Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beale, Hugh P., 1947 

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HUGH PATRICK BEALE

H.P. BEALE, MEAT PACKER AND FARMER DIES UNEXPECTEDLY

   Hugh Patrick Beale, prominent farmer and founder of H.P. Beale & Sons, meat 
packers, a lifelong resident of Southampton County, died suddenly at 6:00 
o’clock Saturday morning, November 29, at his home near Courtland.

   The son of the late Ethedred Warren and Sally Barnes Beale, he was born 
near Newsoms on September 18, 1874.

   Approximately thirty years ago Mr. Beale started in the meat packing 
business in a small way.  The enterprise has now grown to be one of the 
largest meat packing establishments in this county.  About eighteen years ago 
he was joined in business by his sons, who will continue in its management.

   Mr. Beale married Roberta Wellons on January 23, 1908.  Surviving him are 
his widow, three sons, B. Hubert, E. Warren and Fletcher W. Beale, all of 
Courtland; four daughters, Mrs. C.M. Tomko of Oceana, Mrs. William Bell of 
Courtland, Mrs. Stanley Rodgers, Jr., and Mrs. Wallace Gwaltney of Suffolk, 
four grandsons and a number of nieces and nephews.

   He was a faithful member of Grace Memorial Methodist Church in Sedley, in 
which he served as Steward for a number of years.

   Funeral services for Mr. Beale were conducted from the Grace Memorial 
Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by Rev. E.R. Collie, 
pastor of the church, Rev. Percy D. White of Chatham, former pastor of the 
Courtland charge, and Rev. Robert M. Kimball, pastor of Johnson’s Grove 
Christian Church.

   The active pallbearers were John Beale and Floyd Beale of Franklin, E. 
Beale Carter of Newsoms, H.V. Thornton and A.M. Howell of Courtland, and S.E. 
Davis, A.T. Minton and A.L. Matthews of Petersburg.  Friends of the family 
acted as honorary pallbearers.

   Interment was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin.


Hugh Patrick BEALE, farmer, founder of H.P. Beale & Sons, meat packers, 
b. 18 Sep 1874, near Newsoms, d. 29 Nov 1947, at home, near Courtland, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 94B*), Franklin, 
   30 Nov 1947, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 5, 1947, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}, Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

He & his family appear in the 1880 Census in Newsoms District- houldhold 215. 
   His parents & 3 (of 9) siblings were b. in NC.  Images at 
   http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/census/1880/105-24.gif 
   http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/census/1880/105-25.gif 

His widow's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," May 22, 1977, p. 219) 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b400r13o.txt 


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