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

JAMES C. BECKHAM, a substantial farmer of Warren County, was born August 
26, 1832, in Barren County, Ky.  He is the third child born to Samuel 
and Mary P. (Ellis) Beckham, natives of Barren County.  Samuel Beckham 
was a farmer, and died May 5, 1884, aged seventy-six years.  He was a 
son of John Beckham, who married Susan Moseley.  They were born 
respectively in South and North Carolina and were of English origin.  
James C. Beckham received a good common English education and taught 
several schools.  At twenty-one he commenced the wagon trade, which he 
followed for thirty years, and carried on a farm at the same time.  
January 11, 1855, he married Sarah E. Holman, of Warren County, a 
daughter of John W. and ELiza (Settle) Holman, natives of Virginia and 
of English descent.  Mr. Holman was a farmer and also ran a grist-mill 
and carding-mill.  He was also a teacher.  He died January 7, 1867, and 
was a son of Henry Holman, of Virginia, who was an early pioneer of 
Barren County, Ky.  Mr. and Mrs. Beckham had born to them three 
children:  Cleora E. (died at fourteen), Arthur E. (died at two years), 
and Lovell R. (died at the age of twenty).  Mr. and Mrs. Beckham are 
members of the Christian Church.  After their marriage they located in 
the community where they now reside, and in January, 1873, located on 
ninety acres; but they now own 183 acres well improved and in a high 
state of cultivtion.  Mr. Beckham was postmaster during the war at Elk 
Spring, and was a member of the Grange.  He cast his first presidential 
vote for Buchanan, but since the war has been a Republican.

Beckham Ellis Moseley Holman Settle
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Barren-KY SC NC VA

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