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. 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 . July 12, 1960 Beatys Return Home After Visiting Here Dr. and Mrs. John O. Beaty have retturned to their Barooursville. Va., home after visiting Thurday through Sunday at the' home of his first cousin. Jim Bob Beaty, Grandview Road. Dr. Beaty is a son of the late, J. R. Beaty, who was associated with the Beaty Limber Co., Crow. His host is a namesake of the visitor's father, and Jim Bob's father was Horace Beaty. A retired professorr of Southern Methodist University, Dr. Beaty speaks in seven languages. His wife is a poet. Also guests of the Beatys over the weekend were his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Bunting{Bunton-VZ}, Tazewell, Va. April 19, 1967 Jim Bob Beaty Jim Bob Beaty, a prominent Raleigh county farmer, died early today at the West Virginia University Medical Center in Morgantown. He had been ill since last August and had been a patient at the medical center undergoing observation and treatment for the past few weeks. He was the son of two Raleigh county pioneer residents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Horace (sally) Scott Beaty. He was born and lived as a life long resident of Crow. He owned and operated the Jim Bob Beaty Farm on Grandview Road. He is survived by his wife Mrs. Mabel Chambers Beaty; and one sister Mrs. R. R. (Mattie) Bunton of Beckley. The body will arrive at Calfee Funeral Home Wednesday. Feb. 23, 1977 Bug dust (column name) by Bob Wills SCOTT DIARY TELLS DEATH OF TWO NOTED COUNTIANS In Oliver Scott's ledger-diary for the 1895 - 1901 period, which has been the subject of this column for the last couple of weeks, there was often mention of persons who, like the Table Rock farmer - merchant - diary keeper himself played promlnent roles in the early history and development of this area. In his entry for Jan. 16, 1899, for example. Scott noted that " .. . Horace Beaty died about 4 a.m. today .. .. " and the next day he reported that he " ... attended the burial of Horace Beaty at Crow. A very large concourse of people in attendance .... , And on Jan. 29 of the same year Scott's entry noted. " ... John S. Hull buried today .... Beaty, Hull and Scott were related by blood or marriage, as was often the case in those days of sparse settlement and scant population. The population of Raleigh County all told was less than 10,000 at the time and Beckley was home for only about 300 of them (the population in the official census of 1900 was only 342). The town of Crow, where only a handful of people live today, was larger than Beckley (or Raleigh Court House. as it was more commonly called) and there was some thougnt of transferring the county seat there. It waS a thriving town of 500 or so with a railroad and a busy lumber mill neither of which Beckley had. One of the reasons for it's prosperity was Horace Beaty and his brother James Robert ("Jim Bob"). They had established the Beaty Lumber co. there around 1890 and built a railroad to serve it. That Glade Creek and Raleigh Railroad stretched from Glade (a settlement at the mouth of Glade Creek on New River), where it connected with the Cheasapeake & Ohio, up the mountain and through a tunnel, thence down into Crow, from whence it followed Little Beaver Creek to Raleigh (Glen Morgan). Later it would continue up Piney River between Raleigh and Mabscott and terminate near where Institute School is now located. Horace Beaty was married to Sallie Scott, a daughter of Robert and Angeline Hull Scott, a sister of Thaddeus K., Moses E. and Douglas Scott and a first cousin of Oliver Scott whose father (James) was Robert's brother. Horace was the mechanical brains of the Beaty brothers and was the engineer on the Shay engine which powered the aforementioned railroad. His daughter in- law. Mabel Chambers (Mrs. "Jim Bob II") Beaty, a retired teacher who was an instructor at Woodrow Wilson High School for many years and now lives on North Fayette Street, recalls a story of the opening of the railroad. The Shay engine which was to pull the logging and freight trains was shipped in from Cincinnati in parts and had to be assembled. No one around had experience in doing such a job and Jim Bob I went to Cincinnati to acquire the services of an expert to put it together. But while he was gone his brother Horace figured the prob]em out and when Jim Bob and the expert arrived the engine had already been put together and was in fine working order. Mrs. Beaty notes that her husband, Jim Bob II was only a little over a year old when his father Horace died on Jan. 16. 1899. The cause of death was thought to be typhoid fever, but Mrs. Beaty is of the opinion that it was really peritonitis from a ruptured appendix. Horace was only 38 at the time of his death. Jim Bob II named for his uncle, later became one of the area's leading large scale farmers in the same Table Rock area where Oliver Scott lived. He died April 19. 1967 at the age of 69. He and Mabel had no children. The elder Jim Bob who was about 10 years older than his brother Horace. also died later on in the year 1899. He left two children, John, a college professor and author of the book "Iron Curtain over America" and Annie. John had three children, Richard, Mary and James Robert III, a doctor in Texas.The John S. Hull who died Jan. 26, 1899 and whose burial on Jan. 29 was noted in Scott's diary was one of Beckley's early merchants and hotel keepers. He was a nephew of Mrs. Robert (Angeline Hull) Scott and was married to Annie Prince, daughter of William Prince who was a first cousin of Gen. Alfred Beckley, who settled here in the 1830's and named the town in honor of his father John Beckley, first librarian of Congress and clerk of the House of Representatives in the terms of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Hull built the sprawling many turreted and gabled frame "Hotel Hull" which stood on the present site of the Beckley Hotel and was the stopping place for the many Charleston, Cincinatti and Pittsburgh, etc. drummers and jobbers who served the area in those days. It was also the gathering place for the town's socialites. The hotel had been completed and opened in January of 1894. Arter Hull's death in 1899 it was successively owned and operated by Addison Snuffer, Andrew Williams and Sam Fisher. who was the hotel-keeper when it burned to the ground on the night of Sunday Sept. 29. 1912.

Donna, I was looking through some old e-mails and wanted to respond this message. I sent your e-mails on this family that appear to be close to Peter and me to Suzanne Silek, a member of this line that lives in Front Royal. Below is her response in case I did not send it to you before. Thank you for posting it because I am keeping that line as up to date as possible. Armond Beaty L-32 Armond, "John Owen(s) Beaty is a child of John A(dams) Beaty by his second wife. The second wife was Lavinna Owens Edmonds, a widow. William Beaty, a son of John A(dams) Beaty married his step sister, a daughter of Lavinna Edmonds by her first husband. Then cousins married cousins and the line became very confused. Dr. Beaty's sons are, I think, the only Beaty males in John Owens' line. Will double check that. Tons of descendants but not males with the name of Beaty. And Virginia married a Poe and one of their sons married a Beaty female. Ann, another daughter of John Owen and Rebecca married the Lawson and the line is the one at the winery". Hope that your wife's surgery goes as planned. Suzanne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Armond Beaty" <acbeaty@1starnet.com> To: "Suzanne Silek" <royalquality@embarqmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 10:20:20 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna VanZandt" <donavan@netwtc.net> To: "BP2000" <BP2000-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 5:56 AM Subject: [BP2000] L-34 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. 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