At 12:19 PM 01/30/2000 EST, you wrote: >Below is from The History of Bell County by George Tyler. George talks about" >beats" . Does anyone know more about this? ( I believe that is an 'early' Bell county term for our present day 'Precients). It looks my ggggrandfather Alonzo >Beeman andAbner Kuykendall were on BEAT 1. > >History of Bell Co. by George Tyler page 230. On Sept 22,1863 the >Commissiioners' Court Subdivided the County into 10 commissary beats, for >better suppling the needs of the families of the Soldiers in the Confederate >Army and appointed superintendents in each beat as follows Beat 1-Abner >Kuykendall and Alonzo Beeman > >Vickie > > >==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== >Please Keep Messages To Matters of Bell County Genealogy Or > History Interest! Don't Send Attachments To Postings. > >