of whom moved, at least for a time, to Adams and Pike County, IL.
In the year of 1812 I was born in Pike Co. in the State of Mo. on the 10th day of April about that time my father and mother and the rest of the family was compelled to remove to Lyncoln Co. to the fort. They then remove to St. Charles Co. where my father had obtained a grant from the Spanish
goverment of Six Hundred and forty acres of land there he remained until I was four years old then we removed to the south side of the Misouri River and lived there one year and then removed to Pike Co. on Ramsey Creek.
-- We were living near where Clarksville now stands when the Indians
murdered the O'Neil family. As soon as possible after that sad event became
known, every family in that region left in a great hurry for Lincoln and St.
Charles counties. There were few who did not lose a larfe portion of their
crops and other effects as they did not think it safe to return and stay there. For 3 or 4 years I can recollect well my folks fleeing to the fort as much as three times. I think that in the Spring of 1815 my folks returned to Pike Co.
Taken from Old Settlers Papers, by Garrett BeanIn his notes for the "Old Settlers Paper" Garrett Bean wrote:
"When there was a family murdered by the Indians four or five miles destant from our home. As soon as possible people fled to places of safety, my folks to Clark's Fort in Lincoln County. The next spring they went to St. Charles County on the norht side of the Missouri River. They moved from place to place till the war was over when they moved back to Pike County. About five miles from Clarksville they resided eleven or twelve years."
According to these accounts, Andrew Edwards returned to Ramsey's Creek in 1815-1817.
What was the lodistar which kept bringing the early settlers back to the Ramsey area and surrounding lands?
The section of land contianing Ramsey Creek had a gentle, undulating surface with almost perfect drainage and was well supplied with springs and water courses. "The streams flow, in a genearl direction, from west to east to the Mississippi, which washes, from north to south by the entire eastern border of Calumet Township."
Droves of wild turkeys could be seen almost everywhere. Wild water fowls (ducks, geese, swans) sought the waterways. Squirrels raided cornfields, and wolves raided the settler's pig pens and sheep folds. Deer were abundant as late as 1830. THe lakes and streams abounded with the finest fish. Bee trees were plentiful. This was a hunter's as well as a farmer's paradise.
The land was heavily forested. The trees furnished wood for houses, furniture, and fuel.
What tools and/or equipment did these early settlers bring on the backs of their horses over old buffalo and Indian trails?
According to early probate records, a list of the commonly owned tools were: Mattox, variously identified hoes and axes, inlcuding a broad ax, augers, saw and or cross saw, hammers, iron wedge, drawing knife, chisel, sickles, shovel plows, with perhaps an iron square, a grind stone, or joiner.
Household equipment and tools included a large kettle (16-18 gal.), a large pot and ladel, churn, a washtub, a chair to two, perhaps a pine plank chest, bedsd and bedding. Looms which could be dismantled and packed as a bundle and spinning wheel were a necessity.
Some settlers broght with them a slave or slaves. At the commencement of the Civil War, Pike County was one of the largest slave holding counties in Missouri. Two of the Garrett Buckalew's sons in law were slave holders. Henry Young had a Negro woman, and Jesse Hughes willed one-third interst in two Negro slaves to his wife when he died in 1855.
The paents provided physical, educational, and moral needs of their growing children.
"You can well understand that I was raised on the roughest and hardest of fare and that my literary priveleges were of the very low order having never attended a school in a house that had a single pane of glass, stove, or plank floor ---." Garrett Bean.
"In the Winter we wore leather britches full of Stishes and leather buttons on and in summer flax and two taht mother and sister wove at home. Garrett Bean.
Money was scarce. Cut money resulted from cutting the Spanish dollar into eights. Some Spanish dollars were cut into nine or ten pieces, each ninth or tenth as well as eighth passing as a "bit" or 2 1/2 cents. From this came "two bits", meaning a quarter or twenty five cents. Personal notes found in probate record indicate that at times money could be borrowed. It was repaid by a commodity or work.Early in the spring of 1839 Esaias and Elizabeth Edward were baptised by
immersion and confirmed members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints. On 6 OCt 1839, Esaias Edwards was ordained an Elder of the Church, and on 5 April 1840, he moved his family to Nauvoo. Esaias took two missionary trips the first to Tennesse, the second in late September 1842 to Galena, during which he visited Sally and John Wells.
For further details of Esaias Edwards' life, see "Esaias Edwards Journal"
University of Utah.
In the year of 1812 I was born in Pike Co. in the State of Mo. on the 10th day of April about that time my father and mother and the rest of the family was compelled to remove to Lyncoln Co. to the fort. They then remove to St. Charles Co. where my father had obtained a grant from the Spanish
goverment of Six Hundred and forty acres of land there he remained until I was four years old then we removed to the south side of the Misouri River and lived there one year and then removed to Pike Co. on Ramsey Creek.
-- We were living near where Clarksville now stands when the Indians
murdered the O'Neil family. As soon as possible after that sad event became
known, every family in that region left in a great hurry for Lincoln and St.
Charles counties. There were few who did not lose a larfe portion of their
crops and other effects as they did not think it safe to return and stay there. For 3 or 4 years I can recollect well my folks fleeing to the fort as much as three times. I think that in the Spring of 1815 my folks returned to Pike Co.
Taken from Old Settlers Papers, by Garrett BeanIn his notes for the "Old Settlers Paper" Garrett Bean wrote:
"When there was a family murdered by the Indians four or five miles destant from our home. As soon as possible people fled to places of safety, my folks to Clark's Fort in Lincoln County. The next spring they went to St. Charles County on the norht side of the Missouri River. They moved from place to place till the war was over when they moved back to Pike County. About five miles from Clarksville they resided eleven or twelve years."
According to these accounts, Andrew Edwards returned to Ramsey's Creek in 1815-1817.
What was the lodistar which kept bringing the early settlers back to the Ramsey area and surrounding lands?
The section of land contianing Ramsey Creek had a gentle, undulating surface with almost perfect drainage and was well supplied with springs and water courses. "The streams flow, in a genearl direction, from west to east to the Mississippi, which washes, from north to south by the entire eastern border of Calumet Township."
Droves of wild turkeys could be seen almost everywhere. Wild water fowls (ducks, geese, swans) sought the waterways. Squirrels raided cornfields, and wolves raided the settler's pig pens and sheep folds. Deer were abundant as late as 1830. THe lakes and streams abounded with the finest fish. Bee trees were plentiful. This was a hunter's as well as a farmer's paradise.
The land was heavily forested. The trees furnished wood for houses, furniture, and fuel.
What tools and/or equipment did these early settlers bring on the backs of their horses over old buffalo and Indian trails?
According to early probate records, a list of the commonly owned tools were: Mattox, variously identified hoes and axes, inlcuding a broad ax, augers, saw and or cross saw, hammers, iron wedge, drawing knife, chisel, sickles, shovel plows, with perhaps an iron square, a grind stone, or joiner.
Household equipment and tools included a large kettle (16-18 gal.), a large pot and ladel, churn, a washtub, a chair to two, perhaps a pine plank chest, bedsd and bedding. Looms which could be dismantled and packed as a bundle and spinning wheel were a necessity.
Some settlers broght with them a slave or slaves. At the commencement of the Civil War, Pike County was one of the largest slave holding counties in Missouri. Two of the Garrett Buckalew's sons in law were slave holders. Henry Young had a Negro woman, and Jesse Hughes willed one-third interst in two Negro slaves to his wife when he died in 1855.
The paents provided physical, educational, and moral needs of their growing children.
"You can well understand that I was raised on the roughest and hardest of fare and that my literary priveleges were of the very low order having never attended a school in a house that had a single pane of glass, stove, or plank floor ---." Garrett Bean.
"In the Winter we wore leather britches full of Stishes and leather buttons on and in summer flax and two taht mother and sister wove at home. Garrett Bean.
Money was scarce. Cut money resulted from cutting the Spanish dollar into eights. Some Spanish dollars were cut into nine or ten pieces, each ninth or tenth as well as eighth passing as a "bit" or 2 1/2 cents. From this came "two bits", meaning a quarter or twenty five cents. Personal notes found in probate record indicate that at times money could be borrowed. It was repaid by a commodity or work.Early in the spring of 1839 Esaias and Elizabeth Edward were baptised by
immersion and confirmed members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints. On 6 OCt 1839, Esaias Edwards was ordained an Elder of the Church, and on 5 April 1840, he moved his family to Nauvoo. Esaias took two missionary trips the first to Tennesse, the second in late September 1842 to Galena, during which he visited Sally and John Wells.
For further details of Esaias Edwards' life, see "Esaias Edwards Journal"
University of Utah.
In the year of 1812 I was born in Pike Co. in the State of Mo. on the 10th day of April about that time my father and mother and the rest of the family was compelled to remove to Lyncoln Co. to the fort. They then remove to St. Charles Co. where my father had obtained a grant from the Spanish
goverment of Six Hundred and forty acres of land there he remained until I was four years old then we removed to the south side of the Misouri River and lived there one year and then removed to Pike Co. on Ramsey Creek.
-- We were living near where Clarksville now stands when the Indians
murdered the O'Neil family. As soon as possible after that sad event became
known, every family in that region left in a great hurry for Lincoln and St.
Charles counties. There were few who did not lose a larfe portion of their
crops and other effects as they did not think it safe to return and stay there. For 3 or 4 years I can recollect well my folks fleeing to the fort as much as three times. I think that in the Spring of 1815 my folks returned to Pike Co.
Taken from Old Settlers Papers, by Garrett BeanIn his notes for the "Old Settlers Paper" Garrett Bean wrote:
"When there was a family murdered by the Indians four or five miles destant from our home. As soon as possible people fled to places of safety, my folks to Clark's Fort in Lincoln County. The next spring they went to St. Charles County on the norht side of the Missouri River. They moved from place to place till the war was over when they moved back to Pike County. About five miles from Clarksville they resided eleven or twelve years."
According to these accounts, Andrew Edwards returned to Ramsey's Creek in 1815-1817.
What was the lodistar which kept bringing the early settlers back to the Ramsey area and surrounding lands?
The section of land contianing Ramsey Creek had a gentle, undulating surface with almost perfect drainage and was well supplied with springs and water courses. "The streams flow, in a genearl direction, from west to east to the Mississippi, which washes, from north to south by the entire eastern border of Calumet Township."
Droves of wild turkeys could be seen almost everywhere. Wild water fowls (ducks, geese, swans) sought the waterways. Squirrels raided cornfields, and wolves raided the settler's pig pens and sheep folds. Deer were abundant as late as 1830. THe lakes and streams abounded with the finest fish. Bee trees were plentiful. This was a hunter's as well as a farmer's paradise.
The land was heavily forested. The trees furnished wood for houses, furniture, and fuel.
What tools and/or equipment did these early settlers bring on the backs of their horses over old buffalo and Indian trails?
According to early probate records, a list of the commonly owned tools were: Mattox, variously identified hoes and axes, inlcuding a broad ax, augers, saw and or cross saw, hammers, iron wedge, drawing knife, chisel, sickles, shovel plows, with perhaps an iron square, a grind stone, or joiner.
Household equipment and tools included a large kettle (16-18 gal.), a large pot and ladel, churn, a washtub, a chair to two, perhaps a pine plank chest, bedsd and bedding. Looms which could be dismantled and packed as a bundle and spinning wheel were a necessity.
Some settlers broght with them a slave or slaves. At the commencement of the Civil War, Pike County was one of the largest slave holding counties in Missouri. Two of the Garrett Buckalew's sons in law were slave holders. Henry Young had a Negro woman, and Jesse Hughes willed one-third interst in two Negro slaves to his wife when he died in 1855.
The paents provided physical, educational, and moral needs of their growing children.
"You can well understand that I was raised on the roughest and hardest of fare and that my literary priveleges were of the very low order having never attended a school in a house that had a single pane of glass, stove, or plank floor ---." Garrett Bean.
"In the Winter we wore leather britches full of Stishes and leather buttons on and in summer flax and two taht mother and sister wove at home. Garrett Bean.
Money was scarce. Cut money resulted from cutting the Spanish dollar into eights. Some Spanish dollars were cut into nine or ten pieces, each ninth or tenth as well as eighth passing as a "bit" or 2 1/2 cents. From this came "two bits", meaning a quarter or twenty five cents. Personal notes found in probate record indicate that at times money could be borrowed. It was repaid by a commodity or work.Early in the spring of 1839 Esaias and Elizabeth Edward were baptised by
immersion and confirmed members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints. On 6 OCt 1839, Esaias Edwards was ordained an Elder of the Church, and on 5 April 1840, he moved his family to Nauvoo. Esaias took two missionary trips the first to Tennesse, the second in late September 1842 to Galena, during which he visited Sally and John Wells.
For further details of Esaias Edwards' life, see "Esaias Edwards Journal"
University of Utah.
In the year of 1812 I was born in Pike Co. in the State of Mo. on the 10th day of April about that time my father and mother and the rest of the family was compelled to remove to Lyncoln Co. to the fort. They then remove to St. Charles Co. where my father had obtained a grant from the Spanish
goverment of Six Hundred and forty acres of land there he remained until I was four years old then we removed to the south side of the Misouri River and lived there one year and then removed to Pike Co. on Ramsey Creek.
-- We were living near where Clarksville now stands when the Indians
murdered the O'Neil family. As soon as possible after that sad event became
known, every family in that region left in a great hurry for Lincoln and St.
Charles counties. There were few who did not lose a larfe portion of their
crops and other effects as they did not think it safe to return and stay there. For 3 or 4 years I can recollect well my folks fleeing to the fort as much as three times. I think that in the Spring of 1815 my folks returned to Pike Co.
Taken from Old Settlers Papers, by Garrett BeanIn his notes for the "Old Settlers Paper" Garrett Bean wrote:
"When there was a family murdered by the Indians four or five miles destant from our home. As soon as possible people fled to places of safety, my folks to Clark's Fort in Lincoln County. The next spring they went to St. Charles County on the norht side of the Missouri River. They moved from place to place till the war was over when they moved back to Pike County. About five miles from Clarksville they resided eleven or twelve years."
According to these accounts, Andrew Edwards returned to Ramsey's Creek in 1815-1817.
What was the lodistar which kept bringing the early settlers back to the Ramsey area and surrounding lands?
The section of land contianing Ramsey Creek had a gentle, undulating surface with almost perfect drainage and was well supplied with springs and water courses. "The streams flow, in a genearl direction, from west to east to the Mississippi, which washes, from north to south by the entire eastern border of Calumet Township."
Droves of wild turkeys could be seen almost everywhere. Wild water fowls (ducks, geese, swans) sought the waterways. Squirrels raided cornfields, and wolves raided the settler's pig pens and sheep folds. Deer were abundant as late as 1830. THe lakes and streams abounded with the finest fish. Bee trees were plentiful. This was a hunter's as well as a farmer's paradise.
The land was heavily forested. The trees furnished wood for houses, furniture, and fuel.
What tools and/or equipment did these early settlers bring on the backs of their horses over old buffalo and Indian trails?
According to early probate records, a list of the commonly owned tools were: Mattox, variously identified hoes and axes, inlcuding a broad ax, augers, saw and or cross saw, hammers, iron wedge, drawing knife, chisel, sickles, shovel plows, with perhaps an iron square, a grind stone, or joiner.
Household equipment and tools included a large kettle (16-18 gal.), a large pot and ladel, churn, a washtub, a chair to two, perhaps a pine plank chest, bedsd and bedding. Looms which could be dismantled and packed as a bundle and spinning wheel were a necessity.
Some settlers broght with them a slave or slaves. At the commencement of the Civil War, Pike County was one of the largest slave holding counties in Missouri. Two of the Garrett Buckalew's sons in law were slave holders. Henry Young had a Negro woman, and Jesse Hughes willed one-third interst in two Negro slaves to his wife when he died in 1855.
The paents provided physical, educational, and moral needs of their growing children.
"You can well understand that I was raised on the roughest and hardest of fare and that my literary priveleges were of the very low order having never attended a school in a house that had a single pane of glass, stove, or plank floor ---." Garrett Bean.
"In the Winter we wore leather britches full of Stishes and leather buttons on and in summer flax and two taht mother and sister wove at home. Garrett Bean.
Money was scarce. Cut money resulted from cutting the Spanish dollar into eights. Some Spanish dollars were cut into nine or ten pieces, each ninth or tenth as well as eighth passing as a "bit" or 2 1/2 cents. From this came "two bits", meaning a quarter or twenty five cents. Personal notes found in probate record indicate that at times money could be borrowed. It was repaid by a commodity or work.Early in the spring of 1839 Esaias and Elizabeth Edward were baptised by
immersion and confirmed members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints. On 6 OCt 1839, Esaias Edwards was ordained an Elder of the Church, and on 5 April 1840, he moved his family to Nauvoo. Esaias took two missionary trips the first to Tennesse, the second in late September 1842 to Galena, during which he visited Sally and John Wells.
For further details of Esaias Edwards' life, see "Esaias Edwards Journal"
University of Utah.
Esaias Edwards entered into the Order of Polygamy or Plural marriage on 23
Jun 1873. Ann Nutal had five children by her first husband, John Robinson, of which two were living, Mary born 10 April 1864, and Hester, born 11 Dec 1865. One wonders about this relationship. Belinda would not join them in St. George and Esaias refused to return to Belinda in Cache Co. The 1880 census lists Easias Edwards as "Dear Edwards" with Ann, Mary and Hester.
Esaias Edwards made two more Plural marriages.