Dear Michael I have a xerox copy of an article about the son of Samuel and Jane Canny Beckley son Samuel Herbert Beckley ..Vinton County Pioneer #364 from the Vinton County Newspaper dated March 1965. It has a picture of Herbert in it. Here is the article: March 18, 1965 "Herbert Beckley, Bolen Mills, is Still Active as Farmer, Carpenter in Knox Township" (This is the 364th in the Democratic Enquirer's series about Vinton County's living pioneers.. our senior citizens who have contributed to our history and heritage.) "I've lived on the same farm in Knox Township my entire life," says Samuel Herbert Beckley, Albany Route 1 now in his 81st year. Mr. Beckley lives in a modern farm home on the side of a big hill overlooking Bolen's Mill, and lovely Racooon Valley is on two sides of his 120 acre farm. The rich bottom land along Racoon Creek has a high yield in crops about 100 bushel of corn to the acre and good hay. The farm has been in the Beckley family for about a century and Herbert has built all of the buildings now standing on the farm, includig the farm home, since the original farm home was burned down in 1948. Mr. Beckley was born March 6, 1885, one of five children of Samuel and Jane Canny Beckley. His father was a farmer and a Civil War veteran who was in ill health when he returned from the war, and died just about 6 months after Herbert's birth. Herbert attended Seldon Seen School in Knox township and went one month to Flat Run school. His teachers included Addie Mace Canny (his first) Euclid James of Zaleski, Billy Cooley, father of Luster M. Cooley and Willie Gibbs. He used to walk about a mile each way to school and return frequently going "over the hill" behind the Beckley farm house as it was the shortest and floodfree way. His school mates included Henry Staneart, "Whiz" Robbins and his sisters; Frank and Gabriel Bobo and George Greathouse. Herbert and his two brothers especially Willy Beckley started to work early helping their widowed mother operate the family farm. His father had cleared the farm acreage of brush and built the farm and Herbert and his son Kenneth have striven constantly to improve the farm since. Herbert Beckley married a former Seldon Seen school teacher Miss Minnie Andrews, daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Andrews, August 25, 1906. Mr and Mrs Beckley had 10 children, two of whom Ruth and Lawrence are deceased. His living children include Opal at home, Frank in Lancaster, Mrs Frances McCall of Lancaster, Gerald of Bremen, Kenneth of Albany Route 1, Bertha Crow of Albany, Mrs Christina Ley of Athens, anmd Bessie at home. Opal works at Athens as does Kenneth who lives across Route 50 from his father and who is engaged in farming with his father. Mrs Beckley died in 1943. Herbert has 20 grandchildren, and ten great grandchildren. His two brothers and two sisters are deceased. Mr. Beckley has been a teamster and a carpenter as well as a farmer and for several years worked for Garry Clark in McArthur as a carpenter. He is now helping his son Kenneth build a new home near Albany. Herbert and Kenneth Beckley have a high yield on their bottomland farm, raising as much as 100 bushels of corn to the acre. They had about 20 head of Angus cattle. They work nightly on the farm frequently using the headlights of their tractors to luminate their work. "I used to husk corn when I was a very little boy and did not have enough strength to do the job properly, but I managed to get the work done," he recalls. Since Racoon Creek floods frequently cutting off the Beckley Farm from the highway via roads, the only way of getting out is by traveling over the big hill behind the farmhouse, but floods are nothing new to the Beckleys. "We know when they're coming and get enough supplies on hand, and "just hole up" and wait them out" Mr. Beckley says. "We can always get out over the hill to Weaver Chapel" he says. The 1963 flood in March was the worst and we've had in our place, for the water got into our barn and grainery up to three feet. We managed to rescue one cow just in time", he states. Mr. Beckley's health is "fine" and he works every day on the farm, which he says is his hobby too, although he enjoys television in the evnings when the day's work is over. He is a cousin of MCArthur attorney, Representative John L. Beckley, and has served Knox Township as trustee and as a clerk, and with his daughter Bessie serces as an election precinct worker in Knox Township. He's also served as a Republican central committeeman. Mr. Beckley is a member of the Weaver Chapel EUB Church and the Albany Grange." I also have his obituary if you would like it. You could email the library in McArthur and ask them to make you a copy of this article with his picture. My picture will not scan well..sorry! I hope this is helpful! Sincerly Randy Sue McKeever >From: "Michael S. Beckley" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [OHVINTON-L] Beckley/Andrews/Foreman pictures? >Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 22:27:58 -0500 > >Samuel Beckley married Almira Jane Canny in Athens County, Ohio in 1868. >They purchased land in Knox Twp of Vinton County, Ohio in around 1870. >Samuel died in 1885 and >is buried at Temple Cemetery in Columbia Twp, Meigs County, Ohio. I'm >trying to find a photograph of Samuel Beckley. > >Sam and Almira Jane's son Samuel Herbert "Herb" Beckley married Mary >Arminda Andrews in Vinton County and resided on that same Knox Twp farm. >Mary Arminda Andrews' >parents had lived at Elk Twp, Vinton County. Her parents were Joseph >Franklin "Frank" Andrews and Emma Frances Foreman, married in 1885. I'm >trying to find a photograph >of Frank and Emma Foreman Andrews. > >Thanks, Mike at [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus