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| "Mollie,
Virginia, and their children are buried in the cemetery at Bethlehem Baptist Church
which is near where the family lived. As one enters the gate to the cemetery,
the Beall's plot is directly to the back under a huge oak tree. In the center
is a four-sided marble obelisk about four feet high. On the front side is the
name "Beall." On the right side is the name Mollie Upton and under her
name, her children are listed with the dates of each one's birth and death. Then
on the right side all of these are buried in a row side by side."
From
Bio by Marion Pennington Boyles The last two listed on the tombstone were born to Blanche V. Upton and were not the children of Mollie. Penny Starling via email dated 31 Aug. 2005 |
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LELIA
M. Born April 10, 1895 Died Sep. 20, 1895 LULA Born & Died May 19, 1900 ESTELL Born May 10, 1892 Died June 3, 1902 MARY LIZZIE Born Dec. 17, 1905 Died April 2, 1906 FRANK Born & Died Dec. 7, 1906 |
| Notes: Found family in 1900 Census in Smith, Laurens County, Georgia. W.L. born Sept 1865; Molly born July 1872; William born Dec. 1891; Benj. born June 1892; daughter born April 1895, and Annie Lee born Nov. 1897. Blanche is not yet in the household. There should have been an Estell according to the tombstone above, who would have been 8 in 1900. According to the tombstone Lula was born and died in 1900. I have not found a Mortality schedule for the 1900 census to see if she is listed. |
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MOLLIE
U. Wife
of
Mollie is Marietta V. Upton, daughter of Ben Upton and Adaran Walden.
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| BLANCHE
U . Wife
of
Blanche is the cousin of Marietta V. Upton and Willie Beall's second wife. |
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| "The
name of the cemetery is Bethelem Baptist located six miles from Dublin. Inside
the sanctuary there are about six different pictures of the different churches
built over time. It is still avery active church. Once when we visited the cemetery
the Beall tombstone was partially off its base. I left a note for the pastor and
asked if he could hire someone to fix it. I remember leaving a check made out
to the church for $25.00 and told the pastor if that was not enough I would pay
more. He wrote and told me who fixed it and that the money was enough. The last
time we took Mother back just a few months before she died and the stone was repaired.
I'm so glad we did it because it would have probably fallen and just never replaced." Email from Marion, sister of Penny Starling, via email 2 September 2005. |