Etowah County AlArchives Biographies.....Beeson, W. B. October 2 1829 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   W. B. BEESON, a farmer of Keener, Etowah county, Ala., was born in Jackson
county, Ala., October 2d, 1829. The Beeson family came from England to North
Carolina before the Revolutionary war. W. B. Beeson's father was in the war of
1812, and after the war settled in Blount county, Ala. He was twice married, and
brought up a family of eight children by the first wife, and four by the second.
He was a representative man of his day, a magistrate, and a democrat in his
politics. W. B. Beeson had no educational advantages in early life, his parents
dying when he was quite young, but after he was twenty years of age earned the
money with which to educate himself. He was married December 2d, 1857, to Mary
Sibert; daughter of a wealthy farmer, and one of the first settlers of the
state, and had eleven children, as follows: David M., deceased, a lawyer and
mayor of Gadsden; Julia E., wife of S. A. Conger; Naomi J., wife of Dr. H. P.
McWhorter; John N., president of the Marengo Female college; Jasper L., student
at Johns Hopkins university, who will be entitled to the degree of Ph.D. in a
few months; Fannie C., teacher; Martha A., a student of her brother's school at
Demopolis, Ala.; William J., student of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical
college, Auburn, Elmore county; Elenor C., student at her brother's school at
Demopolis; Malcolm A., at home; Mary Summers, deceased. Mr. Beeson went into the
Confederate service as a first lieutenant, and was promoted to captain and
served from December, 1861, to the surrender. He fought at Shiloh, Port Hudson,
and was wounded there in the left arm and captured and sent to Johnson's Island.
After his exchange he took part in all the fighting around Atlanta; was at the
battles of Kinston and Bentonville, and surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. He has
farmed since the war, but never sought office until he was brought out by the
alliance party for congress in 1892. He is a master Mason, and is a steward in
the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He has a farm of 360 acres. He has given
much attention to fine stock, and has a herd of beautiful Jerseys. He is one of
the most prominent farmers of the state, and was very prominent in the alliance
party politics. He lives in Big Wills valley, about fourteen miles north of
Gadsden, where he has a typical southern home.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1013
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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