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                                                                   Beattie Family

John Beattie & Ellen Gilmore born and married in Ireland.  Settled in Maryland remained there a few years and removed to Rockbridge Co Va. All their children were born in Maryland or Rockbridge Co. Va.
     John Beattie moved then to Washington Co. Va. where he spent the rest of his life.  He raised seven children - four daughters and three sons.

1. Mary, who married David Sayers of Wythe Co Va. she lived to the advanced age of one hundred years and raised a large family.

2. Agnes: married James Dysart who was captain of a company at the Battle of Kings Mt where he was badly wounded - but recovered and raised a large family.

3. Sarah - married a man by name of Logan - Kentucky - they raised a large family.

4. David - married Mary Beattie - a distant relation They had four sons and one daughter - He was a Captain of a company and much engaged in frontier service - led his men at Kings Mt with great success.

5. Jane married Mathew Ryburn of Washington Co Va and raised a large family -

6. John - killed at battle of Kings Mt.  unmarried - Ensign in his brothers Co

7. William, the youngest was also in the

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battle of Kings Mt in his brother Davids Co.  Wm married when he was nineteen years of age - his wife was sixteen.

When John Beattie first settled here the Indians, being troublesome, they remained in the fort some time - The fort stood where our Glade Spring church now stands

William: born 1760 died April 4, 1860 being about the last of the men who fought at Kings Mt. His wifes maiden name was Mary Allison.

Children:
Elizabeth married Col. Wm Byars
John who went to Kentucky to live
Robert - James - Samuel - David - Josiah [-] Absalom – Wm, Fountain
Nancy who married Col. B.R. Edmondson
Ellen married Richard White
Madison married Martha Anne Cunningham
          Children of Madison Beattie & Martha Anne
                Wm - unmarried
                George married Emma Louise Williams
                Mary married Charles W. McKenney

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    Beattie

John Beattie married Ellen Gilmore
Wm Beattie married Mary Allison
John Beattie (1786-1861) married Sallie Edmondson (1790-1868)
Robert Franklin Beattie (1826-1907) mar. 1853
Hetty Edmondson Newell (1829-1875)
Nannie Newell Beattie 4/26/1867 - 9/29/1945
Married 5/13/1885 Albert Gallatin Wills 1/6/1858 to 2/3/1917

Elsie Wills 5415 Bryan Dallas -
Marguerite C. Wills - (Mrs. J. _ Prelliun [?])
 Died Jul 3, 1933
Virginia Alberta Wills now Mrs. Hubard Taylor Bowyer -
4308 Beverly Dallas Texas

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   Newell Line

Samuel Newell of Ireland and Elizabet Colville Black (she was a widow) 

    son

Samuel Newell born Nov. 4, 1754
Frederick Co. Va - died Sep 21 - 1841
married Sept 30, 1782 Washington Co VA -
to Jane Margaret Montgomery
born 1764 at Augusta Co Va died 1851
married 9/30/1782
   
   son

John M. Newell 9/20/1790 in Ky -
died Somerset Ky 1871 married Margaret Beaty
born 8/17/1799 died Somerset 1851
married 2/1/1820

   their daughter

Hettie Edmondson Newell born 11/20/1830 - Ky
died in Somerset Ky 3/14/1875 married 10/27/1853
Robert Franklin Beattie born 3/31/1826 - Ky
died Somerset - Ky - 3/24/1907

   their daughter

Nannie Nevell Beattie born 4/26/1867 Somerset
died in Dallas Texas 9/29/1945 - married
Albert Gallatin Wills born 1/6/1858 in Fluvanna Co Va -
died 2/3/1917 in Dallas Texas
married in Callahan Co. 5/13/1885

   their daughter

Elsie Beattie Wills born in Baird Texas
now living in Dallas Texas

[additional pages follow on ancestry of Newell line - contact me if interested/dp]