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Early census records can be confusing. People giving family information to enumerators often used family nicknames and guessed at ages. Enumerators wrote down what they thought they heard, which may or may not have been what the individual actually said, and often spelled names phonetically. The 1850 and 1860 census records for this family are a case in point. However, since these people were Quakers and Quaker Meetings kept records we do know who family members were, their ages, and where they lived. This family was made up of Amelia (Burris) Beeson, (b 1794), widow of Richard Beeson. She was the daughter of John and Frances (Ballard) Beeson and was often known as “Milley”. Unmarried sons John (b 1816) and Amasa (b 1818) operated the farm. Amasa went by “Macy”. Amelia Barker (b 1846) was daughter of Richard and Milley’s daughter Nancy who had married Jesse Barker. Something must have happened to her parents because she
was reared in Milley’s household. The bonds between Amelia and her uncles John and Amasa must have been strong because in 1880 when they had reached “retired farmer” status, they were living with Amelia and husband William Parsons and their family in Cowley County, Kansas. At the time of the 1850 census there were two others listed with the household, both of whom were probably visitors. One was Frances (Ballard) Burris, (b 1774) Milley’s mother, and Mourning Ballard, not Beeson, (b 1830) a relative. The
younger woman was probably the companion of the older woman for the trip.
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