Buried in Dunagan Family Cemetery.
Buried in Dunagan Family Cemetery.
George Bruce was born in South Carolina around 1812. He must have married prior to 1838, as he had a daughter, Rebecca, born in Tennessee that year and a son, Hardin, born in 1840. According to marriage records, he married Lydia Dunnegan in Dickson County, Tennessee, on February 15, 1841. Two more children were born in Tennessee, Ervin (1842) and Westley(1844). The family must then have moved to Kentucky, where John was born in 1846, and then to Arkansas, where Morgan was born in 1847. By 1850 the family was in White River Township of Independence County. George and his wife both died around 1852, leaving an additional child, Susan, born in 1850. At the time of the 1860 census, Susan was living with the family of Seluchiel Morris, Rebecca and Hardin with Thomas and Phoeba Gibbs, and Wesley and Morgan with the Michael Tyre family. Wesley served in the 8th Arkansas Infantry (CSA), and married Elizabeth Baird on December 20, 1870 in Independence County. He applied for a confederate pension in 1918 in Independence County. According to Thomas Allen Bruce’s The Bruce Web, published in 1984, Susan married James Moody on Nov. 30, 1883, and Rebecca married William Palmer.
Judge Thomas Lamar BEAUCHAMP Sr.
THE PARIS NEWS, 26 Apr 1964:
Judge Tom L. Beauchamp, 81, a jurist prominent not only in legal circles but in public affairs of a wide scope, ever since he entered professional life, died Sunday night at 8:30 in the L.P. McCuistion Community Hospital here, Judge Beauchamp, who had been ill at home, 821 Clarksville St., was admitted to the hospital Saturday morning. Formerly judge of The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, assistant attorney general of Texas and county judge of Lamar County, Judge Beauchamp held a variety of other public and civic positions during his long and active life, and had just retired from the board presidency of Lamar Creamery Company of Paris. Judge Beauchamp was one of the outstanding Boy Scouters of his time, being one of the few Texans to hold the rare Silver Antelope Award from Boy Scouts of America. And he was the only man in the Southwest to serve as president of three separate Boy Scout councils during his lifetime. Funeral services, Tuesday at 2 p.m., will be conducted in Fry and Gibbs chapel, with interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Officiating will be the Rev. Don Mecoy of First Christian Church where Judge Beauchamp had his membership; Dr. M.E. Sadler, chancellor of Texas Christian University, and the Rev. Melville Nesbit Jr., Central Presbyterian Church. Besides his wife, the former Miss Augusta Walker, whom he married here 7 May 1906, Judge Beauchamp leaves a daughter, Mrs. J. C. Pugh; a son, Tom L Beauchamp Jr.,; these grandchildren: Mrs. R. D. Johnston, J. C. Pugh Jr., and Tom L. Beauchamp III, Yale University student; five great grandchildren, and a brother, M. G. Beauchamp, all of Dallas, and a sister, Mrs. Fauna Rankin, of Keene. Son of Jesse Denson Beauchamp and the former Josie Easter Hamby, Thomas Lamar Beauchamp was born in Pulaski, Tenn., 24 Aug 1882, but the family moved to Lamar County when he was nine years old. He attended school at Biardstown and Sam Houston State Teachers College at Huntsville, later receiving his law degree from the University of Texas. He was married while teaching school in the county, and he also edited the weekly Roxton Wide-Awake and The Petty Enterprise for a time. As a deputy county clerk, he began the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1912. Elected county judge in 1914, he served four years, promoting good roads and the rebuilding of the courthouse after the 1916 fire. In 1918, he was appointed captain of infantry by Gov. W.P. Hobby, recruiting more than 500 men and forming three units. He was assistant attorney general under Cureton and Deeling, returning to Paris on petition of the city council, as city solicitor six years. In January, 1939, he was appointed secretary of state until Oct 10, when he was appointed to the Court of Criminal Appeals, being elected to the post in 1940 and reelected in 1946. He practiced law in Tyler some years, and there as in Paris and Austin, his civic work included chairmanship of the Boy Scout Area Council. He also served as a board member of the National Council of Boy Scouts of America; on the Texas State Park Board under Moody and Allred 10 years, promoting the Big Bend as a national park; received an honorary LLD degree from Texas Christian University, where he formerly was on the board of Brite College of the Bible; an organizer and board member of University Christian Church, and an officer of the Austin Council of Churches. His various legal connections led to his appearing before every Texas federal district court, all the state's civil appeals courts and the state supreme court in Texas; the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the United States Supreme Court.' *On the same stone with Augusta Walker Beauchamp. Buried next to Kathleen Beauchamp Pugh.
Was a Confederate soldier.
Buried in Dunagan Cemetery, Hickman County, Tennessee.
Mary Elizabeth DUNNAGAN (DOAS)
Buried in Dunagan Cemetery, Hickman County, Tennessee.
Dunagan Cemetery, Hickman County, Tennessee.
Dunagan Cemetery, Hickman County, Tennessee.
Dunagan Cemetery, Hickman County, Tennessee.
Dunagan Cemetery, Hickman County, Tennessee.