William Isaac Beck ~ Ben Lomond Arkansas
William I. Beck, farmer and stock-raiser, Ben Lomond, Ark. Mr. Beck has had not a little to do toward developing the stock matters of Sevier County, as well as the agricultural affairs of the same, and for this account, if no other, he is accorded a worthy place in this volume. He was born in Itawamba County, Miss., in 1847, was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools. He served in Company F, Twenty-sixth Mississippi Cavalry during the last two years of the war, and operated principally in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. He was in many of the prominent engagements, and was captured at Selma, Ala., but was soon after paroled.
After the war he returned home, and in 1866 was wedded to Miss Nancy A. Lowery, a native of Mississippi and the daughter of John B. and Martha Lowery, natives, respectively, of Georgia and Alabama. Her parents were married in Mississippi, and there both received their final summons in 1879 and 1877, respectively. They were members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Beck lived in Mississippi until 1880, and then came to Sevier County, where he has since resided, near Ben Lomond, and for two years on his present farm of 231 acres, 120 acres under cultivation.
Aside from his farming interest he is quite extensively engaged in stock-raising, and since 1888 he has held the office of justice of the peace. In politics he is a Democrat, and his first presidential vote was for H. Seymour in 1868. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since his majority, and is a demitted member of the Ben Lomond Lodge No. 445, of which he was worshipful master. He has been a member of the Methodist Church since thirteen years of age. His wife is a member of the same church, and of the twelve children born to his union, nine of whom are living, all that are old enough are members of the same church.
--Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas, The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis, 1890
Children: Allie, John, Belvie, Eula, Minnie, Claude, Cora, Luther, Wesley & Lowery
Ben Lomond Happenings
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Daily Arkansas Gazette
Tue, 6/12/1906
Burglars at Ben Lomond
Ben Lomond, June 11- Burglars entered the store of BW Fawcett and dynamited the safe. An envelope containing several notes was the principal loss. A small amount of money was also taken, how much is not known.
Daily Arkansas Gazette
10/3/1907
Ben Lomond- Sawmill burned- W.A. Carrol lost his saw mill plant, together with six thousand feet of lumber, by fire at Mill's Ferry near Ben Lomond, recently. The property was uninsured.
Daily Arkansas Gazette
2/24/1907
Ben Lomond- Bank Opens
The bank at Ben Lomond opened its doors a few days ago, with Cortez Brewer, formerly of Murfreesboro, as cashier. The president of the bank is W.C. Mize, and J.M. Sutton is vice president.
Daily Arkansas Gazette
4/24/1910
Ben Lomond, The citizens of Ben Lomond, Sevier County, at a mass meeting Thursday night subscribed $15,000 to be donated to the first railroad that builds to that town.
The desire of the people of Ben Lomond is to have railroad connection with De Queen, the county seat of Sevier County, from which several roads are now being projected. Another meeting will be held Wednesday night, at which is is thought some definite propositions will be submitted and considered.
Daily Arkansas Gazette
11/10/1920
Embezzler Gets Year
Former Postmaster at Ben Lomond Sentenced in Federal Court.
Special to the Gazette
Texarkana, Nov 9
In the federal court on the Arkansas side today, former Postmaster Brown at Ben Lomond, Arkansas, was convicted on a charge of embezzling post office funds and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. The case had been pending for more than a year.
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