Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Beall, John W. 1856 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JOHN W. BEALL, a prominent merchant of Luverne, was born in Russell county,
Ala., in 1856. He is a son of Samuel P. and Susan (Lawhorn) Beall, the former of
whom was born in Abbeville district, S. C., in 1826, and the latter in Georgia,
opposite Eufaula, Ala., in 1836. She received a liberal education. Mr. Beall
went with his parents to Muskogee county, Ga., and worked for some years in the
Muskogee gin factory. He married and lived in Georgia until 1855, when he
removed to Russell county, Ala., and there engaged in farming until 1857, when
he removed to Elba, Coffee county, and continued farming until 1866. He then
removed to Crenshaw county, where he followed merchandising until 1874, when he
returned to Elba, and there followed merchandising until his death, in 1882. He
was an enterprising and successful merchant and business man, always working for
the good of the community, and his party. He was a Mason from the time he was
twenty-two years old, and a prominent Baptist for many years. His father was
born in 1788, and removed from Abbeville district, S. C., to Muskogee county,
Ga., after-ward coming with his son to Alabama, where he died, aged
ninety-three. His wife died when she was about eighty years old. Mr. Samuel P.
Beall did some light service during the last two years of the late war. He was
not himself subject to field duty, but had three brothers who performed active
service in the field, viz.: Joshua, who was a private soldier in the Fifty-third
Alabama mounted infantry through all the war in the Virginia army, and now
resides in Bullock, Crenshaw county; William W., served in the army until his
death, in 1862; George P., served all through the war in the army of Virginia,
was then a merchant in New Orleans for some years, and is now deceased. Mrs.
Beall, who is still living at Elba, had four brothers in the Virginia army. Her
father and mother died in Georgia, where they reared a large family. John W.
Beall is the eldest of a family of four sons and eight daughters, the others
being Mary, wife of J. J. Hammond, of Elba; Sallie; Emma. wife of J. M. Beard,
of Brantley; Laura, wife of L. D. Ogletree, of Troy; Ella, wife of Ham Tatum, of
Troy; James H., Duke, Minnie, and three others who died young. John W. was
reared principally at Elba and Bullock, and graduated from Moore's commercial
college at Atlanta, Ga. In 1878, he engaged in business with his father, under
the firm name of S. P. Beall & Son, which firm prospered until the death of the
father, when the subject carried on the business alone with success at Elba,
until 1889, when he removed to Luverne. Here he has since been recognized as one
of the leading merchants of the place, transacting a business of about $75,000
per year. He is also the owner of 1,600 acres of fine timbered and farming lands
in Coffee county. His father started in 1866, with $2,500, and in 1874, lost
$4,500 by fire at Bullock, and a few years later lost $9,500 by fire at Elba.
Mr. Beall is a thorough-going business man, and is otherwise well adapted to his
calling. In 1880, he married Mary, daughter of Angus Vaughan, whose sketch
appears elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Beall was born and educated at Elba, and
has five children living. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
south. Mr. Beall is a member of the Luverne lodge, No. 488, F. & A. M., and was
once W. M. of Elba lodge, No. 170. He is a member of Thomas M. Bragg chapter,
No. 99, R. A. M., at Rutledge, and he is P. V. C. C. of Luverne lodge, No. 84,
K. of P. Mr. Beall's associations indicate the standing in society which he
maintains, showing that he is one of the most popular and highly respected
citizens of Crenshaw county.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 769-770
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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