Biography: David Andrews Beeks of Monroe County, Mississippi Source: Rowland, Dunbar. The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, 1908. Nashville, Tenn.: Press of the Brandon Printing Company, 1908. Page 1068. Submitted for inclusion in the USGenweb Project Archives by Lori Thornton . ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ MONROE COUNTY. DAVID ANDREWS BEEKS, of Quincy, was born March 21, 1845, in Laurens County, S. C., the son of Samuel Beeks and wife, Malinda Eddens (Andrews) Beeks. His paternal grandfather came from Scotland to Virginia just after the Revolutionary war, and in 1800 emigrated to South Carolina; his maternal great-grandfather, David Wright, had settled in the Palmetto State at a much earlier date, and fought in the colonial ranks. Mr. Beeks, who came to Mississippi with his parents when he was four years old, attended such common schools as existed in the rural districts of this State at that time. He left his studies in July, 1861, to join the Confederate Army, enlisted first in Company I, Fourteenth Mississippi Regiment, and was honorably discharged in September; in December, 1861, again enrolled for sixty days and at the expiration of that time re- enlisted in the Sixteenth Confederate Cavalry (Armistead's Regiment) and served till the surrender. Mr. Beeks has always been a farmer. He was Justice of the Peace in 1872-74, Supervisor 1887-89, and was elected to the State Legislature in 1905 to fill an unexpired term and was again elected November 5, 1907. He was a member of the Peoples' Party from 1892 till that party dissolved in 1900; is now a Democrat, a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, of the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias, the Grange, Alliance and Farmers' Union. Mr. Beeks was twice married, first to Pernecie Rebecca Wade, daughter of Burnell R. and Martha S. Wade, and second, October 15, 1895, to Mrs. Elizabeth Ann (Young) Sims, daughter of Arthur and Mary F. Young. By his first marriage he had six children: Mrs. Malinda I. (Beeks) Rye, of Rye; Mrs. Zula E. (Beeks) Puckett, of Gattman; Mrs. Mattie A. (Beeks) Joudon, of Quincy; Burnell E. Beeks, of Huntsville, Ala., and Mrs. Davie Anna (Beeks) Robinson, of Huntsville, Ala.