Does anyone recognize this man? >From "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography" by Thomas McAdory Owen, LLD, Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1921 Page 119 BEATTY, WILLIAM HENRY, physician, was born at Richmond Hill, Rowan County, NC, in 1824, and died in Birmingham, in 1898; son of William Gibbs and Eliza (Pearson) Beatty, of North Carolina. Dr. Beatty was educated at Bingham school, later attended the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill; graduated from the New York medical College and the University of Pennsylvania. He began the practice of medicine in North Carolina, removed to Alabama in 1858; served as a surgeon with Gen. Chalmers, in Mississippi, was taken prisoner and paroled at Memphis. After the war he removed to Mobile, practiced in this city for ten years, and moved to Birmingham. Married: to Rebecca, daughter of Alexander and Frances Eleanor (Shipman) Troy, the former a soldier of the American Revolution, and granddaughter of Michael and Rachel (Potts) Troy, the former a native of Ireland, who emigrated to America, settled in Pennsylvania and removed to Salisbury, Rowan County, N. C. Children: 1. William Gibbs, physician, student at the University of Alabama, 1864-65; M. D., Mobile; m. Mary Alice Cotton, of Macon, Miss.; d. Sept., 1889; 2. Fanny Troy, m. Dr. Sid Smith; 3. I. Croom, m. Marianna Dubutye; 4. Lizzie Pearson, m. P. M. Morris, of Texarkana; 5. Rachel London, member of All Saints sisterhood of Baltimore; 6. Douglas P., engineer, m. Rebecca Calhoun, of Carbonville; 7. Troy, Episcopal clergyman of Athens, Ga., graduate of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., m. Freddie Mayhew, of Sewanee, Tenn.; 8. Nicholas Cobb, d. in infancy; 9. Sarah Croom, d. in infancy; 10. Alexander Troy, d. in infancy. Last residence: Birmingham. [1880 Alabama census 8th Ward Mobile, Mobile, AL page 277c William H. Beaty born 1824, NC, 56, M. D., parents born in NC Rebecca wife 51 NC, NC, NC Rachel L. dau 24 NC, NC, NC Douglas P. son 15 AL, NC, NC Daniel T. son 14 AL, NC, NC Mary Ann dau 12 AL, NC, NC] Laurel Baty, L252