Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Barren County.

THEOPHILUS J. McBEATH, son of Robert C. and Saraepta (Fleming) McBeath, 
was born August 5, 1858, in Wayne County, Ky. He received a good common 
school and academic education in youth, and at the age of eighteen began 
teaching in the public and select schools of the country.  In 1880 he 
removed to Cameron, Clinton Co., Mo., where he followed his profession 
for two years. In 1883 he accepted a position in the Indianola (Texas) 
High School, which, later, he resigned to return to his native State. He 
then took a normal and scientific course at the Glasgow Normal School, 
and received his degree of B. S. in 1884. He then conducted for one year 
the Tompkinsville Academy, at the end of which time he resigned to 
assume the principalship of the Middleburgh Seminary, of which he still 
has charge. March 5, 1885, Prof. McBeath was united in marriage with 
Jennie Chism, a daughter of T. T. and Mary A. (Howard) Chism, both 
natives of Monroe County, where Mrs. McBeath was born December 12, 1865.  
The Professor and wife are members of the Reformed Church.  He is a 
Republican.

Chism Fleming Howard McBeath
=
Cameron-Clinton Glasgow-Barren Indianolo-TX MO Tompkinsville-Monroe 
Wayne

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