Evidently, it was too big. Here is another try. ---------------------------- I was catching up on some filing and didn't know where to file this. I am pretty confident now it is L-34. The James Robert mentioned (AKA Jim Bob) is the James R., son of Jno O. and Rebecca Pomeroy Beaty. Ann Susan Beaty Lawson is mentioned in a newpaper article and brother Horace Wellington Beaty. Donna L-3 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (posted 2007) >From the Handbook of Texas Online: Not my line: RaNelle Parker L-405 BEATY, JOHN OWEN (1890-1961). John Owen Beaty, teacher and author, was born to James Robert and Eula (Simms) Beaty at Crow, West Virginia, on December 22, 1890. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Virginia in 1913 and enlisted in the United States Army in 1917; he remained on active duty through World War I,qv then stayed in Europe and took graduate courses at the Université de Montpellier, France, before returning to the United States, where he joined the faculty of Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1919. He married Josephine Mason Powell in 1920. The couple raised four children. Beaty completed his Ph.D. in 1921 at Columbia University. In 1926-27 he was an American Kahn fellow in Asia and Europe. In 1922 he was promoted to professor; he was selected chairman of the Department of English in 1927. He retained this position until 1940 and was honorary chairman until his retirement from the university in 1957. From 1926 to 1934 he was visiting professor during the summers at various universities, including the University of Texas. He authored and coauthored a number of articles for popular and professional journals and several books, including An Introduction to Poetry (1922), An Introduction to Drama (1927), Texas Poems (1936), Swords in the Dawn (1937), Image of Life (1940), and Crossroads (1956). In 1951 he published The Iron Curtain Over America. This highly controversial and widely criticized book contended that Jews not only were largely responsible for the success of the Bolshevik Revolution but dominated the Democratic partyqv in the United States. Beaty was chairman of the Modern Language Association's Old English group, 1938-39; president of the Texas branch of the Conference of College Teachers of English, 1937-38; and a member of the American Academy of Political Science. He also served as pronunciation consultant for the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary, published in 1934. In addition, he was a member of the United States Army Reserve until 1950; he retired with the rank of colonel. After his retirement from SMU, Beaty and his wife moved to Campbellton Farm, which his father had established, near Barboursville, Virginia. He died on September 9, 1961, while hospitalized at Gordonsville, Virginia. He was a Baptist and a member of the Order of the White Cross, the Masonic order, and the Woodmen of the World. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dallas Morning News, September 10, 1961. New York Times, September 13, 1961. Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4.. Raleigh Register, Beckley, Raleigh co., WV 24 Jan 1972 Mrs. Mattie Bunton Final rites for Mrs. Mattie Beaty Bunton of Beckley will be conducted Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home Peace Chapel by Dr. Walter Griswold. Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial park. She died at 7:55 a.m. sunday in a local hospital after a long illness. Born at Crow, she was the daughter of Horace Wellington and sallie Scott Beaty. She was preceded in death bY her husband Ray Rivers Bunton on Octoher 23, 1968. She waS. a member of the Beckley First Christian Church and past president and chairman of the Fine Arts Department of the Woman's Club of Beckley. She was also past president of the Tazewell Woman's Club, Tazewell, Va., and a former employee of the Bank of Raleigh and the Beckley National Bank. Her brother James Robert Beaty preceded ber in death on April 19, 1967, and she is survived by one sister-in-1aw, Mrs. James R. Beaty, of Beckley. Friends may call at the funerall home after 5 p.m. today. Pallbearers include Jack Foster, E. W. Wilburn, Virgil Snead, Milton Ward, John D. Porter, Paul Phipps, W. H. File and Van Pearson. August 15, 1955 NATIVE RETURNS AFTER 60 YEARS Tne professor of English at Southern Methodist University, Dr. John Owen Beaty, returneded to Raleigh County Saturday for the first time io 60 years. Dr. Beaty, an author, is a native Raleigh Countian, born at Crow in 1890. The occasion of his visit was a reunion of the Beaty cousins at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Beaty, Grandview. Dr. Beaty has been English Professor at SMU for the past 36 years. He is the son of the late James Robert Beaty, pioneer Raleigh Counly lumberman who formed the Beaty Lumber Co., the first major industrial firm of the county, in 1888. The reunion marked the first time the Beaty cousins have been together. Attending were: Dr. Beaty, J. R. Beaty,' and Mrs. R. R. Bunton, children of Horace Beaty, who was associated with his brother in the old Beaty Lumber Co.; Mrs. Raymond Rudacile, daughter of Mrs. Ann Beaty Lawson, sister of J. R. and Horace Beaty, who lives in Tazewell, Va.; Miss Mary Elizabeth Beaty, daughter or Dr. and Mrs. Beaty; Raymond Rudacile; R. R. Bunton; and Mrs. J. R. Beaty .