Thursday, September 12, 2013

No West Virginia jokes, Please


Methodist Circuit Riders in the early Southern Frontier


Adam Sharkey Peck lived in Arkansas for over a decade, marrying at twenty the seventeen year old Ledora Lee Bewley, daughter of the Rev. Robert Sanders Bewley and his third wife, Elizabeth Jane (Davis) Bewley, the widow of his nephew Mahlon Bewley born in 1830.  Ledora Lee, styled "Dora" much of her life, was the granddaughter of Rev. Mahlon Bewley, born in 1775 in Henry, Wythe County, Virginia, who died on the 4th of December, 1831 in Boiling Springs, Pope County, Arkansas and his wife, Jane Reed, daughter of Nelson Reed.   

The Bewley's were founders of the region. 

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