Beasley Prewitt Sr. ²

  General Notes:

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Sources of information for Beasley Prewitt family:
1. The Atascosita Census (Liberty Co., Texas) of 1826.
2. Copy of Beasly Prewitt Will of 2 Apr 1831, from Benjamin C. Franklin Collection, Barker History Center, Univ. of Texas, Austin, Texas.
3. Abshire or Abshier family of Texas and Louisiana, compiled by Earl Travis Hill.
4. Liberty County, Texas Cemeteries, part one (headstone readings).
5. Hugh Uriah Prewitt Family Bible Entries. Hugh Uriah Prewitt is Beasley Prewitt's son by a first marriage.

The Prewitt family had 13 slaves at this time. (Osburn 1963)

  Noted events in his life were:

• Cemetery: On His Land Grant In An Unmarked Grave: Dayton, Liberty CO, TX.

Beasley married Ellen Humphreys. (Ellen Humphreys was born about 1744 in Essex Co, VA.)

Beasley next married Lucy Sims in 1812 in Rapides Parish, LA.¹ (Lucy Sims was born in 1786 in FL, died in 1850 in Liberty, Liberty CO, TX ³ and was buried in Dayton, Liberty CO, TX.)