Thomas A. Beall

Thomas A. Beall, St., born in Dubois county, Ind., March 11, 1823, is the son of Asa and Mary (Coyle) Beall, natives of Kentucky. The former of Fayette county and the latter of Bullitt county. The father was a millwright and helped build the first grist mill at Cincinnati, O. He died in Peoria county in June, 1873, aged eighty-four years, his wife preceded him in 1872, leaving three sons and two daughters. Asa Beall was a son of Thomas Beall, an old settler of Kentucky. Asa Beall removed with his family to Illinois in 1832 and located where is now Mossville, Peoria county, but removed to Kickapoo, where he resided for many years. His children are: Thomas, Harriet, wife of James Rogers; William, a farmer of Valley township; Francis, a resident of Peoria, and Josephine, wife of William Laurence, of Peoria county.