Phillip Bessey

They moved by 1840 to Delaware Twp, Walworth Co., WI.(5) Philip bought about 80 acres of land in Walworth county from the government on 10 Oct 1840.(6) He sold this land 15 Mar 1842 to John Bessey, shortly before a court case was started for money Philip owed in Michigan. Philip and his family are found living next to John Bessey in the 1846 census of Wheatland Twp., Racine Co., WI (later Kenosha Co.) (8)but Philip has not been found after that. Evaline returned to MI with the children and later remarried there by 1856. So either Philip had died or she divorced him. There was a Philip Bessey in Olney, Richland Co., IL in Feb 1859 in trouble again for owing money, but no proof that this is the same Philip.(16) John's Bessey's will implies that Philip is in California in 1852 and neighbors in the court papers in WI in 1843 seem to think that Philip was heading for Mississippi. This seems to be true, as when Evaline first lives with her parents in MI she states all her children were born in Mississipi. Later, when the children are older they change their story to being born in WI.

Phillip Bessey must have been alive about 1849, as his last child is born 1849, in Mississipi and is next found in the 1850 census age 1, living with Evaline's parents and siblings ( the Daniel Hubbard family in Michigan).

A Phillip Bessey (Bessy) draws a Civil War pension for service in WI in 1879. There were older soldiers who fought in their 50's so it is possible it could be him.

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF86-7S6 : 9 November 2014), Oliva R Bessey in household of Daniel Hubbard, Scipio, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States; citing family 47, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

Sibs:Amanda Solomon (born Bessy), Laura Ann Cook (born Bessy), Lucy Maria Woodhouse (born Bessy), Lydia Bessy, John Bessy, Marietta Vargason (born Bessy), Sarah Elizabeth Bessy, Charles Bessy, Caroline Melissa Bess

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"United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4PX-WTT : 24 March 2016), Philip Bessey, 1879

"United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSR2-S6F : 4 December 2014), Phillip Bessey, Private, Company D, 30th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union; citing NARA microfilm publication M559 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 2; FHL microfilm 882,487.