Grady-Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Beach, S. M. August 9 1918
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, April 16, 1918
Mr. S. M. Beach Passes To Great Beyond

Mr. S. M. Beach, of Beachton, one of the county's leading citizens passed to 
the great beyond last Friday morning.  This will come as sad news to his 
hundreds of friends throughout the county.  He was a man well liked by everyone 
with whom he came in contact.

The funeral services of this beloved man occurred at the Mitchell Burying 
ground, near Beachton, last Saturday morning at ten o'clock.  The services were 
conducted by Rev. --- and were attended by a large concourse of sorrowing 
relatives and friends.   The Thomasville Times Enterprise carried the following 
notice of his death:

Mr. Stptimus Melvin Beach died this morning at ten o'clock at his home in 
Beachton, after an illness of several weeks.  The end was not unexpected, 
although his condition did not become serious until a few days ago.  

Mr. Beach has been a resident of this county for about thirty years.  He was 
born in London, fifty-two years ago, but moved to Canada when a young men.  He 
was educated in English pharmaceutical universities and began his profession 
work in Canada, where his health failed.  He came to Thomasville and worked in 
the prescription department of the drug store of Dr. R. L. Hicks.  He improved 
rapidly and in a few years after his advent married Miss Fannie Blackshear of a 
prominent and old Thomas County family.  They moved to what was then 
Duncanville and what is now Beachton, named in honor of Mr. Beach.

From his first year in his new home he became a leading citizen in his 
section.  He was post master, Justice of the Peace and ran the largest store 
within ten miles of the town.  Nothing can be said of S. M. Beach that will 
reflect anything but his rugged honesty, his genial disposition and his 
wonderfully trained mind.  As a man he was popular and beloved, as a citizen he 
measured up to the highest standards and as a father and friend he fulfilled 
the highest ideals.

Mr. Beach at one time stated that he was born in the largest city in the world 
and after he reached Beachton determined to die in the smallest.  He passed 
away in his own little town after thirty years of useful life spent therein.  
He is survived by his wife and two children, Mrs. G. T. Clark of Bainbridge and 
Mr. Herbert Beach of Beachton.    

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