Travis L. "Bud" Beaty

BEATY, Travis L. – Travis L. “Bud” Beaty was born July 22, 1842 and died December 8, 1880. He lived with his mother until her death in 1873. He married Martha R. Burkett on September 6, 1875. Martha was born December 24, 1845 and died April 23, 1922. Travis served in the Civil War under his brother, Captain Alvin C. Beaty. While he and his friend, Polk Crozier, were on their way to Huntsville, Arkansas to have their horses shod, they were taken prisoner and kept till the end of the war. While in prison camp he developed “consumption” and was never very strong afterward. After the war he joined the Masons, served as a deputy sheriff for a number of years and was in the livery business in Fayetteville for a while with his brother, William. It is known that he had at least one son, J. Ogle, and a daughter, Dove, from his marriage. [WCHS Flashback Vol. 14, No. 4]

Travis L. “Bud” Beaty was born July 22, 1842 in Washington County, Arkansas, a son of Thomas Travis Beaty, born December 27, 1807 in Cumberland County, Kentucky and Nancy Odle, born April 22, 1812 in Overton County, Tennessee. He married Martha H. Burkett and they became the parents of two children: John Odle, born June 20, 1876 and Mary Dove Beaty, born in 1878. Mr. Beaty died on December 8, 1880 and was buried in the Beaty Cemetery near Lincoln, Washington County, Arkansas. [Rootsweb.Ancestry.com]