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Surnames: WILKERSON, BEIGHTEL, PAYNE, MCQUEEN, STARK, GARRETT?
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Hi, I am named after my gggrandmother, Rebecca "Jane" WILKERSON, BEIGHTEL
b.Nashville near Bloomington, INDIANA 15 April,1843-10 Aug 1934 Oakland, ILLINOIS, Coles
County buried Gwinn Cemetery-- ggrand-daughter of Rev. War soldier William Wilkerson b.5
Jan 1735 or 1740 King George County, VIRGINIA, d.summer 1842, buried in Fleetwood
Cemetery, Brown County, INDIANA at age 106. "Jane"s husband was William
"John" BEIGHTEL, military contact was Henry BEIGHTEL b. 6 July 1845 either
Westmoreland County, PENNSYLVANIA or Monroe, INDIANA- d. Mar 21, 1891 in INDIANA, Brown
County? (pension record) or Mar. 2 1992(family history)- Civil War soldier- married in
Madison, Jefferson County 13 Nov, 1864, INDIANA and whose youngest son was Pete b 16 Dec.
1879 INDIANA-d.15 or 16 Nov 1972, my ggrandfather who came to Oakland, Douglas County,
ILLINOIS from Brown County, INDIANA at about age 14 with his mother after his father died,
another son was William Rome b. 28 Oct 1869- living in Broct!
on, Edgar County, ILLINOIS at 1920 census, may have been married and divorced and there
were daughters who were called Laura Belle b. 1874 d. 1952, married KIZER, CAULDWELL-
sons-James and Charlie, ?Nancy Elizabeth b. 1875?, Alice b. 1871 -d 1901 married WHITE- 2
sons, Will and Jim, Nellie b 1877-d 1911, m. STEVENS, 2 children Nettie and Pete. My
greatgrandfather Pete m. Nancy Elizabeth MCQUEEN daughter of Uriah Spriggs and Sarah
Candaisy STARK MCQUEEN, they had several children, my grandfather John Melvin BEIGHTEL was
the only son to live and have 3 sons, Bill (my father), Jack, Danny and a daughter
Phyllis, all deceased. Two BEIGHTEL greataunts are living-Helen and Ruth. There is an
article Mar 3, 2004, Brown County Democrat about a cemetery on Crooked Creek Road in
southern Brown county, INDIANA (The INDIANA War Graves Project) in which my gggrandmother
Rebecca Jane tells where her greatgrandfather wants to be buried in this cemetery He was
supposed to have been mar!
ried twice with 21 children, 15 sons and 6 daughters, one son was Samu
el--hence the confusion for those of us in ILLINOIS and heads-up, there was a death
certificate in Douglas County, ILLINOIS for male WILKERSON, either a William or a Solomon
with parents listed that I don't remember either a William or a Solomon and a Mary
PAYNE? The aunts say they were related! The only pronunciation I have ever heard is
BEIGHTEL like Bi'dul, and great grandpa Pete was said to get very upset that people
tried to change his name to other pronunciations like BEASTEL, etc. There is a doctor in
ILLINOIS whose name is spelled Beitel and who pronounces like we do and old German
speaking people have said in German the first vowel is silent and that makes the second a
long i sound so BECHTEL does not fit the family either. Thought I'd kill 2 birds with
one stone for those many cousins whose last name was never BEIGHTEL and have been far
removed from the family in ILLINOIS--long live the BEIGHTEL name! spelled that way even in
the early 1800 PENNSYLVANIA records!
with maybe a deviation- BEIGHTAL, BEITEL but sounding the same. McQUEENS try the
SEPARATE BAPTIST CHURCH HISTORIES, maybe the BEIGHTEL and WILKERSON as well. There was a
Rev. WILKERSON that conducted a James A. Garfield GARRETT funeral in Tuscola, ILLINOIS
about 1953 and ministers on the MCQUEEN and BEIGHTEL sides earlier history.