History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 644.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

W. T. BEASEMAM, Ex-Sheriff, P. O. Cynthiana.  W. T. Beasemam, son of John
and Jane (Moore) Beasemam, was born in Harrison COunty, Mary 15, 1826.
His grandfather, John Beasemam, was a native of Maryland, and emigrated to
Kentucky about 1790, and settled in Bourbon COunty, where he married a Miss
Owings, after which family the town of Owingsville was named: he died in
1792.  John O. Beasemam was born about three months after his father's
death (1792)  His educational advantages were quite limited and before he
arrived at maturity, he removed to Harrison County.  From there he went
to the war of 1812, participated in the battle of the River Raisin, and
after the close of hostilities he returned to Harrison County to make it
his future home.  He represented Harrison County in the House of
Representatives in it sessions of 1827, '28, '29, '34, '35, '37, '42, and
was in the Senate in 1830 '34.  Although he was a man destitute of even
an ordinary English education, yet he possessed an originally of thought
and peculiarity of expression, equal to any of his contemporaries.  He was
elected by the people of Harrison County to the offices above named, by
greater majorities and for a longer time, (in the aggregate) than any
other man who ever had a competitor for office in the county in his time,
or perhaps since.  This popularity was not based on acquired knowledge,
nor was it the result of family influence, as his father-in-law, William
Moore, call "Clerk Moore" was a Whig, and his sons were also Whigs, while
Beasemam was an Andrew Jackson Democrat.  His popularity was the result
of his own peculiar natural powers.  The people loved him and had great
confidence in his honesty as a legislator, and his great ambition seems to
have been either to occupy a prominent place, or to please the people,
for surely no man ever realized less pecuniary reward for public services.
In 1820, he married Miss Jane Moore, daughter of William Moore, who was
the first Clerk of the Harrison County Court, an office he held during his
life-time.  Mr. Beasemam raised three sons and seven daughters to maturity;
one son, W. T., our subject, and five daughters now living. John O. died at
his home in Harrison County in 1848 of paralysis, in his fifty-sixth year,
his widow following him in 1860, in her fifty-eighth year.  W. T. Beasemam
was brought up on his father's farm, receiving a good liberal education in
the common schools of his native county.  In 1850 he went to California,
gold hunting, where he engaged in mining till [sic] 1853, with fair
success.  He subsequently returned to Harrison County, and again resumed
his agricultural pursuits.  In 1860 he was elected Deputy Sheriff of his
county, also served in the capacity in 1871, '72 and again in '75, '6, '7,
'8.  He was nominated for Sheriff in 1871, but on account of his having
held an office in the Confederacy, the committee thought it might cause
some disturbance as to his eligibility and they accordingly changed him to
Deputy.  He served a year in the Mexican War in McKee's Reg. 2nd Ky., in
Capt. Cutter's Co.  Participated in the battle of Buena Vista.  In 1861,
he, as 1st Lieut. and Capt. McDowell, organized a company of Harrison boys
and joined the Confederate army.  In 1863, subject was promoted to Captain
of his Company, McDowell being promoted to Major.  He was captured at Fort
Donelson, on Feb. 22, 1862, and was sent to Johnson's Island, where he was
exchanged the following September, and served till '[sic] the close of the
war.  He is now engaged in settling up his old Sheriff business.  He was
married in Harrison County, Dec. 20, 1881, to Miss Martha T. Kendall, who
was born in 1842.  Her father, William Kendall, Sr., was born in Fayette
County, Dec. 23, 1794, and died at his home in this county, on Dec. 14,
1875.  He was a farmer by occupation.  He entire life was strictly moral.
It is said that he was never heard to utter an oath, to speak a falsehood,
or to use language unbecoming a Christian gentleman.  He was not a
communicate in the church, but always defended the Christian religion, and
avowed himself a believer in the same.  On his deathbed, he not only
expressed perfect confidence as to his future happiness, but admonished
his family and friends to meet him in heaven.  Our subject, Mr. Beasemam,
is favorable to the Methodist Church, although not a member of any.  His
wife is a Presbyterian.  He has been prominently connected with the
Masonic fraternity for many years, having taken all the degrees from
E.A. to K.T.

Beasemam Moore Owings Moore Kendall
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Bourbon-KY Fayette-KY MD CA

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