Re: Descendants of George Tye b 2/1/1782
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Re: Descendants of George Tye b 2/1/1782
Wanda Scott 8/15/01
Wanda
I don't know why my ggrandparents moved to Texas.I have been studying both of my ggrandparents backgrounds as far back as possible.On my ggrandmother's side (Mary F. Brown Tye) the Bean Family was the first white settlers in Eastern Tennessess arriving in 1769.William Bean was my gggrandfather's father who was Russell Bean born in 1769.William and his older sons fought in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.Another ancestor, Charles Robertson and his brother of James Robertson, were actively involved in establishing the first towns in Tennessee and then James Robertson led the first settlers into Kentucky over the Cumberland Gap. These early settlers (Beans) traveled and fought with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett and knew Andrew Jackson quite well. As you will recall Davy Crockett died at the Alamo in San Antonio and the imfamous Judge Roy Bean (the hanging judge) was the "law" west of the Pecos River.I have several books about the early history of the area that I bought in December of 2001 on a visit to the Tennessee and Kentucky.
From what I can tell, the men who fought in these wars became very close and many of them married the sisters and daughters of their fellow officers and soldiers.The Revolutionary war was also a means for families to gain wealth through land grants.It seems that there was a significant migration of families from Tennessee and Kentucky into Texas and New Mexico and then eventually California.The Bean side of my family left Tennessee by about 1835 a little more than 30 years before the Tye's left in 1867 after the Civil War. I know that my ggrandfather and his sons were well drillers in Texas.
The one side of our family that we can't seem to trace back is my ggrandmother's father-- James W. Brown who was born in 1826 in Eastern Tennessee. I remember my ggrandmother saying she was a Brown-Bean. You don't happen to know anything about James W. Brown do you.He died in the Fort Worth area about 1870.