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Susan Butcher, Beaubet, Beaube

Posted by Dot Brown <angels1203@aol.com> on Mon, 23 Aug 2004, in response to Susan Butcher,Beaubet,,Beaube, posted by Robert E. Beaube on Sun, 22 Aug 2004

Jacques Louis Beaubet was my gg grandfather. James Beaube I was my g grandfather. My grandmother, Eliza Beaube was the daughter of James BeaubeI and Caroline Clanton. I am intersted in learning more about Susan Butcher? Beaube, no matter what her race was. While I understand that census takers sometimes listed indians as 'M", I doubt that she and her family would have been mistaken, or wrongly identified as Mulatto as many times as census records indicate. There is nothing other than legend from some family members that says she was indian. My own grandmother always said she didn't know anything about her fathers mother ( not even her name) but knew a lot about her father's father ( Jacques Louis Beaubet). She told me many times that she never heard of any indian ancestry in the family. However, I do not discount that she could have been at least part indian. Tracing her is difficult as I have found no legal document that reveals her maiden name at all, except a death certificate of her daughter, Sarah elizabeth Beaube Coffee, that list her mothers maiden name as ROBERSON. It is my understanding that the Morman Church has her maiden name as Butcher, but that the info was not legally documented.Do you know if the info provided the Morman Church was documented information ? Yes, I have the book you mentioned by Billy G. Lee. There is also a question as to her place of birth as two census records say she was from Maryland, and I am told that one census record lists her B.P. as Kentucky. According to the 1850 census, Susan Bobee would have had to be in her fifty's when all her children were born, so I doubt that the age listed on this census is correct. I think she was younger. I just want to learn the truth about her. I would never be ashamed of her race. According to the DNA you speak of, it is possible she could have been melungeon. If that be the case, she would have african ancestry as well. Does anyone know if her maiden name appeared on any census or other legal documents? At the time the census was taken by noted historian, Carter G. Woodson ( 1820 or 1830) there would have been more than two indians living in Jefferson county Ms. that were head of household. Yet, only Susan Beaube and one Jerry Gill, are listed as "free negro head of household". I tend to believe she was black, or perhaps black and indian. James Beaube I marriage to Caroline Clanton is listed under the colored marriage records. I have a copy of this. I don't think anything should be discounted in the search for Susan Beaube's idenity.

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