Son of Samuel Beman IV and his wife Silence E. Douglas Beman.
Married Avis Dewitt on 30 Dec 1823 in Hancock Co GA.
Georgia Voices, A Documentary History to 1872, by Spencer B. King, Jr., University of Georgia Press, 1966, pgs. 224-225:
Oglethorpe, a Presbyterian college, began as a manual labor school in 1834, just two miles from Milledgeville the State Capital. It was called Midway Seminary. The next year a charter was secured and it began to function as a college in 1838 under the presidency of Carlisle Pollock Beman. The historian of ante-bellum Oglethorpe, Allen P. Tankersley, says that President Beman resigned in 1840, because the Trustees objected to his whipping students above the Sophomore class. Courtesy of J Pendry
Rev Beman was a large planter in the county. He died at his home in Mt Zion, HAncock Co.
Other son:
Thomas Spenser Beman born 1825 in Hancock Co. and died 30 Aug 1862 in Manassas, Prince William, Virginia, killed in action. PVT, Co.E, 15th GA Inf
Married Avis Dewitt on 30 Dec 1823 in Hancock Co GA.
Georgia Voices, A Documentary History to 1872, by Spencer B. King, Jr., University of Georgia Press, 1966, pgs. 224-225:
Oglethorpe, a Presbyterian college, began as a manual labor school in 1834, just two miles from Milledgeville the State Capital. It was called Midway Seminary. The next year a charter was secured and it began to function as a college in 1838 under the presidency of Carlisle Pollock Beman. The historian of ante-bellum Oglethorpe, Allen P. Tankersley, says that President Beman resigned in 1840, because the Trustees objected to his whipping students above the Sophomore class. Courtesy of J Pendry
Rev Beman was a large planter in the county. He died at his home in Mt Zion, HAncock Co.
Other son:
Thomas Spenser Beman born 1825 in Hancock Co. and died 30 Aug 1862 in Manassas, Prince William, Virginia, killed in action. PVT, Co.E, 15th GA Inf
Son of Samuel Beman IV and his wife Silence E. Douglas Beman.
Married Avis Dewitt on 30 Dec 1823 in Hancock Co GA.
Georgia Voices, A Documentary History to 1872, by Spencer B. King, Jr., University of Georgia Press, 1966, pgs. 224-225:
Oglethorpe, a Presbyterian college, began as a manual labor school in 1834, just two miles from Milledgeville the State Capital. It was called Midway Seminary. The next year a charter was secured and it began to function as a college in 1838 under the presidency of Carlisle Pollock Beman. The historian of ante-bellum Oglethorpe, Allen P. Tankersley, says that President Beman resigned in 1840, because the Trustees objected to his whipping students above the Sophomore class. Courtesy of J Pendry
Rev Beman was a large planter in the county. He died at his home in Mt Zion, HAncock Co.
Other son:
Thomas Spenser Beman born 1825 in Hancock Co. and died 30 Aug 1862 in Manassas, Prince William, Virginia, killed in action. PVT, Co.E, 15th GA Inf
Married Avis Dewitt on 30 Dec 1823 in Hancock Co GA.
Georgia Voices, A Documentary History to 1872, by Spencer B. King, Jr., University of Georgia Press, 1966, pgs. 224-225:
Oglethorpe, a Presbyterian college, began as a manual labor school in 1834, just two miles from Milledgeville the State Capital. It was called Midway Seminary. The next year a charter was secured and it began to function as a college in 1838 under the presidency of Carlisle Pollock Beman. The historian of ante-bellum Oglethorpe, Allen P. Tankersley, says that President Beman resigned in 1840, because the Trustees objected to his whipping students above the Sophomore class. Courtesy of J Pendry
Rev Beman was a large planter in the county. He died at his home in Mt Zion, HAncock Co.
Other son:
Thomas Spenser Beman born 1825 in Hancock Co. and died 30 Aug 1862 in Manassas, Prince William, Virginia, killed in action. PVT, Co.E, 15th GA Inf
Inscription
"They that be wise shall as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to
Righteousness, as the stars forever, And ever."
Gravesite Details
MD is affixed to end of name.
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