Enoch Beem

BEF 1805 - 1835

Father: Daniel Beem

Mother: Mary Neely

Spouse: Phebe Richards

Marriage: Date Unknown, Place Unknown

1. Daniel R. Beem
2. Rezin Beem

Biography

Lived in Owen County, IN 1825-1834 Enoch Beem received as his patrimony acreage in Owen County, IN: the northwest quarter of section 20, township 10 north, range 3 west. In 1830he determined to seek another location, sold his one hundred and sixty acres to Levi Beem, and removed to McClean County, Illinois, settling on Mackinawcreek, about sixteen miles from what is now the city of Bloomington. Here he went to work with great energy to make a farm and home, and died there in 1832, leaving a widow and five children.

Sources

* Charles Blanchard (1884). Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana: Historical and Biographical ... F.A. Battey & Company.

• David E. Beem (1917). Daniel Beem and his descendants, embracing some facts relating to the early history of Spencer and Owen County, Indiana, and personal recollection by the author

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