Jane Beard married David Doak
Jane Beard was born in either Virginia or Eastern Tennessee, according to the later censuses, she was born between 1766 and 1784. It was probably closer to 1780, as her husband was born about that time. She married in either Greene County, Tennessee or in Adair County, Kentucky about the year 1800. Her family moved from Greene County, Tennessee to Kentucky around the turn of the century. The groom was David Doak, sometimes spelled Doke or Doack in old records, and he was also from an old Valley of Virginia Scots family who moved to Eastern Tennessee and then into Kentucky. You may read a history of David's Doak family at this page , entitled "The Doak Ancestors of David Doak who married Jane Beard" . David's father was probably the Samuel Doak who advertised running a ferry business in adjoining Knox County, Tennessee in the year 1792. There is a good chance that David had a brother named Samuel. David was born in Virginia or Eastern Tennessee about 1780. He and Jane no doubt knew each other in Tennessee and possibly married there. On 16 April 1800, a notice was printed in the paper for Knox County, Tennessee that reported that David Doak was on the list of "letters remaining at the Knoxville Post Office", probably because he had gone to Green or adjoining Adair County, Kentucky before this time; Samuel Beard himself went there in 1798. In 1800, David Doke was a name on the Green County, Kentucky census. He was listed as David Doke on the 1802 Tax List in Adair County, Kentucky. He paid tax for two hundred acres on the Green River, acquired from Samuel Beard, his wife's uncle, which fact was included on the tax form. (Samuel Beard was listed on the same tax list on Green River, as well.) In 1808, he was the witness on the marriage record of Mary Polly Beard (Jane's sister) to Absalom Coffey/Coffee in Adair County. In 1810, David Doke was on the Adair County census with three males under ten, two females under ten, so he and Jane had five children under ten. Both David and his wife were listed as 26-44. Also listed with them was another male, also 26-44, and this may well be a brother, whom we think was a Samuel Doak/Doke.
In 1820 in Adair County, David Doak is 26-44, wife the same, with three females under ten, one female 10-25, and a male 16-25.
In 1830 the family is still on the census in Adair County with a male 50-59, a male 30-39, a female 50-59, a female 10-14, one 15-19, and two 20-29. The male 30-39 is possibly the eldest, Hugh B. Doak, as he did not marry until 1833 and the two others married before that time, see individual's information below.
Soon after this census, David and Jane Beard Doak moved down into Bedford County, Tennessee, where her father, uncles, and other family had moved in previous years. There are records of "David Doke" owning one of the first grist mills in Bedford County, near the Duck River there.
On 5 November 1831, as recited in the Bedford County deeds, "David Doak to Samuel Doak, both of Bedford County, Tennessee, both formerly of Adair County, Kentucky [and we believe that these two are brothers or at the least, cousins]. David Doak is indebted to Samuel Doak for $503.68, which is due, conveys unto Samuel Doak all his legacy coming to him in right of his wife, Jane Doak, and the daughter of Hugh Beard, deceased of Jackson County, Alabama." Witnesses, James Brittain and Jno. M. Cannon.
In February 1833, Thomas B. Flintum married Charlotte Doak in Bedford County, the "daughter of Captain David Doak". The title of Captain is interesting; David would have been of the right age to participate in the War of 1812. We are impatiently awaiting an ordered file of a David Doak's file from that War and will share information gained therefrom as soon as possible.
On 13 June 1833, Hugh B. Doak married Elizabeth Ewing in Adair County, Kentucky. Hugh and Elizabeth moved to Bedford County, Tennessee after the birth of their daughter Mary Jane in Kentucky in 1836 but before the 1840 census was taken. We think that he is a son of David and Jane Beard Doak. Jane's father was named Hugh Beard, so it is possible that Jane named her son "Hugh Beard Doak".
There was land up for grab in Texas, and in December 1839, a group of Bedford Countians were in Texas applying for land rights. Among them, all listed on the 28th and 29th of that month, were David Doak, Jane Doak, Hopkins Davidson (a son in law).
On the 1840 census back in Bedford County, Tennessee, we find a Samuel Doak, who is age 30-40, wife the same, and three children; we find Hugh B. Doak the same age, with two children.
Eventually, the sons Hugh, Samuel, and Nelson would all appear in the same part of Texas, as would the Thomas Flintum family. We do not know the death date nor burial place of Jane Beard Doak. As to David, the newspaper death notice of his daughter Esther Annie Davidson in 1853 said that she was the daughter of "Captain David Doak of Red River County". Therefore we know that he was still alive when she died in January 1853. Another daughter, Charlotte Doak Flintum, is found in Red River County, Texas in 1850 and later years. His daughter Esther Annie Doak Davidson lived in Lamar County, Texas, which is next to Red River County, during the same years, and there are several Doak males in Red River County at the same time. On an 1865 published burial list of the Old Shiloh Cemetery in Red River County, Texas appears "David Doke, age 73" (or 78, hard to read), no dates listed. It seems probable that this is Captain David Doak, the parent of some Doaks in this area of Texas at this time. Since we know from the previously cited source that David was still alive in January of 1853 and living in Red River County, the death date would be after this time. We have a suspicion that he was 78, and that may put his death date just after his daughter in 1853. In this cemetery are also buried Mrs. Jane Doak, but this was Jane Smith Doak, the wife of Nelson Doak. Several of their children were also buried here.
In addition to the two married daughters of Jane and David Doak, there are also several male Doaks living in these areas of Texas at the same time, and judging by early census records in Tennessee, Jane and David Doak had three male children born between 1800 and 1810 in Kentucky.
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