Book One of the Beeson Family Saga
North Carolina, 1775. Raised a Quaker, Captain Edward Beeson takes up arms for a revolution his own conscience condemns — and the women of his family are left to carry what he cannot. His mother Elizabeth holds the meeting house together. His wife Ann holds the family together. And when Edward comes home from the battlefield a different man than the one who left, they have to find a way to hold him together too. Fading Light tells the story of the Revolution as the women who lived through it experienced it — grounded in more than twenty years of genealogical research into military records, Quaker meeting minutes, census records, wills, and family lines. Edward Beeson is a documented DAR Patriot ancestor and Amy C Crooks’s own fourth great-grandfather. Every Beeson in these pages was real.
Written in honor of America’s 250th anniversary, Fading Light opens the Beeson Family Saga — a multigenerational series following one real American family from the Revolution through the Civil War and beyond.
Part of the Beeson Family Saga
A multi-generational saga following the Beesons through faith, war, and the contradictions of a family built on both principle and complicity. Book Two, already underway, follows Edward’s grandson Curtis Beeson through the consequences of the wealth his family built on slavery.