Misc. Notes
Came from MD to KY in the early days.
61George Washington Beall, Sr. was born in MD to Nathan, 17xx-1802 and Sarah (_______) Beall. The Bealls were of Irish extraction.
Wash Beall's siblings were: Jesse Beall, William Beall, Tabitha (Beall) Hudspeth, Mary "Polly" (Beall)Sutton, Nancy Beall, and Elizabeth (Beall) Noland. Wash was 12 years old when his father died in 1802 and he was made the ward of Richard Gardner in Washington Co., KY in 1804.
He was the husband of Mary "Polly" (Carter) Beall, 1787-1860, a native of Culpeper Co., VA and the daughter of Joseph, 1760-1864, the Revolutionary War soldier, and Jenny (Shelton) Carter. Wash and Polly were married by the Rev. John Baird, a Methodist minister, on March 23, 1813, in Washington (now Marion) County, KY. He inherited Lot #1 of 100 acres on the south side of the Rolling Fork River, near the mouth of Salt Lick Creek, a point where Washington (now Marion) Co, Nelson County, Kentucky, and Hardin (now Larue) Co., KY all join.
Wash and Polly had at least three children: George Washington Beall, Jr. 1825-xxxx; Thomas Jefferson Beall, 1818-1826, and A. J. Beall, c.1829-xxxx. Wash Beall, Sr. was a farmer, slave owner and distiller.
His son George Washington Beall, Jr. has a biographical sketch in Perrin's History of KY on page 47.