Beulah Wiley Franks
Grant County Coordinator, KY/ALHN

James Webb Belew


James Webb Belew, born Hampshire County, Virginia and died August 1845, Pendleton County, Kentucky, married June 27, 1822, Grant County, Kentucky, Mary Collins, who died 1842, daughter of Ralph Collins and Margaret Wharton. Their children were all born at Portland, Pendleton County, Kentucky.
Their family:
1. James Webb Belew Jr., born October 12, 1827, died May 8, 1911, married December 4, 1845 Saran Ann Spegal, born July 7, 1828, died January 19, 1912, Dry Ridge, Grant County, Kentucky, daughter of Martin Spegal and Mary M. Shook.
Their children:
a. Mahalo Jane, born 1851, died before 1911, married October 29, 1872, James (Jerry) M. Wilson.
b. Susannah J., born 1847, died before 1911, married October 29, 1872, Jack H. Goldsberry, born 1845, died November 5, 1910, Grant or Owen County, Kentucky, buried Odd Fellows Cemetery, Jonesville, Owen County, Kentucky.
Their children:

i. James Wm., born 1872, died March 8, 1911, married April 20, 1901, Susie Jackson.
ii. Rose E., born 1875, died 1952, married 1st Barnet Cammack, married 2nd August 7, 1897 Dwight V. Deins.
iii. Addie Belle born February 21, 1877, died June 2, 1900, married September 14, 1897 James Gordon.
iv. Mary Susan born 1883, married 1st James Gordon, married 2nd Ace Alexander.
v. Jarret Harrison (Bud) born 1884, died December 30, 1954, married Bessie Cammack born 1902, died 1930, married 2nd May 22, 1897 Callie M. Cummins.
vi. Franklin L. Born 1882, died July 19, 1949, married December 18, 1900 Millie Mary Stewart born 1882.
vii Alice born 1886, married August 30, 1900 Walter B. Oder born 1867, married 2nd Dack Hicks, married 3rd N. Cook.
viii. John Sherman born May 18, 1888, died February 24, 1967, Owen County, Kentucky, married Nellie Baker born 1892, died 1963.
ix. Charles Marion born February 2, 1889, died July 18, 1970, Carroll County, Kentucky, married 1st Florence Sheets, married 2nd Cassie E. Marksberry born 1889, died July 11, 1980.
c. Millie born 1849, married July 26, 1886 Martin V. Simmons born 1845. Civil War veteran.
Their children:
i. Dora.
ii. Sarah Fannie, born 1870, died December 26, 1935 Grant County, Kentucky, married February 16, 1889 Robert Ace Alexander.
iii. Levonia born 1875, married September 8, 1892, John J. Race, married 2nd Ora Neff.
iv. Son, died April 14, 1891.
d. James Webb III, born 1852, died February 20, 1894/5, married February 22, 1877 Isabell Morris born September 13, `855, died February 1930, daughter of John E. Morris and Armanda Marksberry. Their children:
i. Walter H. born 1878, died 1890 Dry Ridge, Grant County, Kentucky.
ii. Henry C. (Pat) born January 18, 1880, died August 18, 1964.
iii. Carrie Alice born Mach 21, 1882, died September 3, 1973, married Joseph Tomlin.
iv. Lewis Webb (Moses) born September 15, 1884, died March 12, 1929, married June 10, 1906 Bertha Lee Johns.
v. Mary Carolyn (Tina) born August 30, 1886, died October 27, 1974, Grant County, Kentucky, married June 16, 1906 T. Jefferson Hutchinson, buried Hill Crest Cemetery.
vi. John Frederick William born March 21, 1889, died August 6, 1922, married October 30, 1913 Nora Isabell Bowen and Hannah McMillian.
vii. Pascal Perry born Mach 31, 1894, married June 17, 1914 Sarah (Sallie) Beatrice Colston.
e. Harrison (Harry) born July 1860, died October 26, 1918, married September 10, 1899 Myrtle Wiley, born March 1881, died 1903, daughter of Thomas and Martha Eggleston Wiley.
Their children:
i. Cheslie A., born April 19, 1900, died July 11, 1976, married 1st September 19, 1920 Evelyn Wayman, married 2nd Helen Simpson, married 3rd Emma Blackburn, 4th Sudie ____, and 5th Aleene Williams.
f. Mary (Molly) born November 20, died April 12, 1935, married February 21, 1883 John V. Franks.
Their children:
i. Floyd born 1884, died April 16, 1933, married Nettie M. Landrum, born 1885, died 1918.
ii. Nettie born 1885, died 1970, married February 26, 1907 Charley F. Marks born 1880, died 1957, son of Henry and Mary Marks.
g. Joseph Lee born June 15, 1866, died December 29, 1949, married February 1st February 21, 1886, Grant County, Kentucky, Ella Louise Hall born 1866, Gallatin County, Kentucky, born August 13, 1894, daughter of Marshall Hall and Lute Massey.
Their children:
i. Anna Emma born April 23, 1888, died January 11, 1962, married October 9, 1907 Elmer Clifford Mills.
ii. Retta J. born September 19, 1890, died September 19, 1966, married September 15, 1909 Claude Clyde Hightower. Joseph married 2nd November 14, 1895 Eva Mae Points, born September 10, 1873, Beloit, Kansas, died March 13, 1952, daughter of Wm. Reed Points and Lease Blanched. Buried Mt. Zion.
Their children:
iii. Leland Webb born July 25, 1903, died July 26, 1896, married October 1, 1923 Eleanor C. Conrad.
iv. D. Joseph Lee Jr. born June 26, 1909, died September 9, 1975, married March 30, 1927 Edna Louise Moore.
v. E. Dora Mae, born March 28, 1913, died June 24, 1953, married March 20, 1934 Charley Blaine Elliott. Two girls died in infancy.
h. Franklin Forest born December 15, 1868, died January 29, 1935, married September 24, 1892 Ada Margaret Daugherty, born October 6, 1877, died October 27, 1965, daughter of Reuben Daugherty and Brilda Jane Delaney.
Their children:
i. Clarence Lee born August 28, 1893, died May 22, 1959, married June 20, 1913, Victoria Paye born November 4, 1893, died June 17, 1946. Married 2nd August 29, 1947 Adele Schultz Tutholl born November 17, 1889, died June 11, 1972.
ii. Nettie Mae born September 3, 1895, died March 30, 1974, married May 10, 1920 Joseph Hooker Freeman, born July 27, 1893, died January 9, 1946.
iii. Nellie Fay, born December 6, 1897, died February 7, 1933, married March 17, 1916 Frank Lockwood Bowling, born February 15, 1893, died August 30, 1952.
iv. Lena Jane born October 12, 1899, died January 28, 1983, married March 18, 1924 Ernest Dewey Lee Schlueter, born April 7, 1898, died June 1, 1981, son of Henry W. Schlueter and Mary Twenty.
v. James Wm. Taylor, born September 9, 1901, died September 30, 1972, married August 16, 1926, Viola Harriett Worley, born April 26, 1902, died September 12, 1986.
vi. Herbert Alava, born October 21, 1903, died April 22, 1980, Canton, Ohio, married November 26, 1924, Julia Maude Worley, born December 20, 1903, died February 4, 1988.
vii. John Forest, born September 8, 1908, died March 26, 1985, married September 2, 1933 Aurbin Bagby born May 20, 1911, died August 16, 1994, daughter of Dawson Bagby and Anna Kline.
viii. Harriet Lazoria, born September 23, 1910, died June 1, 1984, married November 18, 1929, Sherman Bush, born December 15, 11898, died September 16, 1994, married 2nd Jack Cain.
i. Robert born 1852, died 1853.
j. Francis M. born 1855, died 1856.
k. Matthew G. born October 29, 1856.
2. Newton Belew, born January 1830, died April 1909, Greenwood, Pendleton County, Kentucky, married March 9, 1830, Pendleton County, Kentucky, Abigail Spegal, married 2nd, June 12, 1877, Susan Ellen Oliver, born 1856, daughter of Wm. H. Oliver and Leannah Tewell.
Their children:

a. Mary Jane, born 1849, Portland, married October 3, 1867, Wm. Phillip Twenty.
b. Emily M., born October 26, 1853, died December 29, 1939, married April 28, 1885, Marion Francis Loomis.
c. John Nelson, born February 3, 1856, died December 3, 1921, married October 5, 1875, Elizabeth Watson Boone.
d. Richard McKinsy, born 1857, married January 23, 1877 Armanda Ellen Boone, married 2nd, 1909, his stepmother, Susan Oliver Belew.
e. Rebecca Ann, born December 23, 1857, died October 14, 1947, married January January 23, 1873, James Daniel Boone, and married 2nd, November 10, 1889, H. E. Talbert, buried Cripple Creek Cemetery, CO.
f. Sarah Frances, born 1859, married June 16, 1878, Wm. Carroll.
g. Asa Solomon, born May 23, 1860, died May 22, 1945, married May 15, 1879 Francis M. Tewell. They went to nebraska when it was still unsettled.
h. Jeremiah M., born 1863, married February 14, 1886, Gracie Ann Tewell. They went to Michigan.
i. Louisa Jan, born September 26, 1867, died December 27, 1939, married November 15, 1894, Hopkins Bright Maddix. They went to Beaver, Oklahoma before the dust bowl era.
j. Wm. Jasper, born May 8, 1870, died December 11, 1950, married November 10, 1892, Alice B. Carr, daughter of Robert Walker Carr and Nancy Wolfe.
k. Lucy A., born April 9, 1871, died March 14, 1957, married December 28, 1889 Benjamin S. Spegal.
l. Henry (Harry), born May 13, 1874, died March 3, 1947, married January 30, 1901, Sadie Loomis Culbertson.
m. James died in infancy.
Children of Newton and Susan.
n. Franklin Ellis, born November 11, 1879, died March 23, 1932, married December 18, 1895, Mary Ann (Polly) Sander.
o. Hatie May, born 1882, married October 26, 1898, Richard Martin.
3. Margaret Belew, born November 1, 1833, died August 10, 1911, married April 6, 1854 W. Jeremiah Smith, born c1830, died before 1865, son of Thomas Smith and Sarah Tomlin, married 2nd, June 11, 1869, his brother, John James Smith, born December 23, 1842, died September 19, 1889.
Their children:
a. Isadora A., born 1860, married May 13, 1880, James Robert Lemons, born August 20, 1847, died c1901, son of Vance and Margaret Shields Lemons.
4. Louisona, born c1834, died 1873, buried in Oak Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery, Grant County, Kentucky, married December 16, 1844, Grant County, George Burroughs, born 1839, died 1919, son of Wm. Burroughs. Their children.
a. George Hallick, born March 20, 1862, died February 2, 1951, Dallas, Texas.
b. Newton Elza, born March 22, 1864/66, died 1961, married Laura A. McHenry.
c. Daughter, born October 15, 1856.
d. Alvert W., born 1870, died 1871.
e. Annie E., born 1857.
f. James W., born 1860.
5. Collins C. Belew, died after 1856, not married.
6. Solomon C. Belew, born 1837, died 1867.
7. Elina (?) Belew, born c1823, married July 21, 1847, John Dial.

Researched by Mildred Belew - Used with permission.
Published in Footsteps of the Past, March 23, 2000.

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