Palo Pinto Co., TX - Biography:
George Rice Bevers and Lucinda Jane Tacker
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September 25, 2002

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                 GEORGE RICE BEVERS and LUCINDA JANE TACKER
    Born in Giles County Tennessee on August 29, 1825, George Rice was the 9th
of 11 children born to Spencer and Martha Clack Beavers.  On December 12, 1845
he married Lucinda Jane Tacker, daughter of a neighboring Tacker family.
Lucinda was 7th of a family with 11 children that decended from a Revolutionary
War ancestor.
    By 1850 George and Lucinda had 4 children when George was given the task of
accompanying his sister to Texas where she was betrothed to early day preacher
in the Dallas area.  On the trip he was accompanying some of the Tacker family
and relatives of theirs, the Cobbs.  This group stayed and settled in Limestone
county, where there are descendants today.
    George was so carried away with the country that he made several tours
around the country and decided on Palo Pinto county, which was the very edge of
the frontier at that time.  He went back to Giles County and collected his
family for the move.  Lucinda's father had died leaving in a will everything to
go to his wife in her lifetime.  Lucinda sold her part of any inheritance to
her brother for $100 and the family set out for Texas.  Arriving in Navarro Co.
they stayed there for some time, the oldest daughter remembers there being
snakes there.  In 1852 another son was born and when they were able to travel
the family continued on to Palo Pinto county where they settled on Big Keechi
Creek, near the present day town of Graford, so called because it was between
Fort Graham and Weatherford.  Here they settled and 3 more children were born.
There were several Indian scares and the family cemetery was begun following
the death of Ben Caruthers, a 17 year old boy at the hands of the Indians.
    Children born to this pioneer family were:
1. Samuel Houston Bevers born 1846 married Aurilla Eliza Jane Taylor,
     daughter of Stephen Slade Taylor.
2. Mary Jane Beversd born 1847 and married Hannibal Giddings Taylor, son
     of Stephen Slade Taylor.
3. Laura Ann Bevers  born 1849
4. Spencer Bevers born 1850,  married Mary Ellen Shook and they were
     instrumental in the development of Haskell, TX.
5. George Bevers born 1852
6. William Bevers born 1855
7. David Aston Bevers  born 1859
8. Frances Cornelia Bevers born 1863
    More sadness fell upon this family when a group of troops camped nearby and
the children contracted whooping cough.  This caused the deaths of Laura Ann
and George in 1862.
    In 1971 an historic marker was erected near the Bevers homestead.  It reads
"The George Rice Bevers Homesite  On the Fort Worth - Fort Belknap road,m near
Flat Rock Crossing of Keechi Creek.  Occupied 1854 when such travelers as
Indian Agent Robert S. Neighbors were fed or housed overnight by Bevers. First
Palo Pinto County school opened in vicinity in 1856, on a path smoothed by oxen
pulling a log.  In Bevers cemetery lies a victim of 1860's Indian raids that
sent settlers to refuges as remote as the Courthouse in Fort Worth.  Bevers
(1825-1904), his wife Lucionda Jane Tacker (1825-1873) and children lived near
Curetons, Goodnights, Slaughters, other noted pioneers."
    Lucinda Jane Tacker Bevers died the 29th of November, 1873 at the age of
48, the frontier was hard on women.  She was buried in the Bevers cemetery.
September 11, 1880 George Rice Bevers married again to Miss Susan Harbin.  Not
much is known about this union except that the children seemed not to take to
their stepmother and oral history says one boy took her back to Tennessee.
George died October 14, 1904 and is buried beside Lucinda in the family plot.

By Bobbie Watson Ross, great, great granddaughter of George and Lucinda Bevers
from the book "Taylor and Bevers, Pioneer Families of Palo Pinto County, TX" by
Bobbie Ross, 1996.
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