The FIRST COLLIER to America: Samuel Collier

Samuel Collier came to America from England in 1607, with the first company of colonist. He was still a "youth" and acted as a "page" for Captain John Smith. He also accompanied the Captain on exploration excursions to "unkown parts of Virginia". In 1609 he was left with the Warraskoyack Indians to learn their language. He died young, without children.
Click HERE to read more about the Colliers who settled in VA.

The Greene County Record, Greene Co., VA, Thu, Oct. 16, 1930

Roller Collier, of Gordonsville, VA, was instantly killed by a hit-and-run driver as he was walking toward his home from Charlottesville about midnight Saturday. The accident occurred between Shadwell and Keswick on the Jefferson highway. Less than three hours later, Joseph Crews, colored resident of the Keswick neighborhood, was arrested on a charge of driving an automobile while under the influence of liquor and on suspicion of being the driver responsible for Collier's death. He is said to have confessed to Deputy Sheriff W. Abbot Smith. At the time of the accident Collier was walking towards Gordonsville on the right hand side of the road and was accompanied by his son-in-law, Emmett Raynor, also of Gordonsville. Raynor stated that a light roadster going at a rapid rate, ran into his -father-in-law, righted itself in the highway and disappeared down the road without any noticeable check in pace. Deputy Smith, who sought the hit-and-run driver, about 2 miles from the scene, on the sand-clay Boyd's Tavern road, found a roaster corresponding to the one described by Raynor, ditched on the side of the road. At the steering wheel in an intoxicated condition he found Crews. A second arrest has been made in connection with the killing - Allie Redman; also colored, who Crews claims was driving the car when Mr. Collier was struck. Mr. Collier's right leg and neck were found to have been broken. The funeral of Mr. Collier took place at Gordonsville Monday. Mr. Collier was a native of Greene county. He leaves a wife and three children.

Rev. Isaac Newton Harvey Beahm 5/14/1859 - 11/1950

Obituary

November 1950
Untimely Death of Rev. I. N. H. Beahm

"Only two weeks ago this paper carried an article on the outstanding career of one of the most versatile ministers in Northern Virginia, the Reverend I. N. H. Beahm, of the Church of the Brethren, and it is with sorrow that it now records his untimely death. Rev. Beahm, 91, was killed in an automobile accident last Saturday night in a head-on collision two miles south of Martinsville, Va. Four other persons were injured.

Known throughout the state of Virginia as "Brother Beahm," the deceased minister had been a pastor in the churches of the Brethren for over sixty-nine years and was returning from the denomination's church at Ridgeway when the accident happened. He had been scheduled to preach at a Leaksville, N.C. church on Sunday. C. W. Sweitzer, principal of the Ridgeway High School and driver of the car in which Mr. Beahm was riding, and Clinton Amos and Ernest Cannaday, of Martinsville, and Grady Lawson, of Bassett, who were in the other car, were all taken to the Martinsville hospital.

Rev. Isaac Newton Harvey Beahm was born at Good's Mill in Rockingham County on May 14, 1859, and was graduated from Bridgewater College as valedictorian of his class in 1887. After earning a degree in anthropology in New York, he returned to Bridgewater in 1888 to teach.

One of the founders of the Daleville College, he acted as its principal from 1890 to 1894. He was also principal of Lordsburg College from 1899 to 1900 and of Elizabeth Town College from 1903 to 1909, when he began preaching at Nokesville.

Rarely did Mr. Beahm miss an annual conference of his church and was yearly in attendance at district and regional meetings. A familiar figure on trains and buses as he went through the country to preach, he always wore a long frock coat and plain collar. During his illustrious career, Mr. Beahm preached in most of the 48 states and had once spent some time in Jerusalem where he reported one of his most attentive audiences.

Mr. Beahm's wife, the former Miss Mary Bucher, of Pennsylvania, preceded him in death several years ago ... Last rites were held at Nokesville on Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock with Rev. Rufus Rucker, of York, Pa., and Rev. Fleshman, of Nokesville, officiating. Ministers and friends from all over Northern Virginia were in attendance, attesting to the love and esteem in which he was held."

Issac Newton Harvey Beahm was the son of  Henry Abraham Beahm and Annie E. Showalter Beahm.  He was brother to John, William, Charles, David, Betty, and Benjamin.

Beahm Lineage

#1
Jakob Böhme (1446(?) - 1578(?) married (unknown)

#2
Amrosius Böhme (1484-1563) married (unknown)

#3
Jacob Böhme (1553-1618) married Usel

#4
Jakob Böhme (April 24, 1575– November 17, 1624) married Katharina (daughter of Hans Kuntzschmann, a butcher in Görlitz)
Childrn:
*four sons and two daughters

#5
Jakob Böhme (1668- ) married Anna Marie Sherer
Children:
*RUDOLPH married Elizabeth ? (4 children Ann, Barbara, Jacob & Christian)
*JACOB

#6
Jacob Böhme b. 1693 in Rhineland, Germany) came to America around 1715. He married BARBARA KENDIG (b.1695 d.1780) on November 1724 in Lancaster County, PA.
Children:
*MARTIN ((November 30, 1725 – March 23, 1812 PA)
*ABRAHAM (b. abt. 1727 PA & married Barbara Herr Nissley (she developed Belmont or Mama Boehm apple. Their decendents are Canadian).
*JACOB (b. abt 1731 PA (listed as 1st son by family documents))
*SUSANNAH (b. Feb. 12, 1732 PA (married HENRY RESH))
*JOHN (b. abt. 1733 d. June 1800 Shenandoah Co., VA)
*TOBIAS (b. 1734)
*FRONICA (b. abt. 1735 (married JACOB SHOAFF))
*MARY b. abt. 1737 (married HENRY STIGGLER)
*MAGDELENA b. Jan. 5, 1738/9 (married FRIDRICH SHOAFF)
*ANNA b. abt. 1739 (married MARTIN BYER)
*BARBARA b. abt. 1741 (died early)
*ELIZABETH b. abt. 1743 (married MICHAEL MYER)


#7
JOHN BEAHM (NAME CHANGE) married MARY KEAGY (b. abt 1738) in Pennsylvania.
Children:
*JACOB (b. abt 1760 d. 1820 Beahm Family Graveyard, Kemp Hollow, Page Co., VA)
*ABRAHAM (b. abt 1765)
*JOHN (b. abt 1767)
*TOBIAS (b. abt 1777)


#8
JACOB BEAHM married CATHERINE KEEDY (b. abt 1760 d.1837)
Children:
CATHERINE (b. 1780)
ABRAHAM (b. Feb. 9, 1788 Shenandoah County, VA d. May 16, 1847)
ANNA (b. abt 1790)
BARBARA (b. 1790 d. 1832)
MARTIN (b. Jan. 10, 1794)
JOHN WILLIAM (b. abt 1796 d. 1835)
JACOB (b. 1797)
HENRY

#9
John William Beahm (1786 - 1835) married Nancy Ann Bowen on Feb 4, 1813, in Culpeper Co. VA
Children:
* Strother Lloyd Beahm b: 1814 d: 1851 + Edith Frances Bowen b: 1834 d: 19 SEP 1906
* Mildred Beahm b: 1816 + James Daniel b: ABT 1813
* William Beahm b: 1818 d: 1880 + Mary Jane Bailey b: 1823 d: SEP 1881
* Daniel Beahm b: 1820 + Mary T. Smelser b: ABT 1823
* Elizabeth Virginia Beahm b: 1820 + Gabriel Brown b: MAY 1824
* Silas Jacob Beahm b: 1821
* George Washington Beahm b: 14 APR 1825 d: 5 AUG 1923 + Nancy Ellen Bolen b: 17 SEP 1829 d: 3 MAY 1915
* John Beahm b: 1827 d: MAR 1852 + Sarah A. Long b: 1829
* Warner Royal Beahm b: 1827 d: 13 MAR 1920 + Frances Margaret Gaines b: DEC 1835
* Martha Margaret Beahm b: 12 JUL 1829 d: 13 JUL 1917
* Eliza Ann Beahm b: 21 NOV 1832 d: 16 JUL 1880 + William Franklin Foster b: 4 SEP 1828 d: 30 JAN 1894

#10
Warren Royal Beahm (Aug 1827 - Mar 13 1920) married Frances Margaret GainesChildren:
* Mary Elizabeth Beahm b: 11 JUN 1856
* Jackanias Elby L. G. Beahm b: 15 Oct 1857 d: 7 May 1938 + Mollie V. O'Donnell b: 13 Jan 1869 d: 14 Oct 1924
* Sarah Frances Beahm b: 11 Oct 1859 d: Feb 1918 + Thomas Welsh Weaver b: 11 Jan 1852 d: 1948
* William Warner Rippetoe Beahm b: 11 DEC 1861 d: 11 NOV 1945 + Elizabeth Frances Gaines b: 15 JUN 1873 d: 26 FEB 1961
* John Reuben Beahm b: Jun 1864 d: 17 Dec 1949 + Nannie Corbin b: 7 May 1868 d: 14 Feb 1934
* Eliza J. Beahm b: 21 SEP 1866 + Hugh Frye b: ABT 1863
* Samuel Jacob Hubert Beahm b: 17 MAR 1868 d: 27 DEC 1959 + Susan Mary Ann Elizabeth Beahm b: 1 FEB 1871 d: 29 APR 1922
* Susan Rebecca Beahm b: 8 APR 1870 + Henry Wade Corbin b: 1870
* Charles Hubert D. Beahm b: MAR 1872 + Daisy Corbin b: OCT 1878
* Mary Anna Beahm b: APR 1877
* Ella B. Beahm b: JUN 1879 + Ollie W. Tanner b: ABT 1876
* Katie Lovice Beahm b: SEP 1880 + Charles Andrew Jacobs b: 2 Apr 1877 d: 31 Oct 1955

#11
William Warren Rippetoe Beahm (Dec 11 1861 - Nov 11 1945) married Elizabeth Frances "Fannie" Gaines around 1889.
Children:
John William BEAHM
Stella Florence BEAHM
George BEAHM
Corrie (Carrie) Lee BEAHM
Frank BEAHM
Lillie M. BEAHM
Rachel BEAHM
Levi BEAHM
Amos Gaines BEAHM
Silas Elwood BEAHM
Arthur Nelson BEAHM
Eliza Jane BEAHM
Evelyn Frances BEAHM

Click this LINK to read a speech given by James A. Galloway at Boehm's Chapel (Pennsylvania)about branches of the Beahm family in 1991.

Edna C. Geyer 6/2/1912 - 10/7/2010

Edna C. Geyer
Formerly of Wilkins Township

Edna C. (Campbell) Geyer, 98, formerly of Wilkins Township, died peacefully Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at her daughter's home, in Brookville. She was born July 2, 1912, the daughter of the late Robert and Ethel Campbell. Edna was married to the late Arthur R. Geyer. She was a member of Penn Hills Free Methodist Church and was a dedicated Sunday School teacher for more than 55 years. Edna was a loving, generous lady who shared a Godly heritage with everyone who knew her. She treasured her large family and enjoyed spending time with each of them. She is survived by her sister, Clara Shutterly; and brother, Hector Campbell. She was the mother of Ethel May (the Rev. Charles) Beahm, Charles L. Geyer, Beverly G. (Thomas) Mazik and Karen L. (Jack) Wollerton. She was proud of her 14 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her brothers, Alex, Robert and Sonny; her daughter-in-law, Amy; and her oldest grandchild, Douglas. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the JOBE FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION SERVICES INC., corner of Shaw and Triboro avenues, Turtle Creek, 412-823-1950, where a service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday. Interment will follow at Restland Memorial. Contributions may be made to Asera Care Hospice, 231 Allegheny Blvd., Suite B, Brookville, PA 15825. www.jobefuneralhome.com.

THE SKILLFUL HUNTSMAN a story by Howard Pyle

[1] ONCE upon a time there was a lad named Jacob Boehm, who was a practical huntsman.

One day Jacob said to his mother, "Mother, I would like to marry Gretchen—the nice, pretty little daughter of the Herr Mayor."

Jacob's mother thought that he was crazy. "Marry the daughter of the Herr Mayor, indeed! You want to marry the daughter of the Herr Mayor? Listen; many a man wants and wants, and nothing comes of it!"

That was what Jacob Boehm's mother said to him.

But Jacob was deaf in that ear; nothing would do but his mother must go to the Herr Mayor, and ask for leave for him to marry Gretchen. And Jacob begged and begged so prettily that at last his mother promised to go and do as he wished. So off she went, though doubt was heavy in her shoes, for she did not know how the Herr Mayor would take it.

"So Jacob wants to marry Gretchen, does he?" said the Herr Mayor.

Yes; that was what Jacob wanted.

[2] "And is he a practical huntsman?" said the Herr Mayor.

Oh yes, he was that.

"So good," said the Herr Mayor. "Then tell Jacob that when he is such a clever huntsman as to be able to shoot the whiskers off from a running hare without touching the skin, then he can have Gretchen."

Then Jacob's mother went back home again. "Now," said she, "Jacob will, at least, be satisfied."

[3] "Yes," said Jacob, when she had told him all that the Herr Mayor had said to her, "that is a hard thing to do; but what one man has done, another man can." So he shouldered his gun, and started away into the world to learn to be as clever a huntsman as the Herr Mayor had said.

He plodded on and on until at last he fell in with a tall stranger dressed all in red.

"Where are you going, Jacob?" said the tall stranger, calling him by his name, just as if he had eaten pottage out of the same dish with him.

"I am going," said Jacob, "to learn to be so clever a huntsman that I can shoot the whiskers off from a running hare without touching the skin."

"That is a hard thing to learn," said the tall stranger.

Yes; Jacob knew that it was a hard thing; but what one man had done another man could do.

"What will you give me if I teach you to be as clever a huntsman as that?" said the tall stranger.

"What will you take to teach me?" said Jacob; for he saw that the stranger had a horse's hoof instead of a foot, and he did not like his looks, I can tell you.

"Oh, it is nothing much that I want," said the tall man; "only just sign your name to this paper—that is all."

But what was in the paper? Yes; Jacob had to know what was in the paper before he would set so much as a finger to it.

Oh, there was nothing in the paper, only this: that when the red one should come for Jacob at the end of ten years' time, Jacob should promise to go along with him whithersoever he should take him.

[4] At this Jacob hemmed and hawed and scratched his head, for he did not know about that. "All the same," said he, "I will sign the paper, but on one condition."

At this the red one screwed up his face as though he had sour beer in his mouth, for he did not like the sound of the word "condition." "Well," said he, "what is the condition?"

"It is only this," said Jacob: "that you shall be my servant for the ten years, and if, in all that time, I should [5] chance to ask you a question that you cannot answer, then I am to be my own man again."

Oh, if that was all, the red man was quite willing for that.

Then he took Jacob's gun, and blew down into the barrel of it. "Now," said he, "you are as skillful a huntsman as you asked to be."

"That I must try," said Jacob. So Jacob and the red one went around hunting here and hunting there until they scared up a hare. "Shoot!" said the red one; and Jacob shot. Clip! off flew the whiskers of the hare as neatly as one could cut them off with the barber's shears.

"Yes, good!" said Jacob, "now I am a skillful huntsman."

Then the stranger in red gave Jacob a little bone whistle, and told him to blow in it whenever he should want him. After that Jacob signed the paper, and the stranger went one way and he went home again.

Well, Jacob brushed the straws off from his coat, and put a fine shine on his boots, and then he set off to the Herr Mayor's house.

"How do you find yourself, Jacob?" said the Herr Mayor.

"So good," said Jacob.

"And are you a skillful huntsman now?" said the Herr Mayor.

Oh yes, Jacob was a skillful huntsman now.

Yes, good! But the Herr Mayor must have proof of that. Now, could Jacob shoot a feather out of the tail of the magpie flying over the trees yonder?

Oh yes! nothing easier than that. So Jacob raised [6] the gun to his cheek. Bang! went the gun, and down fell a feather from the tail of the magpie. At this the Herr Mayor stared and stared, for he had never seen such shooting.

"And now may I marry Gretchen?" said Jacob.

At this the Herr Mayor scratched his head, and hemmed and hawed. No; Jacob could not marry Gretchen yet, for he had always said and sworn that the man who should marry Gretchen should bring with him a plough that could go of itself, and plough three furrows at once. If Jacob would show him such a plough as [7] that, then he might marry Gretchen and welcome. That was what the Herr Mayor said.

Jacob did not know how about that; perhaps he could get such a plough, perhaps he could not. If such a plough was to be had, though, he would have it. So off he went home again, and the Herr Mayor thought that he was rid of him now for sure and certain.

But when Jacob had come home, he went back of the woodpile and blew a turn or two on the little bone whistle that the red stranger had given him. No sooner had he done this than the other stood before him as suddenly as though he had just stepped out of the door of nowheres.

"What do you want, Jacob?" said he.

"I would like," said Jacob, "to have a plough that can go by itself and plough three furrows at once."

"That you shall have," said the red one. Then he thrust his hand into his breeches pocket, and drew forth the prettiest little plough that you ever saw. He stood it on the ground before Jacob, and it grew large as you see it in the picture. "Plough away," said he, and then he went back again whither he had come.

So Jacob laid his hands to the plough and—whisk!—away it went like John Stormwetter's colt, with Jacob behind it. Out of the farm-yard they went, and down the road, and so to the Herr Mayor's house, and behind them lay three fine brown furrows, smoking in the sun.

When the Herr Mayor saw them coming he opened his eyes, you may be sure, for he had never seen such a plough as that in all of his life before.

[8] "And now," said Jacob, "I should like to marry Gretchen, if you please."

At this the Herr Mayor hemmed and hawed and scratched his head again. No; Jacob could not marry Gretchen yet, for the Herr Mayor had always said and sworn that the man who married Gretchen should bring with him a purse that always had two pennies in it and could never be emptied, no matter how much was taken out of it.

Jacob did not know how about that; perhaps he could get it and perhaps he could not. If such a thing was to be had, though, he would have it, as sure as the Mecklenburg folks brew sour beer. So off he went home again, and the Herr Mayor thought that now he was rid of him for certain.

But Jacob went back of the woodpile and blew on his bone whistle again, and once more the red one came at his bidding.

"What will you have now?" said he to Jacob.

[9] "I should like," said Jacob, "to have a purse which shall always have two pennies in it, no matter how much I take out of it."

"That you shall have," said the red one; whereupon he thrust his hand into his pocket, and fetched out a beautiful silken purse with two pennies in it. He gave the purse to Jacob, and then he went away again as quickly as he had come.

After he had gone, Jacob began taking pennies out of his purse and pennies out of his purse, until he had more than a hatful—hui! I would like to have such a purse as that.

Then he marched off to the Herr Mayor's house with his chin up, for he might hold his head as high as any, now that he had such a purse as that in his pocket. As for the Herr Mayor, he thought that it was a nice, pretty little purse; but could it do this and that as he had said?

Jacob would show him that; so he began taking pennies and pennies out of it, until he had filled all the pots and pans in the house with them. And now might he marry Gretchen?

Yes; that he might! So said the Herr Mayor; for who would not like to have a lad for a son-in-law who always had two pennies more in his purse than he could spend.

So Jacob married his Gretchen, and, between his plough and his purse, he was busy enough, I can tell you.

So the days went on and on and on until the ten [10] years had gone by and the time had come for the red one to fetch Jacob away with him. As for Jacob, he was in a sorry state of dumps, as you may well believe.

At last Gretchen spoke to him. "See, Jacob," said she, "what makes you so down in the mouth?"

"Oh! nothing at all," said Jacob.

But this did not satisfy Gretchen, for she could see that there was more to be told than Jacob had spoken. So she teased and teased, until at last Jacob told her all, and that the red one was to come the next day and take him off as his servant, unless he could ask him a question which he could not answer.

"Prut!" said Gretchen, "and is that all? Then there is no stuffing to that sausage, for I can help you out of your trouble easily enough." Then she told Jacob that when the next day should come he should do thus and so, and she would do this and that, and between them they might cheat the red one after all.

So, when the next day came, Gretchen went into the pantry and smeared herself all over with honey. Then she ripped open a bed and rolled herself in the feathers.

By-and-by came the red one. Rap! tap! tap! he knocked at the door.

"Are you ready to go with me now, Jacob?" said he.

Yes; Jacob was quite ready to go, only he would like to have one favor granted him first.

"What is it that you want?" said the red one.

"Only this," said Jacob: "I would like to shoot one more shot out of my old gun before I go with you."

[11] Oh, if that was all, he might do that and welcome. So Jacob took down his gun, and he and the red one went out together, walking side by side, for all the world as though they were born brothers.

By-and-by they saw a wren. "Shoot at that," said the red one.

"Oh no," said Jacob, "that is too small."

So they went on a little farther.

By-and-by they saw a raven. "Shoot at that, then," said the red one.

"Oh no," said Jacob, "that is too black."

[12] So they went on a little farther.

By-and-by they came to a ploughed field, and there was something skipping over the furrows that looked for all the world like a great bird. That was Gretchen; for the feathers stuck to the honey and all over her, so that she looked just like a great bird.

"Shoot at that! shoot at that!" said the red one, clapping his hands together.

"Oh yes," said Jacob, "I will shoot at that." So he raised his gun and took aim. Then he lowered his gun again. "But what is it?" said he.

At this the red one screwed up his eyes, and looked and looked, but for the life of him he could not tell what it was.

"No matter what it is," said he, "only shoot and be done with it, for I must be going."

"Yes, good! But what is it?" said Jacob.

Then the red one looked and looked again, but he could tell no better this time than he could before. "It may be this and it may be that," said he. "Only shoot and be done with it, for they are waiting for me at home."

"Yes, my friend," said Jacob, "that is all very good; only tell me what it is and I will shoot."

"Thunder and lightning!" bawled the red one, "I do not know what it is!"

"Then be off with you!" said Jacob, "for, since you cannot answer my question, all is over between us two."

At this the red one had to leave Jacob, so he fled away over hill and dale, bellowing like a bull.

[13] As for Jacob and Gretchen, they went back home together, very well pleased with each other and themselves.

And the meaning of all this is, that many another man
beside Jacob Boehm would find himself in a
pretty scrape only for his wife.

The Skillful Huntsman is a story published in the CHILDREN'S BOOK
Pepper and Salt or Seasoning For Young Folk,
written by Howard Pyle.
COPYWRITED in 1885 by HARPER & BROTHERS
COPYWRITED in 1913 by Anne Poole Pyle

Douglas Charles Beahm 12/12/1954 - 1/9/2007

Douglas Charles Beahm, 52, of Rochelle, Madison County, died Tuesday, January 9, 2007, at his residence.

He was born December 12, 1954, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He is survived by his parents, the Reverend Charles Ernest Beahm and Ethel May Geyer Beahm, both of Madison; three brothers, Donald Craig Beahm of Keswick, David Clark Beahm of Edinburg, Virginia and Dale Clifton Beahm of Burtonsville, Maryland; one sister, Denise Carol Ingraham of Eldersburg, Maryland.

Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Friday, January 12, 2007, at Preddy Funeral Home Chapel in Madison with interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Thursday, January 11, 2007, at the funeral home.

JAMES WILLIAM RAYNOR 1929-2006

James William Raynor, 77, of Orange, went home to be with the Lord after an extended illness.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Margaret Collier Raynor and Russell David Raynor; an infant sister, Minnie Pearl Raynor; a brother and sister-in-law, Richard and Betty Raynor; a nephew, Richard A. Raynor; and a niece Sandra R. Furr.

James was born January 15, 1929, in Albemarle County, the second of nine children. His companionship will be missed and memory cherished by his remaining siblings, Lucille Smith and her husband, Leonard, of Orange, Dorothy Taylor of Stanardsville, Albert C. Raynor of Orange, Helen Shumaker and her husband, Bill, of Orange, David Raynor and his wife, Mary, of Orange, Esther Beahm and her husband, Thomas, of Madison, and former brother-in-law John L. Dyer of Orange and former sister-in-law Lorraine Raynor of Orange.

James offered his love and kindness to all 16 of his nieces and nephews and a host of great and great-great -nieces and nephews. As these children were growing up, James was, and continued to be their protector and playmate: living life to its fullest and appreciating all of Gods gifts. The family rejoices in James passing while mourning their own loss.

Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, August 6, 2006, at Preddy Funeral Home Chapel in Orange with interment to follow in Mt. Paran United Methodist Church Cemetery in Greene County. The Rev. Billy Curry will officiate.

The family will receive friends from 7 until 8 p.m. this evening at the funeral home.
(Published in the Daily Progress on August 5, 2006)

Fannie Morris Collier 1897 - 1981

The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, Sat, Oct. 3, 1981
FANNIE MORRIS COLLIER
Fannie Morris Collier, 84, of Barboursville, died Friday at her home. Mrs. Collier was born in Rockingham County and was the daughter of the late George R. and Kathryn Morris. Her husband was the late Clint Collier. She is survived by three daughters; Hattie J. Dickerson of Barboursville, Mary Brill of Manassas and Addie R. Collier of Ruckersville. She is also survived by five sons, Lester Collier, Raymond Collier and Clay Collier of Barboursville, Dennis Collier, and Elmer Collier of Ruckersville, 35 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren. The funeral service will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. at Eheart Pentecostal Church of which Mrs. Collier was a member. The Rev. Edwin Deane will officiate. Interment will be at Mt. Paran Methodist Church. The family will be at Ryan Funeral Home at Quinque from 7 to 8:30 p. m. today.

Alice Marie Collier Hughes

Alice Marie Collier Hughes, 75, of Charlottesville, died Thursday, April 8, 2010, in a local hospital.
She was born February 14, 1935, in Albemarle County, she was the daughter of the late Billy and Blanche Collier.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one daughter, Carolyn Houchens Sprouse; one brother, William Elwood Collier; and one sister, Shirley Ann Collier Hagee.
She is survived by her husband, David Hughes; three sons, Charles M. Houchens and his wife, Wendy, Michael L. Houchens, and Dennis B. Houchens and his wife, Faye; three sisters, Irene Frazier and her husband, Robert, Faye Marie Morris and Kathleen Cline and her husband, Johnny; one brother, Dewey Lee Collier and his wife, Eva; 12 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren; 23 nieces and nephews; and 36 great-nieces and great-nephews.
Marie loved her family and everybody she met. We will miss her. She was always playing tricks or making jokes, always smiling and laughing. She worked at Frank Ix for many years. She enjoyed the family reunions. She made friends everywhere she went.
A memorial service will be conducted 6 p.m. Friday, April 16, 2010, at the Monticello Wesleyan Church, 2001 Earlysville Road, Earlysville, Virginia.

CORBIN Family Name

Corbin Family Genealogy
The name “Corbin”, derives from the Norman French word, “Corbeau”, a raven, a black bird. Originally the France of today was known as Gallia (Gaul), but the Romans under Caesar conquered it and through the years it's Latin element necessarily became pronounced; then later it was overrun by the Vikings, northern Europeans, and hence called Northmen or Normans, and a part of the Gallic land became Normandy.

The first mention of a name similar to Corbin that I have found thus far is Saint Corbinian, who was born 670 in Chatres, France near Melun, in Frankish territory and died 730 in Freising, Germany. Corbinian was born, Waldegiso. However his mother, Corbiniana renamed him Corbinian shortly after the death of his father. He erected a Benedictine monastery and a school on a mountain near Freising. I have not made a correlation though, between Saint Corbinian, born in 670 and Robert Corbin, born in 1060.

We are descendants of Robert Corbyn, who established Corbyn Hall, in Staffordshire, England around 1080. Robert's great-grandson, gave lands to the Abbey of Talesworth, between 1154-1161, in the reign of Henry II, of England. The Corbyn family lived in Staffordshire until around 1452. They then moved to Hall End, County Of Warwick, Polesworth, England, and lived there until 1652, when Thomas and son, John came to the Virginia Colony in 1652, on the ship "Peter" of London. The Corbyn name was changed to Corbin to differentiate between the European and American families upon arriving at the Virginia Colony.

Henry Corbin was the first Corbin who came to the Virginia Colony which was in 1650. The name of Corbin has been associated with the history of Virginia since the Colonial days, when they contributed services to their country as early as 1657.

There are many different versions of the Corbin coat of arms. However, the description and two arms below appears to be the most accurate for our lineage that I have found.

Corbin or Corbyn of Staffordshire and Suffolk
Arms: Argent (Silver) on a chief Or (Gold) and three ravens sable.
Motto: Probitas verus honos (Honesty is true honor).
Crest: A dexter hand proper holding a cross pattée fitchée az (Blue).




The Corbins who moved to Warwickshire changed the colors on their coat of arms to blue and eliminated the crest. This is according to the Warwickshire County Record Office in Enland. The arms below represents our family branch.

Corbin or Corbyn of Warwickshire
Arms: Azure (Blue) on a chief Or (Gold) and three ravens sable.
Motto: Probitas verus honos (Honesty is true honor).


The Corbin Family is an old Virginia family, but the story begins in England, in Of Annington, with Thomas Corbin who was born in 1517. His ancestors may be traced to the Norman conquest of England in 1066. His descendant, a Henry Corbin, was born in Of, Hall End, Warwiskshire, England in 1629. He came to Virginia Colony on the ship Charity and settled in Stratton Major, King & Queen Co. (so named for his home in Enland). He served in the House of Burgesses in 1657, 59 and 60. The Corbins built the estate Peckatom, featuring a Georgian Mansion that sat on the shore of the Patomac. In 1645 he married Alice Eltonhead in Lancaster County, Virginia. They had the following childern: Laetitia, 1657; Winifred, 1662; Anne, 1664; John, 1657; Gawin, 1659; and Thomas, 1669. Henry Corbin was one of the most powerful persons in the colony. He had been in the "Country Club" that John Lee had established.

Laetitia (called Lettice by her family) married the landowner next door: Sir Richard Lee, and their descendants included General Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, a Revolutinary officer, and General Robert E. Lee of the Mexican and Civil Wars. His son Colonel Gawin Corbin served as Burgess in 1700, 02, and 18. Henry died in Westmoreland County in 1675, and Gawin inherited Peckatom.

Margaret Beahm Donald 9/18/1918 - 5/5/11

Margaret Beahm Donald was born September 18, 1918 to John William Beahm & Rosa Lee Corbin Beahm.

Margaret Beahm Donald, 92, of Spotsylvania County, went to be with the Lord Thursday, May 05, 2011 at Mary Washington Hospital.

Margaret was a long standing member of the Temple Baptist Church. She enjoyed gardening, sewing, canning and all homemaker activities.

Margaret was a devoted mother to her eight children; four daughters; Virginia Altman and her husband Roy of Spotsylvania, Joan Garland and her husband Robert of Falmouth, Kathleen Donald of Fredericksburg and June Savee and her husband Clifford of Madison, Virginia; four sons, Dwight Donald and his wife Robin of St. Mary’s Georgia, Michael Donald and his wife Kaye of Spotsylvania, Arnold Donald of Beaumont, TX and Christopher Donald and his wife Trina of Caroline County; 24 grandchildren, 44 great-grandchildren, 25 great-great grandchildren and eight brothers and sisters.

Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, Carroll Ross Donald.

The family will receive friends from 6 – 8 p.m. Monday, May 9 at Found and Sons Funeral Chapel, 10719 Courthouse Rd., Fredericksburg. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 10th at the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Mike Reid officiating. Interment will follow in Oak Hill Cemetery.

cira April 1959 Sisters: Gladys, Margaret & Betty

William Smith Collier 3/19/1922 - 3/3/1990

The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, Mar. 5, 1990
WILLIAM SMITH COLLIER
William Smith Collier, 67, of Route 1, Stanardsville, died Saturday, Mar. 3, 1990, in a Charlottesville hospital. He was born March 19, 1922, in Greene County, son of the late May Christian Collier and Lusa Conley Collier. He is survived by his wife, Louise S. Collier; three daughters, Eleanor Lawson of Ruckersville, Jayne Povone of Fairfax and Sandra Freedman of Atlanta, Ga.; two sons, Roger William Foster of Stanardsville and Harold Lee Foster of Lancaster; two sisters, Mandy Frazier of Charlottesville and Nettie Thomas of Orange; a brother, Dewey Lee Collier of Alexandria; 12 grandchildren, Sherri Lawson, Dennen Morris, Curtis Lawson, Ronnie Lawson, Joe Foster, Dorothy Foster, Jesse J. Foster, Jennifer Foster, Christina Povone, Tereasa Povone, Nick Freedman and Brooke Breedman; a great-grandchild, Casey A. Morris. Mr. Collier attended the Nortonsville Church of God and was an Army Veteran of World War II. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Nortonsville Church of God, with interment in Mt. Paran Cemetery. The Rev. Griffin Duncan will officiate.

William Henry Raynor

William Henry Raynor.


William Henry Raynor.

Birth: Apr. 4, 1834.
Death: Dec. 20, 1912, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio.
Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio.
Photo provided by Gregory Speciale

Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He enlisted in the 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry right after the Civil War on April 16, 1861, and was commissioned as a 1st Lieutenant. At the first Battle of Bull Run in July 1861 he was taken prisoner and sent to Libbey Prison in Richmond, Virginia. After seventeen days he escaped and was spotted by a southern soldier who was going to shoot him, but when he saw his Masonic pin he then allowed him to escape. When he reached home he then organized the 56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was made it's Colonel and commander on April 2, 1863. He was wounded at Snaggy Point Red River Landing near Vicksburg on May 5, 1864. He was then decorated for bravery and was discharged on October 27, 1864. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "distinguished and gallant services".

Report of Lieutenant Colonel William H. Raynor, Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry.

HDQRS. FIFTY-SIXTH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEERS,
Helena, Ark., September 3, 1862.

SIR: On the evening of Wednesday, August 27, I was ordered (verbally) by General Curtis to take command of 200 infantry, of the Fifty-sixth Ohio, and two 12-pounder howitzers, of the First Iowa Battery, of the gunboat Pittsburgh, proceed with them down the Mississippi, to a point called Eunice, in Arkansas, and there take possession of a large wharf-boat and tow it up to Helena. Also to annoy the enemy and obtain whatever information concerning them that I could.

The steamers not being ready until Thursday morning, they were embarked and proceeded down the river. At Roberts' Landing a Mrs. Manley was taken on board by orders from General Curtis. At night the pilots were unable to run, and we were compelled to anchor. The first night we reached Carson's Landing. Here a negro came off to us during the night and reported, "solgers ober dar." I ascertained from him that a force of the enemy, numbering from 200 to 300, were encamped between 1 and 2 miles from the river. The next morning, Friday, at daylight, the Pittsburgh shelled the shore. As soon as she commenced firing I landed 175 men and one piece (leaving 25 men and one piece as a guard on the boats), and marched out, near 2 miles, to where the rebels were encamped. They had discovered the fleet on its way down and while at anchor, and, believing they were the object of the expedition (as I afterward learned), made haste during the night to remove their stores and equipage, but remained behind themselves to fight; but our appearance and one volley induced them to believe the locality unhealthy, and they left it in a hurry; nor could we induce them to stop, although the most persuasive messengers, in the shape of Enfield balls, were sent after them. Hats, sabers, pistols, holsters, and saddle-bags were dropped in their rapid flight. Some, to hide the better in the brush, left their horses, 9 of which we captured. If any were killed or wounded, we were unable to find them in the weeds and cane.

A part of my force, consisting of 50 men of Company A, Captain Manning, was sent to stir up a small nest of guerrillas near. They killed 1 man and think they wounded another. We had not a man hurt. Captured 1 prisoner (J. C. Underwood, private, Company H, Twenty-eighth Mississippi Volunteers), 1 tent, 1 tent-fly, about 30 sabers, 10 shot-guns, 3 Mississippi rifles, cart load of meat, 2 mules, case of surgical instruments, 12 saddles, and 9 horses, all of which have been turned over to the proper authorities. A small quantity of cotton was found, which was confiscated and placed in charge of Mr. Eddy, of the quartermaster's department. A soldier of the First (rebel) Missouri Regiment, named Dunaway, gave himself up voluntarily, saying he had deserted from Vicksburg and made his way this far up the river. About noon got all aboard and continued on down the stream.

I had been ordered to look for a battery of two guns at Montgomery's Point. Landed at the point and thoroughly searched the neighborhood, and ascertained that a road had been cut through the woods to Scrub-Grass Bend, but that the cannon (two pieces) were yet at Prairie Landing, on White River, but were soon expected down, to be placed in position in Scrub-Grass Bend.

Wherever we had any reason to except the presence of the enemy I landed and scoured the woods and country, but having no cavalry caused great delay and permitted the guerrillas to escape. After Carson's Landing we could not get nearer than a half mile or see much more than a cloud of dust.

Our progress was so much delayed by the slowness of the gunboat and being compelled to anchor every night that the wharf-boat at Eunice Landing was not reached until Saturday about noon, when the transports took the wharf-boat in two and started on our return. At Eunice I arrested a Mr. Nelson, who, it was reported to me, had been using his influence and money in assisting the rebellion, and had on more than one occasion mounted his horse and rode for days with guerrilla parties. We also brought away the watchman on the wharf-boat, a John McDonald, who claims to be a British subject.

Sunday morning Mrs. Manley was taken aborad, near Bolivar Landing. From her, and also from other sources, I learned that colonel Starke has a brigade from Van Dorn's army now encamped on Bolivar Lake, with four or six pieces of artillery, and was daily expecting re-enforcements, with a 30-pounder gun. This force now on the lake is represented as high as 3,000 and as low as 1,800. It was a part of his command that we met at Carson's Landing.

The wharf-boat being very large and heavy she towed very hard and slow, and the expedition only returned this (Wednesday, September 3) morning, being out six days. Our orders were for four days' rations; consequently the meat captured was partly eaten. The wharf-boat and contents have been turned over to Quartermaster Winslow, the mules and horses to Quartermaster H. B. Hunt, and the prisoners to be provost-marshal.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
W. H. RAYNOR,
Commanding Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteers and Expedition.

Louisa Collier 1873-1958

The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, Oct. 19, 1958
MRS. LOUISA COLLIER
Mrs. Louisa Collier, 85, widow of May Collier, died yesterday at her home of RFD 2. A native of Greene County, she was the daughter of the late Zachariah and Susan Morris Conley. She is survived by four sons, William S. Collier of Charlottesville, Clint Collier of Barboursville, Oscar Collier of Albemarle County and Dewey Collier of Alexandria; four daughters, Mrs. H.B. Frazier of Charlottesville, Mrs. Russell Raynor of Ehart, Mrs. William Collier of Albemarle County, and Mrs. Chester Thomas of Zion Crossroad; and three half-sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Shifflett of Earlysville, Mrs. Lucie Frazier of Eastham, and Mrs. Ola Conley of Ehart. She had a brother Zachariah Conley Jr. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hill & Irving Chapel, with burial in Mt. Paran Church cemetery in Greene.

"Mother and Son" by Ben Nicholson

"Mother and Son" painted in 1927


English abstract painter Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was the son of noted artists Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde. Ben Nicholson was born at the former Eight Bells PH (now White Cottage), Village Road, Denham, Buckinghamshire, in 1894, was baptised at the nearby church of St Mary, and moved to London with his parents two years later. He studied at the Slade School, where he was a contemporary of Paul Nash, another Buckinghamshire artist, and then travelled widely in Europe and the United States for a few years. In 1920 Nicholson married the artist Winifred Roberts. Nicholson’s early work consists of delicately worked still lifes, which show the influence of his father. In the 1920s he began painting figurative and abstract works inspired by Post Impressionism and Cubism, which he had seen whilst travelling. His first one-man show was at the Adelphi Gallery in 1921. In 1932 he visited Paris with the sculptor Barbara Hepworth and met Picasso, Braque, Brancusi and Arp.
On subsequent visits to Paris in 1933 and 1934 they met Mondrian and Moholy-Nagy. His works reflect his contact with Braque, and suggest the influence of both Hepworth and Mondrian. In 1937 he became editor of Circle, and from 1939 to 1958 lived in Cornwall with Barbara Hepworth, whom he married in 1938.
His later work moved regularly between abstraction and figuration, always with cool, harmonious colours, subtle textures and precise interlocking shapes. In 1945/46 he moved from reliefs to linear, abstract paintings. Nicholson was commissioned to paint a mural for the Time-Life Building in London in 1952. In 1954 he was given retrospectives at the Venice Biennale and at the Tate Gallery, London, and in 1955 the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. In 1958 he moved to Ticino in Switzerland, but eventually moved back to London, where he died in February 1982.
Ben Nicholson's work has come to be seen as the quintessence of British modernism. His austere geometric paintings and reliefs are among some of the most influential abstract works in British art.
During his long career he produced works influenced by a variety of styles including, Post-Impressionism, Cubism and Neoplasticism. He combined "dirty-textured" earth tones with sections of "clean-flat" bright colors.

Ben Nicholson

"Mother" by Betty Ann Beahm Raynor

Mother, I ask myself, “Who are you?”
Your heart is for your children.
You’re so true.
The Bible says, “They shall rise up and call her blessed”.
Mother, can your children depend on you,
to teach them in the ways of the Lord?
Have you taught them love and kindness
and salvations plan and all that the Way & the Truth can afford?
Have you taught them to love the Lord?
If you have, then you will be called blessed
and your children of you can be proud.
That is my Mother. Blessed.

Written sometime between 1974 and 1981

"A MOTHER’S LOVE" by Clarence J. Beahm

A MOTHER’S LOVE by Clarence J. Beahm

Mother is one of the sweetest names I know.
One always remembers that name wherever he may be,
no matter what the circumstances may be.
So children look into those eyes, listen to that dear voice.
Notice the feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed upon you by that gentle hand:
Make much of it while yet you have the most precious of all good gifts, a loving mother.
Read the unfathomable love of those eyes.
The kind anxiety of that tone and look, however alight your pain.

A man never sees how much his mother has been to him till it is too late to let her know that he sees it.
In afterlife you may have friends, fond, dear friends, but never will you again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none other but a mother bestows.
I’m not saying it will happen to you, but a father may turn his back upon a child,
brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies,
husbands may desert their wives and vice versa;
but a mother’s love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute,
in the face of the world’s condemnations a mother still loves on,
and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways and repent.
Still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture,
the merry laugh of childhood, the joyful shout of early youth, and the opening promise of manhood.
And she can never be brought to think him unworthy.

The loss of a mother is always severely felt, even though her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family –
still she is a sweet rallying point around which affection and obedience and a thousand tender endeavors to please, concentrate.
And dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn.

A mother’s love is the golden link that binds youth to age;
and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek or silvered his brow,
who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion,
or gentle chidings of the best friend that God ever gives us.

No language can express the power and the beauty and heroism and majesty of a mother’s love.
It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints.
And over the wastes of the worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in Heaven.

Even He who died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the inutterable agony of death,
was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this Holy love should be our last worldly thought;
the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for Heaven.


"In memory of our dear mother"
Clarence J. Beahm
August 3, 1964

Clarence J. Beahm with his ailing mother Lilly Nicholson Beahm