Martha Frances (Beam) McCollum

1831-1865 · Woodstock GA

Born 1831

Died 1865

Children include Thomas

Frances Catherine Beam was born about 1831 in Georgia, the eldest of the seven children of Albert Beam. Her mother was very probably America Catherine Dickson, who died in 1847. Her father was dead by the autumn of 1849, and on 3 September of that year the Cherokee County court appointed her mother's sister, Julia Dickson, guardian of all seven. The bond names her first, as Katherine F. Beam.

In 1850 she is nineteen and unmarried in her aunt's house in Cherokee County, with Jesse, Julia, Thomas, Julius O., Harry and Benjamin. On 6 May 1852 she married John W. McCollum as Frances C. Beam, before a Geo. W. McCollum sitting as justice of the peace.

Her son Thomas Melvin was born in October 1858 or 1859. Find a Grave links also give her a daughter Marjorie America and a son John Mike Beam McCollum. Her son remembered her as Martha Frances, and his 1925 death certificate names her MARTHA FRANCES BEA, the rest of the surname lost in a blot.

A memorial gives her death as 1865, in Cherokee County, and her burial place is not known. Her husband married again, to Evaline Cotton Tumlin.

Children

Thomas Melvin McCollum (1858-1925)

Sources

Edward Chester Dunbar, died 2 October 1930 at West Point, Hancock, Illinois; born 27 April 1885 at "Spillwell, Ill."; buried 5 October 1930 at Augusta. Parents James Dunbar and Mary L. Printess. Wife Georgia Dunbar.

the Georgia death certificate of her son Thomas Melvin McCollum, Cherokee County, 23 April 1925, form 10278; the Cherokee County, Georgia marriage book of 1852; the 1850 federal census of Cherokee County and the 1870 census of Woodstock

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