Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887,
Spencer Co.

BEVERLY M. BECKHAM, M.D., was born in Spencer County, Ky., September 25,
1825, and is a son of James W. and Nancy (Murphy) Beckham, the former a
native of Culpeper County, Va., and of English descent, and the latter born
in Shelby County, Ky., and of Irish extraction.  Beverly M. Beckham was
reared on the home farm, and received his early education in Spencer
County; he read medicine under Dr. James Heady, and in 1846 entered the
medical department of the University of St. Louis, from which he graduated
in 1850 and began practice in Taylorsville, whence, in 1855, he removed to
Clay Village, Shelby County, and then, in 1867, to Shelbyville, where he
still controls a very lucrative practice.  In September, 1855, he married
Miss Mary E. Carpenter, of Delaware, Ohio, who has borne him two children:
Mary E. and Carrie W.  The Doctor is a member of the Masonic order.

Beckham Murphy Heady
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Shelby Culpeper-VA Delaware-OH

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