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Marietta V. Upton (Mary, Mollie, Molly, May)

Willie L. Beall

Photos and biography of Willie L. Beall provided by granddaughter Marion Pennington Boyles.            "The earliest information I have about our grandfather, W. L. Beall, was given to me by his daughter and my mother, Annie Lee Beall Pennington.             His first wife was Mollie Upton. In this marriage there were six children (later determined to be seven), three of which died in infancy or at a very early age. The three surviving children were Willie R., Bennie J., and Annie Lee who all lived into their eighties.            Mollie died at age 32 from an illness known as consumption. Mother was only six when Mollie died but she remembered her mother calling the three children to her bedside and hugging them. She also said that just before Mollie died a white dove flew to the window of her mother's room and lit on the window sill.            The family lived on a farm six miles south of Dublin [Laurens County, Georgia]. In later years I often took Mother back to visit her mother's grave and the old home place. The house had been well maintained an the people who lived there were extremely nice. They remembered Mother's family and would invite us to sit in the swing and visit. Mother always had to show me again the window in the room in which her mother died."

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Willie Beall Son of Mollie Upton and Willie Beall. Baptist Minister and father of W.G. Beall - the person who left his address in the Upton file in the Charlton County Historical Society that led me to the Beall family.

Annie Lee Beall Pennington Sixth child of Mollie Upton and Willie Beall; younger sibling of Willie Beall on left.

Info provided by Penny Starling email 31 August 2005.
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