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

J. MARK McBEATH was born April 14, 1865 (the same on which President 
Lincoln was assissinated), in Monticello, Wayne, Co., Ky., and is the 
youngest of four living children born to Robert C. and Sarepta (Fleming) 
McBeath, the former of whom was a native of Fentress County, Tenn., and 
the latter of Wayne County, Ky. They were of Scotch and English descent, 
respectively, and were born June 15, 1829, and August 18, 1833.  When 
but a mere child Robert C. McBeath removed with his parents to Wayne 
County, Ky., where he received a good common school and academic 
education in youth, and where he married.  In early life he taught 
school for a number of years, and was afterward elected school 
commissioner for Wayne County, and held that position for some twelve 
years; he was then employed as a traveling salesman for John P. Morton & 
Co., of Louisville, for abut seven years, since which time he has been 
engaged in teaching at the Merrimac Academy in Taylor County, Ky. From 
early life he has been a consistent member of the Christian Church.  His 
father, John McBeath, was born near the present site of Knoxville, in 
east Tennessee, August 8, 1797, and at one time owend the land on which 
that city is built. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits and at 
merchandising until his death, which occurred October 11, 1879.  His 
father, Andrew McBeath, the great-grandfather of J. Mark, was born in 
the north of Ireland, immigrated to the colony of Pennsylvania in 1750. 
He belonged to the Pennsylvania militia during the war of the 
Revolution, and helped to guard the Hessians captured by Gen. Washington 
at Trenton, J. J., on Christmas day, 1776. Mrs. Sarepta McBeath departed 
this life Decembr 9, 1868; she was all her life a devout member of the 
Christian Church.  At the age of fourteen J. Mark McBeath was employed 
as a salesman in a dry goods sotre at Priceville, KY., remained about 
two years, after which he was employed in an express office for a time. 
In August, 1882, he entered the Glasgow Normal, Scientific and Business 
College, and graduated from that institution with high honors with the 
class of 1883-84. After that he taught for one year at Edmonton, 
Metcalfe County, Ky., and in the spring of 1885 opened a harness and 
saddler shop at that place, where he is doing a good business.  He is 
also assistant postmaster at Edmonton. Mr. McBeath is one of the rising 
young men of the county, and is highly respected by all who know him.

Fleming Lincoln McBeath Taylor Washington
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Fentress-TN Glasgow-Barren Ireland Knoxville-TN Louisville-Jefferson 
Monticello-Wayne PA Priceville-Hart Taylor Trenton-NJ

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