Neely Beem

13 Feb 1788 - 15 Aug 1832

Father: Daniel Beem

Mother: Mary Neely

Biography ##"Neely Beem was the son of Daniel and Mary Neely Beem. Neely served in the War of 1812 in the US Volunteers Rangers and was a Private at discharge. Information from Ancestry.com Military Records.

He married Leah Storm, daughter of John and Anne Parsons Storm, on Jan 26, 1816 in Jackson Co, IN. In the 1816-1836 Executive Proceedings of the State of Indiana, Neelyis recorded as the Coroner in Owen Co, IN serving under Sheriff Andrew Adams. Information found on pg 89, Dec 17-25, 1818 in the collection"Road to Indiana Statehood" housed at the Indiana University Purdue University Library in Indianapolis, IN. A US General Land Grant was recorded on May 5, 1828 for Owen Co, IN and the purchase included 80 acres at the 2nd PM. They are known to have had the following children as they are recorded as heirs in an estate petition filed in Owen Co, IN by Leah Walker now married to Jesse Walker. Leah Walker is noted as the the widow of Neely Beem:

LUCINDA 1817-1843 CYNTHIA ANN 1818-1846 MARY "POLLY" 1820-1904 RICHARD NEELY 1822-1890 JOHN STORM 1826-1908 WILLIAM P. 1828-1864 ELIZABETH ALICIA 1830-1909 After Neely's death, Leah remarried on Mar 16, 1835 to Jesse Walker in Owen Co, IN I believe Neely is buried in Beem Cemetery in Spencer, Owen Co, IN. His headstone has not yet been located." --https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102806896/neely-beem

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"On the 25th of March, Neely, Enoch and Levi Beem, sons of Daniel Beem, came and made their camp upon a mound south of Spencer, which moundis now in the Riverside Cemetery. Neely Beem brought his wife and infant daughter, two weeks old, along with him. That infant grew to womanhood, and became the mother of Laura A., wife of Gen. T. A. McNaught. Enoch Beem was about seventeen, and Levi about fourteen years when they arrived here. Their father, Daniel Beem, was sick, and was left at the old home in Jackson County, Ind. These boys lived in their camp until they had cleared and planted ten acres in corn. They then built their cabin on the mound above mentioned. In the spring of 1817, there came to this Dunn settlement, as it was called, Isaiah Cooper, Jacob Mclntire, Dudley Milner, Richard Kirby, William Anderson, Robert Blaine, George McHenry and Hugh Barnes, with their wives and children. These men all made crops here in 1817."--“Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana,” by Blanchard, Charles, 1830-1903, F.A. Battey & Co., Chicago, 1884.

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