Andrew J. Bell

Notes:

!NAME:Beck & Tittle Footprints, Beck & Tittle Footprints,
Joyce Nell Beck LaGrone Truitt, 19981001

!BIRTH:Beck & Tittle Footprints, Beck & Tittle Footprints,
Joyce Nell Beck LaGrone Truitt, 19981001

Notes:

Was a stage driver in Kaufman County, Texas [Beck & Tittle
Footprints; 19981001].

!NAME:Beck & Tittle Footprints, Beck & Tittle Footprints,
Joyce Nell Beck LaGrone Truitt, 19981001

John married Sarah D. Beck 25 Dec 1851, Kaufman County, Texas U.S.A.. Sarah (daughter of Andrew M. Beck and Susan Nowlin Devin) was born 20 Nov 1825, Beck's Mill, Howard Township, Washington, Indiana U.S.A.; died 8 Oct 1859; was buried , College Mound Cemetery, Kaufman County, Texas U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!NAME:Truitt, Joyce Nell DC, Truitt, Joyce Nell DC,
Descendant Chart

!BIRTH:Truitt, Joyce Nell, Truitt, Joyce Nell, 19981004

!BIRTH:Beck & Tittle Footprints, Beck & Tittle Footprints,
Joyce Nell Beck LaGrone Truitt, prepared 19981001

!DEATH:Beck & Tittle Footprints, Beck & Tittle Footprints,
Joyce Nell Beck LaGrone Truitt, prepared 19981001

!BURIAL:Beck & Tittle Footprints, Beck & Tittle Footprints,
Joyce Nell Beck LaGrone Truitt, 19981001

Notes:

Married:
!MARRIAGE:Beck & Tittle Footprints, Beck & Tittle
Footprints, Joyce Nell Beck LaGrone Truitt, 19981001

Notes:

The Devin Family, page 39 states that the unnamed husband
of Susan Devin was the son of Philip Beck; who had married
her sister, Elizabeth Devin. KLV thinks that the husband of
Susan Devin is the son of Philip Beck by a prior marriage.
JNT in an email dated 04.October.1998, says father of Susan
Devin's husband is George Beck; a cousin of Philip Beck.

He was from Salem, IN. (Washington Co.)

Rowan County, North Carolina became Davidson County, North
Carolina. Andrew Beck moved with his parents to Washington
County, Indiana Territory in 1808. [Beck & Tittle
Footprints; 19981001]

When Susan died, Andrew had the responsibility of a new
born baby, a son, Alexander, eighteen months old, and four
young daughters. He must have had help from other family
members where they lived at Beck's Mill. Andrew M. Beck
remarried two years after Susan died to Rebecca Barker.
[JNT email 04.October.1998]. They moved to near Terrell,
Kaufman County, Texas in 1854.

!NAME:Truitt, Joyce Nell DC, Truitt, Joyce Nell DC,
Descendant Chart

!BIRTH:Truitt, Joyce Nell DC, Truitt, Joyce Nell DC,
Descendant Chart

!DEATH:Beck & Tittle Footprints, Beck & Tittle Footprints,
Joyce Nell Beck LaGrone Truitt, prepared 19981001

!BURIAL:Beck & Tittle Footprints, Beck & Tittle Footprints,
Joyce Nell Beck LaGrone Truitt, prepared 19981001

Andrew married Susan Nowlin Devin 6 May 1821, Washington County, Indiana U.S.A.. Susan (daughter of Alexander Devin and Susannah Nowlin) was born 22 Sep 1796, Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.; died 5 Dec 1832, Washington County, Indiana U.S.A.; was buried , Beck Cemetery Washington County, Indiana. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

DOB & POB from Ancestral File

In Washington Co IN there is a marriage record for Sucky
Diven & Andrew Beck,
6 May 1821. Could they be this couple?

Middle name from JNT email 04.October.1998.

!NAME:Truitt, Joyce Nell DC, Truitt, Joyce Nell DC,
Descendant Chart

!NAME:Descendants of James Nowlin, Sr., Descendants of
James Nowlin, Sr., Gilbert, Polly A, updated 01.Aug.2001

!BIRTH:Beck & Tittle Footprints, Beck & Tittle Footprints,
Joyce Nell Beck LaGrone Truitt, prepared 19981001

!DEATH:Beck & Tittle Footprints, Beck & Tittle Footprints,
Joyce Nell Beck LaGrone Truitt, prepared 19981001

Notes:

Married:
Married by Elijah Wright, Sr. JPWC [Beck & Tittle
Footprints; 19981001].

!MARRIAGE:Truitt, Joyce Nell DC, Truitt, Joyce Nell DC,
Descendant Chart

!MARRIAGE:Washington County, IN Marriage Records,
Washington County, IN Marriage Records, page 5

Notes:

[From "Beck and Tittle Footprints" by Nell Truitt prepared
01.October.1998]:
George Beck, Sr. brought his family from North Carolina in
1807, staying a short time in Bear Grass, which is now
Louisville, Kentucky. George and his two older sons, John,
age 23 and George, Jr. age 16, while out scouting in
December 1807, located organ Spring along Mill creek and
built a grist-mill ther. The spring was dammed and provided
a gallon of water per minute at 60 degree temperature. The
first grist mill was a log structure fifteen feet square.

Within a short time, Beck's Hill, as the settlement was
known, became a social center as families from a thirty
mile radius brought their corn to Beck's Mill to be ground
into cornmeal. Sometimes it took two or three days as they
waited their turns, so games were played outdoors with the
young Beck boys. In the summer of 1825, a frame building,
twenty by thirty feet square replaced the first mill
structure. Two years later, a lean-to was bult and a
carding machine was put in operation. A commodious,
two-story frame structure for the mill was built in 1864,
and the carding machinery was placed in the second story.
The structure still stands in 1998.

!NAME:Truitt, Joyce Nell DC, Truitt, Joyce Nell DC,
Descendant Chart

!BIRTH:Truitt, Joyce Nell 19981006, Truitt, Joyce Nell
19981006

John married Elizabeth Claver. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

It is said the Elizabeth could cut more wheat than any may
she ever raced against. [Beck & Tittle Footprints;
Alexander D. Beck biography; 01.October.1998].

!NAME:Truitt, Joyce Nell DC, Truitt, Joyce Nell DC,
Descendant Chart

Notes:

Married:
George and Elizabeth left Rowan (now Davidson) County,
North Carolina in 1807 and settled in Indiana Territory and
with their older sons, John Jacob, George Jr., and Andrew
M., they build Becks Mill south of Salem, Washington
County, Indiana. The old mill, rebuilt in 1864, still
stands at the mill stream near Becks Hill, and was the
first grist mill in the 30-50 mile area. This is still
printed on some maps and atlases. -JNT email
04.October.1998 at 14:48.

Many stories of the Beck's are written in the Washington
County, Indiana history. [Beck & Tittle Footprints; John
Charles Beck biography prepared 19981001].

Notes:

Census:
1820 Gibson Co IN p 240......
1 male >45; 1 male 16-25; 3 males 10-15
1 female>45; 3 female 16-25; 2 females <10

POB from History of Gibson Co IN p. 55; FHC #0934905
This book gave YOM as 1793. Family moved to Warren County
(near Bowling Green), Kentucky in 1798 & to Gibson County,
Indiana in spring of 1808.
Moved to Indiana Territory March 1808 (Gilbert, Polly;
Decendents of James Nowlin; updated 01.Aug.2001).

Represented Gibson Co in the Indiana constitutional
convention of 1816.
Hist. of Gibson Co IN; SLC 977.235 H2p

IGI & Ancestral File say DOB 27 Mar 1769 or 22 Mar 1769
Per Hist. of Gibson Co IN DOB = 27 Mar 1769.

Bought the first lot sold in Princeton, IN.

Was Baptist minister who along with Joseph Logan and John
Hightower, other Baptist preachers, established their
ministry and several churches in the Warren County and
Allen County, Kentucky, areas
in the late 1790s and 1800s.

Land Grant issued to Alexander Divan for 200 acres on the
Sulphur Fork of Drake Creek in Warren County, Kentucky.
Grant is recorded in Book 12 page 114. Surveyed
08.Aug.1799.

Alexander recorded a deed in Pittsylvania County Virigina
relinquishing his rights in the estate of his father,
William Devin, except for any property based on the future
estate of his sister, Sarah. Written 21.Novemer.1803;
recorded in Deed
Book 13 page 537 on 16.January.1804. Witnessed by James
Nowlin, John Emmerson, George Thomas, and James Devin.

!NAME:Relinquishment Deed To Devin's Legatees From Alex.
Devin, Devin, Alexander: deed to Devin's Legatees, County
Clerk's Office; Pittsylvania County, Virginia,

Be it
remembered and made known to all to whom this Instrument

may Concern that whereas some doubts have arisen
respecting my
Father William Devins last will and
testament (to wit, that I have a
right to brake [break]
or revoke the said will agreeable to our Laws, on the

ground that my name is omitted, and not Inserted in
said Will
Therefore in order to remove and do away all
such doubts I do hereby
relinquish give up and forever
Disclaim all or any such right, if any I
have, not only
for my self but also for my heirs Executors and
administrators
or any other person or persons Claiming
by or from under me
or my heirs & in any Case
Whatsoever and therefore do pronounce my
harty Consent
to the Establishment of said Will and do reserve to myself

my heirs or afsigns the part to me left in said Will in
Case my Sister Sarah
Devin Should die without a Lawfull
heir, In Witnefs whereof I have
hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal this twenty first day of November

in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
three.

Alex^r [Alexander] Devin {Seal}

Signed Seal^d & Deliver'd in the presents of
[fs]
James Nowlin    John Emmerson
George Thomas   
James Devin

At a Court held for Pittsylvania County the
16^th day of January
1804 This Relinquishment
from Alexander Devin to the Legatees of
William Devin
Deceased was presented in Court and proved by the
oath
of two of the Subscribing Witnefses hereto to be the act
and Deed
of the said Alexander and by the Court ordered
to be Recorded.

, page 537

Alexander married Susannah Nowlin 10 Jul 1795, Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.. Susannah (daughter of Bryan Ward aka James Nowlin and Lucinda 'Lucy' Wade) was born 12 Mar 1771, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died 8 Nov 1840, Gibson County, Indiana U.S.A.; was buried , Warnock Cemetery, Princeton, Gibson, Indiana U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!Questions: Spelling of Name - Nowlin or Nolan
First name maybe Susan.
POB from History of Gibson Co IN p. 55; FHC #0934905
This book gave DOD as 8 November 1840.

The Devin Family, page 37 lists her DOD as 8 November 1846.

Census:
1830 Gibson Co IN p 159A (Suckey or Sukey)
2 males 20-30 1 female 50-60; 2 females 15-20

Was a second generation American. Her grandfather came
from Ireland.

Via Ethel S. Mattingley FHC #0928908: Bible records at
Washington Co IN
Historical Society show DOB as 12 Mar 1772.
Per Hist. of Gibson Co IN p 452: DOB = 12 Mar 1771

"The Devin Family", on page 37, says Susan is the daughter
of Edward and Mary Wade Nowlin of Virginia. However, on
page 2, a quote from the will of Bryan Ward Nowlin says
Sucky is his daughter. Research by Anna Hudelson
[Nowlin-Devin missive; 1929-1977] shows Edward Nowlin and
Mary Wade to be the parents of Bryan Ward Nowlin; Susans
paternal grandparents.

!NAME:Ten Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Ten
Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Truitt, Joyce Nell,
page 1

!NAME:Marriage Bonds Book 01, Virginia-Pittsylvania County.
Marriage Bonds Book 01, County Clerk's Office,
Virginia-Pittsylvania County., page 14

!NAME:Deed & Will Book 11, Virginia. Pittsylvania County.
Deed & Will Book 11, County Clerk's Office, Virginia.
Pittsylvania County., pages 344-246

!BIRTH:Our Families, Our Families, Anna Hudelson,
Researched and written 1929-1977, page 2

!BIRTH:Ten Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Ten
Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Truitt, Joyce Nell,
page 1

!BIRTH:Descendants of James Nowlin, Sr., Descendants of
James Nowlin, Sr., Gilbert, Polly A, updated 01.Aug.2001

!DEATH:The Devin Family (manuscript), The Devin Family
(manuscript), Hofstetter, Dessa, circa 1962, page 37

!DEATH:Ten Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Ten
Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Truitt, Joyce Nell,
page 1

!DEATH:Descendants of James Nowlin, Sr., Descendants of
James Nowlin, Sr., Gilbert, Polly A, updated 01.Aug.2001

!BURIAL:Ten Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Ten
Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Truitt, Joyce Nell,
page 1

Notes:

Married:
It is possible that 9 July 1791 is their marriage bond date
and 10 July 1795 is the date of their marriage.

!MARRIAGE:Descendants of James Nowlin, Sr., Descendants of
James Nowlin, Sr., Gilbert, Polly A, updated 01.Aug.2001

!MARRIAGE:Marriages of Pittsylvania County Virginia;
1767-1805, Marriages of Pittsylvania County Virginia;
1767-1805, Knorr, Catherine L., 1956, page 25

!MARRIAGE:Some Virginia Marriages: 1700-1799, Some Virginia
Marriages: 1700-1799, McDonald, Cecil D., Volume 5-8, page 6