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Dr. Augustus Thomas Benton BEAUCHAMP
THE PARIS NEWS Fri., Dec. 29, 1950:
Dr. Beauchamp of Blossom Dies - Dr. A. T. B. Beauchamp, 86, who started practicing medicine at Blossom in 1887, died at home there Thursday morning at 12:45 o'clock. Active in his profession until he had a stroke early in 1949, he died unexpectedly of a heart attack. The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, Dec. 30, at Holy Cross Episcopal Church here, by the Rev. James W. O'Connell, the rector. Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home will make interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Surviving are Mrs. Beauchamp and three daughters, Miss Lucille Beauchamp, Memphis, Tenn; Mrs. Oneita B. Packard, New Orleans, and Mrs. Helen Wheatley, El Paso; and two grandchildren, one of whom, Miss Andrea Beauchamp of New Orleans, her grandparents adopted, and Richard Wheatley of El Paso. Augustus T. B. Beauchamp was born near Shady Grove southeast of Paris, Oct. 23, 1864, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Beauchamp, who had come to Lamar County from Tennessee. He married Miss Nancy Womack, March 22, 1891. Graduated from the medical school at Tulane in 1887, he began the practice of medicine at Blossom, and continued active in it until nearly two years ago. He had been an ardent hunter in other days, and fox hunting was his special sport. The esteem in which Dr. Beauchamp was held by the people of the vicinity was attested by them in a very material way a year or so ago. The accompanying picture of him was made at the time when neighbors and other friends gathered at his home to present him with an easy chair and a purse made up by donations 'from a grateful community.'' This picture and article are in the Taylor Collection, Vol. OBIT, at the Northeast Texas Genealogical Society Library, Paris, Tx. *Tombstone is inscribed, 'Augustus Thomas Benton Beauchamp, M.D.
THE PARIS NEWS, Mon., Jan. 6, 1969:
Mrs. Nancy W. Beauchamp Dies in Paris - Mrs. A.T.B. Beauchamp, widow of longtime Blossom physician, died Sunday, Jan. 5, at 10:25 a.m. in St. Joseph's Hospital here at the age of 101 years. The former Nancy Womack, daughter of W.A. and Sarah E. (Thompson) Womack, Mrs. Beauchamp was born at Hohenlinden, Miss., Sep. 24, 1867. The family came to Lamar County when she was 11 years old, settling at Petty, later moving to Blossom. She attended a school for young ladies at Clarksville, before her marriage, March 22, 1891, at Blossom, and had made her home there since. She was a member of Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Paris, where she continued to attend services frequently until about a year ago. She also belonged to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Funeral services at Holy Cross Church here will be conducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. by the rector, the Rev. James W. O'Connell, Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home directing burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Mrs. Beauchamp leaves three daughters: Miss Lucille Beauchamp; Mrs. Fred Packard, New Orleans, LA; and Mrs. Helen Wheatley, El Paso; and two grandchildren: Richard Wheatley, serving aboard an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin, and Miss Andrea Beauchamp, New Orleans.
THE PARIS NEWS, Monday, July 19, 1999, page 4A: 'Bringing back memories of Mrs. Beauchamp ^By Skipper Steely - Guest Columnist - ^A call came the other day. It was not much more unusual than the many that arrive over my line each week. Despite the fact that I have not published any books on the Red River pioneers in about 13 years, people still know of my interest and the huge collection of papers both here and in the archives at that university in Commerce that keeps calling itself A&M. ^But when Virginia McMillion of Austin brought up her great aunt and reminded me that I had interviewed the 100 -year-old lady in 1967, the search mechanism in my mind went into action. A few days later Virginia's letter arrived on my desk. In it was a copy of notes she took while interviewing her aunt that summer. Prompted by that, I dug back into the Lamar County Echo filles of 1967, and on September 7 there was my story and photos of Mrs. A. T. Beauchamp, nee Nancy Womack. She was sitting on a couch with her former pupil, Mrs. W. H. Armstrong. Both looked to be the same age, but there was a decade's difference in the two. ^Dad sent me out to photograph Mrs. Beauchamp on a hot August day just before I went back to East Texas State University for my senior year. 'Aunt Nannie' was about to turn 100 on September 24 and was big news in Blossom. Her home was across the tracks just as you enter the town from the west. It was hidden from view, and as the dri-veway came through the trees, there was a quaint cistern in front of a fairly old home. At the age of 21, it looked old to me. ^Maybe she convinced me that high ceilings required no air con-ditioning in Texas summers. 'It never gets above 84 in this house,' she related, saying that most nights required a blanket. She did bemoan the fact that since the advent of gas heating it had been hard to keep the place warm in the winter unless supplemented with the fireplaces. ^Although it is not in the story, I'll never forget that she insisted that living to this old age was of no small credit to her habit of drinking one glass of sherry each afternoon. I believe she said the drink always came at 4 p.m. I was impressed but never took up the habit. Sherry is pretty dry, and my taste for it has never been developed, though wine is palatable. ^The Womacks left Hohenlinden, Mississippi, when Nannie was 11 and settled near Petty. She attended a school for ladies in Clarksville. Nannie's teaching career was short. She began in a cabin northeast of Paris near Red Hill Cemetery and ended when she married Dr. Augustus Thomas Beauchamp in 1891. Born near Shady Grove, he graduated from Tulane Medical School and returned to practice in Lamar County in 1887. He died in 1950 at the young age of 86. ^Annie Mae Coward Armstrong said she rode horse-back to the Pee Dee school in west [sic, should be northeast] Lamar County 75 years before my interview. Here she attended Mrs. Beauchamp's class. Miss Nannie taught 35 students of all grades at that time. That experience with Mrs. Beauchamp continued for me a lifelong enjoyment of being around those in their 80s and 90s. Most who are healthy have a zest to last much longer. Those who are in good health still exert an effort to be peppy. Only a few are angry. Some can't see but still keep up. Hardy Moore does that, and so did my cousin Kathryn Gothard before she died at 91. She always listened to CNN and the local news, asking me con-stantly what I thought of that politician in Paris named Mike Malone. Or, as his former teacher, she would marvel at how successful little Willie Ausmus had become. ^Mrs. Beauchamp finally succumbed in January of 1969. Mrs. Armstrong died four years later at 92.
Bought Dunagin & Mitchell Merchantile from F. M. Seamster, his brother-in-law.
History of Benton County
BENTON COUNTY.
page 890Rev. F. M. Seamsterwas born in Schuyler County, Mo., in 1848, and is a son of Rev. Williamson Seamster, who was born in Virginia in 1817. He was reared in his native State, and afterward went to Kentucky, where he was united in marriage to Miss Susan Rigsbee, a native also of Virginia. They lived in Kentucky until 1837, and then moved to Missouri, where they spent the remainder of their days. The mother's death occurred in 1874, and the father afterward married Mary A. Pendergraff, by whom three children were born to him. He died in 1884. Sixteen children blessed his first marriage. Rev. F. M. Seamster was educated in Missouri, and after coming to Arkansas in 1879 became a minister of the Missionary Baptist Church, and has been actively engaged in that calling up to the present time. He is at the present time pastor of two churches on Pea Ridge, and has done much to further the cause of Christianity. He was married in 1873 to Miss Amanda Dunagan, a daughter of Elder Dunagan, of Rogers, Ark., and by her is the father of five children Carrie L., John William, Cora E., George M. and Robert M. Mr. Seamster is now living at Avoca, where he has a good farm and one of the largest orchards of small fruits in Benton County. He is a Democrat, also a Master Mason.