Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Dr. Beal

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Dr. Beal, colored, farmer and stock raiser of Richland Township, was 
born near Raleigh, N. C., in 1822. and is a son of Lewis Hinton, who 
was the property of William Hinton. The latter took them to Alabama, 
and there they were sold to John S. Beal, with whom our subject 
remained, after he obtained his freedom, until 1871. He then went to 
Lawrence County, Kas., and the following year came to Crawford County, 
Ark. He soon after homesteaded forty acres of his present farm, which 
now contains 120 acres in the home place and 150 acres of bottom land. 
He is one of the most successful farmers and well-to-do citizens of 
the township, and his property is all the result of his own labor an
d business ability. In 1872 he married Millie Smith, who was reared in 
Alabama and Texas, and died in 1878, leaving two children. In 1880 Mr. 
Beal married Ellen Stowe, who was born in South Carolina, and came to 
this county in 1875. Mr. Beal and wife are members of the African 
Methodist Church. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F., and in 
politics is a Republican, having cast his first presidential vote for 
Gen. Grant.