Wilson Asbury "Squire" BEAVER
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Additional BEAVER Surnames in BEAVER Cemetery
BEAVER, Abigale JBEAVER, Andrew MBEAVER, Van, DRBEAVER, EdnieBEAVER, George AlbertBEAVER, HenryBEAVER, AliceBEAVER, HerbertBEAVER, Infant DaughterBEAVER, Infant SonBEAVER, Infant DaughterBEAVER, NoraBEAVER, Osina FBEAVER, VirginiaBEAVER, David BBEAVER, Sarah ABEAVER, Ada AtraBEAVER, Christian "Christine"BEAVER, Drucilla Belle "Dove"BEAVER, Joseph HenryBEAVER, Martha AnnBEAVER, Nancy Jane "Nannie"BEAVER, William Oliver HigginsBEAVER, RayBEAVER, RoseBEAVER, Russell Additional BEAVER Surnames in CARROLL County
BEAVER, Florence EileenBEAVER, Rollie WBEAVER, Allen JBEAVER, Carl ABEAVER, Carl JeffersonBEAVER, MaybellBEAVER, CharlesBEAVER, LeroyBEAVER, Louie ABEAVER, Vonnie JBEAVER, Mary Emeline "Polly"BEAVER, CBEAVER, NBEAVER, NancyBEAVER, Vinie ABEAVER, WoodrowBEAVER, James TBEAVER, Thomas RileyBEAVER, Mary Emeline "Polly" (Portrait)
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Submitted: 8/21/14 • Approved: 5/4/23 • Last Updated: 5/7/23 • R1033235-G0-S3
7 Jun 1831 in Macon County, NC
13 May 1915 Beaver, Carroll County, AR
Son of Martin Van Buren Beaver Sr and Christian Pendergrass
Husband of Martha Perkins and Rhoda Emeline Waits
Biography (Carroll Co Historical Records)
The historic town of Beaver, Arkansas is named for Squire Wilson Ashbury Beaver, born June 7, 1831. Although Squire Beaver was a native of North Carolina, he had relocated to Tennessee with his parents in 1835 and at the age of twenty, he married Emeline Waits, a native of Alabama. Family history also suggests that Emeline was a half-sister to Judge L.B. Saunders, a very influential Carroll County settler who played a major role in the devlopment of both Berryville and Eureka Springs.
In 1857, Squire and Emeline purchased roughly 348 acres of land on the banks of the White River in the Ozarks from John and Sarah Williams, who had acquired the land from the U.S Government. In that same year, the doomed Fancher Wagon Train passed through Beaver on their way to California. 120 members of their caravan would later be killed in Utah during the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre. Other early homesteaders in the Beaver area included the families of Walden, Shelton, Gaskins, Lundy, Swope, Creed, Perkins, Wilson, Pyle, and Pyatt.
He passed away in 1915.
Contributed on 8/21/14 by judyfrog
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