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Slave Narrative of Emmett Beal

Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Emmett Beal Age: 78 Location: Biscoe, Arkansas “I was born in Holloman County, Bolivar, Tennessee. Master Dr. Jim May owned my set er folks. He had two girls and two boys. I reckon he had a wife but I don’t recollect seeing her. Ma suckled me; William May with me. Ely and Seley and Susie was his children. “I churned for mama in slavery. She tied a cloth around the top so no flies get in. I better hadn’t let no fly get in the churn. She take me out to a peach tree … Read more

Beal Cemetery, Fannin County, Texas

A cemetery transcription of the Beal Cemetery of Fannin County, Texas. The Beals settled near the Red River north and west of the Riverby store in the early 1840’s. At the Bonham courthouse is a marriage record of R. R. Beal and Jane Black date July 1, 1843. The Matilda Beal, listed below as the wife of R. R. must have died before 1843 and the Beal child who died in 1853 at the age of fifteen was her child. There are stories that the Beals had lots of trouble with Indians. BEAL Matilda, 1812 [broken]. Wife of R. R. … Read more

Representative Men of Maine – Biographical Sketches and Portraits

Representative Men of Maine Title Page

A collection of portraits with biographical sketches of residents of the state of Maine who have achieved success and are prominent in commercial, industrial, professional, and political life, to which is added the portraits and sketches of all the governors since the formation of the state of Maine in 1820.

Howard Genealogy of Bridgewater and New Bedford Mass.

Frances E. Howard

The ancient town of Bridgewater, the first interior settlement of the Old Colony, has been the birthplace and the home of many who have made the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts rich in stories of good lives devoted to the development and uplift of the community, and not the least among these may be mentioned the late Capt. Benjamin Beal Howard, philanthropist, whose name is perpetuated in Howard Seminary, which he founded, and his son, the late Francis Edward Howard, philanthropist, statesman and upright, patriotic and useful citizen.