Jesse Steadham
1786 - Bef 1857 (70 years)-
Name Jesse Steadham Born 26 Oct 1786 Spanish West Florida (Baldwin County, Alabama) 
Christened 08 Nov 1788 Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama Gender Male Military 30 Aug 1813 Fort Mims, Baldwin, Alabama [2] Survivor of the massacre at Ft. Mims, together with his brother, Edward. - "Martin Rigdon, Samuel Smith, Joseph Perry, ___ Mourrice and Jessee Steadham escaped through the picketing together. The latter was shot through the thigh early in the action, and Mourrice in the shoulder. Leaping the fence in front of the bastion, over the heads of the squatting Indians, they reached the swamp, where they remained three days, when, finding an old canoe below the Boat Yard, they made their escape to Mount Vernon. Edward Steadham, who was wounded in the hand while flying from the bastion, entered the swamp, swam the Alabama above the Cut-Off, and arrived at Mount Vernon four days after the massacre." [1]
Fort Mims Massacre
30 August 1813Probate 13 Oct 1856 Baldwin County, Alabama Will Witnessed - Wife: Margaret Stedham. Children: Jesse Stedham, Jr. (wife, Sarah M. Stedham), Andrew J. Stedham, Winifred Singleton (husband, Robert J. Singleton), Moses Stedham, Benjamin T. Stedham, Sarah M. Feist, and Georgia V. Stedham. Witnesses: Zachariah P. Scott, Charles Daniels, and David A. Moniac. Subscribed: 13 Oct 1856. Proved: 22 Jan 1857.
Jesse Steadham Will
"Alabama Probate Records, 1809-1985," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25319-23998-37?cc=1925446&wc=M6DK-WNL:220032901,220305801 : accessed 24 July 2015), Baldwin > Wills 1809-1934 vol A-C > image 83 of 718; county courthouses, Alabama.Died Bef 22 Jan 1857 Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama Person ID I8235 Dickinson Last Modified 21 Aug 2015
Father Moses Steadham, b. 1748, Beaufort, South Carolina , d. 30 Aug 1813, Fort Mims, Baldwin, Alabama (Age 65 years) Relationship Birth Mother Winifred Eppinger, b. 1753, South Carolina , d. 30 Aug 1813, Fort Mims, Baldwin, Alabama (Age 60 years) Relationship Birth Family ID F2437 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Children + 1. Andrew Jackson Steadham, b. 08 Jan 1820, Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama , d. 04 Apr 1885, Blacksher, Baldwin, Alabama (Age 65 years)+ 2. Winnifred Steadham, b. 6 Nov 1825, Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama , d. 6 Aug 1884, Meridan, Bosque, Texas (Age 58 years) [Birth]3. Jesse Steadham, b. 28 Feb 1828, Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama , d. 24 May 1860, Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama (Age 32 years) [Birth]4. Moses Steadham, b. 4 Jun 1832, Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama , d. Before 1910, Texas (Age 77 years) [Birth]Last Modified 24 Jul 2015 Family ID F2439 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Margaret Glover, b. Abt 1787, Virginia Married 10 Aug 1832 Baldwin County, Alabama Children 1. Benjamin T Steadham, b. ca. 1834, Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama [Birth]+ 2. Sarah Margaret Steadham, b. 12 Dec 1837, Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama , d. 27 Apr 1912, Montgomery Hill, Baldwin, Alabama (Age 74 years)3. Georgia Virginia Steadham, b. ca. 1840, Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama , d. 15 Jul 1881, Lyon County, Kansas (Age ~ 41 years) [Birth]Last Modified 24 Jul 2015 Family ID F2229 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Christened - 08 Nov 1788 - Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama 
Military - Survivor of the massacre at Ft. Mims, together with his brother, Edward. - 30 Aug 1813 - Fort Mims, Baldwin, Alabama 
Married - 10 Aug 1832 - Baldwin County, Alabama Probate - Will Witnessed - 13 Oct 1856 - Baldwin County, Alabama Died - Bef 22 Jan 1857 - Tensaw, Baldwin, Alabama = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Documents 
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Sources - [S336314] History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, Albert James Pickett, (Sheffield, Alabama: Robert C. Randolph, 1896), 538.
- [S336345] A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814, Gregory A. Waselkov, (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2006), 134-135.
- [S336314] History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, Albert James Pickett, (Sheffield, Alabama: Robert C. Randolph, 1896), 538.