Perquimans County NcArchives Obituaries.....Beaton, Lillie Tayloe 1933 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net September 1, 2013, 2:16 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 12-01-1933, P. 1 LILLIE TAYLOE BEATON MRS. S.L. BEATON, ONE OF OUR COUNTY’S MOST USEFUL WOMEN, DEAD Mrs. Lillie Tayloe Beaton, one of the most beloved and useful women of this county, died at her old home in Hertford, N.C., Saturday, November 25, after a lingering illness. Mrs. Beaton was the daughter of Captain and Mrs. Langley Tayloe, prominent citizens of North Carolina, and was born September 27, 1863. Moving to Boykins after her marriage to S.L. Beaton of that town, who died several years ago, she had made her home in Boykins continuously until a few years ago when she went to Jacksonville, Florida to live with her daughter, Mrs. R.E. Lewis. Mrs. Beaton, who was a woman of superior mental attainments and many fine qualities, taught in the Boykins schools for 31 consecutive years from 1890 to 1921, beginning her work there in a small two-room school and witnessing during her long and useful service the advance and development of public schools in Virginia from their inadequate and rudimentary stage to the present modern public school system. During her busy life as teacher, she found time to be active in many other spheres of usefulness, being a charter member and officer in the Southampton Teachers’ Association, a teacher of the Ladies Bible Class of the Boykins M.E. Church, and the organizer and leader of the “Rosebuds,” the primary missionary organization of the Methodist Church. She was a consistent communicant of the Boykins M.E. Church and one of its most valuable members. Mrs. Beaton was for many years the Boykins correspondent of the Tidewater News, and a frequent visitor with friends in our town, and the writer has known few if any women whom he considered of more value to her county and home community than she. A brief service was held at the old Tayloe homestead Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock and the body was brought to Boykins where a large assembly of friends gathered for the rites in the Boykins M.E. Church, conducted by her Pastor, Rev. R.L. Haga, assisted by Rev. Oscar Creech of the Ahoskie Baptist Church. Appropriate hymns were sung and burial was made in the family plot in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins. The pallbearers were: Langley, John, Jesse, and Julian Brown Tayloe and Dr. Ayler Holland of Ahoskie; Claude T. and Norman S. Beaton, Dr. J.M. Bland, E.R. Bryant, S.J. Myrick, Prof. Jno. Y. Mason, W.W. White, Jr., R.C. Knight and J.D. Ferguson of Boykins, and S.R. Grizzard of Norfolk. The ladies of Epworth M. E. Bible Class acted as flower bearers. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Richard Beaton of Portsmouth, and Mrs. R.E. Lewis of Jacksonville; one granddaughter, Mildred Lewis; two sisters, Misses Mae and Bessie Tayloe of Ahoskie, a large family connection and a host of friends who will remember her splendid life for many years to come. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/perquimans/obits/b/beaton3384gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb