BEEMAN, Anna Maria nee GILSON
Mrs. Ansel Beeman – m. 20 Apr 1814 in Canfield Twp. Trumbull (now Mahoning) Co. OH
Daughter of Eleazor and Mary Gilson
B. 17 Apr 1796 in Litchfield County, Connecticut
D. 27 Sep 1878 in Canfield Twp., Mahoning County, Ohio
at 82y 5m 10d
Burial – Sep 1878 in Dean Hill Cemetery Section A Row 02, Canfield Twp., Mahoning Co. OH
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 4 Oct 1878
"Home & County Affairs - Mrs. Ann Beeman, mother-in-law of J. K. Misner, died last Friday evening and was buried at the Disciple Cemetery, west of Canfield on Sunday. She was in her 83rd year of her age, and an old settler of the township. When she came here there was but two white families in the village, and no public roads were laid out. It was perfect wilderness in this section at that time. Her husband, Mr. Ansel Beeman died many years ago. Her two daughters, Mrs. Thomas Young, of Ellsworth, and Mrs. J. K. Misner, who resides at the old homestead in Canfield township, are still living and prospering - the wives of well-to-do-farmers, both surrounded by an intelligent family of children."
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 24 Jan 1879
Anna M. Beeman – Estate
"Court News - J. K. Misner executor of the estate of Anna M. Beeman, late of Canfield township, Mahoning County, Ohio, deceased."
Comment: Anna Maria Gilson Beeman was the youngest daughter of Eleazor Gilson who was among the first Canfield settlers to arrive in 1799. He became Canfield's first mail carrier. Her brother Samuel was one of the original 1798 surveying team members. Eleazor Gilson located on East Street, south side, one and a half miles from the center. This later became the Martin Neff farm and today (2008) is where Westford Development is located. Anna Maria's sister Mercy married Alfred Wolcott on February 11, 1800 making them the first from Canfield to marry. Mercy died in childbirth at the age of nineteen on November 27th of that year. She was buried on the Gilson family farm.
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 26 Feb 1897 - Article No. 6 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpt regarding: Gilson and Beeman families
Anna Maria, youngest daughter of Eleazor Gilson, was born in Connecticut April 17th, 1796, and on the 20th day of April, 1814, was married to Ansil Beeman. They were the parents of seven children, of whom only one remains with us until this day-one of the younger daughters, who married our esteemed citizen, John Misner. I knew Mrs. Beeman well-a woman of rather short stature, compactly framed, and capable of great endurance. She with her husband were a part of the little band of eight members when in 1820 the M. E. Church was first organized in Canfield, and up to the time of her death was a faithful and consistent Christian woman. I often noticed when unfavorable weather deterred younger and nearer members from attending public worship Mother Beeman was in her place. Her husband died Dec. 20th, 1854, aged 67. Mrs. Beeman survived her husband a number of years, making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Misner. I have not the date of her death, but it occurred, I am told, in 1878, aged 84.
Mr. Beeman was a native of Connecticut and came to Canfield in 1806 at the age of 19, a poor but industrious young man of great strength and power of endurance. He engaged to work three years for Gen. Wadsworth for which he was to receive 100 acres of wild land in Johnston, Trumbull county, and $24 per year to be expended on clothing. He earned his land and continued his hard labor in Canfield up to 1814, when he married and went to reside on his land in Johnston. He remained there but a few years when he returned to Canfield where he purchased and improved the land where John Misner, his son-in-law, now resides. His children have all, excepting Mrs. Misner, left Canfield. Harriet married Thomas Young, deceased, and with her children resides in Ellsworth. Mr. and Mrs. Misner's children have grown to manhood and womanhood and are well educated and promise to do honor to the revolutionary blood that flows in their veins.
I hope I may be pardoned for a word or two that is personal: The older children of Mr. Beeman were schoolmates of mine from 1826 or 27 to 1832, and referring as I have to them brings to mind, whether I would or no, the old stone school house that stood by the road on Turner St. It brings vividly to mind memories of the long ago, the other end of outskirts of my humble and unimportant life, some of which are pleasant, others not so. As I go back there I remember the dingy walls, the low ceiling, the huge fire place, the crowded rooms of life and frolic, and when I come back here and look around what a change time has made. My schoolmates, where are they? At the present moment I recall but one, who is my good old friend John Ewing of Austintown. There may be others, but the number is few. My old friend, if he sees this, will go back with me with feelings and emotions akin to my own. The old stone school house; if I could have my way I would linger around its walls for a while and a tale unfold of tragedy, comedy, fun, frolic, tricks, cruelty and nonsense sadly intermixed. But I cannot have my way. Some time when The DISPATCH is in good humor and short of copy, they may let me in long enough to speak my piece about the old stone schoolhouse on Turner Street. For the present we must pursue further the earlier history of Canfield.
Canfield, Ohio. J.TRUESDALE. (To be continued.)
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 19 Feb 1897 - Article No. 5 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpt:
"We have already noted that in the fall of 1798 the surveying party of which Nathan Moore was chief surveyor returned to Connecticut. In the spring of 1799 he returned to further prosecute the work begun. With him came some of the men that formed the party the preceding summer. The spring and fall of 1799 added a large relative addition to the colony of one family, and two young men that constituted the population the preceding winter. Three families, and possibly four, came to Canfield as settlers. They were Phineas Reed, Eleazor Gilson, Joshua Hollister and probably Rapheal Hulbert, all having families, and all from Connecticut, unless, perhaps the latter, who may have come in the spring of 1800 from Pennsylvania, and if so was the first of many more that came from that state soon afterwards. Aside from these families there were a few unmarried men. According to a statement made by a Mrs. Hale, who was a daughter of Nathan Moore, the surveyor, we find the names of unmarried residents of Canfield in 1799 of "Azariah Wetmore, Joseph Pangborn, Wilder Page, Nathaniel Gridly, one by the name of Mervin or Mewin and perhaps one or two others." Some of these last named were of the surveying party of '99, headed by Nathan Moore.
Eleazor Gilson was born in Orange county, N. Y., in 1754. When young he moved to Sharon, Conn., where he married in 1775. Served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war and emigrated to Canfield in 1799, arriving here on the 27th of October. He died and was buried in our village cemetery in 1841, aged 87 years. He was the father of two sons and six daughters. The oldest one of the family, Samuel, has already been mentioned as one of the surveying party of Nathaniel Church in 1798, and with Jos. Pangborn, another one of the party, remained here, thus entitling them to be looked upon as the first actual settlers. Samuel died in Hubbard, Trumbull county, in 1816. Mercy, the eldest daughter married Alfred Wolcott. There were peculiarities attached to this union for which we have no space now, but may hereafter refer to. All the other children of Mr. Gilson, with the exception of the youngest, Anna Maria, married, and at an early period removed elsewhere. Mr. Gilson was the first contractor to carry the mail, on the first mail route established in 1801 in all the wide territory lying to the west and northwest of Pittsburgh. This first route extended from Pittsburgh to Warren, about 90 miles in length. The postoffices first established on the route were Beavertown, or Fort McIntosh, Georgetown, Canfield, Youngstown and Warren. The mail was delivered to these offices once in two weeks. The compensation to the contractor was the rate of $3.56 per mile, counting the distance one way, per annum, or for the whole year a little over $300. The method of conveyance was optional. I would suppose, from the fact that at least a part of the time it was conveyed upon the back of the son Samuel.
In 1826 I became a member of Jonathan Eastman's family, who were near neighbors to Ansel Beeman, a Son-in-law of Eleazor Gilson. Mr. Beeman then owned and occupied the farm where John Miser now lives - where, in my boyhood days, I occasionally saw Mr. Gilson. My recollection of him is that he was a tall, bony, muscular old man, dressed in homespun woolens of a color that I have no name for-something between a white and light brown - common in that day. The cut of the coat being in keeping with the latest fad of the present age; an evidence that fashions repeat themselves. I find as I make the effort, that I cannot recall the personal appearance or clothing of other men in the same vicinity at that time. Why is this? I know of no other reason than that he was said to be a Revolutionary soldier. My idea of a soldier then was one who had waded over his shoe tops in rivers of blood. Hence, I looked upon Mr. Gilson with childish awe and interest."
Note from: Jim Young on RootsWeb Family Trees: Eleazer's youngest daughter came to Canfield as a young child. She married Ansel Beeman (as Marie Gilson) in Canfield in 1814 and except for a few years immediately after marrying, lived the rest of her life in Canfield. They were the parents of seven children, the first two born in Johnston, Ohio and the rest in Canfield. There was a seven year gap between the second and third children, so there may have been some miscarriages or additional children who died young. Her last two children were twins, Lystra and Lysanias.
Anna Marie's father deeded her property on three occasions. In one she was called Anna Mariah, in another Maria and in the third, Anna Maria. She and her husband moved to property on the south side of Palmyra Road in 1833. After her husband's death, her children quit claimed this family farm to her and she continued to live on it with her youngest daughter and her son-in-law. In her obituary, her name was given as Ann and her tombstone reads Anna M.
Mrs. Ansel Beeman – m. 20 Apr 1814 in Canfield Twp. Trumbull (now Mahoning) Co. OH
Daughter of Eleazor and Mary Gilson
B. 17 Apr 1796 in Litchfield County, Connecticut
D. 27 Sep 1878 in Canfield Twp., Mahoning County, Ohio
at 82y 5m 10d
Burial – Sep 1878 in Dean Hill Cemetery Section A Row 02, Canfield Twp., Mahoning Co. OH
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 4 Oct 1878
"Home & County Affairs - Mrs. Ann Beeman, mother-in-law of J. K. Misner, died last Friday evening and was buried at the Disciple Cemetery, west of Canfield on Sunday. She was in her 83rd year of her age, and an old settler of the township. When she came here there was but two white families in the village, and no public roads were laid out. It was perfect wilderness in this section at that time. Her husband, Mr. Ansel Beeman died many years ago. Her two daughters, Mrs. Thomas Young, of Ellsworth, and Mrs. J. K. Misner, who resides at the old homestead in Canfield township, are still living and prospering - the wives of well-to-do-farmers, both surrounded by an intelligent family of children."
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 24 Jan 1879
Anna M. Beeman – Estate
"Court News - J. K. Misner executor of the estate of Anna M. Beeman, late of Canfield township, Mahoning County, Ohio, deceased."
Comment: Anna Maria Gilson Beeman was the youngest daughter of Eleazor Gilson who was among the first Canfield settlers to arrive in 1799. He became Canfield's first mail carrier. Her brother Samuel was one of the original 1798 surveying team members. Eleazor Gilson located on East Street, south side, one and a half miles from the center. This later became the Martin Neff farm and today (2008) is where Westford Development is located. Anna Maria's sister Mercy married Alfred Wolcott on February 11, 1800 making them the first from Canfield to marry. Mercy died in childbirth at the age of nineteen on November 27th of that year. She was buried on the Gilson family farm.
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 26 Feb 1897 - Article No. 6 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpt regarding: Gilson and Beeman families
Anna Maria, youngest daughter of Eleazor Gilson, was born in Connecticut April 17th, 1796, and on the 20th day of April, 1814, was married to Ansil Beeman. They were the parents of seven children, of whom only one remains with us until this day-one of the younger daughters, who married our esteemed citizen, John Misner. I knew Mrs. Beeman well-a woman of rather short stature, compactly framed, and capable of great endurance. She with her husband were a part of the little band of eight members when in 1820 the M. E. Church was first organized in Canfield, and up to the time of her death was a faithful and consistent Christian woman. I often noticed when unfavorable weather deterred younger and nearer members from attending public worship Mother Beeman was in her place. Her husband died Dec. 20th, 1854, aged 67. Mrs. Beeman survived her husband a number of years, making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Misner. I have not the date of her death, but it occurred, I am told, in 1878, aged 84.
Mr. Beeman was a native of Connecticut and came to Canfield in 1806 at the age of 19, a poor but industrious young man of great strength and power of endurance. He engaged to work three years for Gen. Wadsworth for which he was to receive 100 acres of wild land in Johnston, Trumbull county, and $24 per year to be expended on clothing. He earned his land and continued his hard labor in Canfield up to 1814, when he married and went to reside on his land in Johnston. He remained there but a few years when he returned to Canfield where he purchased and improved the land where John Misner, his son-in-law, now resides. His children have all, excepting Mrs. Misner, left Canfield. Harriet married Thomas Young, deceased, and with her children resides in Ellsworth. Mr. and Mrs. Misner's children have grown to manhood and womanhood and are well educated and promise to do honor to the revolutionary blood that flows in their veins.
I hope I may be pardoned for a word or two that is personal: The older children of Mr. Beeman were schoolmates of mine from 1826 or 27 to 1832, and referring as I have to them brings to mind, whether I would or no, the old stone school house that stood by the road on Turner St. It brings vividly to mind memories of the long ago, the other end of outskirts of my humble and unimportant life, some of which are pleasant, others not so. As I go back there I remember the dingy walls, the low ceiling, the huge fire place, the crowded rooms of life and frolic, and when I come back here and look around what a change time has made. My schoolmates, where are they? At the present moment I recall but one, who is my good old friend John Ewing of Austintown. There may be others, but the number is few. My old friend, if he sees this, will go back with me with feelings and emotions akin to my own. The old stone school house; if I could have my way I would linger around its walls for a while and a tale unfold of tragedy, comedy, fun, frolic, tricks, cruelty and nonsense sadly intermixed. But I cannot have my way. Some time when The DISPATCH is in good humor and short of copy, they may let me in long enough to speak my piece about the old stone schoolhouse on Turner Street. For the present we must pursue further the earlier history of Canfield.
Canfield, Ohio. J.TRUESDALE. (To be continued.)
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 19 Feb 1897 - Article No. 5 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpt:
"We have already noted that in the fall of 1798 the surveying party of which Nathan Moore was chief surveyor returned to Connecticut. In the spring of 1799 he returned to further prosecute the work begun. With him came some of the men that formed the party the preceding summer. The spring and fall of 1799 added a large relative addition to the colony of one family, and two young men that constituted the population the preceding winter. Three families, and possibly four, came to Canfield as settlers. They were Phineas Reed, Eleazor Gilson, Joshua Hollister and probably Rapheal Hulbert, all having families, and all from Connecticut, unless, perhaps the latter, who may have come in the spring of 1800 from Pennsylvania, and if so was the first of many more that came from that state soon afterwards. Aside from these families there were a few unmarried men. According to a statement made by a Mrs. Hale, who was a daughter of Nathan Moore, the surveyor, we find the names of unmarried residents of Canfield in 1799 of "Azariah Wetmore, Joseph Pangborn, Wilder Page, Nathaniel Gridly, one by the name of Mervin or Mewin and perhaps one or two others." Some of these last named were of the surveying party of '99, headed by Nathan Moore.
Eleazor Gilson was born in Orange county, N. Y., in 1754. When young he moved to Sharon, Conn., where he married in 1775. Served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war and emigrated to Canfield in 1799, arriving here on the 27th of October. He died and was buried in our village cemetery in 1841, aged 87 years. He was the father of two sons and six daughters. The oldest one of the family, Samuel, has already been mentioned as one of the surveying party of Nathaniel Church in 1798, and with Jos. Pangborn, another one of the party, remained here, thus entitling them to be looked upon as the first actual settlers. Samuel died in Hubbard, Trumbull county, in 1816. Mercy, the eldest daughter married Alfred Wolcott. There were peculiarities attached to this union for which we have no space now, but may hereafter refer to. All the other children of Mr. Gilson, with the exception of the youngest, Anna Maria, married, and at an early period removed elsewhere. Mr. Gilson was the first contractor to carry the mail, on the first mail route established in 1801 in all the wide territory lying to the west and northwest of Pittsburgh. This first route extended from Pittsburgh to Warren, about 90 miles in length. The postoffices first established on the route were Beavertown, or Fort McIntosh, Georgetown, Canfield, Youngstown and Warren. The mail was delivered to these offices once in two weeks. The compensation to the contractor was the rate of $3.56 per mile, counting the distance one way, per annum, or for the whole year a little over $300. The method of conveyance was optional. I would suppose, from the fact that at least a part of the time it was conveyed upon the back of the son Samuel.
In 1826 I became a member of Jonathan Eastman's family, who were near neighbors to Ansel Beeman, a Son-in-law of Eleazor Gilson. Mr. Beeman then owned and occupied the farm where John Miser now lives - where, in my boyhood days, I occasionally saw Mr. Gilson. My recollection of him is that he was a tall, bony, muscular old man, dressed in homespun woolens of a color that I have no name for-something between a white and light brown - common in that day. The cut of the coat being in keeping with the latest fad of the present age; an evidence that fashions repeat themselves. I find as I make the effort, that I cannot recall the personal appearance or clothing of other men in the same vicinity at that time. Why is this? I know of no other reason than that he was said to be a Revolutionary soldier. My idea of a soldier then was one who had waded over his shoe tops in rivers of blood. Hence, I looked upon Mr. Gilson with childish awe and interest."
Note from: Jim Young on RootsWeb Family Trees: Eleazer's youngest daughter came to Canfield as a young child. She married Ansel Beeman (as Marie Gilson) in Canfield in 1814 and except for a few years immediately after marrying, lived the rest of her life in Canfield. They were the parents of seven children, the first two born in Johnston, Ohio and the rest in Canfield. There was a seven year gap between the second and third children, so there may have been some miscarriages or additional children who died young. Her last two children were twins, Lystra and Lysanias.
Anna Marie's father deeded her property on three occasions. In one she was called Anna Mariah, in another Maria and in the third, Anna Maria. She and her husband moved to property on the south side of Palmyra Road in 1833. After her husband's death, her children quit claimed this family farm to her and she continued to live on it with her youngest daughter and her son-in-law. In her obituary, her name was given as Ann and her tombstone reads Anna M.
BEEMAN, Anna Maria nee GILSON
Mrs. Ansel Beeman – m. 20 Apr 1814 in Canfield Twp. Trumbull (now Mahoning) Co. OH
Daughter of Eleazor and Mary Gilson
B. 17 Apr 1796 in Litchfield County, Connecticut
D. 27 Sep 1878 in Canfield Twp., Mahoning County, Ohio
at 82y 5m 10d
Burial – Sep 1878 in Dean Hill Cemetery Section A Row 02, Canfield Twp., Mahoning Co. OH
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 4 Oct 1878
"Home & County Affairs - Mrs. Ann Beeman, mother-in-law of J. K. Misner, died last Friday evening and was buried at the Disciple Cemetery, west of Canfield on Sunday. She was in her 83rd year of her age, and an old settler of the township. When she came here there was but two white families in the village, and no public roads were laid out. It was perfect wilderness in this section at that time. Her husband, Mr. Ansel Beeman died many years ago. Her two daughters, Mrs. Thomas Young, of Ellsworth, and Mrs. J. K. Misner, who resides at the old homestead in Canfield township, are still living and prospering - the wives of well-to-do-farmers, both surrounded by an intelligent family of children."
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 24 Jan 1879
Anna M. Beeman – Estate
"Court News - J. K. Misner executor of the estate of Anna M. Beeman, late of Canfield township, Mahoning County, Ohio, deceased."
Comment: Anna Maria Gilson Beeman was the youngest daughter of Eleazor Gilson who was among the first Canfield settlers to arrive in 1799. He became Canfield's first mail carrier. Her brother Samuel was one of the original 1798 surveying team members. Eleazor Gilson located on East Street, south side, one and a half miles from the center. This later became the Martin Neff farm and today (2008) is where Westford Development is located. Anna Maria's sister Mercy married Alfred Wolcott on February 11, 1800 making them the first from Canfield to marry. Mercy died in childbirth at the age of nineteen on November 27th of that year. She was buried on the Gilson family farm.
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 26 Feb 1897 - Article No. 6 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpt regarding: Gilson and Beeman families
Anna Maria, youngest daughter of Eleazor Gilson, was born in Connecticut April 17th, 1796, and on the 20th day of April, 1814, was married to Ansil Beeman. They were the parents of seven children, of whom only one remains with us until this day-one of the younger daughters, who married our esteemed citizen, John Misner. I knew Mrs. Beeman well-a woman of rather short stature, compactly framed, and capable of great endurance. She with her husband were a part of the little band of eight members when in 1820 the M. E. Church was first organized in Canfield, and up to the time of her death was a faithful and consistent Christian woman. I often noticed when unfavorable weather deterred younger and nearer members from attending public worship Mother Beeman was in her place. Her husband died Dec. 20th, 1854, aged 67. Mrs. Beeman survived her husband a number of years, making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Misner. I have not the date of her death, but it occurred, I am told, in 1878, aged 84.
Mr. Beeman was a native of Connecticut and came to Canfield in 1806 at the age of 19, a poor but industrious young man of great strength and power of endurance. He engaged to work three years for Gen. Wadsworth for which he was to receive 100 acres of wild land in Johnston, Trumbull county, and $24 per year to be expended on clothing. He earned his land and continued his hard labor in Canfield up to 1814, when he married and went to reside on his land in Johnston. He remained there but a few years when he returned to Canfield where he purchased and improved the land where John Misner, his son-in-law, now resides. His children have all, excepting Mrs. Misner, left Canfield. Harriet married Thomas Young, deceased, and with her children resides in Ellsworth. Mr. and Mrs. Misner's children have grown to manhood and womanhood and are well educated and promise to do honor to the revolutionary blood that flows in their veins.
I hope I may be pardoned for a word or two that is personal: The older children of Mr. Beeman were schoolmates of mine from 1826 or 27 to 1832, and referring as I have to them brings to mind, whether I would or no, the old stone school house that stood by the road on Turner St. It brings vividly to mind memories of the long ago, the other end of outskirts of my humble and unimportant life, some of which are pleasant, others not so. As I go back there I remember the dingy walls, the low ceiling, the huge fire place, the crowded rooms of life and frolic, and when I come back here and look around what a change time has made. My schoolmates, where are they? At the present moment I recall but one, who is my good old friend John Ewing of Austintown. There may be others, but the number is few. My old friend, if he sees this, will go back with me with feelings and emotions akin to my own. The old stone school house; if I could have my way I would linger around its walls for a while and a tale unfold of tragedy, comedy, fun, frolic, tricks, cruelty and nonsense sadly intermixed. But I cannot have my way. Some time when The DISPATCH is in good humor and short of copy, they may let me in long enough to speak my piece about the old stone schoolhouse on Turner Street. For the present we must pursue further the earlier history of Canfield.
Canfield, Ohio. J.TRUESDALE. (To be continued.)
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 19 Feb 1897 - Article No. 5 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpt:
"We have already noted that in the fall of 1798 the surveying party of which Nathan Moore was chief surveyor returned to Connecticut. In the spring of 1799 he returned to further prosecute the work begun. With him came some of the men that formed the party the preceding summer. The spring and fall of 1799 added a large relative addition to the colony of one family, and two young men that constituted the population the preceding winter. Three families, and possibly four, came to Canfield as settlers. They were Phineas Reed, Eleazor Gilson, Joshua Hollister and probably Rapheal Hulbert, all having families, and all from Connecticut, unless, perhaps the latter, who may have come in the spring of 1800 from Pennsylvania, and if so was the first of many more that came from that state soon afterwards. Aside from these families there were a few unmarried men. According to a statement made by a Mrs. Hale, who was a daughter of Nathan Moore, the surveyor, we find the names of unmarried residents of Canfield in 1799 of "Azariah Wetmore, Joseph Pangborn, Wilder Page, Nathaniel Gridly, one by the name of Mervin or Mewin and perhaps one or two others." Some of these last named were of the surveying party of '99, headed by Nathan Moore.
Eleazor Gilson was born in Orange county, N. Y., in 1754. When young he moved to Sharon, Conn., where he married in 1775. Served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war and emigrated to Canfield in 1799, arriving here on the 27th of October. He died and was buried in our village cemetery in 1841, aged 87 years. He was the father of two sons and six daughters. The oldest one of the family, Samuel, has already been mentioned as one of the surveying party of Nathaniel Church in 1798, and with Jos. Pangborn, another one of the party, remained here, thus entitling them to be looked upon as the first actual settlers. Samuel died in Hubbard, Trumbull county, in 1816. Mercy, the eldest daughter married Alfred Wolcott. There were peculiarities attached to this union for which we have no space now, but may hereafter refer to. All the other children of Mr. Gilson, with the exception of the youngest, Anna Maria, married, and at an early period removed elsewhere. Mr. Gilson was the first contractor to carry the mail, on the first mail route established in 1801 in all the wide territory lying to the west and northwest of Pittsburgh. This first route extended from Pittsburgh to Warren, about 90 miles in length. The postoffices first established on the route were Beavertown, or Fort McIntosh, Georgetown, Canfield, Youngstown and Warren. The mail was delivered to these offices once in two weeks. The compensation to the contractor was the rate of $3.56 per mile, counting the distance one way, per annum, or for the whole year a little over $300. The method of conveyance was optional. I would suppose, from the fact that at least a part of the time it was conveyed upon the back of the son Samuel.
In 1826 I became a member of Jonathan Eastman's family, who were near neighbors to Ansel Beeman, a Son-in-law of Eleazor Gilson. Mr. Beeman then owned and occupied the farm where John Miser now lives - where, in my boyhood days, I occasionally saw Mr. Gilson. My recollection of him is that he was a tall, bony, muscular old man, dressed in homespun woolens of a color that I have no name for-something between a white and light brown - common in that day. The cut of the coat being in keeping with the latest fad of the present age; an evidence that fashions repeat themselves. I find as I make the effort, that I cannot recall the personal appearance or clothing of other men in the same vicinity at that time. Why is this? I know of no other reason than that he was said to be a Revolutionary soldier. My idea of a soldier then was one who had waded over his shoe tops in rivers of blood. Hence, I looked upon Mr. Gilson with childish awe and interest."
Note from: Jim Young on RootsWeb Family Trees: Eleazer's youngest daughter came to Canfield as a young child. She married Ansel Beeman (as Marie Gilson) in Canfield in 1814 and except for a few years immediately after marrying, lived the rest of her life in Canfield. They were the parents of seven children, the first two born in Johnston, Ohio and the rest in Canfield. There was a seven year gap between the second and third children, so there may have been some miscarriages or additional children who died young. Her last two children were twins, Lystra and Lysanias.
Anna Marie's father deeded her property on three occasions. In one she was called Anna Mariah, in another Maria and in the third, Anna Maria. She and her husband moved to property on the south side of Palmyra Road in 1833. After her husband's death, her children quit claimed this family farm to her and she continued to live on it with her youngest daughter and her son-in-law. In her obituary, her name was given as Ann and her tombstone reads Anna M.
Mrs. Ansel Beeman – m. 20 Apr 1814 in Canfield Twp. Trumbull (now Mahoning) Co. OH
Daughter of Eleazor and Mary Gilson
B. 17 Apr 1796 in Litchfield County, Connecticut
D. 27 Sep 1878 in Canfield Twp., Mahoning County, Ohio
at 82y 5m 10d
Burial – Sep 1878 in Dean Hill Cemetery Section A Row 02, Canfield Twp., Mahoning Co. OH
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 4 Oct 1878
"Home & County Affairs - Mrs. Ann Beeman, mother-in-law of J. K. Misner, died last Friday evening and was buried at the Disciple Cemetery, west of Canfield on Sunday. She was in her 83rd year of her age, and an old settler of the township. When she came here there was but two white families in the village, and no public roads were laid out. It was perfect wilderness in this section at that time. Her husband, Mr. Ansel Beeman died many years ago. Her two daughters, Mrs. Thomas Young, of Ellsworth, and Mrs. J. K. Misner, who resides at the old homestead in Canfield township, are still living and prospering - the wives of well-to-do-farmers, both surrounded by an intelligent family of children."
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 24 Jan 1879
Anna M. Beeman – Estate
"Court News - J. K. Misner executor of the estate of Anna M. Beeman, late of Canfield township, Mahoning County, Ohio, deceased."
Comment: Anna Maria Gilson Beeman was the youngest daughter of Eleazor Gilson who was among the first Canfield settlers to arrive in 1799. He became Canfield's first mail carrier. Her brother Samuel was one of the original 1798 surveying team members. Eleazor Gilson located on East Street, south side, one and a half miles from the center. This later became the Martin Neff farm and today (2008) is where Westford Development is located. Anna Maria's sister Mercy married Alfred Wolcott on February 11, 1800 making them the first from Canfield to marry. Mercy died in childbirth at the age of nineteen on November 27th of that year. She was buried on the Gilson family farm.
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 26 Feb 1897 - Article No. 6 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpt regarding: Gilson and Beeman families
Anna Maria, youngest daughter of Eleazor Gilson, was born in Connecticut April 17th, 1796, and on the 20th day of April, 1814, was married to Ansil Beeman. They were the parents of seven children, of whom only one remains with us until this day-one of the younger daughters, who married our esteemed citizen, John Misner. I knew Mrs. Beeman well-a woman of rather short stature, compactly framed, and capable of great endurance. She with her husband were a part of the little band of eight members when in 1820 the M. E. Church was first organized in Canfield, and up to the time of her death was a faithful and consistent Christian woman. I often noticed when unfavorable weather deterred younger and nearer members from attending public worship Mother Beeman was in her place. Her husband died Dec. 20th, 1854, aged 67. Mrs. Beeman survived her husband a number of years, making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Misner. I have not the date of her death, but it occurred, I am told, in 1878, aged 84.
Mr. Beeman was a native of Connecticut and came to Canfield in 1806 at the age of 19, a poor but industrious young man of great strength and power of endurance. He engaged to work three years for Gen. Wadsworth for which he was to receive 100 acres of wild land in Johnston, Trumbull county, and $24 per year to be expended on clothing. He earned his land and continued his hard labor in Canfield up to 1814, when he married and went to reside on his land in Johnston. He remained there but a few years when he returned to Canfield where he purchased and improved the land where John Misner, his son-in-law, now resides. His children have all, excepting Mrs. Misner, left Canfield. Harriet married Thomas Young, deceased, and with her children resides in Ellsworth. Mr. and Mrs. Misner's children have grown to manhood and womanhood and are well educated and promise to do honor to the revolutionary blood that flows in their veins.
I hope I may be pardoned for a word or two that is personal: The older children of Mr. Beeman were schoolmates of mine from 1826 or 27 to 1832, and referring as I have to them brings to mind, whether I would or no, the old stone school house that stood by the road on Turner St. It brings vividly to mind memories of the long ago, the other end of outskirts of my humble and unimportant life, some of which are pleasant, others not so. As I go back there I remember the dingy walls, the low ceiling, the huge fire place, the crowded rooms of life and frolic, and when I come back here and look around what a change time has made. My schoolmates, where are they? At the present moment I recall but one, who is my good old friend John Ewing of Austintown. There may be others, but the number is few. My old friend, if he sees this, will go back with me with feelings and emotions akin to my own. The old stone school house; if I could have my way I would linger around its walls for a while and a tale unfold of tragedy, comedy, fun, frolic, tricks, cruelty and nonsense sadly intermixed. But I cannot have my way. Some time when The DISPATCH is in good humor and short of copy, they may let me in long enough to speak my piece about the old stone schoolhouse on Turner Street. For the present we must pursue further the earlier history of Canfield.
Canfield, Ohio. J.TRUESDALE. (To be continued.)
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 19 Feb 1897 - Article No. 5 by Dr. Jackson Truesdale
Excerpt:
"We have already noted that in the fall of 1798 the surveying party of which Nathan Moore was chief surveyor returned to Connecticut. In the spring of 1799 he returned to further prosecute the work begun. With him came some of the men that formed the party the preceding summer. The spring and fall of 1799 added a large relative addition to the colony of one family, and two young men that constituted the population the preceding winter. Three families, and possibly four, came to Canfield as settlers. They were Phineas Reed, Eleazor Gilson, Joshua Hollister and probably Rapheal Hulbert, all having families, and all from Connecticut, unless, perhaps the latter, who may have come in the spring of 1800 from Pennsylvania, and if so was the first of many more that came from that state soon afterwards. Aside from these families there were a few unmarried men. According to a statement made by a Mrs. Hale, who was a daughter of Nathan Moore, the surveyor, we find the names of unmarried residents of Canfield in 1799 of "Azariah Wetmore, Joseph Pangborn, Wilder Page, Nathaniel Gridly, one by the name of Mervin or Mewin and perhaps one or two others." Some of these last named were of the surveying party of '99, headed by Nathan Moore.
Eleazor Gilson was born in Orange county, N. Y., in 1754. When young he moved to Sharon, Conn., where he married in 1775. Served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war and emigrated to Canfield in 1799, arriving here on the 27th of October. He died and was buried in our village cemetery in 1841, aged 87 years. He was the father of two sons and six daughters. The oldest one of the family, Samuel, has already been mentioned as one of the surveying party of Nathaniel Church in 1798, and with Jos. Pangborn, another one of the party, remained here, thus entitling them to be looked upon as the first actual settlers. Samuel died in Hubbard, Trumbull county, in 1816. Mercy, the eldest daughter married Alfred Wolcott. There were peculiarities attached to this union for which we have no space now, but may hereafter refer to. All the other children of Mr. Gilson, with the exception of the youngest, Anna Maria, married, and at an early period removed elsewhere. Mr. Gilson was the first contractor to carry the mail, on the first mail route established in 1801 in all the wide territory lying to the west and northwest of Pittsburgh. This first route extended from Pittsburgh to Warren, about 90 miles in length. The postoffices first established on the route were Beavertown, or Fort McIntosh, Georgetown, Canfield, Youngstown and Warren. The mail was delivered to these offices once in two weeks. The compensation to the contractor was the rate of $3.56 per mile, counting the distance one way, per annum, or for the whole year a little over $300. The method of conveyance was optional. I would suppose, from the fact that at least a part of the time it was conveyed upon the back of the son Samuel.
In 1826 I became a member of Jonathan Eastman's family, who were near neighbors to Ansel Beeman, a Son-in-law of Eleazor Gilson. Mr. Beeman then owned and occupied the farm where John Miser now lives - where, in my boyhood days, I occasionally saw Mr. Gilson. My recollection of him is that he was a tall, bony, muscular old man, dressed in homespun woolens of a color that I have no name for-something between a white and light brown - common in that day. The cut of the coat being in keeping with the latest fad of the present age; an evidence that fashions repeat themselves. I find as I make the effort, that I cannot recall the personal appearance or clothing of other men in the same vicinity at that time. Why is this? I know of no other reason than that he was said to be a Revolutionary soldier. My idea of a soldier then was one who had waded over his shoe tops in rivers of blood. Hence, I looked upon Mr. Gilson with childish awe and interest."
Note from: Jim Young on RootsWeb Family Trees: Eleazer's youngest daughter came to Canfield as a young child. She married Ansel Beeman (as Marie Gilson) in Canfield in 1814 and except for a few years immediately after marrying, lived the rest of her life in Canfield. They were the parents of seven children, the first two born in Johnston, Ohio and the rest in Canfield. There was a seven year gap between the second and third children, so there may have been some miscarriages or additional children who died young. Her last two children were twins, Lystra and Lysanias.
Anna Marie's father deeded her property on three occasions. In one she was called Anna Mariah, in another Maria and in the third, Anna Maria. She and her husband moved to property on the south side of Palmyra Road in 1833. After her husband's death, her children quit claimed this family farm to her and she continued to live on it with her youngest daughter and her son-in-law. In her obituary, her name was given as Ann and her tombstone reads Anna M.
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