Bennington

BEEBE, Asa & Asa Jr.

Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, p 247 (extracted from an 
article on the early settlement of Winhall)

Asa BEEBE was a good citizen and a man of some business in town. He lived to 
see a family of five sons and seven daughters married and settled in town 
[Winhall, Bennington County, Vermont]; he [Asa BEEBE] died 05 December 1813, 
aged seventy years. His wife, Lydia BEEBE, died 14 December 1813, aged 
seventy. [Proximity of these death dates suggests they are related.]

Asa BEEBE, Jr., was the first Town Clerk [of Winhall, Bennington County, 
Vermont], and several times a member of the State Legislature. He was an 
enterprising, industrious farmer, and highly esteemed as a citizen and 
neighbor. He [Asa BEEBE, Jr.] married Sarah, daughter of Deacon Ephraim DAY. 
They [Asa and Sarah BEEBE, Jr.] had a large family. About thirty-five years 
since he removed to Western New York, where he [Asa BEEBE Jr.] died at a very 
advanced age. 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly