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Josiah Beall

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  • Name Josiah Beall 
    Born 1715  Prince George's Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Unknown 
    Person ID I11099  MyTree
    Last Modified 21 Feb 2012 

    Father John Beall,   b. Abt 1688, Prince George's Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 7 Apr 1742 Bef 1744, MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 55 years) 
    Mother Virlinda McGruder,   b. 1693, Prince George's Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1745, Prince George's Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years) 
    Married Abt 1712  Prince George's Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5780  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Millicent Bradley,   b. 1723, MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Unknown 
    Married Abt 1740  Prince George's Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Thaddeus Beall, I,   b. 1741, Prince George's Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1808, Warren Co., GA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
    +2. Virlinda Beall
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2017 
    Family ID F5758  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 

    • This is a continuation of Beall family history from the biographical sketch: "Bealls of Carroll: Descended from Ninian Beall of Scotland". The Carroll County Bealls are descended from both Ninian Beall and from his son Thomas Beall who also came to America. The descendancy of General Beall of Carroll is as follows:

      I. Ninian Beall & Elizabeth Gordon>their son next
      II. Thomas Beall & Elizabeth Bateman>their son next
      III. John Beall & Virlinda Magruder>their son next
      IV. Josiah Beall & Millicent Bradley>their son next
      V. Thaddeus Beall & Amelia Beall>their son next
      VI. Frederick Beall & Martha Peyton Beall>their son next
      VII. General William Beall & Nancy Chandler

      General William Beall was born in Franklin County, Georgia on February 20, 1795, the son of General Frederick Beall and his wife Martha Peyton Beall. (Frederick and Martha were cousins, he the son of Thaddeus Beall & Jane Amelia Beall and she the daughter of Daniel Bell & Martha Peyton--see biographical sketch of Ninian Bell on this Carroll County, GA website for more about Beall ancestors...) General William Beall spent his early years in growing up in Franklin County, Georgia and we find him in records first as serving as Justice of the Inferior Court in Franklin County as early as 1820-1821. In 1829, he served as a Representative from Franklin Co, Ga. and again in 1830. He was a Captain in the 263rd District Co, of Franklin Co, Ga. Militia, on Sept. 7, 1813. He did not earn his title of General until he served in the War with Mexico in 1836.

      By 1832, General Beall had moved his family to Carroll County, Georgia because he was serving as Senator from Carroll County in 1832, 1833, 1836, and 1841. In 1845, he was the Senator from the 30th District. He was a Member of the Convention in 1839 representing Carroll County. He was a Justice of the Inferior Court in Carroll County beginning in 1834- 1837. General Beall settled on Buck Creek, four miles north of Carrollton, which is where he lived and died.

      General William Beall married Nancy Chandler on 16th of August 1816 in Franklin Co, Ga. She was born 28th of January 1797 and died at Carrollton, Ga. 6 November 1886. Gen Beall died at Ellijay, Ga. 22 August 22 1851. There is a monument to Gen. Beall here in Carroll County, which I believe to be his gravesite, as there are other tombstones there. It has his correct birth and death dates on it.

      General William Beall and Nancy Chandler had the following children:

      1. Otho Perryman Beall, b. 15 August 1817, d. 17 Sept 1879
      2. Augustus Chandler Beall b. 20 January 1819
      3. Thomas Newton Beall b. 5 March 1820
      4. William Orlando Beall b. 20 April 1822
      5. James Morris Beall b. 10 December 1824 d 12 Sept 1906
      6. Amelia Jane Beall b. 2 December 1825 d Attalia, Alabama m. Green
      7. Noble Newman Beall b. 11 February 1829 (See below)
      8. Martha Sarah Beall b. 3 March 1831 m. Stevens
      9. John Bramblet Beall b. 19 March 1833; d. in Birmingham, Alabama February of 1917; m. 5 October 1862 Mary Jane Merrell (See below)
      10. Mary Frances Beall b. 28 June 1836 d. in Decatur, TN m. Harden


      More information on the descendants of John Bramblet Beall & Mary Jane Merrell--he the son of General William Beall & Nancy Chandler and Mary Jane the d/o Hon. William Washington Merrell of Carroll County, Ga. (See a separate biographical sketch of W.W. Merrell on this web site). John Bramblet Beall wrote a book of poetry entitled "In Barrack & Field" about his Civil War experiences. He was a Lt. Col.

      The information below is not in order of their birth: These are children of John Bramblet Beall and Mary Jane Merrell:

      1. William Otho Beall b. 23 Feb 1864 m. Nettie Henrietta Ansley d/o L. Henry and Euphemia Ashley (?)(nee Cunningham) of Atlanta, Ga. Their children: Vivian b. 8 June 1887 m. 15 Sept 1910 to Rufus Chester Bruce of Atlanta; Horace Ansley Beall b. 11 Sept 1889 m. Helen Rodman of Oakland, California; William Otho Beall m. 2nd Ruby Berryl Kyle of Birmingham--twin daughters died in infancy, and wife died soon after. William Otho Beall m. 3rd Amelia Vob Gerichton--one son Carl William Otho Beall m. 4th Kate Mears a widow with one daughter Lovenia Mears--two sons with Kate--John Otho Beall & William Merrell Beall.

      2. Mary Beall, m. January of 1887 to Thomas Eugene Beall son of Thomas Eugene Beall & Margaret Jelks Beall of Thomaston, GA. Mary & Thomas' children: Eugene Otho Beall b. 23 Sept 1887 married & lived in North Bergen, N.J.; Margaret Jelks Beall b. 24 August 1889 married Henry D. Smith of Andalusia, Alabama--one son Henry Beall Smith ;Nettie May Beall b. 25 June 1892 m. August 1, 1916 to Albert Hopkins (son of Henry Hopkins and grandson of Mark Hopkins)--children Albert Hopkins, Jr, and Mary Merrell Hopkins ; John Bramblett Beall died in infancy;

      3.Sara Rebecca Beall m. Dec 18, 1895 Arthur Ambrose Gaines (died May 12, 1930)

      4.Lucy Beall m. 3 November 1902 to William Bullard Allen (born in Indianapolis, Indiana, lived at Birmingham)

      5. Eloise Beall--died in infancy

      6. Thomas Augustus Beall--died in infancy

      7. Amelia (Millie) Beall

      8. John Barrett Beall--died in infancy

      9. Blanche Ola Martha Beall

      All of the children born in Georgia.

      More information on the 7th child of William Beall and Nancy Chandler, Noble Newman Beall. b. 11 February 1829
      in Franklin Co., Ga and died 20 November 1910 in Paulding Co., Ga. He was known as Captain Noble Newman Beall in his lifetime as he served as a Captain in the War Between the States. He was in the House of Representatives from Paulding County, Ga in 1861,1862, 1883. He served in the Senate from Paulding County, 38th District in 1882, 1883.

      He married 1st: On 5 May 1857 to Sarah Awtrey b. 7 May 1834 d. 6 Sept 1867 They had children:
      1. Nancy Ella Beall b. 8 July 1858 d. 10 August 1939 m. John Barr
      2. Lucy Capitola Beall b. 13 March 1860 d. 27 June 1930 m. Joe Baggett
      3. William Henry Beall b. 11 March 1863 d. 20 February 1926 m. Lola Chambliss
      4. Sarah Catherine Beall b. 6 June 1868 d. 9 January 1911
      m. Hinton Moore

      Noble Newman Beall m. 2nd Eliza Caroline Brown in 1868. Eliza b. 1846 d. 1928 Their children:

      1. Mary Emma Beall b. 8 July 1870 d. 29 July 1954 m. George Griffith
      2. Thomas Noble Beall b. 9 December 1871 d. 4 May 1959 m. Addie Fuller
      3. Jessie Eliza Beall b. 9 April 1873 d. 27 October 1956 m. John Smith
      4. Benjamin Burke Beall b. 25 May 1874 d. 7 October 1945 m. Mano Elizabeth Clonts
      5. Samuel Augustus Beall b. 11 June 1877 d. 18 March 1947 m. Tommie Drewry
      6. James Guy Beall b. 22 July 1879 d 23 March 1955 m. Imogene Walker
      7. Maude Blanche Beall b. 1 April 1882 d. 17 Dec 1972 m. Boyd Sayer
      8. John Otho Beall b. 26 November 1883 d. 9 October 1961
      9. Egbert Hinton Stephen Beall b. 17 March 1886 d. 23 August 1973 m. 1st Ella Lee Hobbs and 2nd Echo Cain
      10. Preston Leroy Beall b. 17 September 1887 d. 5 July 1943 m. Effie Smith

      Captain Beall was living in the town of Dallas, Georgia in Paulding County when his first son, Benjamin Burke, was born in 1874. By 1876, the family had moved to the country between Dallas and Villa Rica, Georgia, near the Concord Baptist Church where Capt. Beall and his second wife are buried. His first wife, Sarah Awtrey, was buried in Dallas.

      Captain Noble Newman Beall practiced law in Dallas and the family farmed on their country place in Paulding County. Capt. Beall lived to be 81 years old and was described as "a handsome old gentleman, with snow-white hair and beard, the hair falling to his shoulders, and the beard to his chest." Eliza Caroline Brown Beall was described as "rather tall, with dark hair, grey eyes, and fair complexion--a kind considerate woman who visited her children each year whenever possible after her husband died and until her death..."

      Now, I have to backtrack here a minute because the Candlers in Carroll County take a little different descent than Gen. William Beall. They all had common ancestors in that they were all descended from John Beall and Virlinda Magruder. Going back to them for a moment--we have more information from the Candler side about the Magruders. In their family history, they have recorded that "Verlinda Magruder's family came from a marriage of the Macgregor and Campbell clans in Scotland. Their family line is traced through the Scottish and Irish Kings and back through the biblical lineages all the way to Adam and Eve." (CARROLL GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY FALL WINTER 1981).

      Samuel Candler first came to Villa Rica, Georgia in 1830 when he became a representative of a British mining company interested in gold mining in the area. ("Villa Rica means "City of Gold".) But he later moved on to Cherokee County where new gold was being discovered. Samuel Chandler was the first Representative from Cherokee County. It was actually in Cherokee County, Georgia where Samuel met and married Martha Bernetta Beall--she was a direct descendant of Ninian Beall ; she was a descendant of John Beall and Virlinda Magruder.

      Samuel and Martha Beall Candler later moved to Carroll County, Ga. where they raised what has been called by some "the most outstanding family ever produced in the state of Georgia." Their children were:

      THESE ARE CANDLERS---NOT BEALLS

      1. Milton Anthony Candler, 1837-1909, Atlanta attorney, m. Elizabeth Murphey
      2. Ezekiel S. Candler, 1838-1915, Mississippi attorney, m. Julia Bevill
      3. Noble David Candler, incapacitated by illness,1840-1887, did not marry
      4. Florence Julia Candler, 1842-1946 m. W.H. Harris
      5. Sarah Justina Candler, 1845-1921 m. Joseph J. Willard
      6. William Beall Candler, Merchant farmer, 1847-1928, m. Elizabeth Slaughter
      7. Elizabeth Francis Candler, 1849-1922 m. Henry H. Dobbs
      8. Asa Griggs Candler, Atlanta Industrialist who sold Coca-Cola for 25 million dollars in 1916, 1851-1929, m. Lucy Howard
      9. Samuel Charles Candler, Large Planter, 1855-1911, m. Jimmie Beaville
      10. Warren Akin Candler, Methodist Bishop, 1857-1941, m. Sarah Cutright
      11. John Slaughter Candler, Judge State Supreme Court, 1861-1941 m. Marguerite Garnier

      It is said that Martha Beall Candler never weighed more than 100 pounds in her entire life, but that in spite of that fact, she was always "the strength of the family." She devoted her whole life to the care and training of her children. Samuel Candler was a strong man who devoted most of his life to business affairs. He also served as a State Representative and Senator from Carroll County, Ga. He was a large land owner, farmer, merchant, land developer, gold miner, and built up a considerable fortune before the Civil War. Samuel Candler died in 1873 and Martha Beall Candler in 1897. There will be more posted on the descendants of Samuel and Martha Beall Candler--some of their descendants intermarried with the Cobb family of Carroll County.