Biographical Sketch of Joel Beezley, Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Joel Beezley is a son of Josiah and Charlotte (Napier) Beezley, the
former born in Virginia, and the latter in South Carolina.  The parents
were married in Virginia and soon after moved to East Tennessee, settl-
ing in Cole County, MO., in 1829.  In 1832 they located in Crawford 
County, where they spent the remainder of their lives.  Josiah Beezley
was a farmer and stock raiser, and lived to be about sixty-eight years
of age; his wife died at the age of sixty-one.  Joel Beezley was born
in Crawford County in 1832, in which county he was reared to the pur-
suit of farming, receiving but a common school education.  Between the
ages of eighteen and twenty-five he spent the greater part of the in
driving an ox team to and from St. Louis.  When the "bit act" was pass-
ed he entered 313 acres, and in 1855 married Mary J. Morrison, daughter
of William Morrison.  Mrs. Beezley died in 1862, leaving four children,
viz.: Anderson V., Amanda E., Martha I. and William C.  Mr. Beezley
next married Sarah E. Coppedge, and to their union were born six child-
ren:  Christopher C., Mary M., Missouri M., Clara D., Joel A., and an 
infant.  Deprived of his wife by death, in 1873, the following year Mr.
Beezley married Mary A. Towell, who became the mother of six children,
viz.: Ewel E., Cora E., Nora E., Rufus G., George T. and Josie P.  Mr.
Beezley owns 509 acres of land, and has been very successful in his 
chosen occupation; he is one of the most enterprising farmers and high-
ly respected citizens of Crawford County, of which county he has been
a resident all his life.  He is a Republican in politics, and in 
religion affiliates with the Baptist Church, as does also his wife.

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