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Family of Luther Sanford Beasley
Farmers in Lexington, Illinois
The Beasley or Beazley family first arrived in Virginia before 1735.
They were prominent slave and plantation owners for several generations
Spotsylvania, Culpeper, and Essex Counties.
In 1851, Thomas Beasley of Brandy Station, Culpeper, Virginia, married Ann Elizabeth Claggett, the daughter of Samuel Claggett III and Lucy Sanford, and a granddaughter of the Revolutionary War surgeon Dr. Samuel Claggett Jr. The Daughters of the American Revolution report that in Dr. Claggett served in the Revolutionary War "est[timated] 1777 Charles Co. MD, while student of medicine at Port Tobacco, MD, as surgeon's mate; settled in VA after RW [Revolutionary War]; dd [died] 4th Monday of March 1821."
First cousins Ruth Matella Claggett and Luther Sanford Beasley m. 20 Aug 1882 in Lexington, McLean County, Illinois. They had seven children. Luther Sanford Beasley was born six miles from Brandy Station in Culpeper, Virginia. He moved between 1870 and 1880 to Lexington, Illinois where he lived for many years when he moved back to Virginia with his wife in 1912. In his obituary, it stated he was visiting Lexington for several months during 1915 when he had a heart attack or stroke and died while picking corn one morning.
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| Beasley Family c.1898. Rear (L-R): Father Luther Beasley, Johnson, Mattie (the mother) holding Kitty, and Beulah. Front row: Felix, Frances, Ruth, and Guy. Lexington, Illinois. |
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| The Beasley children in 1903. (L-R) Felix, Frances, Ruth, John, Kitty, Guy, and Beulah. |
| The Beasley family circa 1914. (Front row, L-R) Luther Sanford Beasley (father), Kitty, and Ruth Matella Claggett (mother). (Back row, L-R) Frances, Guy, John, Beulah, Felix, and Ruth. |
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