The genealogy of the Beale family (1399-1956) ..

1956·25.6 MB·English

by  Hodges, Frances Beal Smith, 1902-

GENEALOGY COLLECTION

THE GENEALOGY OF THE
BEALE FAMILY
1399 1956
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Compiled from personal correspondence covering most of
the forty-eight states, England and the Virgin Islands;
personal interviews with scores of Beale descendants
throughout the South; family bibles, old letters and var¬
ious legal documents zealously possessed by members of
the family; various records and publications in the Library
of Congress, Washington, D. C.; D. A. R. records; State
& National Archives Departments; county and church
records; Virginia & Tennessee State Libraries; as well as
libraries of many Historical & Genealogical Societies; Cen¬
sus Reports and numerous other courses too varied to
enumerate.
Frances Beal Smith Hodges
(Mrs. Luke)
Wichita Falls, Texas
Price $10.00
EDWARDS BROTHERS, INC.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
1956
By
Frances Beal Smith Hodges
This Edition is limited to 300 copies
±±58936
Frances Beal Smith Hodges
(Mrs. Luke)
Wichita Falls, Texas

PREFACE
My interest in genealogical research began early in 1930 when
my sister-in-law, Willie Hodges Gardner, urged me to establish
eligibility for D. A. R. membership and has continued to the
present day.
Men are more interested in genealogy than women, perhaps due
to the fact that men feel themselves progenitors of a race of
people and thereby, assume an individual responsibility in the
preservation of its records.
Out of this genealogical research has come, from all over the
United States, friendships that have greatly enriched my daily
life and to them I am indebted and sincerely grateful for much
of the data that has gone into this genealogy.
My sole purpose in compiling this family history has been to
prepare a source from which later Beale descendants would have
a starting point in their individual research; thus, I have
included every scrap of information that came into my possession
with the hope that it would be the connecting link to tie two
seemingly unrelated lines into the one line that it is.
As an accountant I am not a professional typist (proof of which
follows) but I believe my training as an accountant has provided
a record of family history as accurate as it is possible to make
one from inadequately kept public records of Colonial times plus
the ravages of time, war and fire on all records, both public
and private. And it is my sincere hope that any one using this
volume for research will pass on to me additional material that
will permit a supplement to be compiled and later to become a
part of this history.
While in Philadelphia in 1935, a Hollander who had Just become
a naturalized citizen said to me -
’Your family helped to lay the foundation on which this
great country was built; think how deeply buried lies
the original corner stone which is the heritage you
pass on to your beloved son! My son's heritage? A
naturalization paper.’
From that date my genealogical research ceased to be 'my Aunt
Emmy', so humorously called by my husband, and was reborn the
proud heritage that it was.
Frances Beal (Smith) Hodges
2120 Virginia Drive,
Wichita Falls, Texas.
Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2018
https://archive.org/details/genealogyofbealeOOhodg