Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885,
Larue Co.

FRANK B. BEAUCHAMP, M.D., was born April 9, 1817, in Green County, Ky.  He
is the second of four boys and three girls born to Joseph and Lydia
(Bartlett) Beauchamp, all of whom lived to be grown, but all now deceased
excepting Frank B. and a sister, Hester A. DeSpain, who is living in
Missouri.  Joseph Beauchamp was born in Delaware; he was a farmer and
gunsmith by trade, came to Louisville in a flat-boat when yet a boy, then
located near Danville and about 1809 in Green County, where he remained
till death.  He was a son of John Beauchamp, who was born in Delaware, was
a soldier in the war for independence, and was taken prisoner at the battle
of the Brandywine.  With his family and others came down the Ohio River in
a flat-boat and landed where Louisville now stands, and shortly after
returned to Delaware, leaving but one child in Kentucky.  He married a Miss
Downham, of Delaware.  He was a son of Coston Beauchamp, who was born and
reared in Delaware, was a farmer and large land-holder and trader.  He
landed at Louisville, Ky., about 1783, and died in Washington County about
1830, at the ripe age of one hundred and four, although blind for some
years.  He was a patriot and a strong advocate for the independence of the
colonies.  He had a son, Jeroboam Beauchamp, who represented Washington
County twenty-two years in the Kentucky Legislature.  He had five sons, all
of whom were highly educated and all went to Texas, where they became large
land-holders and speculators, and there one, Thomas, owned a tract of land
sixteen miles square.  Coston Beauchamp was a son of Samuel Beauchamp, who,
it is supposed, came from England over 200 years ago.  Dr. Beauchamp's
mother was born in South Carolina, and was a daughter of John Bartlett, who
married a Miss Falkner, a native of South Carolina came to Kentucky about
1792, and later in life located at Skagg's Station, in Green County.  While
a boy he was captured in the mountain regions of South Carolina by Indians
and held captive five years.  He was a captain in the war of 1812, was at
Chippewa Plains, and, it is said, was the first discoverer of gold in North
Carolina.  After a number of years' residence in Kentucky, he returned to
North Carolina and explored the gold fields, and during these explorations
died.  John Bartlett was a son of Nathaniel Bartlett, of Welsh descent.
Dr. F. B. Beauchamp was reared on a farm, and at the age of eighteen years
he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Harvey Hamilton, of Monroe
County, Ky., and then studied with Dr. Burks, of Green County, two years.
At twenty-two years of age he located in the western part of Green County,
where he practiced his profession, making a specialty of female diseases;
he spent one year in south Mississippi and Alabama, after which he returned
to Green County, where he practiced his profession, carried on a farm
containing 600 acres and ran a distillery till the war broke out, through
which he lost his slaves, with considerable other property.  In March,
1884, he located at Buffalo, La Rue [sic] County, where he has erected a
large hotel and where he continues to practice.  He still owns a farm of
300 acres in Green County.  He started in life with but 10 cents, after he
had procured his education, which he requested his father to give him
instead of land.  He was married, in 1850, to Elizabeth Darnall, of Marion
County, a daughter of Benjamin and Nancy (Sutton) Darnall, natives,
respectively, of Maryland and Washington County, Ky., now Marion.  Benjamin
Darnall was educated for the priesthood, but became a farmer and settled in
Marion County about 1800.  The Doctor had born to him by this marriage one
child, John S., who died at the age of twenty-six years in the Confederate
army.  The Doctor's wife died January 22, 1874, a member of the Roman
Catholic Church.  He married his second wife, Mrs. Susan De Spain [sic], in
1876, a daughter of William and Susan (Lamb) Jones, natives of
Pennsylvania, and early pioneers of Boyle County.  William Jones was a
farmer, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was in the battle of
Tippecanoe.  He was a son of Isaac Jones, who married Fannie Deavers, both
natives of Pennsylvania or New Jersey.  He was of English descent, was a
soldier in the war of independence, immigrated to Kentucky about 1792, and
settled in Boyle County, afterward in Green County.  In politics he is a
Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren.

Beauchamp Bartlett DeSpain Downham Falkner Hamilton Burks Darnall Sutton
De_Spain Lamb Jones Deavers
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Green-KY MO DE Jefferson-KY Washington-KY TX SC NC Monroe-KY MI AL
Marion-KY MD PA Boyle-KY NJ

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