Jereboam O. Beauchamp was the second son of a small Kentucky farmer who gave his son a good English education. Jereboam tried his hand at merchandising and
school teaching.  At the age of eighteen, he commenced the study of law at Glasgow, Kentucky where he became acquainted with Colonel Solomon P. Sharp.  While
at Glasgow, Miss Ann Cook purchased a small farm in Simpson County about a mile from the home of Beauchamp's father.  Jereboam persisted in calling on Miss Cook
and in a short time became desperately in love with her.  When he ask for her hand in marriage, she refused him.  However; afterward she would marry him upon the
condition that he would kill Sharp. Beauchamp agreed to her proposition and in the fall of 1821 came to Frankfort for that purpose. His plans failed and he returned home
without completing his promise to Ann.  In 1824 Jereboam was admitted to the bar and in June he and Ann were married.

During the legislative election of 1824, John V. Waring had conducted a smear campaign against Sharp by printing out handbills accusing him of seducing Ann
Cook of Bowling Green and fathering an illegitimate child born to her in 1820. Jereboam had been infuriated by the accusations about his wife and Sharp.

Sources:
History of Franklin County, Kentucky, by L. F. Johnson

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