William Abraham Deem

b. 11 October 1818, d. 16 September 1864

Father*Peter B Deem b. 1 Jul 1792, d. 30 May 1867
Mother*Nancy Rollins b. 8 Feb 1793, d. 17 Feb 1884
William Abraham Deem|b. 11 Oct 1818\nd. 16 Sep 1864|p446.htm|Peter B Deem|b. 1 Jul 1792\nd. 30 May 1867|p367.htm|Nancy Rollins|b. 8 Feb 1793\nd. 17 Feb 1884|p424.htm|Jacob Deem Sr|b. 9 Apr 1764\nd. a Jun 1850|p20.htm|Eva A. Cox|b. 1767\nd. b 1860|p136.htm|||||||

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Birth*William Abraham Deem was born on 11 October 1818 at Wood County, (W)VA. 
(Living With Parents) CensusHe appeared on the census of 1820 in the household of his parents Peter B Deem and Nancy Rollins at Wood County, (W)VA; Peter Deem head of house. Free white males under ten years 2, Free white males of sixteen and under twenty-six, including heads of families 1, Free white females under ten years 1
Free white females of sixteen and under twenty-six, including heads of families 1.1
(Living With Parents) CensusHe appeared on the census of 1830 in the household of his parents Peter B Deem and Nancy Rollins at Wood County, (W)VA; Peter Deem head of household. Males under 5 years of age 1, males of 5 and under 10 2, males 10 and under 15 1, males 30 and under 40, females under 5 2, females of thirty and under 40.2
(Living With Parents) CensusHe appeared on the census of 1840 in the household of his parents Peter B Deem and Nancy Rollins at Wood County, (W)VA; males 5 & under 10 2, 15 & under 20 1, 20 & under 30 1, 40 & under 50 1, females 10 & under 15 2, 40 & under 50 1. Number of persons in each family employed in Agriculture 1.3
Marriage*William Abraham Deem married Sophia Elizabeth Barns on 13 October 1846 at Wood County, (W)VA. 
Census*William Abraham Deem appeared on the census of 1850 at Wood County, WV; Deem Abraham 31, Sophia 29, Hayman 2, Nancy 1, James 3/12, Truman Jehu 8. 
Marriage*He married Sarah Elizabeth Guinn on 20 November 1856 at Wood County, (W)VA. 
Military*Served in the military in 1862; Civil War Confederate First Virginia Infantry. 
Note*William Abraham Deem Willam Abraham Deem was arrested in June of 1862 for destroying B&O Railroad tracks near Parkersburg. He was consequently sent to Wheeling for trail, where he was found innocent. Upon returning to Wood County, he was much harrassed for his southern sympathies and left the area and joined the First Virginia Infantry of the Confederacy. He soon found he didn't like this life and came home to Wood County in 1864. While there he was murdered in his barn near Lubeck for being an "unreconstituted" rebel by three local men, one of which Martin Gibbony was a deserter from the Union Army. All three men were drunk at the time.

One of the men escaped, but was later recaptured and hanged at Fort Boreman, in Parkersburg. Story has it that the two men who did not escape got into an argument about he would hang first at their execution. The sherriff tried to appease the men by hanging them both at the same time with the same rope using a double noose. When the trap doors opened the weight of the men proved to be too much for the hanging apparatus and both men fell to the ground. The coffins in which the men were to be buried had been placed under the scaffold and when the men fell they landed on the coffins. One of the men sustained a broken leg and had to be carried up the scaffold the second time where both men were hanged, this time separately. in June 1862 at Wood County, (W)VA. 
Death*He died on 16 September 1864 at Wood County, WV, at age 45. 

Family 1

Sophia Elizabeth Barns b. circa 1827, d. 1856
Children

Family 2

Sarah Elizabeth Guinn b. 1831, d. 7 May 1877
Children

Last Edited25 Sep 2009

Citations:

  1. [S39] 1820 Census Wood County (W)VA.
  2. [S83] 1830 Census Wood County (W)VA.
  3. [S40] 1840 Census Wood County (W)VA.
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