Edward Beaumont
Edward Beaumont was born on October 21, 1833, in Natchez, Mississippi, to Jefferson and Sarah Beaumont. His father was a farmer who owned $6,000 of real estate and $4,000 of personal property by 1860. The family moved to Calhoun County, Texas, sometime before 1850, and by 1860, Beaumont was working as a farmer.
In October 1861, he received a commission as captain of Company B of the 1st Texas Cavalry. The regiment was stationed in Texas for much of the war, and it took part in the Red River campaign.
He moved to Mexico after the war, and he worked as an engineer on the Vera Cruz and City of Mexico Railway. By 1880, he was living in San Francisco, California. He moved to San Isidro, New Mexico, in the late 1800s, and he earned a living as a miner. A decade later, he was working as a watchman for a ranch in Placitas, New Mexico. He died of a gunshot wound near Albuquerque, New Mexico, in October 1910, and a coroner’s jury concluded that “he was accidentally killed” with his own gun.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (4848) | Beaumont, Edward | 1833-10-21 | 1910-10 |
- Conflict Side: Confederacy
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Captain
- Rank out: Captain
- Rank highest: Captain
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (4226) [writer] ~ Edward Beaumont to Julia F. Hensley, 18 April 1862
People - Records: 2
Places - Records: 1
- (602) [birth] ~ Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi
Regiments - Records: 1
- (1084) [officer] [B] ~ 1st Texas Cavalry (1st Mounted Riflemen)
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1880, 1900, and 1910 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Jennifer Bridges, “Beaumont, Edward (1833-1923,) Texas State Historical Association, available from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/beaumont-edward; The Santa Fe New Mexican, 1 November 1910
