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The Family group of :
Mark Mears & Polly Bowen
Husband : Mark Mears
Birthdate Place of Birth Occupation Place Marriage 5-25-1834 Place Death Place Burial Place Father - Mother - Military Service It is worth mentioning that on the muster roll of June 19, 1832 ,( The blackhawk wars) one Mark Mears is listed as being sick,and is reported as "left sick at Fort Wilbourn June 20, 1832.
One Mark Mears marries Polly Bowen ( b 1804) who is the sister of Green Bowen (b 1812) and Joshua Bowen Jr, (b 1802). Green Bowen and Joshua Bowen both served in the same Company as did one William Bowen from Carmi,White County, Illinois.Other
Marriages/ Notes
| Birthdate | 1804 | Place of Birth | North Carolina |
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| Father | Joshua Bowen | Mother | Margaret Cobb |
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From White County Marriage lists posted by
White County Illinos county clerk Polly Bowen m. Mark Mears May 25, 1834 White | ||
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Questions Concerning this Group
Author: Jean E. Strand Date: 18 Aug 1999
1820 White Co., Ill. census index, no Mears
1830 White Co., Ill. census index: Mears
James 9 18
John 9 19
Mark 10 3
1840 White Co., Ill. census index : Mears
Alexander 285
Henry 282
John 282
Mark 286
1850 White Co., Ill. census showed no Mears with a daughter, Nancy Elizabeth.
White Co., Ill. Marriages of male Mears family members from 1840 and pre-1840:
Alexander Mears and Rhoda Storm 15 December 1831
Alexander Mears and Patsey Mears 30 March 1837
Jacob Mears and Peggy Owens 20 June 1838
James Mears and Susanna Pool 25 January 1840 (the marriage book lists her as Susannah Hood). A list of marriages from White Co. up to 1840 was on a website and listed James Mears as married to Susanna Pool.
Mark Mears and Polly Bowen 25 May 1834
Thomas Mears and Angeline Kellogg 2 July 1840
Probate Records White Co., Ill.: Mears
Jacob Mears Box 33 1839 no executor named
Mark Mears Box 81, executor, Mary 1858
John Mears Box 81, executor John C. Wilson 1856
Thomas Mears Box 182, executor Charles B. Bayley 1856
Martha Mears Box 129, executor R.S.Graham 1864
Isom Mears (son of Mark) Box 211 A 90 , executor William Law 1877
Jacob J. Mears Box 219 C217, executor Penelope V. Mears 1879
By the process of elimination and the use of the pre-1840 marriage records and the probate records, unless the father and mother of Nancy Elizabeth Mears also moved to Mo. when she married (not married in White Co.), records checked between 1854-61.
The 1850 White Co. Mears males were:
William 28, Tenn.(wife Anna 25, Ill.)
Mark 55, N.C. (wife Mary 50, S.C.)
James 21, Tenn.(wife Margaret, 15, Ill.)
Hiram,22, Ala. (wife Lucinda Hood , 22 Ill.)
Susan , 46 Va.
Hezekiah 24, Ala.(has daughter Nancy J., 3/12 in 1850)(wife Sarah Wood or Hood 23, Ill.)
Alexander 39, Tenn.(wife Patsey Mears, 31, Ill.)
John 50, Tenn. (has daughter, Elizabeth age 13, born Ill.), wife Jesse 23, Tenn.)
The only Mears unaccounted for from the 1830 and 1840 census are James Mears in 1830 and not listed in 1840, and Henry Mears in 1840, not listed in 1850 and no probate for either.
Henry Mears seems the most likely possibility as the father of Nancy Elizabeth Mears, unless one of the 1830 or 1840 Mears men had a married son living with him in 1840, which could be found by the ages of the males given in the 1840 census.
I don't know if any of this helps, but I hope it at least gives you some information to eliminate some of the 1840 census Mears family males as a father of your Nancy Elizabeth Mears.
Jean Strand (Seattle, Washington)
MEARS-BOWEN-WEBB-YATES
Author: Becky Eubanks Date: 23 Oct 1999 12:00 PM GMT
Surnames: MEARS, Bowen, Webb, Yates
Classification: Query
In Reply to: Pre-1840 Mears In White Co., Ill. by: Jean E. Strand
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I am looking for information on my great-grandmother, Nancy Elizabeth Mears, who was born October 30, 1840 in IL. She was first married to a WISEMAN before 1860, then she married my great-grandfather, Micajah Parker, in 1865 AR.
I found something interesting listed on the 1850 Pope County, AR census. In the Yates household, there are two MEARS girls listed (Rachel S. Mears, 13, and Nancy E. Mears, 10) who were born in IL. This could be my Nancy Elizabeth Mears. The following is the info on the family:
John H. Yates M 72 NY
Susanah Yates F 74 NC
Mary WEBB F 37 TN
William E. Bowen M 21 IL
Rachel S. MEARS F 13 IL
Nancy E. MEARS F 10 IL
James R. C. Webb M 5 MO
Have you ever seen these surnames, YATES, WEBB, BOWEN, in relation to your MEARS family??? I know that Mark Mears out of White County, IL married a Mary Bowen. This would explain William Bowen (a son by a previous marriage???). If Mary WEBB is Nancy's mother, the info Nancy provided on later census records would hold true. Nancy indicated her mother was born in TN, and she was born in IL (as was her father- MEARS).
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