Freestone County Texas Archives Biographies.....Beall, Egbert B. September 4, 1830 - April 17, 1901
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Author: Talley-Frost, Stephanie

Excerpted from “Reprints of Bibliographies of
The Lone Star State”   The Lewis Publishing Co., 1893    

Tally-Frost, Stephanie				       			
	 Pages 44-45


BEALL & RELATED FAMILIES

Egbert G.*  Beall, the subject of this sketch, is a son of Josias Bradley 
Beall, who was born in 1790 in the state of Maryland, coming thence to Georgia 
when young, and in 1835 coming to Texas.  He took part in the Texas Revolution, 
and was killed in the massacre at Goliad, having been captured and then shot by 
order of Santa Anna.  He was buried on the battlefield.  By occupation he had 
been a farmer and teacher, was well educated, and successful in his 
profession.  In his politics he had been a Whig, and had served as Sheriff of 
his county, which was Campbell county, Georgia, continuing in office for a 
number of terms, and held the position of General in the State militia.  Mr. 
Bell was a member of the Masonic fraternity.

The ancestors of the Beall family were of Scotch-Irish descent.  The mother of 
our subject was a daughter of John and Clara (Mathews) Butt, natives of 
Crawford county, Georgia, who married in 1815.  Her name was Sarah Butt, and 
she was born in Georgia in 1860.*  Mr. And Mrs. Beall, Sr., reared a family of 
nine children, as follows:  Robert, who died in infancy; Margaret, deceased, 
was the wife of Joseph Gainer, of Macon, Georgia, and she left one daughter; 
Eliza and William died in infancy; Susan is the wife of John McChire*, a farmer 
in Georgia; James, a farmer in Georgia; Josias was killed at Fredericksburg; 
our subject; Sarah, the wife of Joseph Spence, a merchant of Atlanta, Georgia.

The subject of this sketch was born September 4, 1831, in Campbell county, 
Georgia.  He remained there until he was twenty years of age with his mother, 
attending school and working on a farm, and then came to Texas.  He first 
engaged in work by the month in Austin county and in 1851 came to Freestone 
county and located upon a part of the farm where he now is.  Then he became 
overseer for William B. Kolb for one year, married there and returned to 
Georgia.

Our subject remained but a short time in Georgia, and then returned to Grimes 
county, Texas, and then rented land one year, going from there to Freestone 
county, where he rented for the following year.  At this time he bought a farm 
of 160 acres, with only about four acres of it improved, since which time he 
has improved eleven farms, including his present one, containing, improved, 
from 40 to 300 acres, paying $1 per acres for his first land, and for his 
present one $3 per acre.  Here he located in 1881.

The marriage of Mr. Beall was celebrated in 1851 with Miss Martha L. Kolb, a 
native of Georgia, who came from there with her parents.  She was the daughter 
of his employer, and the name of her parents were William G. and Alzada (Coma) 
Kolb, and twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Beall, as follows:  William 
B., who died at the age of twenty-one; the second and third children both died 
in infancy; Joseph G., resides upon his father’s farm; Sarah died when twelve 
years of age; James died when aged nine years; Mary M. became the wife of James 
Coward, of Motley county; Martin and Robert died, children of three and two 
years respectively; Thomas L. is at home; and the last two children died as 
infants.  

When about twenty years of age our subject was thrown upon his own resources 
with a fortune of some $20, but after the war he started again.  During the war 
he was a member of Company C, Captain Shannon, Fifth Texas Cavalry, under 
Colonel Tom Green.  The first year he served in New Mexico, going thence to 
Louisiana, and from that time on he was in that state.  The first engagement in 
which he took part was at Valverde, New Mexico, and the next at Camp Blace, 
Louisiana; then came Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, Yellow Bayou, and numerous 
skirmishes.  Although shaved by bullets and lost a horse by having it shot from 
under him, our subject was not injured, and was at Fairfield at the time of 
surrender.

Mr. Beall now enjoys the possession of 570 acres of land, 300 of which are 
under cultivation, has 100 cattle, ten horses and mules, and a gin that is 
valued at $1,000.  In politics, he is a third-party man, a member of Alliance 
and Grange.  Both he and his excellent wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, South.  Mr. Beall is not an aged man, and there is yet time 
for him to do many more acts showing his energy and thriftiness, but he has 
done plenty to make him respected and esteemed by every one in the community.  
He is a man of intelligence, liberal in his thoughts and words as well as his 
acts.  Such men are the ones who form the backbone of the country.

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*Egbert Beall’s middle initial was B. – Benjamin
*Sarah Butt was born in Warren Co., Georgia Feb 20, 1799 
*Sarah Butts’ sister, Susan, married John McClure.


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