LOCATION:  At Linwood, on Highway 31E (North Jackson Highway), turn East onto Hwy 566 and travel approximately five miles.  After passing a small white house on the left, watch left for a gravel driveway leading to a yellow house with two barns beyond it.  The Beams Cemetery is behind the barns.  The mailbox at the turn off reads:  4394 Eve Road.  A Mr. Jobe lives in the house, but the property is owned by Dr. James Middleton.

COMMENTS:  The Beams burial site is on the farm where Thomas and Caroline (Welch) Beams made their home.  There are many babies buried outside the little building that Thomas built to cover Caroline’s grave because he didn’t want it to rain on her gravestone.  (Erecting a covering over a grave is said to be an Indian custom.)  There are many other babies known buried outside the little building, but the fieldstones which earlier marked their site have disappeared.  Only one is marked with a gravestone.

Shirley Beams Simmons of Renton, Washington, is descended from this Beams union, and it is she who gathered the information that follows.  In 1996, she and other members of her family reluctantly tore down the original building with its hand- forged nails and stone foundation because of its deteriorated condition, replacing it with one that will stand for many more years.