NOTE: Someone has put a picture on this memorial of an alleged burial site that is NOT at the location of the Beall Cemetery.

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"The LaFayette Sun" - April 29, 1903:

Major Bell, one of LaFayette's handsome widowers, informed us that he will conduct a summer school out a few miles from town, beginning some time in July. The Major is an old-time excellent teacher and should he have one hundred years more added to his life, he would never forget how to impress upon an unruly boy the virtue that is contained in a sound flogging with a hickory switch when other remedies fair to effect a cure.

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"The LaFayette Sun" - June 3, 1903:

Death of Maj. T. S. Beall.

Had Just Returned from Reunion at New Orleans.

Had Lived in Chambers County since Boyhood.

On last Friday morning about seven o'clock, in the 69th year of his age, Maj. T. S. Beall died in his room at LaFayette. He had been in apparently good health for some time previous to his death. He started to the reunion at New Orleans several days before his death and his physician thinks the change in water, diet, dissipation and etc. caused a stomach trouble, which resulted in death.

Major Beall is well known in Chambers, where he has lived since boyhood and had many warm friends. He had ten children, six of whom are dead and four live in Texas. He has a landed estate near LaFayette containing nearly a thousand acres. His funeral ceremony was conducted by Rev. W. T. Hollingsworth and his remains were carried to the family cemetery about five miles southeast of LaFayette.

AND...

June 10, 1903:

T. S. Beall.

The subject of this sketch was born in Walton Co., Ga., in 1833 and died in LaFayette, Ala., May 29th, 1903. He was married to Miss Carrie M. Boyd in 1862. There were ten children born unto them, two of whom died in childhood; four of them, Lucius, Misses Celeste and Kate, and Mrs. Lillie Scott died in the last few years. Mrs. Beall also died about five years ago. The four children who still live are J. Walter, and Frank M. Beall, Mrs. Lula Fears, and Mrs. Exa Kelley, of Garrison, Texas.

T. S. Beall was a well educated man, had been admitted to the bar, and had taught school in Chambers and Lee counties at different intervals for about twenty five years. At the time of his death he held a teacher's Life Certificate.

During the War he raised a company known as Beall's Battalion. He was made Major, which position he filled with credit and honor to himself and country. When the war closed he returned to find all in confusion and chaos, with property gone and no labor except a lot of demoralized ex-slaves, but he took hold under these sad conditions,

raised a large family, gave them a fair education, and I can truthfully say they are a credit to their parents.

Maj. Beall was a genial, affable, and pleasant man, in conversation; jovial, good natured, and full of life. If he had an enemy, I never heard it.

Maj. Beall at one time connected himself with the Baptist Church at Liberty in Lee County, near where he taught school.

He was an honest man, and while he had his faults and failings, let us cast gently the mantle of charity over them, and remember only his many virtues. Being reared by indulgent parents in what was then considered the lap of luxury, is it any wonder that it was hard for him to meet the miserable conditions that were presented to the young man after the war?

Now, out of a large family of brothers and sisters, there are only two left, Dr. A. J. Beall, of San Marcos and Mrs. America Waskom, of Henderson, Texas.

The funeral service was appropriately and impressively conducted by Rev. W. T. Hollingsworth at the home of Mrs. J. H. Blanton, his niece, after which a number of his friends and neighbors carried him to the old family burying ground and laid him to rest beside his wife to await the resurrection. Peace to his ashes.

- Written by Y. L. Burton, LaFayette, Ala., June 8, 1903

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Alabama Civil War Muster Rolls 1861-1865.

Name: Thadius S. Beal

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835

Military unit: 8th Alabama Cavalry Regiment

Military Unit - Company: B

Muster Roll Date: 03 Aug 1861

Enlistment Date: 03 May 1861

Rank: Private

Age: 26

Place of Enlistment - City: West Point

Place of Enlistment - State: Georgia

Roll #: 806

Archive Collection #: SG025092-5

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1850 Chambers County, (Dist. 19) AL Census:

#H999

Thadeus Beall 70M Farmer R$2,500 (28-Slaves) Born NC

Mary Beall 60F Born GA

SOLON BEALL 18M Student Born GA

Laura Beall 15F Born GA

Donalonzo Toddy 14M Born GA

John H. Toddy 12M Born GA

Caswell Earp 36M Born NC

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1860 Grayson County, (Sherman) TX Census:

#H799

Thos. C. Hale 26M Saddler Born AR

Frances B. Hale 22F Born TN

T. S. BEALL 26M Attorney at Law P$250 Born GA

E. M. Ewing 29M Ranger P$250 Born KY

John A. Gordon 22M Merchant Born IL

Amanda A. Gordon 18F Born MI

Mary A. Gordon 6/12F Born TX

A. Jones 18F Born TX

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1870 Chambers County, (LaFayette) AL Census:

#H250

T. S. Bell 37M Farmer R$5,000 P$500 Born GA

Carrie M. Bell 25F Keeping House Born AL

Lula Bell 7F Born AL

Lillie Bell 4F Born AL

Jno. W. Bell 2M Born AL

Lucus Beall 4/12M Born AL

Mary W. Beall 87F Born GA

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1880 Chambers County, (LaFayette) AL Census:

#H254

T. Solan Bell 47M Farmer Born GA

Carrie Bell 36F Wife Born AL

Lula W. Bell 17F Daughter Born AL

Lilly Bell 13F Daughter Born AL

Willie Bell 11M Son Born AL

Luchous Bell 10M Son Born AL

Esca Bell 6F Daughter Born AL

Katie Bell 1F Daughter Born AL

A. A. Bell 49M Brother Retired Merchant Born GA

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1900 Chambers County, (LaFayette) AL Census:

#H261

Charles L. Adams 67M Harness Maker Born at Sea (Both parents born Scotland)

Clarra O. Adams 34F Wife Dress Maker Born AL

Charles W. Adams 13M Son At School Born AL

Mary B. Adams 11F Daughter At School Born AL

Benj. F. Adams 7M Son At School Born AL

Robert Lee Adams 4M Son

Lillie Pearl Adams 2F Daughter

Dr. B. F. Scott 52M Boarder Veterinary Surgeon Born March 1848 in KY

SOLON BELL 65M Boarder Land Lord Born Nov. 1834 in GA

Adline Callaway 20F (Black) Servant-Chamber Maid Born AL

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From "The Boyds of Boyds Tank", 1970, by Frank Ewell Boyd and William Taylor Boyd, pages 73 & 73:

...The Major was a lawyer, school teacher, farmer and orator. He taught in Lee County and at Shady Dell, Moorefield and Cusseta in Chambers County. He exhorted Democrats far and wide to be loyal to the party. The Beall Plantation was on the old LaFayette-West Point Road. He boasted that he had more land in wild plum orchards that his wife Carrie's brothers, Dock and Bill Boyd, had in crop land. According to old acquaintances Major Beall was quite a character with many idiosyncrasies. "The LaFayette Sun", issue of June 3, 1903 says the Major spent his last days at LaFayette where he died Friday, May 29, 1903, following an illness contracted while attending a reunion of Confederate Veterans at New Orleans.

A Civil War legend credits Major Beall with having "kidnapped" Carrie from Boyds Tank and marrying her at his military encampment. For this escapade Carrie's inheritance was reduced to one slave girl and a rosewood piano. This is a good story and typical of the major, but it should be remembered that Carrie's father died in 1861, the year before she was married in 1862. As a partial confirmation or clarification we find in John Coleman Boyd's will, dated June 8, 1859, this statement - "I give and bequeath to my daughter Caroline M. Boyd a piano which I have lately bought for her and also a fine chest now in my possession with a lot of bed clothing therein which was prepared for her mother now deceased...It is my will and desire that the piano, cover and piano stool and chest of bed clothing given to my daughter, Caroline M., shall be considered as a gift and not as an advancement, and is not to be accounted for by her on the division of my estate." A slave girl was no doubt considered her personal property...

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