Elizabeth (Blakeney) Beaver (1797 - 1898)

Born 22 May 1797 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Mathias Beaver — married 9 Sep 1813 in Spring Hill Church, Lancaster, South Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 3 May 1898 at age 100 in Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth Blakeney was born in 1797.^[1] She was the daughter of Revolutionary War veteran John Blakeney and his second wife Nancy May of Chesterfield, South Carolina.

Elizabeth Blakeney was married to Mathias Beaver in 1813 at Spring Hill Church in Lancaster, South Carolina.^[2] Mathias Beaver enlisted as a soldier in the War of 1812 shortly after their marriage in October of 1814.^[3] The couple were parents of fifteen known children, including two Nancys aged 11 years apart.^[4][5]

Elizabeth Blakeney Beaver died in 1898.^[6] She is buried at the Beaver Family Cemetery in Pageland, South Carolina.

Sources

1. ↑ Blakeney, John Oscar, The Blakeneys in America and Some Collaterals With Some References to English / Irish Families, published in 1928. p 30. Link to Source
2. ↑ "United States War of 1812 Index to Pension Application Files, 1812-1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8CD-7PP : 23 February 2021), Elizabeth Blakeney in entry for Mathias Beaver, ; citing military unit Pvt Capt John Montgomery's Co S C Mil, NARA microfilm publication M313 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 840,437.
3. ↑ "United States War of 1812 Index to Pension Application Files, 1812-1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8CD-7PG : 23 February 2021), Mathias Beaver, ; citing military unit Pvt Capt John Montgomery's Co S C Mil, NARA microfilm publication M313 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 840,437.
4. ↑ Blakeney, John Oscar, The Blakeneys in America and Some Collaterals With Some References to English/Irish Families, published in 1928. p 35 - 36. Link to Book
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8QX-17W : 23 December 2020), Elizabeth Beaver in household of Martha "Mathias" Beaver, Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18891792/elizabeth-beaver: accessed 05 May 2023), memorial page for Elizabeth “Betsy” Blakeney Beaver (22 May 1797–3 May 1898), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18891792, citing Beaver Family Cemetery, Pageland, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA; Maintained by Sharon F. Corey (contributor 46867193).