A native of Pickens County, SC, Alston J Beasley raised six children to adulthood with his wife Minerva Susan Davidson, a granddaughter of Benjamin Davidson (for whom Davidson River is named). The family lived at times in Pickens County, SC and Transylvania County, NC, and are remembered as being reclusive. Alston Beasley is locally famed for having convinced several of the Brevard area's most prominent citizens to invest in a silver mine near the present-day Blue Ridge Parkway, in which no silver was ever found besides a dusting presumably done by Alston himself. His life and family are thoroughly researched in a book published in August 2011 by Edward Comer of Brevard, entitled "Shadows of the Past." The remains of a cabin built by Alston's son Thomas Beasley can be visited in the Connastee Falls community. His and Minerva's descendants can be found living in Upstate South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
A native of Pickens County, SC, Alston J Beasley raised six children to adulthood with his wife Minerva Susan Davidson, a granddaughter of Benjamin Davidson (for whom Davidson River is named). The family lived at times in Pickens County, SC and Transylvania County, NC, and are remembered as being reclusive. Alston Beasley is locally famed for having convinced several of the Brevard area's most prominent citizens to invest in a silver mine near the present-day Blue Ridge Parkway, in which no silver was ever found besides a dusting presumably done by Alston himself. His life and family are thoroughly researched in a book published in August 2011 by Edward Comer of Brevard, entitled "Shadows of the Past." The remains of a cabin built by Alston's son Thomas Beasley can be visited in the Connastee Falls community. His and Minerva's descendants can be found living in Upstate South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
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