Jabez Beeson was born Dec. 30, 1817, in Guilford County, N.C., of English Ancestry, and in 1825 his parents removed to Wayne County, Ind., and in 1835 purchased and settled on the farm where our subject resides. His father worked at the blacksmith's trade until he settled in Wayne County, after which he followed farming till his death, which occurred in July, 1855, aged sixty-two years. His wife died in April, 1866, aged sixty-nine years. Jabez Beeson was reared a farmer and has always followed that avocation. He was married in September, 1849, to Catherine, daughter of Elwood and Sarah (Gilbraith) Elliot, early settlers of Wayne County, the former having died in Wabash County, Ind., in 1864, and the latter in Wayne County, in 1842. Mr. Beeson and wife have had nine children, three of whom are deceased---David, Alonzo, and one son unnamed. Those living---are Oliver; Martha, wife of James P. Wisehart, of Wayne County; Augustus, Lafayette, Robert and Sarah F.

History of Wayne County, Indiana;
Volume II, (1884)
Harrison Township
p. 500