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This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Catherine Eddings Storey < storey1@bellsouth.net > ============================================================================= January 2004 Beason Grove Cemetery Beason Mill, Cleburne Co., Alabama Surveyed by: Catherine Eddings Storey July, 2003 Take I-20 E to Heflin Exit #199. Turn right on State RD 9S. Turn Left on Co Rd 19. Lt on CR 103. The cemetery is on the left across from Beason Grove Baptist Church. This is a small, well kept family cemetery. There are some unmarked graves and some marked only by rocks. All persons buried here are members of the Beason family or are related in some manner. The oldest marked grave is that of R. J. Beason (Richard Jeremiah) DOD 9-6-1866. The church and cemetery are on land originally owned and donated by Richard D. Beason, founder of Beason Mill, who migrated from North Carolina to Tennessee then to Georgia before moving to this area of Alabama with his family in the 1840's. Information in parenthesis ( ) added by Catherine Eddings Storey. As always, check sources for accuracy. Information NOT in parenthesis is on the tombstone. Name Birth Date Date of Death Other Information Beason, Charlie 11-29-1937 02-24-1997 (Son of William Andrew Beason and Pearl Bunn Beason) Beason, Grady O’Neal 05-21-1931 09-06-1997 Beason, Jimmy 12-05-1920 02-15-1962 (James C. Beason, son of Escus and Amanda McKleroy Beason) Beason, Mandie P. 11-??-1892 08-19-1967 (Amanda P. McKleroy wife of Escus Beason, married 12-12-1912, daughter of John B. McKelroy and Lucinda Caroline Brown McKleroy) Beason, Escus P. 06-12-1890 11-16-1946 (Son of Richard D. Beason, II and Sarah Riddle) Two small stones Unmarked, next to Lonie Turner Beason. (One is presumably daughter Anna Beason) Beason, Lonie 11-30-1867 1945? (Very hard to read) (Salona E. Turner, wife of William Linzie Beason, daughter of Littleberry and Lydia A. Beason; Tennison Turner, cousin of Susan Thrower Beason, Absolom Thrower, and George W. Thrower) Beason, William Linzie 02-18-1859 09-12-1934 (Son of Richard Jeremiah and Sarah Davis Beason) Williams, Nancy J. 10-22-1832 10-22-1917 Wife of J. N. Williams (Nancy Jane Henderson, wife of James Williams) Williams, J. N. 02-10-1835 03-08-1927 (James N. and Nancy Jane Williams were the parents of Jane Williams, wife of Noah Thomas Beason) Beason, David Aaron 1963 1971 Beason, Cecil Aaron 1940 1994 (Son of William Andrew and Pearl Bunn Beason) Beason, Mae Queen 1910 1986 Beason, Dewey Daniel 1917 (10-) 1979 WWII. (Son of William Frank and Mary Ann Teague Beason) Beason, Mary T. 10-03-1892 05-03-1975 (Mary Ann Teague wife of William Frank Beason, daughter of James and Nancy E. Teague) Beason, W. F. 11-24-1887 05-28-1967. (William Frank Beason son of William Linzie and Lonie Turner Beason) Beason, Pearl N. 05-29-1913 02-28-1991 Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Bunn (Wife of William Andrew Beason) Beason, W. A. 08-05-1910 01-18-1964 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Beason ( William Andrew Beason, son of William Frank and Mary Ann Teague) Beason) Beason, Lessie J. 01-16-1913 01-30-1913 (Daughter of W. A. and Mary Ann Teague Beason) Beason, Rezin No dates, Infant son of Linzie and Lonie Beason. (Son of William Linzie and Lonie Turner Beason) Beason, Nancy 05-04-1833 11-08-1897 (Nancy Ghent, second wife of Curtis Linzie Beason, daughter of Daniel and Nancy Wilson Ghent) Beason, Curtis L. 11-16-1828 11-04-1897 Footstone: 1st SGT. Co G 58th Alabama Infantry CSA. (Curtis Linzie Beason, son of Richard D. Beeson/Beason) and Frances M. Key Beeson/Beason; Two unmarked stones at foot of grave of Curtis Beason, one may be Sarah C. Moore Beason, first wife of Curtis L. Beason, born about 1833 in Ga., daughter of Enoch and Kiziah Moore) Beason, S. A. 1837 1912 (Sara Ann Davis, wife of Richard Jeremiah Beason) Beason, R. J. 02-29-1832 09-06-1866 Footstone: PVT Co. D 51st Alabama CSA (Richard Jeremiah Beason, son of Richard D. Beeson/Beason) Beeson, Robert L. 10-24-1880 07-20-1891 Birth date hard to read (Robert Lee Beeson/Beason, son of Noah P. and Jane Camp Beason) Beeson, Olander 02-09-1871 02-28-1871 (Olander W. Beeson/Beason, son of Noah P. and Jane Camp Beason) Beeson, Richard H. 10-06-1832 02-02-1867 (Richard Henry Beason, son of Noah P. and Jane Camp Beason) Beeson, Richard D. 02-03-1791 06-13-1872 (Richard Dunn Beeson/Beason, son of Captain Edward Beeson and Elizabeth Ann Pennington, founder of Beason Mill) Beeson, Frances M. 03-22-1790 08-18-1873 Beloved Parents, Forever “til we meet again “ (Frances M. Key, wife of Richard D. Beeson/Beason) 18-1811, daughter of Martin Rice Key and Sarah Hogg Key) Beason, Noah P. 08-11-1833 12-08-1920 Footstone: Pvt Co A 56th Alabama CSA (Noah Pennington Beason, son of Richard D. and Frances Key Beeson/Beason) Beason, Jane B. 08-11-1838 04-13-1916 (Jane B. Camp, wife of Noah Beason, married 12-20-1857, daughter of William P. and Elizabeth Camp) Beason, Uriah M. (04-24) 1820 1875 Footstone: Pvt Co D 3rd Alabama CSA (Son of Richard D. and Frances Key Beeson/Beason) Beason, Emaline 1821 1899 (Mary Emaline Cooper wife of Uriah Beason, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Cooper) Beason, W. H. 1882 1883 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Beason (William Henry Beason, son of Clay W. and Cordelia Williams Beason) Beason, Edward 1874 1875 Son of C. W. Beason (Son of Clay W. and Cordelia Williams Beason) Beason, Cordelia D. 10-15-1855 01-12-1883 (Cordelia D. Williams, wife of Clay W. Beason, daughter of James N. and Nancy Jane Henderson Williams; Cordelia's sister Jane was married to her husband's cousin Noah Thomas Beason) Beason, Clay W. 10-19-1852 06-28-1892 (Son of Uriah M. and Emaline Cooper Beason) Beason, Eliza Clay 05-26-1896 08-18-1900 (Daughter of Edward W. Beason, and Susan Lydia Thrower Beason) Beason, Melvin 09-16-1911 10-01-1911 (Son of Edward W. and Susan Thrower Beason) Beason, Edward W. 01-26-1878 10-22-1938 (Son of Clay W. and Cordelia Williams Beason) Beason, Susie L. 08-03-1875 03-31-1964 (Susan Lydia Thrower, wife of Edward W. Beason, daughter of John Thomas Thrower and Sithy Mathias) Tennison Thrower. Sithy Tennison Thrower was the sister of Lydia Tennison Turner Beason, and thus the aunt of Lonie Turner Beason) Morrison, Lola E. 05-31-1891 07-22-1968 (Wife of Cleveland Morrison) Morrison, Cleveland 01-18-1893 02-02-1990 (Son of Joseph B. Morrison and Eliza Ella Beason Morrison) Morrison, Joseph B. 05-09-1859 09-14-1934 (Son of Wesley Alan Morrison and Nancy Pierce Morrison) Morrison, Eliza Ella 11-05-1867 11-15-1927 (Wife of Joseph B. Morrison, daughter of Uriah M. and Emaline Cooper Beason) Morrison, C. Milton 1924 1949 (Cleveland Milton Morrison son of Cleveland and Lola E. Morrison) Morrison, William 06-06-1886 08-14-1898 (Son of Joseph B. and Eliza Ella Beason Morrison) Thrower, Lonnie B. 04-29-1877 10-23-1957 (Lonnie Beason, wife of Absolom Thrower, married 8-26-1894, daughter of Clay W. and Cordelia Williams Beason) Thrower, Ab B. * 12-11-1873 11-28-1967 (Absolom "Ab" Thrower, son of John Thomas and Sithy Mathias Tennison Thrower, cousin of Lonie Turner Beason, brother of Susan Thrower Beason, and George W. Thrower. His tombstone has Ab. B. but his granddaughter Sara Thrower Eddings states he had no middle name. In the 1930 Cleburne Co. Federal Census, he is listed as William A. Thrower) Beason, E. N. “ Doc “ 12-04-1901 03-30-1962 (Son of Richard Thomas and Julia Pesnell Beason) Beason, Rose Etta 11-13-1901 04-10-1969 (Wife of E. N. Beason) Beason, R. T. ** 07-01-1864 01-02-1916 (Richard Thomas Beason, son of Uriah and Emaline Cooper Beason) Beason, Julia 07-28-1863 07-08-1932 (Julia Pesnell, wife of Richard Thomas Beason, daughter of Lewis and Sarah Ann Pesnell. Julia's sister Ellen was married to her husband's brother, Jeremiah V. Beason, and her sister Louisa Elizabeth Ann was married to her husband's cousin, Daniel Ghent Beason, son of Curtis Linzie Beason) Beason, Gordia Delia 05-21-1896 01-14-1909 Daughter of R. T. and Julia Beason Beason, Lola G. *** 1882 1942 (Daughter of Clay and Cordelia Williams Beason, mother of Sylvan Beason) Thrower. Dewey 11-13-1902 12-07-1904 Son of AB Thrower (Son of Absolom and Lonnie Beason Thrower) Beason, Rabon Rudolph 12-20-1922 07-08-1924 Thrower, Lena 08-16-1897 12-11-1899 Daughter of G. W. and S. I. E. Thrower (Daughter of George Washington and Sarah Izora Emmaline Beason Thrower) Thrower, Therall 05-03-1913 06-07-1916 Son of G. W. and S. I. E. Thrower Thrower, Infant No Dates; Infant son of G. W. and S. I. E. Thrower Beason, Lela 05-19-1886 01-01-1910 Wife of Lewis Beason (First wife of Lewis Beason) Beason, L. T. 12-04-1875 04-09-1919 (Linzie T. Beason, son of Noah Pennington Beason, and Jane Camp Beason) Reaves, Junior Ray 06-14-1928 No date (Died 7-5-2002; Son of Lee C. and Rena Reaves) Reaves, Dorothy Collins 11-16-1930 No date (Wife of Ray Reaves) Reaves, Virginia W. 06-24-1938 No date Reaves, Tommy E., Rev. 09-25-1924 No date (Son of Lee C. and Rena Reaves) Reaves, Eunice B. 02-11-1924 07-29-1970 Reaves, Lee 09-10-1897 02-10-1971 (Lee Columbus Reaves, son of William Columbus Reaves and Cora Lee Reaves) Reaves, Rena 02-01-1903 12-05-1985 (Emily Irene Whitley, wife of Lee Columbus Reaves, daughter of James and Nancy Williams Whitley) Jones, William Claude 1909 1975 (Second husband of Lillie Mae Thrower Giles) Jones, Lillie Mae Thrower 1909 1982 (Lillie Mae Thrower, first husband was Comer Giles, second husband was William Claude Jones, daughter of Absolom and Lonnie Beason Thrower) Reaves, Roger D. 09-12-1943 09-06-1966 Reaves, Era Odell 10-25-1944 No date Reaves, Billy Shane 01-09-1971 No date Reaves, Ray 08-13-1948 No date Brooks, John H. 11-13-1908 01-20-1972 Brooks, Bertye M. 04-30-1912 No date When I wake up, Asleep no more Allen, James Shoney 06-27-1920 09-13-2002 Gone but not forgotten. Footstone: SGT USArmy Airforce WWII Allen, Claudine 04-01-1930 05-01-1991 Watson, Frank 02-12-1930 06-18-2001 (There is a picture on this headstone) Watson, Cora 08-06-1928 05-10-1980 Together Forever Thomason, Curtis C. 12-05-1919 11-12-2002 Thomason, Ruth V. 05-25-1927 01-11-1990 Hunt, Betty J. 09-01-1993 01-10-1997 Reaves, Dewey C. 01-05-1935 02-06-1988 (Son of Lee Columbus and Rena Reaves) Sprayberry, Jimmy Wayne 06-27-1952 No date Sprayberry, Barbara Jean 01-02-1955 No date In loving memory together forever Parrish, W. Earnest 09-24-1926 05-02-1996 Parrish, Mytrice D. 04-04-1934 No date Watts, Bivin 04-02-1934 11-08-2000 Loving husband and Dad, gone but always in our hearts Sprayberry, Tommy Randall 08-19-1960 08-14-1986 Gone but not forgotten McFeron, Iva Sue 05-19-1931 No date McFeron, Clarence B. 04-21-1922 08-24-1986 Footstone: CM SGT. USAF WW II Korea and Viet Nam Prevatt, Mary Helen Smith 02-19-1937 10-17-1983 (Daughter of Oscar K. and Essie O. Whitley Smith) Smith, Oscar K. 03-20-1905 04-27-1983 Smith, Essie O. 11-16-1912 07-03-1993 (Essie O. Whitley, wife of Oscar Smith, daughter of William and Rebecca E. Beason Whitley) Smith, Louis B. (Beason) 09-25-1930 08-22-1987 (Son of Oscar K. and Essie Whitley Smith) Smith, John M. 06-23-1937 12-06-1998 (Son of Oscar and Essie Whitley Smith) Smith, Dorothy H. 10-04-1939 06-18-2003 In Gods Care (Wife of John M. Smith) Bass, Jonathan Todd 01-20-1991 06-29-1998 Son of John and Pamela Bass Fresh grave, no marker. Fowler, Lillian M. 11-01-1917 06-28-1987 (Wife of John W. Fowler, daughter of Escus P. and Amanda McKleroy Beason) Fowler, John W. 08-08-1924 No date Taylor, Leila M. 05-07-1927 05-18-1980 (Leila Mae Beason, wife of D. C. Taylor, daughter of William Frank and Mary Ann Teague Beason) Taylor, D. C. 07-14-1924 07-11-1988 Footstone: Cox. USN WWII. (Son of William A. and Annie J. Taylor) Taylor, Jimmy Ray 06-01-1959 12-03-1976 Taylor, Jerry Robert 07-20-1978 07-22-1978 Infant son of Roger and Jane Taylor, Jonathan Keith 04-13-1977 04-13-1977 Infant son of Roger and Jane Woodward, Bessie 04-06-1914 08-29-1984 (Bessie Whitley, wife of S. Otto Woodward, daughter of William K. and Rebecca E. Beason Whitley) Aragon, Elizabeth " Ann " 12-17-1931 12-23-2002 Footstone Only: Loving Mother and Daughter Eight graves marked with stones only, no visible writing. East, Toby No dates (Son of Henry and Sarah Beason East) East, Henry (W) 01-08-1875 06-10-1942 (Son of Benjamin and Susan J. East) East, Sarah C. 08-05-1870 12-08-1936 (Sarah Cooper Beason, wife of Henry East, daughter of Uriah M. and Emmaline Cooper Beason) Gibson, Glenn W. (03-11) 1915 (8-) 1970 Gibson, Dorothy 1917 1997 Married 2-16-1936 (Wife of Glenn Gibson) Camp, Elner A. 05-29-1817 05-29-1882 (Elner A. Casey wife of John L. Camp, mother of Jane Camp Beason) Camp, John L. 10-18-1812 08-20-1883 (Father of Jane Camp Beason) Pullen, Mary Nell 02-08-1936 04-03-1937 Overton, Abijah J. 07-10-1869 11-13-1956 (Husband of Lou Emma Beason Overton) Overton, Lou Emma 01-25-1874 02-03-1957 (Lou Emma Beason, wife of Abijah Overton, daughter of Noah P. and Jane Camp Beason) Kiker, Margaret Overton 12-10-1902 02-10-1998 Her price is beyond rubies (Wife of Claude Kiker, daughter of Abijah and Lou Emma Beason Overton) Kiker, Claude B. 11-16-1896 06-03-1966 Footstone: AL SSC Tank Corps WWI. Henry, Christine 09-05-1934 No date Henry, Vernon 03-04-1935 04-12-1937 Precious Lord Take My Hand " Smith, Maybelle 11-04-1898 02-10-1953 (Maybelle Overton, wife of George W. Smith, daughter of Abijah and Lou Emma Beason Overton) Smith, George W. 12-02-1889 03-17-1962 Smith, Infant No dates: Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. George Smith Teague, James William Monroe 10-30-1867 02-14-1956 (Father of Mary Ann Teague Beason) Mulkey, Nancy Eliz. 10-31-1872 04-10-1905 (Nancy Elizabeth Mulkey Teague, first wife of James Teague, mother of Mary Ann Teague Beason) Williamson, Nancy Eliz. 01-23-1880 04-23-1943 Faithful wives and loving mothers (This inscription is on both Nancy Mulkey Teague and Nancy Williamson Teague's tombstones) (Second wife of James Teague, step-mother of Mary Ann Teague Beason) Teague, Infant Brother (No dates) Teague, Dewey Hobson 07-08-1901 03-24-1974 (Son of James and Nancy Mulkey Teague) Whitley, Roxie Cummings 02-08-1953 08-12-1983 Together Forever " (Roxie Flora Cummings, wife of Earnest J. Whitley, married 04-19-1968) Whitley, Earnest Jackson 07-10-1949 01-21-1975 (Son of Wilmer and Callie Sprayberry Whitley) Whitley, Callie S. 09-04-1918 11-04-2000 (Callie Myrtle Sprayberry, wife of Wilmer Whitley, daughter of William Tillman and Mary Jane Watts Sprayberry) Whitley, Wilmer 04-19-1922 09-08-1996 Footstone: Pvt. USA WW II. (Son of Jackson F. and Jeannie Whitley) McAbee, George Edward 05-14-1983 05-14-1983 Jeffers, Ruby S. 1933 1981 Grave at foot of Ruby Jeffers, unmarked, covered with gravel. Henry, Mae Watkins 07-12-1894 04-21-1982 Henry, Georgia Ann 06-12-1896 07-22-1977 Henry, Charles 08-05-1940 No date Kitchens, William Porter 1922 2000 (This is only a funeral home marker) (Son of McCrary and Annie Kitchens) Teague, Clara Mae No Dates; Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Teague Unmarked grave. Boman, J. J. 12-01-1952 09-29-1930 He has gone to the mansions of rest (John J. Boman, father of Minnie C. Boman Beason) Boman, Altha E. 02-28-1866 03-08-1931 A tender and faithful friend (Wife of John Boman, mother of Minnie Boman Beason) Beason, L. T. 12-04-1875 04-09-1919 May he rest in peace (Linzie Tilden Beason, husband of Minnie C. Boman, son of Noah P. and Jane Camp Beason) Footstone: marked only L. B. Beason, Leila 05-19-1886 01-01-1910 Wife of Louis; How great the loss when one so loved is taken (First wife of Louis Beason. Louis is buried in Butler, Ga) Hudson, Irene 04-30-1907 04-16-1913 We can safely leave our darling in thy trust (Daughter of George C. and Fannie Leola Beason Hudson) Hudson, George C. 09-30-1887 01-01-1930 Gone but not forgotten (George Clinton Hudson, husband of Fannie Leola Beason) * Three children of John Thomas and Sithy Tennison Thrower married into the family of Clay and Cordelia Beason. Absolom Thrower married Lonnie Beason 8-26-1894, his sister Susie married Lonnie's brother, Edward W. Beason 2-24-1895, and Ab and Susie's brother George W. Thrower married Lonnie's sister Sarah Izora Emaline Beason. *** Lola G. Beason was raped at the age of 19 when she was going to the well to get water. That resulted in the birth of her son Sylvan. It was never discovered who his father was. She never recovered from the trauma, and never married. She lived most of her life with various relatives including her sister Lonnie Thrower.