Wilson and Isabella Beeney, their son, Henry Selby, and two sisters came to the US from Durham, England in 1855. Would like to know family names & history prior to that time, and name of ship and port when they immigrated and where they landed. They went first to St. Louis, then to Rock Island County, Illinois

I am trying to locate ancestors for James Beeney
born 1840-Ohio, died Nebraska, 1902 or 1903.
He married first--Samantha Morey--married second,
Sarah Harmon. Samantha's mother plus one of their
sons was killed in a prairie fire in 1873 near
Wilber, Ne.

This is a part of a paper written by
Iva Hopkins in 1966.It mentions the Jim Beeney
family. "My dad's brothers and sisters were:
Calvin, Vergal, an older sister, I can't think
of her name, she married Jim Beeney. Stilman,
Minnie and Ruth. Grandma and these last three
were burned in a prairie fire at Wilbur Neb.
Stilman was 8, Minnie 9, and Ruth ? They were
on the prairie when their mother went to school
for them when she saw the fire coming. Ruth
died that night Grandma lived a day and a
night. 3 grandchildren were with her. The Jim
Beeney children, Charley, Elic, and Dickey.
Charley and Elic lived.Uncle Jim Beeney had 2
other children, Linnie and Nettie. Later he
married Sarah, I don't know her last name.
They had 1 boy Jay."
Iva Hopkins was my g-aunt and lived in Neb. I
belive she was 104 when she passed away a few
years ago.

I'd love to exchange info with you. The older Morey sister was named Samantha. She married James Beeney. My husband is a descendant of their daughter Lena Belle (Lennie)
Please respond. I don't check the internet regularly but I do check my e-mail almost daily. Thanks.
olay@efn.org

Saw your message and don't know if this will help. My great great grandfather Richard Steven Beeney had several brothers, one of whom was named James Harvey Beeney. The dates you mentioned are very similar. They died a year or two apart. Let me know if this is the same James Beeney ???? One of Richards sons, Charles Fuller Beeney ( my great grandfather) had a son also named James Beeney, but the dates are much later. Would love to talk more.....

Hi Joan.. I have been trying to find out the name of Wilson Beeney's wife and you have it. I can let you know that Henry's 2 sister's names were Jane Ann and Sarah. Jane Ann married William Coulter. That is my Great Grandfather. Do you happen to have Isabella's maiden name?

This is for Jean Seefeldt. I do not have the maiden name of Isabella. Wilson Beeney I was married to Margaret Duffield; Wilson Beeney II was married to Frances McLaughlin, and then to Isabella. I had the name of Jane Ann; I have her sister as Elizabeth, b. 1845, but I didn't have Sarah. Do you have a birth date?

Jane Ann Beeney was born Feb.2,1847 in Durham County, England. She came here from St. Louis on a river boat. They moved into a small coal mining town called Wrayville. Wrayville has disappeared, but Wrayville cemetary is in a cow pasture. Some of the stones are still there, just barely legible. Jane died June 11,1913. Sarah was married to an older man. There was a scandal, where she ran off with another man and a shooting occurred. No one can figure out where she went to. I can't find out what happened to Wilson Beeney. We can't seen to locate where he was buried. Which one of the women were Henry and Jane Ann's blood mother?

Jean - According to my information, Frances McLaughlin was Wilson Beeney the 2nd's first wife and the mother of Margaret (whom I believe you referred to as Sarah). Isabella was the mother of Henry Selby Beeney, Elizabeth Beeney and Jane Ann Beeney. We have not been able to find what happened to Wilson, either. A letter that Carol Coulter has, dated 1987, indicated that Wilson died around 1860. The 1860 census indicates that Henry, age 16, and Elizabeth were living with other families. Carol has looked for newspaper articles about a mine accident. Since he was a coal miner, we thought he may have been killed on the job, but no luck finding anything. The man who wrote the letter says that his grandmother, Katherine (Wray) Butts was born at Wrayville in 1875, the daughter of Margaret by her second marriage. Thanks for the info about the Wrayville Cemetery.

My grandmother was Carrie I. Beeney. She was Richard Steven Beeney's Granddaughter. If you are willing to give me any of your information. It would be helpful!