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Author: coetting57
Surnames: Beal/Bales/Jones
Classification: queries
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Thanks for directing me to a bio. I do not think this is my John Beal. He lists his birth
on census records as 1799 in North Carolina. I also have a copy of the Anderson Democrat
that tells of his death on March 8, 1875. I have ran across a couple of John Beal's
including old land patents I found in the Indiana Archives-misc historical records. There
I also found one for Rachel Beal. I did notice this John Beal married a Rebecca
Bales-there are some postings for this same John Beal that seem to imply the names Beal
and Bales are the same with the spelling changed. My John Beal married Rebecca George.
There are postings by a PamBales concerning this John Beal and his son Thomas. I have
traced my John Beal and his sons to Iowa where I found my gr grandmother living with one
of the sons-Tanier Jackson Beal- in 1870 and he was also a witness for her marriage that
also occurred in Wayne Co., Iowa. I also have some bios for my John Beal and the town of
Prosperity. He lived in Rich!
land Twp Madison county IN from 1840 on to his death thru census records. A couple of
bios say he settled somewhere else first. I wonder if the names just got mixed up? Any way
I am trying to document that Rachel Beal Jones, my gr gr grandmother mother of the prior
mentioned who lived with the son of John Beal and a census lists niece is the daughter of
John Beal therefore the sister of the Tanier Jackson Beal who had her children living with
him in Iowa. I believe Rachel Beal Jones died in 1859 and findagrave shows a tombstone for
Rachel wife of Samuel Jones-who my Rachel married. Thanks again. Cindy
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