Generation No. 1
1. JESSE (BYOUS)3 BIAS (JEREMIAH BIAS???...(PROBABLY NOT HIS2 FATHER), JOHN1 BIAS) was born 1786 in Union Co., Virginia?, and died April 25, 1870 in Springdale, Washington Co., AR.
He married (1) RHODA BLOYD January 23, 1809 in Green Co., KY (I have copy of record), daughter of JOHN BLOYD and MARY MCCUBBIN?.
He married (2) JANE _____ Aft. 1834 in Washington Co., AR.
More About JESSE (BYOUS) BIAS:
Fact 1: Per Alan BIAS, first record of Jesse is
from 1790 Greenbriar Co., VA census.
Fact 2: Turnbo's Tales states Jesse was "the
first settler on Shoal Creek". Location was "Shoal
Creek, the Jess Bias Place a mile and a half from
Pro-tem". Afterwards knows as the Owens Place. Per
Turnbo,
Fact 3: 1850 census says he was born in VA. He
lived in Clear Creek, Washington Co., AR
Fact 4: Another child is thought to belong to
Jesse and Rhoda....Sarah T. BIASS
Fact 5: Sarah married Merrick H. GRAHAM
Fact 6: Per info in documents by Wm. Yates, "Jess
BIAS came to Big Creek in the early 1830's and lived
some time in a tent and hunted and killed the fat
bucks."
Fact 7: The TABORS were the next settlers there.
Fact 8: He and Armstrong are said to have given
their property to Hiram when they went to Arkansas.
Fact 9: Jesse was found on the 1810 Barren Co.,
KY census.
More About RHODA BLOYD:
Fact 1: I found them on the 1840 IL Census, Cass Co.
Fact 2: I found them on the 1810 KY Census,
Barren Co.
Fact 3: Buried Friend's Cemetery,
Washington Co., AR.
MBR>Fact 4: When they came to MO they are said to
have been walking leading pack ponies.
Fact 5: Info. on Jesse has been found: Green Co,
KY Abstracts books 5 & 6 1806-1814,
Fact 6: 1810 KY Census, Early Bluegrass Marriages
Green Co, KY 1793-1810.
Fact 7: Check April 1870 as death date. Bobbie
Lynch thinks Rhoda was born in Green Co., KY.
Fact 8: Jesse found also on 1840 Taney Co., MO
census with 7 children.
More About JANE _____:
Fact 1: Jane was blind as was two of her children, Lydia and Abner.
Children of JESSE BIAS and RHODA BLOYD are:
#1. SARAH T.4 BIAS??, m. MERRICK H. GRAHAM,
Washington Co., AR.
More About SARAH T. BIAS??:
Fact 1: Marriage record for her spells name BUIE
in error.
More About MERRICK H. GRAHAM:
Fact 1: Records from Washington Co., AR say he
was born 1880.
#2. HIRAM BIAS, SR., b. 1815, KY or IL; d. January 31, 1862, Rolla, Phelps Co., MO.
#3. WASHINGTON ARMSTRONG "BANK" BIAS, b. 1825, Kentucky (possibly Floyd Co?); d. Aft. 1910, Beggs, Okmulgee Co., Ok (possibly?).
#4. JESSE BIAS, JR., b. 1827, Kentucky; d. June 18, 1898.
Children of JESSE BIAS and JANE _____ are:
#1. WILLIAM4 BIAS, b. 1835, Iowa or Indiana.
More About WILLIAM BIAS:
Fact 1: 1850 census shows him 15 which supports
the birthdate shown.
#2. POLLY BIAS, b. 1837, Arkansas.
#3. MARY BIAS, b. 1838, Arkansas; m. DANIEL BENDER (or possibly Birmingham)
Per information from a relative of Mary's, a story is told of her father (Jesse Sr.) killing Mary's husband, Daniel Bender. Daniel and Mary had been married about a month. Mary's daughter, Lucinda, told her daughter that Jesse and some other men dragged Daniel out of his bed in about 1861 and shot him for being "a spy". Mary heard one shot. Jesse was said to be a Union Army recruiter. Apparently he thought Daniel was for the Confederates. There is apparently no documentation of this as when a relative tried to check it out for herself she was told by Civil War re-enactors in Arkansas that those things were never documented or even talked about. The alleged spy was killed quietly and the body disposed of. Famly and friends just didn't see them again. No proof exists of this so remember it may be just a story even though it wass passed down thru the family from Mary.
#4. JOHN BIAS, b. 1841, Arkansas.
#5. JAMES BIAS, b. 1845, Arkansas.
#6. SARAH ELIZABETH BIAS, b. 1845, Arkansas.
#7 RACHAEL BIAS, b. 1847, Arkansas. 6.
#8. LYDIA BIAS, b. 1848, Arkansas.