John Jean was born about 1783 in North Carolina.  He married Alcy S. Unknown about 1805 in Georgia.  Alcy was born about 1789 in Georgia.

John is listed on the muster rolls of the commencement of a company of Calvary in Pulaski County, Georgia dated July 21, 1812. He is later found in a detachment of the Georgia Calvary Mounted Riflemen under the command of Lt. Col. Allen Tooke stationed at Fort Mitchell, Hartford, Pulaski County, Georgia from August 1813 through December 1814. This detachment is said to have been on Indian scout out of Fort Mitchell from November 9 to December 22, 1814.

In October 1818, John served on the Pulaski County, Georgia Grand Jury.

John is enumerated in the 1820 Pulaski County, Georgia census having two sons under 16, three sons under 10, one daughter under 16 and one daughter under 10.

He is later found in Walton County, Georgia having been appointed the Administrator of the Robert Mathis Estate. John paid $2 for the Application of Letters of Administration which was recorded on September 5th, 1825. 

His oldest daughter, Mary Daniel Jean, was married in Walton County on September 16, 1824, and his oldest son, Daniel B. Jean, was married in Walton County on April 23, 1829.

John is enumerated in the 1830 Coweta County, Georgia census having one son 15-20, two sons 10-15, three sons 5-10, two sons under 5, two daughters 15-20, one daughter 10-15, one daughter 5-10, and one daughter under 5.  Daniel B. Jean and Mary Daniel ( Jean) Bledsoe were in households of their own by 1830.

Heard County, Georgia was created in 1830 from land in Troup, Coweta and Carroll counties.  John Jean is listed as one of the earliest settlers of Heard County, perhaps because he lived in a part of Coweta County that became part of Heard County with the redrawing of the county lines creating Heard County, Georgia.  

On August 5, 1837, John Jean purchased 40 acres of Federal land on the Cleburne-Randolph County line in Alabama.

John is enumerated in both the 1840 and 1850 Heard County, Georgia census.  

Coincidentally, John and Alice (Alcy) Jean are also enumerated in the 1850 Randolph County, Alabama census.  The Randolph County census is dated in December 7, 1850.  Both John and Alcy are one year older than in the September 1850 Heard County census.  This would seem to narrow down their months of birth.  Whether they had moved to Randolph County between September and December of 1850, or the census taker was a bit lost is not known.  They have living with them, in addition to William and Martha, a one year old female named Louisa Benefield.  Louisa is later found in the 1900 Randolph County, Alabama census, unmarried, living with her mother and a brother.  It is believed that her mother was a daughter of Robert and Mary Mathis--the estate that John administered in 1825.

Alcy died on January 7, 1854 and is said to be buried in an unmarked grave in Franklin City Cemetery, Heard County, Georgia.

In 1860, John is found living with his son, Bartlett, in the Heard County, Georgia census.  It is believed that John died sometime between 1860 and 1865.  He, too, is said to be buried in an unmarked grave in the Franklin City Cemetery, Heard County, Georgia.

All but two of the Jean children left Georgia, heading west to Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. 

Six Jean brothers, Daniel, Albritton, Bartlett, Robert, Darius and William migrated to Arkansas. Daniel and Robert settled in Little River County, Albritton in Yell County, Bartlett in Columbia County, and William in Union County.  Darius moved on to Hill County, Texas.

Sarah A. (Jean) Kight, and her family left Georgia in the Fall of 1865, first living in Columbia County, Arkansas, then settling in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, where she died in 1906.

James Monroe Jean, left Georgia after the death of his first wife, Elizabeth Sturgis. He settled in Jasper County, Texas, where he married Louisa Pamplin in 1834. He later moved his family to Vernon Parish, Louisiana, where he died in 1890.

About 1846,  John Hopson Jean, left Georgia, settling in DeSoto County, Mississippi, where he remained until his death in 1872.

Littleton R. Jean, first moved to DeSoto County, Mississippi with his brother, John; then returned to Georgia. He married the widow of Thomas A. Slaton, Angeline, in 1859 in Carroll County, Georgia.  Littleton later moved to Haralson County, Georgia, then to Marshall County, Alabama and finally to Winston County, Alabama where he died in 1906.

Martha Amanda (Jean) Barker, lived in Heard County, Georgia.  After the death of her husband during the Civil War, she moved her family to Haralson County, Georgia. She and some of her children moved to Texas in the late 1890's. She died in Merkel, Taylor County, Texas in 1913.

Mary Daniel (Jean) Bledsoe, lived in Heard County and Carroll County, Georgia.  In 1880, she is living with her son, Walker Brockman Bledsoe, in Newton County, Mississippi.  She died there on August 13, 1885.

The two children that remained in Georgia were:

Hardy Hopson Jean,  living in Haralson County until his death in 1892 and Elizabeth M. (Jean) Jackson lived in Heard County, Georgia until her death in the 1860's.

Among the known children of John and Alcy Jean, there were 130 grandchildren born, most of whom went on to have children of their own.

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