The immediate message below is a response I received from Suzanne Silek after I sent her a copy of the postings concerning the same by Donna. Suzanne is a descendent of John Adams Beaty L-34. She has helped me a lot on this line. I left Donna's messages intact to facilitate easy reference. Armond L-32 ----- Original Message ----- From: Suzanne Silek To: Armond Beaty Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:42 AM Subject: Re: L-34 Lineage 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 Subject: L-34 Lineage Suzanne, below are several messages posted on BP2000 under Lineage L-34. Thought you may want to study them. I have not had time yet, but would appreciate any feed back from you concerning them and I will post it to the lineage if it is in fact John Adams Beaty's line. Hope all is well with you. My wife has received a new surgery date for her knee replacement. August 17th, I hope it works out this time, she needs to get out of bed. Later, Armond Is anyone researching this lineage? I ran into some info on brothers Horace W. and James Robert Beaty in WV and believe they are the sons of John Owen? Beaty who married Rebecca Pomeroy but he is not listed on BP2000 as a son of John and Rebecca Pomeroy. Has research been done on his children. If anyone is interested I will post it. Donna L-3 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1850Warren co., VA 69th Dist. pg. 31 Lovinia Beatty 57 VA Nancy 40 VA John O. 30 VA Asemith 24 (f) VA Robert 19 farmer VA William Williams 15 VA XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1860 Warren Co., VA (L-34) Front Royal P.O. Page 1003 Image 61 436-385 Jno. O. Beaty 40 m Farmer 0-2600 VA Rebecca 29 f VA James R. 5 m VA Sarah V. 3 f VA Ann S. 2 f VA xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1870 Warren Co., VA. (L-34) 2nd Twp. Page 436 Image 78 152-144 Jno. O. Beaty 48 mw Farmer 2500-1500 VA Rebecca 39 fw Keeping house VA Jas. R. 15 mw Farm Laborer VA Sarah V. 13 fw at home VA Susan A. 11 fw at home VA Marthy L. 9 fw at home VA Mary A. 7 fw at home VA Horace W. 4 mw at home VA Nancy J. 1 fw at home VA ?Poe Winterbow 26 m VA xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1880 U.S. Census Name: John O. Beaty Age: 60 Estimated birth year: <1820> Birthplace: Virginia Occupation: Farmer Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: South River, Warren, Virginia Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: Rebecca Beaty Father's birthplace: VA Mother's birthplace: VA John O. (record reads "O"...index incorrect), Farmer 60 Rebecca 48 James R. 25 distiller Ann S. 22 Martha 20 Agnes M. 17 Horace W. 14 Nancy J. 11 ______________________________________________________ A bit more on Ann Susan Beaty Lawson. (proof she is a sister) "Mrs. Raymond Rudacile, daughter of Mrs. Ann Beaty Lawson, sister of J. R. and Horace Beaty, who lives in Tazewell," posted from 8/15/1955 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.glenmanorvineyards.com/estate.html The Estate History Our ancestors arrived in this area in 1787 when this and some 14,000 surrounding acres, known then as Gooney Manor Leeds, was included in the vast 5 million acre land grant owned by Lord Fairfax of England. In 1812, Lord Fairfax's heirs sold Gooney Manor Leeds to James and Chief Justice John Marshall. The Marshall family sold about 8,000 acres to William Woodward in 1837 and in 1901 our great-grandfather purchased a small part of the Woodward tract. The estate comprises 212 acres of pastures and forests, and currently 14.5 acres of vineyards. It is surrounded by neighboring farms and mountain forests and to the east we share a common border with Shenandoah National Park. Our farm is recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Century Farm for being owned and farmed by four generations of our family for over 100 years. Stephen Clifton Lawson and his wife, Annie Susan Beaty bought this property in 1901. They were the first generation of our family to live on and farm this land. The only structure on the land at that time was a very nice log cabin. The Lawsons lived in this cabin while they built a larger home that is still used by our family today. In addition to the Manor home, the Lawsons also constructed a large German style bank barn and numerous other outbuildings. Most of these structures are still being used today although for different purposes and include a separator house with well porch and spring dairy, a corn house, a garage, a wood house, a meat house, a light house for generating electrical power, a vinegar house, an ice house, a blacksmith shop, a hen house, 2 brooder houses, a turkey house and other structures for maintaining livestock. This is a mountain farm and although the Lawsons grew both wheat and corn in the lower more fertile fields, much of the farm which is steeply sloped and with less fertile soils, was first planted to apple and peach orchards. It is high on these mountain slopes above where once orchards flourished that we now grow our wine. In addition to selling wheat, corn, apples and peaches, the Lawsons sold cream, butter and eggs. Everything else raised or grown on the farm was for their family's consumption. The Lawsons had one child, Ruth Ardelia, who married Raymond Hodder Rudacille. They were the second generation of our family to work and live on this land. Ruth gave birth to two children in the Manor home, a son Stuart Lawson and a daughter Anna Rae. Upon the deaths of Ruth and Raymond, the farm passed to their two children. Anna Rae married Alpheus Lee White and the portion of the farm that Anna Rae inherited is where the vineyards and winery are now established. The Whites have three sons and together own the winery business. It is managed and operated by their youngest son, Jeffrey Raymond, who developed an interest in and an appreciation for fine wines while working for a nearby Virginia winery. He established our original vineyards in 1995 and envisioned what is today Glen Manor Vineyards. 1910 United States Federal Census about Stephen C Lauson Name: Stephen C Lauson [Stephen C Lawson] Age in 1910: 49 Estimated birth year: abt 1861 Birthplace: Virginia Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Virginia Mother's Name: Eliza Mother's Birth Place: Virginia Spouse's name: Annie Home in 1910: South River, Warren, Virginia Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Stephen C Lauson 49 head mar 10 ys VA VA VA farm Annie Lauson 49 wife 1 ch 1 ch mar once for 10 ys VA VA VA Ruth Lauson 8 dau VA VA VA Eliza Lauson 86 mother widowed 7 ch 6 lvg VA VA VA Maude Ramey 23 adopted dau single VA VA VA _____________________________________________________ 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 . _______________________________________________________ Not certain why I am having such a problem today. What is the maximum size? When I send them to BP2000 they add 3 KB. Is 10KB the maximum size? Donna L-3 Raleigh Register, Beckley, Raleigh co., WV July 12, 1960 Beatys Return Home After Visiting Here Dr. and Mrs. John O. Beaty have retturned to their Barboursville. 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. _______________________________________________________ Raleigh Register, Beckley, Raleigh co., WV 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 L-3 ________________________________________________________ Raleigh Register, Beckley, Raleigh co., WV 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 L-3 ___________________________________________________________ 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.