Posted By: Venita Gaston
Date Posted: May 1, 2009
Description: The inscription on the back says LuVonia, dau of Isaac Lewellen but I see a Louvania listed as dau of Campbell Lewellen and Malinda Young.
Can anyone positively identify?
(Same chair again)
Date Taken: unknown
Place Taken: Texas
Owner: Venita Gaston
Harley Gene Salsman - Jun 20, 2012
Im pretty sure this Pernetta Luvania Lewellen Born 14 Jan 1857 Scott Co. TN. Daughter of Isaac James Lewellen & Nancy Jones.
She Married Unknown Bueauchamp in 1909
Harley Gene Salsman
Clete Ramsey - Jul 3, 2012
Harley Gene,
The LDS Church FamilySearch Web site (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F6TT-YBY) holds information on Pernetta Luvania Beauchamp in its “Texas, Deaths and Burials, 1903-1973” collection. The information includes [my additions in brackets]:
Name: Pernetta Luvania Beauchamp
Gender: Female
Burial Date: 28 Jun 1933
Burial Place: Cleburne
Death Date: 27 Jun 1933
Death Place: Cleburne, Johnson [County], Texas
Age: ---
Birth Date: 14 Jan 1857
Birthplace: KY
Occupation: ---
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name: D. M. Beauchamp
Father's Name: Issac [Isaac] Lewellen
Father's Birthplace: ---
Mother's Name: Nancy Jefferies
Mother's Birthplace: ---
By my count, D. M. Beauchamp was Pernetta’s third husband. I’ve seen his name variously appear in accounts and on family trees as Delmeda Beauchamp, Delmedia Beauchamp, Delmedia L. Beauchamp, Delmediah Beauchamp, Del Meta Beauchamp, Del Meta L. Beauchamp, Del Metta Beauchamp, Dell Metta Beauchamp, Delmetta Beauchamp, Diel M. Beauchamp, Dilmeda Beauchamp, Delniedir Beauchamp, and Delmediah Beecham. There may be other spellings as well. There also were other Texas men named D. M. Beauchamp, Dilmeda Martin Beauchamp, Delmeta Beauchamp, Dellmetia Beauchamp, and Delmeaty Beauchamp (some likely the same individual) who were clearly not Pernetta’s husband.
Osiris Merlin Johnson’s family tree (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/h/Osiris-M-Jo
hnson/GENE1-0011.html) at Genealogy.com, “Home Page of a Johnson Boy,” contains an application for a Confederate widow’s pension by Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp, 315 College Street, Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas, signed by her on 26 December 1926, and filed on 31 May 1927. It was based on her late husband’s service in Company K, 31st Mississippi Infantry, from 1862 to 1865. [Note: Osiris Johnson reports D. M. Beauchamp was captured by Union forces near Atlanta in July 1864, and imprisoned for the remainder of the war. He was released, apparently after taking the Oath of Allegiance, in May 1865.]
The National Park Service’s Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database (http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.ht
m) reports a Dilmeda Beauchamp as having served with Company K, 31st Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, rising from Private to Sergeant. The database also reports that Zilibee Beauchamp, who I assume was kin of “Dilmedia” Beauchamp, served as a Corporal in Company K.
In her application for a widow’s pension, Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp [the only way she was identified there] stated that she had married D. M. Beauchamp on 7 November 1897 in Bell County, Texas, and that he had died there on 13 May 1899. D. M. Beauchamp’s widow stated she was: 70 years old; born in Scott County, Tennessee; and had lived in Texas for 66 years, with the last 10 of those years in Johnson County.
I noted D. M. Beauchamp as having been, by my count, Pernetta’s third husband.
The “Texas, Marriages, 1837-1973” collection at FamilySearch reports that P. L. Lewellen married Aron Vance at Beltown, Bell County, Texas, on 2 August 1877.
The “Texas, Marriages, 1837-1973” collection also reports that Luvinia Vance married W. H. Knight in Bell County, Texas, on 28 September 1884.
Finally, the “Texas, Marriages, 1837-1973” collection reports that “Mrs. O. L. Knight” married D. M. Beauchamp in Bell County, Texas, on 7 November 1897. That marriage date listed for D. M. Beauchamp and Mrs. O. L. Knight is the same marriage date cited by Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp on her application for a Confederate widow’s pension. A number of family trees incorrectly identify Pernetta (Lewallen) Vance Knight Beauchamp as Pernettie Luvanie, Perneite Luevanic, or Perneite Luevanict.
“Pernetty,” 13 and single, was living in her father Isaac’s household in Justice of the Peace Precinct 2, Bell County, Texas, in 1870:
LEWELLEN Isaas [Isaac] 35 Male White TN Farming
LEWELLEN Nancy 33 Female White TN Keeping House
LEWELLEN Pernetty 13 Female White TN
LEWELLEN Herlena [Arlenia?] 11 Female White KY
LEWELLEN Anderson 4 Male White AR
LEWELLEN William 2 Male White TX
LEWELLEN Columbus 4m Male White Texas
If Pernetta’s brother Anderson actually was born in Arkansas around 1866, it appears unlikely that Pernetta had been living in Texas for 66 years in 1926. It’s possible she had been living in Texas for 60 years, had the family come to Texas from Arkansas not long after Anderson’s birth.
Pernetta, 23 and married, was in this household in Justice of the Peace Precinct 5, Bell County, Texas, in 1880:
VANCE Wm. A. [William Aaron] Head 24 Male White Married AR AR AR Farmer
VANCE Pernetta L. Wife 23 Female White Married TN TN TN
VANCE Berbie A. [Barbara Ann] Daughter 2 Female White Single TX AR TN
William and Pernetta Vance had a second daughter, Willie Alice Vance, born on 5 September 1880. She married J. W. “Jim” Mccrackin (or Mc Crackin) in Bell County, Texas, on 1 November 1896. According to the “Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976” collection on FamilySearch, a widowed Willie Alice Mccrackin died in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, on 11 December 1962.
I found this household on the 1900 census in Enumeration District 23, Justice of the Peace Precinct 4 (north part), Bell County, Texas. It evidences all three of Pernetta Lewellen’s marriages:
FIELDS George O. Head 23 (b. Apr. 1877) Male White Married/3 yrs. TX SC MS
FIELDS Barbara A. Wife 22 (b. Apr. 1878) Female White Married/3 yrs. TX AR TN
FIELDS Esker Wm. Son 3 (b. May 1897) Male White Single TX TX TX
FIELDS Maude Daughter 0 (b. Jan. 1900) Female White Single TX TX TX
BEAUCHAMP P. L. Mother-in-Law 43 (b. Jan. 1857) Female White Widowed TN TN TN
KNIGHT Maud C. Sister-in-Law 15 (b. Jun. 1885) Female White Single TX KY TN
BEAUCHAMP Mary L. Sister-in-Law 2 (b. Aug. 1898) Female White TX MS TN
Barbara A. Fields, the former Berbie A. Vance of 1880, had had two children, both still living as of the 1900 census.
Maude Knight was Pernetta’s daughter with W. H. Knight, who I’ve yet to further identify.
Mary Lou Beauchamp (1898-1965), Pernetta’s only child with D. M. Beauchamp, married George Wregnald Lankford (1889-1972). G. W. Lankford was a witness to Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp’s application for a Confederate widow’s pension.
Information for Mary Lou Lankford in the “Texas, Deaths, 1890-1965” collection at LDS FamilySearch, which notes her death on 15 February 1965 at 66, names her father only as “Beauchamp” and her mother as “Pernettie Lou Lewellan.”
Osiris Johnson reports that D. M. Beauchamp’s first wife was Lovella Paulina Jones, and notes she died shortly after the family moved from Arkansas to Texas.
This was D. M. Beauchamp’s household in Saline Township, Howard County, Arkansas, in 1880:
BEAUCHAMP Delniedir Head Married Male White 40 GA GA SC Farmer
BEAUCHAMP Paulina Wife Married Female White 36 GA GA GA Keeping House
BEAUCHAMP Zillaby Son Male White 14 MS GA GA At Home
BEAUCHAMP Zaybyrd Daughter Single Female White 12 AR GA GA
BEAUCHAMP Hames Son Single Male White 10 AR GA GA At Home
BEAUCHAMP William Son Single Male White 7 AR GA GA At Home
BEAUCHAMP Hariett Daughter Single Female White 5 AR GA GA
BEAUCHAMP Rozanna Daughter Single Female White 3 AR GA GA
BEAUCHAMP John B. Son Single Male White 11M AR GA GA
RAMSEY Joseph Other Single Male White 34 AL GA GA Farm Laborer
JONES Hariett Mother-in-Law White Female Widowed 58 GA GA GA Boarder
JONES Hariett Sister-in-Law L Female White 28 AL GA GA Boarder
The senior Hariett Jones is reported to have been Harriett (Ramsey) Jones, about whom I’ll have to do a bit more rooting around. In addition, death information in the “Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976” collection on FamilySearch reports the parents of grocery clerk Dolvin Pinkney Beauchamp (1883-1960) to have been Zillaby Beauchamp and Sarah Ramsey. Zillaby Beuchamp (62 in 1900, b. GA) appears likely to have been the Zilibee Beauchamp who served as a Corporal in Company K, 31st Mississippi Infantry. I need to explore the possible relationship of Sarah (Ramsey) Beauchamp to Harriett (Ramsey) Jones and Joseph Ramsey above. Osiris Johnson suggests Joseph Ramsey, a boarder in “Delneidir” Beauchamp’s 1880 household in Arkansas, may have been a younger brother to Levina R. (Ramsey) Beauchamp, the first wife of D. M. Beauchamp’s brother, Seyborn Beauchamp.
Thanks again for your help in connecting, years ago now, my Mary Jane (Lewallen) Jackson to her parents, Monroe Washington Lewallen and Marry Ann (Wann) Lewallen.
Regards from Virginia,
Clete
P. S.
I’d welcome any corrections or additions to the above.
Billie Harris - Jul 4, 2012
Clete, you're amazing. I can't believe the information you find. You must be a professional historian, a professional researcher, maybe even a private eye. ????
In one section it appears Beauchamp married her in November but he died the same year in May of the same year, or did I read that wrong?
Clete Ramsey - Jul 4, 2012
My, what sharp eyes you have. A typo. D. M. Beauchamp died on 13 May 1899, not 1897. I'll edit it.
CER