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Bezai Bisbee

Male 1779 - 1804  (25 years)

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  • Name Bezai Bisbee  [1]
    Birth 28 Mar 1779  Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male
    Other Name Beza  
    Death 3 Sep 1804  Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Burial Hillcrest Cemetery, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    • Gravestone inscription: "Sacred To The Memory Of Mr. Beza Bisbee, Son Of Elijah Bisbee, Esq. & Mrs. Susanna, His Wife, Who Died Sept. 3, 1804, Aged 25 Years, 5 Months & 6 Days."
    Beza Bisbee    		 Beza Bisbee
    Photograph by Find A Grave contributor Joan Pulis
    Person ID I1979  Bisbee
    Last Modified 16 May 2010

    Father Elijah Bisbee, III,   b. 4 Sep 1745, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Apr 1831, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
    Mother Susannah Ripley,   b. Abt 1745   d. 19 Apr 1837, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years)
    Marriage 16 Dec 1773  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4] 
    Family ID F601  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Marshall,   b. 1768   d. 24 Jun 1842 (Age 74 years)
    Marriage 17 Jan 1802  [2] 
    • Married by Rev. John Briggs. [2]
    Children 
    +1. Elijah Bisbee,   b. 4 Jul 1802, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Apr 1869, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
    +2. William Marshall Bisbee,   b. 8 Mar 1805, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jan 1859 (Age 53 years)
    Family ID F1022  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Jul 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 28 Mar 1779 - Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 3 Sep 1804 - Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Hillcrest Cemetery, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • The name, "Bezai," is mentioned in the Holy Bible, Book of Ezra, Chapter II, Verse 17. Returned from Babylon. A verse on Beza's tombstone reads: "His youthful hopes were like the morning flower; Cut down at noon, withered in an hour. But hopes...." [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 77.

    2. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 155.

    3. [S3052] Gravestone, Old Burying Ground, Plympton, Massachusetts, "Sacred to the memory of / Mr. Beza Bisbee / (son of / Elijah Bisbee Esq. / & Mrs. Susanna his wife) / who died / Sept 3, 1804 / aged 25 years, / 5 mo's & 6 days".

    4. [S1165] Abstracted by Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, (The National Historical Publishing Co., Waynesboro, TN, 1990).