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Family
of William Lewis Beauchamp & Rosa Leftwich 1913 The Beauchamp girls of Collinsville  Not pictured is Charles Peyton Beauchamp, brother to the girls.
 Charles Peyton Beauchamp  Charles Peyton (Pate) Beauchamp
Charles Peyton Beauchamp is the only son of William L. Beauchamp and Rosa Leftwich to live to adulthood. He grew up with seven sisters on the P. G. Beauchamp farm in Collinsville. A fine upstanding man, he was also a prankster and very adventurous. As a young lad it is said he won the Grayson County Cotton Picking contest. As strange as it may be, he left the farm when of age to seek adventure. He decided cotton farming was not what he planned on making an occupation of and headed to Indian Territory. He lived for a while in Indian territory and actually lived with the Indians for a while. He came home to Collinsville to see his parents on one occasion, coming into the house with his hat on which was taboo. His sisters scorned him about it and when at the table, his mother told him to get that thing off his head; and low and behold, he had a Mohawk hair cut! After a while his father bought into and ran the Brass hardware store in Roff, and Pate joined him for a while in the business as well as being a Deputy. About this time he met, or began courting, his future bride, Myrtle Vaden, who was teaching school there. He was a prominent member of the Collinsville Masonic Lodge as were his father, William, and Grandfather. Sabird. His life was full of accomplishments and memorable events such as a gunfight in Roff with a fellow officer who died from his wounds and was killed, . . . The Beauchamp's were active members of the Collinsville Methodist Church.  Biography Index Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |