Butts County GaArchives News.....Sheriff Beauchamp is Host May 7, 1897
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Jackson Argus May 7, 1897
And the Members of the 13th Georgia Regiment are Guests

Sheriff Jim Beauchamp, one of the best men and one of the best sheriffs any 
county ever had, gave a birthday dinner last Saturday at his home on Third 
street complimentary to the members of the 18th Ga., regiment.

There are several members of this noted regiment around Jackson and they have 
enacted an unwritten law plan that on each birthday they are to give a special 
dinner to which every member of that regiment is invited.   Sheriff Beauchamp 
was a member of the gallant 30th, but he has been included in the compact 
between the members of the 18th to give a birthday dinner, and on this occasion 
he came forward and opened his heart and home to his old comrades.  Besides a 
number of relatives there were present.  Messrs. G. W. Moore, T. J. Folds, P. 
M. B. Wells, J. H. Thurston, John O’Rear and Dr. Ellis and the editor of The 
Argus.   The dinner was a superb aggregation of all that is good and it was 
served in a manner that makes you feel an encouragement to do your level 
best.   That is just what we old soldiers did, too.   This notice is written 
some four days after the dinner was served and it would be tantalizing to the 
writer and to many of his readers to dwell on the menu, item by item, and so we 
leave that for speculation.   We don’t propose to any such a bill of fare and 
thus deliberately bring on an anxious appetite without a more reasonable hope 
of satisfying it than we see in the paste pot on one side and the cyclopedia on 
the other.

After dinner the company gathered around a chery(?) fire - - for the weather 
was chilly - - and snapped stories that may have been old but they were 
delightful.  On this occasion old Memory’s geese were mostly swans and as they 
passed in review each member of the little company surely must have felt 
himself a living monument of God’s amazing mercy and protection.

Sheriff Beauchamp celebrated his 51st birthday.  May he live to enjoy many more 
with his family add his comrades, and on the brow of all may the cares of life 
rest gently!

Jackson Argus – Butts County	
Week of May 7, 1897


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