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Miscellaneous research notes on the Ballew surname

Below, I believe these are my ggg-grandparents, Marvel and Heathy Belew, record 2176-2025.  Record 2177-2026 is my gg-grandparents, William and Isabella Belew married, but still living close to his parents.  (There is a marriage record farther down as well : “William Belew - Lurina J. Devers - 5/7/1857, William Ellis, J.P.”  The middle initial J could have been an I, but the record coincides as a date William and Isabella might have been married with a child 2 years old in 1860.)

1860 Federal Census - Roane County Tennessee
Page 290, 15th District, 26th August 1860 - Welcker's Mills, Tennessee

2176-2025 BELEW

 2177-2026 BELEW

See census of 1870 for their son, Wm.  The age at the time of that census coincides with the birth date of my great-grandfather, William Andrew Ballew. 

1870 Federal Census - Roane County Tennessee
Fifteenth District - Page 23, 24

Note: This shows Wm Ballew born in TN, but the 1860 and 1880 census show SC.  And it makes sense that he would have been born in SC, since he was one of the older children.

As late as 1880, Marvel and Hetta and their son William’s family lived as neighbors in Roane County, Tennessee.  But, it appears, that William’s first wife had died. See same marriage record below, quoted here: ” William D. Bellew - Malissa J. Bray - 10/24/1880, George Jones, M.G.”.  He must have married again shortly after the census.

1880 Federal Census - Roane County Tennessee

121-121

122-122

Note above: William’s son also named Marvel.

 Below, some checking in South Carolina for Belew, Baleu, Bellew, Ballew:

1830 Census - Greenville County, SC - Free White Persons (including heads of families)

1840 Census - Greenville County, SC - Free White Persons (including heads of families)

Marriage Records of Roane County, TN - 1856 - 1880
Compiled by Patsy H. Pierce, 1987
Here listed all the Belew/Bellew/Ballew surnames found:

William Belew - Lurina J. Devers - 5/7/1857, William Ellis, J.P. 
George W. Balew - Matilda Waller - 9/24/1862, J.H. Devaney, J.P.
John D. Belew - Sarah Ann Copeland - 8/15/1865
Thomas Bowling - Surrelda J. Belew - 5/3/1868, J.C. Pope, J.P.
Luke Peak - Nancy Ballew - 3/31/1869, Benjamin Coward, M.G.
James P. Belew - Mary E. Belew - 10/22/1867, P.M. Burns, J.P.
George Belew - Sarah E. Freels - 7/25/1863
Andrew Carter - Cynthia Belew - 7/8/1862, William Magill, J.P.
John Belew - Catherine Copeland - 8/4/1862, William Magill, J.P.
William D. Bellew - Malissa J. Bray - 10/24/1880, George Jones, M.G.
G. W. Bellew - Mary C. Bellew - 6/18/1876, G.W. Stone, M.G.
S.J. Walls - Martha E. Bellew - 9/1/1878, Jonathan Roberts, J.P.
Robert Waller - Mrs. Matilda Bellew - 11/9/1873, H. W. Fritts, M.G.
M. F. Bellew - Nancy J. Roberts - 11/17/1876
Hugh L. Ballew - Rachel C. Dever - 7/11/1858, J. A. Foute, J.P.
S.W. Lindsay - Martha J. Belew - 7/12/1867, H. W. Fritts, M.G.
 

As to Marvel’s ancestry, I found Sarah Bellew in the 1860 Federal Census, Roane County, Tennessee.  She was 74 years of age at the time. I also found deeds issued in Roane County showing Jacob, Sarah, Marvel, and Minor Bellew (in that order each time).  Believe this is an indication of relationship, father, mother, and two sons.

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