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William Hunnicutt "Billie" Beeman

11 May 1827 – 14 Jan 1905

Birth11 May 1827
Death14 Jan 1905
CemeteryBeeman Memorial Cemetery
Dallas , Dallas County , Texas , USA
Added byDiane & John on 23 Apr 2007
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Son of John Beeman and Emily Manly Hunnicutt Natives of Georgia and South Carolina Husband of Martha Eunice Dye Married 25 SEPT 1851 Dallas Co, TX Born in Oldham County, KY April 30, 1825 Father of 1. Isadora Beeman b. 1855 2. William Francis Beeman b. 1860 3. Joseph E. Beeman William was 14 when his father John Beeman moved the family to the Republic of Texas (Peters Colony) 1860 Census, Dallas County, Dallas P.O., Precinct #1 W. H. Beeman 34M Waggon Wright. William died of Pneumonia Dallas Morning news 16 Jan 1905 WAS PIONEER RESIDENT - W. H. Beeman had lived here since before settlement of country. In the death of W. H. Beeman, which occurred at his home near Beeman's School House Saturday morning, Dallas County lost its oldest living pioneer. Mr. Beeman had been a resident of this part of Texas for more than sixty years, coming here from Illinois in 1841 with his parents. At that time Texas was a struggling young Republic and the county of Dallas had not been organized. The country was infested with prowling foraging Indians and the Beeman family, when they located west of where Dallas now stands, built their home and erected for its protection a stockade, or fort, known as Bird's Fort. There were few inhabitants in this part of the country and the Beeman family had no near neighbors. After living at Bird's Fort several years Billie Beeman, as he was known by Dallas County pioneers, moved to the bluffs of the Trinity River, where the city of Dallas was subsequently founded. In 1851 he embarked in the carriage and wagon trade and established a business on Elm Street. In this same year he was married to Miss Martha Dye, a member of a pioneer family. The location of the present busy shopping district of Dallas was then covered with the timber of Trinity River bottom and Mr. Beeman cleared the land on which has since been erected many of the handsomest business buildings of Dallas. After the war broke out Mr. Beeman moved to his farm, three miles east of the city, where he died Saturday morning. _______ WILLIAM H. BEEMAN , a pioneer of Dallas county, Texas, was born in Greene county, Illinois, in May, 1827, the third in a family of 10 children born to John and Emily (Honeycutt) Beeman, natives of Georgia and South Carolina respectively. The father moved to Illinois in an early day, settling near Alton, where he was subsequently married. He was a farmer and millwright by trade, and also ran a ferry and wood yard in Illinois. He emigrated to Texas with horse teams in 1840, having bought 640 acres before starting, of a frontier trader, and located 80 miles from any settlement. The first six months he lived in a fort, and afterward located on land that is now within the city limits. He always made this county his home, and his death occurred in 1850; the mother is still living, residing on Ten Mile creek, Dallas county. William H. Beeman was reared and educated in Illinois, and at the age of 14 years came to Texas and aided in opening up the home farm. He commenced life for himself in Dallas, in the carriage and wagon makers' trade, and in 1851 commenced business for himself on Elm Street, which he continued about 15 years. Mr. Beeman cleared the land where his three-story brick building now stands, known as Deering Block, on Elm Street. After the war broke out Mr. Beeman moved to his farm, where he has 77 acres in a good state of cultivation, having given most of his land to his children. He was married in Dallas County, in 1851, to Martha Dye, a native of Virginia, and a daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Dye, also natives of Virginia. The parents settled in Kentucky in an early day and in 1847 came to Dallas, where the father died, in 1852, and the mother a few years later. Mr. and Mrs. Beeman have had 10 children. The living are: 1. J. E., in East Dallas 2. Nevada 3. Addie, wife of Benjamin Saye, of Dallas county 4. Holly, of East Dallas 5. L. O., at home 6. Roxie, also at home. Mr. Beeman has seen the complete development of Dallas county, and rode in the first wagon that ever came into Dallas. Politically, he is a Democrat, has always taken an interest in everything for the good of the county, and aids materially in all public enterprises. He assisted in the organization of the county, having ridden 140 miles on horseback to see the judge and get an order to organize. - Memorial & Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas, 1892, p. 856. - o o o -

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Aged 78 Years. In loving remembrance of my husband.

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