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A Name Carried Forward - Nine Generations of the Colbert-Beam Family and Chickasaw Heritage
24 pages
8.5"x11" - Choice of Hardcover/Softcover - Photo Book
About the Book
What survives when a family name must carry memory across nine generations?
In A Name Carried Forward, Janette Rochelle Beam Murphy traces the Colbert-Beam family from James Logan Colbert through Levi Colbert, two Martins, two Benjamin Franklin Colberts, and into the lives of Juanita Christine Colbert Beam, Larry Gene Beam, and Janette herself. It is an intimate family chronicle shaped by records, recollections, silences, and the determination to understand where a name has traveled.
The past does not always answer clearly.
Set against the changing landscape of Chickasaw history-from the southeastern homeland and removal era to Indian Territory, allotment, Oklahoma statehood, and the twentieth century-this story honors Chickasaw heritage without forcing certainty where evidence ends. Each generation faces its own crossings: movement, labor, family responsibility, loss, adaptation, and the quiet work of belonging.
With an honest eye for both documented fact and inherited memory,..
In A Name Carried Forward, Janette Rochelle Beam Murphy traces the Colbert-Beam family from James Logan Colbert through Levi Colbert, two Martins, two Benjamin Franklin Colberts, and into the lives of Juanita Christine Colbert Beam, Larry Gene Beam, and Janette herself. It is an intimate family chronicle shaped by records, recollections, silences, and the determination to understand where a name has traveled.
The past does not always answer clearly.
Set against the changing landscape of Chickasaw history-from the southeastern homeland and removal era to Indian Territory, allotment, Oklahoma statehood, and the twentieth century-this story honors Chickasaw heritage without forcing certainty where evidence ends. Each generation faces its own crossings: movement, labor, family responsibility, loss, adaptation, and the quiet work of belonging.
With an honest eye for both documented fact and inherited memory,..
Features & Details
- CreatedJul-21-2026
- Last updatedJul-21-2026
- Format8.5"x11" - Choice of Hardcover/Softcover - Photo Book
- ThemeFamily History
- PrivacyEveryone
- Preview Limit24 pages
About Author
Every family has someone who searches for the stories that came before. For this generation, that person is Janette Rochelle Beam.
Born on October 28, 1970, in Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, Janette became the ninth generation in this family story.
Her journey was not only about finding names and dates. It was about discovering the people behind those names.
Through research, records, and family history, Janette began putting together the pieces of a story that began more than three hundred years earlier.
She discovered that every ancestor mattered.
Every generation mattered.
Every story mattered.
This book became her way of honoring the past and preserving it for future generations.
The ancestors before her carried the legacy forward.
Now she carries the responsibility of remembering.
Born on October 28, 1970, in Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, Janette became the ninth generation in this family story.
Her journey was not only about finding names and dates. It was about discovering the people behind those names.
Through research, records, and family history, Janette began putting together the pieces of a story that began more than three hundred years earlier.
She discovered that every ancestor mattered.
Every generation mattered.
Every story mattered.
This book became her way of honoring the past and preserving it for future generations.
The ancestors before her carried the legacy forward.
Now she carries the responsibility of remembering.
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