Marietta V. Upton (Mary, May, Mollie, Molly)
Daughter of Ben Upton and Adaran Walden

        Beall granddaughter Marion Pennington Boyles provided this photo and a biography on Willie Beall. This is an excerpt on Mollie.
         "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. 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 and 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."