Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beale, James C., 1940 

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JAMES CHESLEY BEALE

JAMES CHESLEY BEALE, PROMINENT BUSINESS MAN, DIES SUDDENLY

   James Chesley Beale of this town died suddenly Sunday evening in the 
Doctors’ Hospital, Washington, of a heart attack where he was a patient for 
a minor operation.  Mr. Beale had been attending the Republican National 
Convention in Philadelphia, stopping over in Washington while en route home. 
Mr. Beale was a well-known and successful business man, being a member of the 
Franklin Peanut Company almost since its inception here in the early 1900’s 
and had extensive business interests’ in Franklin and elsewhere.

   He was the son of the late James Irvin and Mrs. Lillie L. Beale of this 
town, spending his life in Franklin.  He was an alumnus of Randolph-Macon 
College and a member of the Kappa Alpha college fraternity.  On December 10, 
1914, he married Miss Alice Lewis of Fargo, North Dakota, who survives him 
with six children, James Chesley, Jr., Robert Irvin, Cyrus Lewis and Warren 
Beale, and Misses Nancy and Alice Beale, all of this town; by three brothers, 
Roger I. and James Irvin Beale of Franklin, and Cyrus W. Beale of Richmond; 
by two sisters, Mrs. Nancy Beale Lewis of Fargo, North Dakota, and Mrs. 
Liluer Beale Nixon of Brazil, and a large family connection.

   At the time of his death Mrs. Beale and four of the children were visiting 
Mrs. Beale’s people in Fargo, and returned to Franklin by plane.  Mr. Beale 
was a member of the Franklin congregational Christian Church, funeral rites 
being conducted from his home in South High Street Tuesday afternoon at 4 
o’clock by his pastor, Dr. Elwood W. Jones, assisted by the Rev. B.B. Bland of 
High Street Methodist Church.  The pallbearers were: George H. Parker, J.H. 
Boyd, E.P. Jones, Ernest L. Beale, W.J. Cross, Jr., H.L. Westbrook, Cecil 
Vaughan, 3rd, and J.C. Bristow of Richmond.  Burial was made in the family 
plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  Members of the Men’s Bible Class of the 
Congregational Christian Church were honorary bearers and the Girl Scouts, 
in which Mr. Beale’s two daughters are interested and useful members, attended 
the services in a body.


James Chesley BEALE, Franklin businessman, 
Franklin native?, d. 30 Jun 1940, Washington, DC, 
interred in the Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 43A*), Franklin, 
   2 Jul 1940, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 5, 1940, p. 1 

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

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 23, 1954) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b400a4ob.txt 


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