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- [S6] Find A Grave, Charlotte Napier Beezley.
Birth: unknown Death: 1854 Inscription: w/o Josiah Burial: CraigCemetery, Crawford County, Missouri, USA Find A Grave Memorial# 19314265
- [S8] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2009;), Database online. Year: 1850; Census Place: District 24, Crawford,Missouri; Roll: M432_397; Page: 227A; Image: .
Record for L B Beasley
- [S14] Goodspeed Publishing, History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington,Crawford and Gasconade Counties, Missouri, Joel Beezley.
Joel Beezley is a son of Josiah and Charlotte (Napier) Beezley, theformer born in Virginia and the later in South Carolina. The parents were married in Virginia and soon after moved to East Tennessee, settling in Cole County, Mo., in 1829. In 1832 they located in Crawford County, where they spent the remainer of their lives. Josiah Beezley was a farmer and stock-raiser, and lived to be about sixty•eight years of age; his wife died at the age of sixty-one. Joel Beezley was born in Crawford County, in 1832, in which county he was reared to the pursuit of farming, receiving but a common-school education. Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five he spent the greater part of the time in driving an ox team to and from St. Louis. When the "bit act" was passed he entered 313 acres, and in1885 married Mary J. Morrison, daughter of William Morrison. Mrs. Beezley died in 1862, leaving four children, viz.: Anderson V., Amanda E., Martha L. and William C. Mr. Beezley next married Sarah E. Coppedge, and to their union were born six children: Christopher, O., Mary M., Missomi M., Clara D., Joel A., and an infant. Deprived of his wife by death, in 1873, the following year Mr. Beezley married Mary A. Towell, who became the mother of six children, viz.: Ewel E., Cora E., Nora R, Rufus G., George T. and Josie P. Mr. Beezley owns 509 acres of land, and has been very succcssful in his chosen occupation; he is one of the most enterprising farmers aud highly respected citizens of Crawford County, of which county he has been a resident all his life. He is a Republican in politics, and in religion affiliates with the Baptist Church, as does also his wife.
- [S10] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: District 24, Crawford, Missouri; Roll: M432_397; Page: 227A; Image: 462.
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