Elizabeth and William Hamilton were married in Harrison, KY on 31 Jan 1803. I would like to have the names of their children. As far as I know they raised their children and they died in Adams Co., OH.

I have information on Elizabeth Beaver's family. Elizabeth's sister Mary Polly married Nathaniel McClure 6 Sept 1806 in Harrison, KY. Mary and Nathaniel also lived in Adams Co., but went on to Indiana with the rest of the Beavers.

Elizabeth's sister Susan Beaver married Alexander Cameron 11 Jan 1816 in Adams Co., OH.

I am descended from the Hamilton's and Cameron's. My family history lists Susan Beaver as Susannah Beaver, so wasn't sure. Please e-mail me robnrobrts@hotmail.com and I can give you the information I have on these families. Thanks! Robin

Can anyone tell me more about the family of Susannah Beaver and Alexander Cameron? Did they have children, and were any of them girls named Susie or Susannah?

My great grandfather Benjamin Alexander of Brown County had a brother Isaac Newton Alexander. Benjamin died before Ohio instituted mandatory death records. So, I had been looking his siblings death records to find out their mother's maiden name. One or two of them state it to be Susannah Gregg. I also found a marriage license for Susannah Gregg and Stephen Alexander, their known father. After Stephen's death, I find several Gregg children in Susannah's household, listed as her grandchildren. I'm wondering how that could be if Gregg was her maiden name.

The only two plausable explanations would be if she had a male child out of wedlock to whom she gave her maiden name, or she had an entirely different maiden name and she was married and had a child before she married Stephan Alexander and bore him more children. Or a daughter of hers married a man who had her maiden name, and I know they didn't.

When I found Isaac Newton Alexander's death certificate, it states his father was Stephen Alexander, and his mother was Susie Cameron. This could explain a lot of things. So, now I am trying to find out who in Adams county, who would have been born around 1824 would be named Susie or Susannah Cameron. This is where I am hoping to make a connection. Then I can procede to see if there are any marriage documents between a Cameron and a Gregg.

I don't know anything about the the Beaver or Hamilton but I do have information about Susan Gregg. I looked her up for a man in Texas several years ago as she was married to a Foster and had a son Robert that is shown as Alexander in the census. In the 1850 census of Winchester she is listed with her parents, John 63 born Md. Occp. Gentleman! Susannah is 26 and has two children George Gregg 2, and Catherine age 9. The census has it spelled Gragg. I have a paper written by a grandson of Issac Newton Alexander and he says he was born July 22, 1857. His mother Catherine Gregg died when he was born. His grandmother raised him alone as his father, Steven Alexander Jr. was killed when grandfather was about 10 years old. The story is that Steven got Susan's daughter Catherine pregnant. She was a little slow. So Susan was his grandmother but Steven was his father. I don't have the other pages of the story on the family but they are in the Alexander or Gregg file at the Adams Co. Genealogy Society. Susan Gregg would have been Benjamin's mother.
Florence in Winchester

Thank you so much, Florence for elaborating on this. So Susan had a daughter named Catherine? That was Susannah's middle name. I remember reading that census and got a chuckle out of the 'gentleman' as well.

I guess I had forgotten about Susannah being listed with her parents, but sort of remember it now. I also remember somebody telling me of Susannah being married to a gentleman named Foster, as I have it in my notes, and it was probably you who shared it then.

I wonder why her two children carried her maiden surname, instead of their father's. Whether both were offspring of this Foster gentleman or either were out of wedlock.

I have found Susannah not only in the 1870 census living next to John Alexander in Wheat Ridge, but also in 1880 in Jackson township of Brown County. I understand that there was some flipping around of county lines between Adams and Brown so seeing her in a different county didn't phase me. She had, in 1880 a grandchild named Emma Gregg, aged ten in the household. (and other Gregg children in Alexander households) That's why I was having such a problem reconciling the family members. You have been a great help, and getting to the Adams County Geneology Society has been on my wish list for several years. It will happen when spring comes, if the creek don't rise.

So, that leaves me with the dilemma of why on Isaac Newton's death certificate, his father is listed as Steven Gregg, but his mother as Susie Cameron. I know there were Camerons in the vicinity, and since I've been researching quite a few years now, surely know you can't always take the informant's word as gospel......but it usually has it's own story of a family connection somewhere.

You've been a great help and very generous with your information and I thank you very much.

I just looked through my records, and it was William T. Alexander who stated his mother was Susie Cameron, and father Steven Alexander. He is found in the household of Susan with Issac Alexander who stated his father was Stephen Alexander and mother Susie Gregg. So, I got to nosing around Camerons and Greggs or Alexanders on Ohio death records and found more interesting stuff.

There was a Nancy Cameron (DOB 1846)who said her father was Samuel Cameron and mother Catherine Gregg, and a Mathilda Cameron (DOB 1841) who also said her father was Samuel Cameron and mother Catherine Gregg........both born or lived in Adams County.

We have Susie Catherine Alexander and a child who claims her maiden name was Cameron. Then we find Cameron and Gregg offspring in the death records. I'm wondering if Susannah Catherine Gregg Alexander wasn't also married at one time to a Cameron, and maybe even Samuel Cameron. I think a connection bears looking into somewhere.

No relation, but Isaac Newton Alexander's death cert list his mother as Katherine Gregg & father as ____ Alexander.

Sharon Karns
skarns3@cox.net

Thanks Sharon......That's what happens when you get online in the wee hours and pull stuff up by memory. Yes, I have a copy of his death certificate. I believe Katherine is her middle name and she has also gone by that, by Susie, by Susan and by Susannah. What I guess I was getting at is that sibling's informants are using two different surnames for the same mother.

do you have any documentation verifying the birth, marriage and death information for Susanna Beaver? I am completing an application for First Family of Ohio and have many sources on these facts but my request to Harrison County, Kentucky, Adams and Pike Countys, Ohio including the KY state archives, Ohio Genealogy Society, etc have not found documentation.
Thanks Jim